Harvard Business Impact Education

09/02/2026

Help your students develop essential, career-ready skills through practice-based learning grounded in realistic workplace scenarios.

Join us to explore Collaborating Productively, part of a new portfolio of active learning materials designed to help students develop the human skills employers value most in an AI-shaped future.

In this webinar, you'll:
• See a live demonstration of the online course and how it works together with curated Quick Cases and simulations.
• Explore how practice-based learning helps students develop collaboration skills they can apply in real-world situations.
• Discover teaching resources and instructional support designed to make it easy to integrate these materials into your courses.

📅 September 17, 2026
🕘 9:00–10:00 a.m. ET

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3SCNx9X

09/01/2026

What do playlists and student engagement have in common? More than you might think.

Music can help students connect more deeply with course content, each other, and the learning experience itself, explains Adam Epstein, professor and department chair of finance and law at Central Michigan University.

Read our latest Inspiring Minds article to learn how he uses 1980’s rock to bring energy to the classroom, bridge generational gaps, spark curiosity, and create common reference points. And get tips for trying this technique in your own courses: https://bit.ly/3UyUrxs

Learn how using music in the classroom can boost student engagement, bridge generational gaps, and help students connect with and remember course concepts.

08/28/2026

Missed our webinar on Teaching with Agentic AI? Watch the recording!

Watch this webinar with Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, to learn how agentic AI is evolving beyond chat-based tools and how it can support your teaching.

Explore practical ways to identify teaching tasks where agentic AI can provide support and build simple AI-supported workflows for class preparation, analyzing student input, and creating teaching materials.

Watch the recording: https://bit.ly/4wUWv0n

08/27/2026

A thoughtful self-introduction can set the tone for the relationships, trust, and classroom atmosphere for the rest of the term. Why should it be one in a string of four or five students will hear on that first day?

In Inspiring Minds, Kristina Medvedeva, assistant professor of marketing at Otterbein University, shares three ways to turn those first few minutes into a meaningful, engaging experience: https://bit.ly/4wNI91D

Make your first-day introduction more engaging with three approaches that can help you connect with students and set the tone for the term.

08/27/2026

Advisor is your new AI-powered assistant on the Harvard Business Impact website, helping you make more confident teaching decisions.

Hear from Lucy Swedberg, Executive Editor, and Mike Petroff, Director of Product, for a free 30-minute demo on August 31 at 11 a.m. ET to see how Advisor can help you move beyond topic-level keyword searches, surface personalized course material recommendations, and deliver engaging classroom experiences.

You’ll also get a look at what’s coming next, including customizable teaching plans for impactful case discussions.

Register here: https://bit.ly/4gtzgUL

08/26/2026

Last call! Don't miss the Teaching with AI seminar at Harvard Business School on October 9-10, 2026.

Led by Professor Mitchell Weiss of HBS and Dan Levy of Harvard Kennedy School, this 1.5-day seminar 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.

Seats are limited! Register by Monday, September 7, 2026.

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08/25/2026

Starting college is a significant transition for students.

It comes with emotional ups and downs that can look remarkably similar to more serious mental health concerns.

This ambiguity makes it difficult for educators to know how to respond when they see students having a hard time.

In Inspiring Minds, Dr. Alexis Redding , lecturer and faculty co-chair of higher education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, shares a framework that reflects the emotions students grapple with in their first year of college and three concrete steps institutions can take to strengthen mental health support on campus.

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

Learn how educators can better understand the emotions students experience during their first year of college and take three concrete steps to strengthen mental health support on campus.

08/24/2026

Help students get more out of AI tools like ChatGPT, LLaMA, and Claude.

The new CodeSignal Course: Prompt Engineering for Everyone teaches students practical prompting techniques, including prompt design, format control, iterative refinement, and strategies for generating higher-quality AI results.

Students build skills they can immediately apply across content creation, coding, and more.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4qrgXnO

08/21/2026

Missed our webinar on Thinking and Acting with Integrity? You can now watch the recording!

Get a first look at this new Essential Skill Suite and see how an AI-powered online course, a curated Quick Case, and an award-winning simulation work together to give educators flexible, ready-to-use resources that help students develop and apply essential skills through active learning.

🎥 Watch the recording: https://bit.ly/3UGfJcp

08/20/2026

The habits that fuel early career achievement—saying yes to new research opportunities, committee work, additional courses—can eventually feel exhausting.

What can educators do when that drive begins to erode their energy?

In Inspiring Minds, Rebecca Knight explores five questions that can help redefine success for the long term: https://bit.ly/4zxrTEL

Feeling drained by the ambition that once motivated you? Explore five questions to help educators reflect on burnout, purpose, and what comes next in their careers.