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- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
Dr. Robert Waller, president emeritus of the Mayo Clinic, gave a talk on the impact of consumer-driven health care on the current system, using the Mayo's lauded operations as an example. This thought-provoking presentation led to a... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
examined benchmarks on fiscal and monetary measures that were being implemented across the world. The team also consulted leading actors in the public and private sectors. “We received data from different ministries—tourism,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
impact both measurable and extraordinary. “When we initially invested, we only had 160 university-educated teachers. Now, there are more than 1,000 high-quality educators. This is one part of the solution,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
the social impact bond, an innovative approach to marrying social purpose with financial returns for investors. Still in the pilot stage in the UK, social impact bonds already have enthusiastic supporters... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
stock-price measure known as Tobin's Q , Kang found that three types of shareholders owning large blocks of a company's stock had a positive impact on the firm's performance: outside-director owners... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
nights in a shelter during a three-year period), Cicero data indicates that more than 70 percent of homeless people have spent fewer than 90 nights in a shelter over the last three years. That knowledge sheds light on the need to prioritize View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
the Bulletin, a cavalcade of ideas, old and new, that have put the School on the intellectual map. Some of the articles will look back on outstanding accomplishments of distinguished faculty. Others, based on a series of faculty colloquia, will take View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
the lackluster ones led to projects with a measurably larger academic impact than projects selected without significant specialized expert input. The takeaway was clear, says Li. “Strong conflict-of-interest... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Leanne Huebner (MBA 1997) was just out of college, working at her first job and volunteering her free time with foster children when a little girl asked: “Will you adopt me?” Just 22 and single, Huebner wasn’t in a position to raise children. But she committed herself... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
challenges. When I joined BlackRock in 2015 to launch their impact investing platform, it involved taking my experience from the nonprofit side and thinking about how to measure social outcomes and drop that... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
the availability of critical resources, and the efficacy of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. The company has created a set of free publicly available visual analytic dashboards. "The algorithms highlight the View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
hope to create an awareness in the world about the threat of climate change, the need for environmental protection, the legacy we leave for future generations, and the importance of having respect for all human beings." Today, living in Dubai, far from Balidhip in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
experiences with systemic racism. In late June, the NCF plans to announce its second round of grants, totaling $2 million, to community groups across the Commonwealth. See more from the online-only June Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to see that people thought they were much more productive at home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) cofounded a risky Boston-based... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
of internal and external factors have an impact on their pay, and that, in fact, today's CEO compensation packages are tied very closely to company performance.Lorsch began his study by looking at the proxy statements of 72 companies... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
develop new strategies to ease the impact of plant shutdowns, layoffs, military-base closings, and other dislocations by discerning areas of opportunity amid adversity and trying to stimulate entrepreneurial activity around them using... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
independent auditors. The COVID pandemic has revealed a similar problem, Cohen writes. “This time, it is the measurement of companies’ social and environmental impacts that must be made transparent.”... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
offering assistance to academics whose work has been impacted by Russia's war on Ukraine. The program, founded in 2001, is dedicated to helping scholars, artists, writers, and public intellectuals from around the world escape persecution... View Details