Tag: Monica Higgins

  • Nation & World

    Getting schooled

    A recent Harvard Business School survey on U.S. competitiveness looks at how business is engaged with helping boost K-12 public education and whether these efforts are effective.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making hay while sun shines

    Students at HGSE are hard at work building new companies they hope will someday transform learning and young lives.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Search for Ed School dean begins

    President Drew Faust today named an advisory group and invited the community for its input in assisting her in the search for a new dean for the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Kathleen McCartney will be concluding her service as HGSE dean at the end of the spring term.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    What it takes to lead

    Do leaders need competence, character, or both? And can such traits be taught? On Feb. 7, Harvard experts gathered to discuss the University’s role in fostering leaders in business, education, and the public sector in honor of Harvard Corporation member Nan Keohane’s new book, “Thinking About Leadership.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Monica Higgins named professor of education at HGSE

    Associate Professor Monica Higgins has been promoted to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Higgins’ expertise is focused on areas of leadership development and organizational change, and her work straddles higher education and urban public schools.

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