Measurement - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

Business Review, Merton, a Nobel laureate, urges senior corporate executives and boards to view derivative applications not just as tactical measures but as strategic tools that convey competitive advantage. A first step is distinguishing... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

June 2009
Article

Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation

By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison

We analyze the desirability of level playing fields in international financial regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because... View Details

Keywords: Economy; International Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Banking Industry

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How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture

By: Gary P. Pisano and David J. Teece

Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators, customers, suppliers, and other providers of complementary products and services. In making strategic decisions around technology... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Structures; Standards; Commercialization; Value

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Portrait Project

Inigo Amoribieta

we all start from neither the same point nor with the same tools in our backpack, I plan to measure my achievements by the use I make of my opportunities rather than by my final destination. I will not take my opportunities for granted.... View Details

15 Aug 2021
News

You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America

more than $11 billion, and more readers, as measured by Comscore, than any media brand you’ve ever heard of—an average of 751 million visits a month.” The article details how Elias built the company with his cofounder in the 2000s around... View Details

10 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Coming World Oil Crisis

silver bullets that can solve this problem—not more drilling, greater vehicle fuel efficiency, electric cars, or renewable energy. Political and business leaders must support these measures and more; whatever can help avert a major... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

25 May 2016
News

A Focus on Sustainability

governance—into a single report. “For the last 40 years, the mantra has been return on invested capital. While this remains critical, looking ahead, we need to institutionalize the measurement of environmental impact,” says Ferenbach, who... View Details

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

the higher scrutiny that comes from stringent regulation does not translate to better quality, at least as measured by customer satisfaction metrics. Lagace: What does this mean for consumers? Farronato: It seems that consumers do not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

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Marc Alain Boucicault Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Social Investing Pioneers

simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2017
News

Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up

Believin’”—shows that people who channel their nervous energy into excitement are more successful at tasks than those who remain anxious or try to calm themselves. Something as simple as saying “I’m so excited” before singing Journey can View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2013
News

Double Vision

web-only offerings like dating sites and streaming content—and divided them into four ad types. Then they matched the ads with the advertisers' web traffic and online purchases in the minutes and hours after they aired to measure their... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

on Format Please note the following guidelines concerning image citations. All measurements are height before width. For engravings and etchings, the measurements are to the plate mark; for lithographs, they... View Details

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium and sports teams in Canada. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to others-can produce measurable benefits for employees and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

Education program called Managing Breakthroughs—From Science to Enterprise. "Wall Street has conventional and not always accurate measures of a company's value." Take Bank of America, which just renewed a $25 million, five-year... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

productivity, says Professor Gail J. McGovern. In this Q&A, she discusses what executives can do to repair the split and introduces a new diagnostic tool for measuring marketing performance used in the HBS Executive Education program.... View Details

08 Jun 2021
News

New Funding for Female Founders

a patient’s home. “A pharmaceutical company, for instance, may want to study how well patients on a particular medication are able to sleep. HumanFirst can scan the clinical-research landscape to identify studies in which researchers used sensors to take View Details

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

01 Dec 2006
News

2006 MBAs Go to Work

$134,438 for the Class of 2005. Another uptick was measured in the number of graduates entering the financial services industry, with a shift from 36 percent to 42 percent. Kierstead observes that the Class of 2006 is the first to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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