Impact Measurement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2013
News

Minding The Gap

from college than middle-class and affluent kids. PELP demonstrates the immediate impact of a class gift. Funded by the 40th Reunion gift from the HBS Class of 1963, PELP was launched in 2003 to see if HBS could help narrow the urban... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

state-of-the-art graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2002
News

Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives

Executive Stock Options Still Align Incentives?" by Meulbroek and HBS assistant professor Li Jin. Their study uses the option delta, which measures how a single option's value is affected by a change in the stock price. Calculating this... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Muelbroek; Li Jin; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

COVID-19, there has been such a need—who wants to go to the hospital for a sore throat in a pandemic? In addition, what hospital wants to see them? The acceptance of telemedicine has also led to a boom in wearable sensors. Apple came out with an app that View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2004
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Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead

increase its impact on the world by a factor of ten” — and suggested a focus on developing leaders and adding value to nonprofits by working with other business schools to nurture and strengthen similar initiatives. Noting that we live in... View Details

Keywords: SEI; Social Enterprise Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

him to build an iconic global brand and business. —Adrien Boyer (MBA 2005) Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption, by Ben Mezrich I highly recommend this for anyone interested in learning about the impact... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

Pensions Committee, which has a reputation for bipartisan cooperation. Harder’s suggestions to revitalize the system, on the other hand, include “revising arcane procedural rules that give obstructionists too much power to shelve proposals most Americans favor” and... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

01 Jun 2022
News

'Rooted' In Innovation

to make fufu, a thick paste used in various recipes—was originally produced for the African market and is now available at 50 supermarkets around the world. STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

20 Jul 2020
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Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online

effective, no matter what life stage you’re in. Our goal is to create direct, measureable impacts from our programming, and in these times, we’re moving quickly.” HBS Club of New York Creates Racial Equity... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch

watershed Harvard Business Review article on the globalization of markets. The gathering will acknowledge the impact of that paper, assess the accuracy of its forecasts, and look to future trends. It's that kind of big-picture thinking... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2023
News

Is AI OK?

Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Feb 1997
News

OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion

group. "A large measure of our success is based on the tremendous legacy of support for our mission from enterprising alumni like you. We see OPM as a very important part of where the School is going in the next century." The next day,... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

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

12 Jan 2017
News

Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

year later, she met Sheila Marcelo (MBA 1998), who was also attending with her husband, Ron Marcelo (MBA 1998), and a friendship blossomed as the two women bonded in the experience of being married students. (Marcelo would go on to launch and run Care.com.) “HBS View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

nonprofits more accountable and transparent with all this money? That’s a very big issue in this sector because there is no common measure or framework to assess whether these organizations are accomplishing their mission. Even simple... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

at the top, by understanding the impact their words and language have on tone through their conversations in the boardroom and with key stakeholders. Part 3 introduces specific strategies, techniques, and tactics for directors. And Part 4... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

HBS Clubs and Associations

completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

ALS, but for many other diseases that suffer from a lack of funding and attention. “One of the top ALS researchers recently told me he thought it was ‘fair to say that if there was a measure of impact per... View Details