Measurement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
News

Good Day, Sunshine

developments at the School, and enjoying faculty presentations. "Our alumni are the measure of the School," said Dean Kim B. Clark in a welcoming address to all classes. "I am grateful for what you do in your lives, for the standards that... View Details

2025
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Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones

This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems became the primary form of global environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... View Details

Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship; Environment; Climate Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

impact. In the eco-tourism field, impressive companies are developing advanced methods for both measuring and countering environmental impact. Solutions becoming more complex However, the more speakers considered the business system as a... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

04 Sep 2014
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Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS

could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression... View Details

February 2025 (Revised March 2025)
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Accounting for Bitcoin at Block

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Seil Kim and Sa-Pyung Sean Shin

Abstract: This case explores Block Inc.'s accounting practices for Bitcoin transactions and their impact on financial reporting. Following a 10% stock price drop after missing revenue estimates in Q3 2024, Block faced scrutiny over its Bitcoin-driven revenue model.... View Details

Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Bitcoin; Fair Value Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Business Model; Fluctuation; Volatility; Revenue; Standards; Valuation

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

universal measurement and public reporting Link reimbursement to clinical performance using outcome reporting Set accounting standards for meaningful cost reporting in health care Accelerate the bundled pricing rollout schedule in CMS... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving in analog, trying to measure... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007

account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

between the public and private sectors is important. We will emphasize practical skills, including pitching stocks, performing diligence, measuring impact, and evaluating portfolio performance. This course will be differentiated from... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Alumni Books

sweet spot; designing the offer to create customer value and secure differential advantage; integrating to serve the customer; and measuring what matters. Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about Management by Gordon... View Details

Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Dec 2014
Blog Post

Building a Consumer-Centric Strategy: Highlights from the Marketing & CPG Club’s Conference

for female athletes around the world. Students learned how marketers are dealing with shrinking budgets and measuring the ROI of their marketing mix on the panel “A Marketer’s Reality: Building Brands on a Budget” and how to resonate on... View Details

12 Jan 2021
News

Keeping the Coast Clear

Rhode Island’s resources for generations. Stone has led the group—the Ocean State’s largest environmental organization—since 2009; he joined as a volunteer in 1989. Considering it’s the smallest state in the country, Rhode Island has a disproportionately significant... View Details

Keywords: Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

Portrait Project

Kirsten Hassert

and burst into smile. I'll measure success in the creation of laugh lines. Being real... I will wackify words, and talk "too" loud and "too" fast when I get excited... and be happy about that. I'll overdose on wasabi... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work

research also measured “offshorability” across occupations; those that require specialized local knowledge are more difficult to perform remotely, he found. Cavallo hopes to dig deeper over time, with particular interest in how wages and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2014
News

Making Big Data Fashionable

get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual analytics platform that mines... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

clinics as one would have thought.” Beshears and his colleagues used building blueprints to measure base proximity, or how far workers had to walk to get to the clinic from their offices or desks. They used badge swipes at a passageway... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

their perspective on how they have witnessed companies doing anti-racism work well and where they see opportunities for improvement. First, they recommend recognizing diversity as a measure of your company’s success. Making diversity and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Cameron Johnson

glamorize everyday life, depict the idea that more is better, and often masquerade success as happiness; driving my generation to measure ourselves not by our own standards, but by the accomplishments and experiences of others. When... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Clubs Hopping

things with an independent lens and facilitate conversations between the board and the executives, which might not otherwise happen in a constructive way." CHANGING LANDSCAPE "I think there is much more of a focus on outcomes and outcomes View Details

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

I wanted to do it more empirically, tracking variables that were previously unfathomable to measure beyond proxies and guessing. The advent of wearables meant I could do exactly that. “There’s a lot of interest in open offices because so... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

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