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- May 2001 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Jumpstart
Many in the nonprofit sector doubt whether organizational performance can be measured. Jumpstart, a 10-year-old nonprofit, developed performance measurement and management systems from its inception. The organization has experienced explosive growth and attributes a... View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Nonprofit Organizations
Grossman, Allen S. "Jumpstart." Harvard Business School Case 301-037, May 2001. (Revised June 2010.)
- 1996
- Article
A Segment-Level Model of Category Volume and Brand Choice
By: William R. Dillon and Sunil Gupta
Dillon, William R., and Sunil Gupta. "A Segment-Level Model of Category Volume and Brand Choice." Marketing Science 15, no. 1 (1996): 38–59.
- Web
Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog
that there is more to just “build it and they will come”, the course will explore four modules: Getting To Product Market Fit: Exploring best practices for customer feedback, solution iteration, metrics that matter and developing a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
allowances for vitamins and exercise, we should have requirements for healthy levels of engagement and community involvement. Social media makes it harder to detect how people are really feeling, and there’s no widely accepted metric for... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 2006
- Article
Using Investment Behavior to Assess the Pervasiveness of Price Mismeasurement
By: Diego Comin
Comin, Diego. "Using Investment Behavior to Assess the Pervasiveness of Price Mismeasurement." Topics in Macroeconomics 6, no. 1 (2006).
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security
ten weeks in the company, I was able to design an online marketing strategy and create acquisition funnel metrics to test different campaigns and selling pitches to brokers. I was also able to work closely with the product team to review... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
renamed and given a broad purview to collect data on equality metrics like composition, pay, policies, and practices from all private-sector employers in Australia with 100 or more employees, criteria that currently cover about 40 percent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
years and has proven very useful. However, the few studies looking at software architecture and vulnerabilities are limited in scope and findings. We explore the relationship between software vulnerabilities and component metrics (like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
because, as Manso- Brown stated, “organizations need to create environments where people can show up with the full humanity recognized every single day.” Without this important aspect of organizational policy and culture, adjusting hiring practices will not make... View Details
- May 2021
- Article
Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review
By: Chanan Reitblat, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh and Boris Gershman
Context:
In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details
In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Healthcare; Integrated Practice Units; Outcome Measurement; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Strategy; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
Reitblat, Chanan, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh, and Boris Gershman. "Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review." European Urology 79, no. 5 (May 2021): 571–585.
- July 2012
- Article
The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation
By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
We study the real effects of market segmentation due to credit ratings using a matched sample of firms just above and just below the investment-grade cutoff. These firms have similar observables, including average investment rates. However, flows into high-yield mutual... View Details
Keywords: Segmentation; Credit; Investment; Investment Funds; Quality; Markets; Measurement and Metrics; Business Ventures
Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam. "The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation." Review of Financial Studies 25, no. 7 (July 2012): 2041–2069. (Winner of the RFS Young Researcher Prize 2012.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry
By: Karl A Muller III, Edward J. Riedl and Thorsten Sellhorn
We examine the causes and consequences of European real estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Standards; Real Estate Industry; European Union
Muller, Karl A., III, Edward J. Riedl, and Thorsten Sellhorn. "Consequences of Voluntary and Mandatory Fair Value Accounting: Evidence Surrounding IFRS Adoption in the EU Real Estate Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-033, September 2008.
- Article
Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 11, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 353–370.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Patent Disclosures and Standard-Setting
By: Josh Lerner, Haris Tabakovic and Jean Tirole
A key role of standard setting organizations (SSOs) is to aggregate information on relevant intellectual property (IP) claims before deciding on a standard. This article explores the firms’ strategies in response to IP disclosure requirements—in particular, the choice... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Haris Tabakovic, and Jean Tirole. "Patent Disclosures and Standard-Setting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-030, October 2016.
- June 2014
- Supplement
Ad Classification at Right Media — slide supplement (widescreen)
By: Benjamin Edelman
Right Media considers systems and policies to make sure that ads are only shown on web sites where they are appropriate, and vice versa. Setting standards is particularly challenging given the large and growing marketplace, the numerous participants, their diverse... View Details
- July 1995
- Article
International Accounting Standards Update: New Standard, New Proposal and an Aggressive Work Plan
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "International Accounting Standards Update: New Standard, New Proposal and an Aggressive Work Plan." Accounting Bulletin, no. 32 (July 1995).
- June 1997
- Article
New International Asset Impairment Accounting Standard Proposed
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "New International Asset Impairment Accounting Standard Proposed." Accounting Bulletin, no. 53 (June 1997).
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
Leasing Decision at Magnet Beauty Products, Inc. (TN)
By: Krishna G. Palepu and George Serafeim
Teaching Note for 111039. View Details
- September 2024
- Exercise
Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-Duplicating Customer Data
By: Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan
This exercise provides an opportunity for students to gain hands on experience with assessing the value of unifying various customer databases that a firm may have (e.g., across the different brands it markets) and of properly identifying customers to avoid duplication... View Details