Harvard Business Impact Education

07/10/2025

Change is a constant in higher education, and academic leaders are often juggling demands across classrooms, departments, and institutions.

In Inspiring Minds, executive coaches Rebecca Zucker and Darin Rowell share six practical strategies to help leaders navigate complexity and adapt to evolving challenges: https://bit.ly/44yiU8V

Amid constant change and complexity, academic leaders must guide their institutions with clarity and resilience. This article offers six practical strategies to help deans, educators, and administrators lead more effectively through uncertainty.

07/09/2025

Instead of teaching students how to engineer the perfect AI prompt, instructors should guide learners on how to recognize AI’s inherent contradictions and navigate them intentionally.

In Inspiring Minds, an AI education strategist shares three lessons that help students develop critical awareness, intellectual agency, and creative confidence as they use AI tools: https://bit.ly/406WZmC

Help students engage more thoughtfully with AI by developing three distinctly human skills—pattern recognition, directed divergence, and reflective synthesis—through writing assignments rooted in their lived experiences.

07/08/2025

In this Harvard Business School case on TechEnergy Ventures, students explore how Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) can be used to scale and finance innovation, balance strategic objectives with financial returns, and manage the risks and rewards of investing in early-stage, high-potential technologies.

They gain insight into the perspective of a CVC manager executing the strategic mandate of a global industrial company.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4kyFmDr

This case examines TechEnergy Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of the Techint Group, and its role in scaling innovation within the energy sector. Founded in 2021, TechEnergy Ventures operates with a mandate to invest in disruptive technologies to support the Group's decarbonization....

07/03/2025

“The full list of applications for custom GPTs is likely endless, and people develop new ideas constantly.”

In Inspiring Minds, Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business dean and educator Haya Ajjan shows how easy it is to create a custom GPT for your class—trained on the data you want and purpose-built for the activities you want.

Get a step-by-step guide to create custom GPTs and ideas for how to use them: https://bit.ly/3FXV254

Learn how to create and use custom GPTs for courses you teach. This step-by-step guide helps educators tailor generative AI to different disciplines, explores classroom applications, and highlights key limitations to keep in mind.

07/02/2025

Simple, practical advice for higher ed instructors: Your classes should always have an attention-grabbing opener and wrap up with an interactive review of key concepts.

Those crucial moments have a big impact on student engagement and retention, writes Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)’s Pamela Kramer Ertel.

In Inspiring Minds, she offers tips for how to make the first and final minutes count: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/effective-class-openers-closers?cid=organic-social%7Cfacebook%7C2025-07-02-make-the-first-and-last-minutes-of-class-count%7Cnone%7Cthought-lead-inspiring-minds%7Cunknown%7Cinspiring-minds-article%7Cjul2025

A veteran educator shares practical ways to open and close class sessions with intention, boosting student focus at the start and reinforcing learning at the end.

07/02/2025

Chapters now available! Dive deeper into Kevin Evers' “There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift.”

Leverage Taylor Swift’s career to teach business strategy, branding, and leadership in a way that resonates with students.

This Harvard Business Review book makes it easy to connect core business concepts to one of today’s biggest cultural figures.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3ZMuA58

A smart, page-turning exploration of the business and creative decisions that transformed Taylor Swift into an unprecedented modern cultural phenomenon. Singer-songwriter. Trailblazer. Mastermind. The Beatles of her generation. From her genre-busting ri...

07/01/2025

What happens when you give every student in a first-year accounting class a custom AI tutor?

Harvard Business School did just that—930 students used AI-powered bots for coursework, while researchers tracked how the bots affected class discussions, grades, and the learning experience overall.

In Inspiring Minds, grad researcher Mimi Sax shares what they found—and what the future may hold for custom AI tutors in higher ed: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/ai-tutor-bots-harvard-business-school?cid=organic-social%7Cfacebook%7C2025-07-01-ai-tutor-bots-harvard-business-school%7Cnone%7Cthought-lead-inspiring-minds%7Cunknown%7Cinspiring-minds-article%7Cjul2025

A new AI tutor bot pilot at Harvard Business School is helping students prep for class and better understand key accounting concepts. Learn how students are using the tool and what the data says about its effect on learning.

06/26/2025

Discover what higher education is uniquely positioned to offer: 9 examples of meaningful, real-world learning—rooted in the practice of social innovation—that reengages students, captures and holds their attention, and makes their time worth it in college.

06/26/2025

"Any long-term change is going to take time. There will be ups and downs. But you are capable.”

Building better teaching habits can be a huge challenge–plenty of well-intentioned efforts quickly fizzle out.

In the latest Inspiring Minds article, Harvard Business Review contributor Kristi Depaul shows how you can improve your odds of success. Learn the psychology behind forming positive habits, and use these three strategies for positive long-term change: https://bit.ly/4ljMTGP

Forming lasting habits starts with consistent routines. This article helps higher ed educators distinguish between the two and offers three practical strategies to build sustainable teaching practices in the new term.

06/25/2025

In this Harvard Business School case on Michelin, students explore how to define a corporate purpose and make it come to life through the company's strategy and its culture, and use it to accelerate performance for the benefit of multiple stakeholders.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/46fxItY

When he became CEO, facing limited growth prospects, a low valuation, and therefore a stagnating share price, Menegaux and his team launched a set of initiatives to reposition Michelin. These included (1) articulating a clear purpose ("We care about giving people a better way forward"), (2) formulat...

06/23/2025

Digital distractions are eroding students’ ability to focus. But instead of trying to compete with screens and algorithms, higher ed needs to deliver something devices can’t replicate: immersive, purpose-driven learning.

In Inspiring Minds, Andrew Biros, senior director of University of San Diego's Center for Social Innovation, explains how institutions can deliver perspective-broadening experiences, better connect students to peers and mentors, and build their ability to problem-solve: https://bit.ly/3HUEZ8H

Discover what higher education is uniquely positioned to offer: 9 examples of meaningful, real-world learning—rooted in the practice of social innovation—that reengages students, captures and holds their attention, and makes their time worth it in college.

06/23/2025

Only a few seats left!

Join us at Harvard Business School for the Teaching with AI seminar on August 7-8. This 1.5-day seminar, led by HBS Professor Mitchell Weiss, is designed to help you bring AI into the classroom with confidence.

Through interactive sessions, real-world discussions, and AI-powered strategies for course design and assessment, you’ll leave with practical tools and a certificate of completion from Harvard Business Publishing Education.

Don’t miss your chance to participate. Secure your spot now: https://web.cvent.com/event/f8e379b9-5fc7-4f28-8bb7-85e5a1018142/summary?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-06-23-ai-seminar-august-hbs&cid=organic-social%7Cfacebook%7C2025-06-23-ai-seminar-august-hbs%7Cnone%7Cevent-seminar%7Cunknown%7Cseminar-registration%7Cjun2025