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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
procedure for credit approval, using nontraditional metrics to enable customers with lower, less easily established incomes (a pushcart vendor, for example) to make purchases. “Their loan repayment rates are the envy of the world, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; department stores; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaching. His coauthored research on golfer performance has aided the PGA’s development of a new metric to measure putting skills. Francesca Gino is an associate professor in the Negotiation, Organizations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
enabling employees to move throughout the organization. Knowing employees want to make a difference is fantastic, but how do you measure and convey that difference to them? —Kate O’Donnell (MBA 2016)... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
Barrow: Offering a line of clothing that provides protection from the downside of solar energy. A native of sun-splashed Australia who now resides in Minneapolis, John Barrow (MBA 1989) has a fashion tip for Americans: cover up, mates. Seriously. Skin-cancer awareness... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
research has focused on various aspects of customer management in B2B contexts, including customer selection and portfolio management; managing a spectrum of customer engagements, from transactions to long-term relationships; developing... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around the world. In this role, she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
traditional services on the telephones and in local offices, and offered new electronic services for filing, paying, and information. Why did you change the way the IRS View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
Nan Morrison and Sally Wood It takes a village to raise a game-changing non-profit, and Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) and Sally Wood (MBA 1983) have found a community of support... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
financial crises. “If beliefs and expectations can be measured in real time,” says Greenwood, “it would be easier to anticipate financial vulnerability and take View Details
- 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
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
meaningful social impact and earn a financial return based on measurable results. While still new, the idea is gaining traction in the United States and England, where this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
Five Degrees of Doriot Re: Lasting lessons My fondest memory of the Business School is having lunch with the professor and discussing my thesis on “making the automatic factory a reality” that I did with classmate John Diebold. Doriot... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
through your work with Adaptation Now? “Our goal is to engage people outside the environmental movement in a productive way. We have two success metrics we will track: (1) The extent to which climate change becomes a higher priority in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
Professor Ashraf (center) with members of the study implementation team at Chipata Clinic, Lusaka, Zambia, including fi eld managers, surveyors, community health workers, and a study nurse. (click for larger view) Read a summary of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2004)
freedom to live your life, your way. I look at celebrities through a stark business lens. Instead of agreeing that Beyoncé is one of the most influential people in the world because Time magazine said so, or because she has the most Twitter followers, I View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
the bill. Moguls have propagated a myth that justifies their poor performance: since they manage creative talent and artistic product, traditional strategic, financial, and operational appraisal View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth (MBA 2010), and Karen Dillon (HarperBusiness) At a time of intense personal reflection, Christensen, the Kim B. Clark Professor of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
including start-up, funding, growth, alliances and collaboration, and performance measurement — to help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
Project (BFFS), conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to use data to predict—and maybe prevent—future financial crises. A database of financial stability and investor sentiment View Details