Measurement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
News

How Do I Get Your Job?

of it is having a gut instinct. If you don’t have that, you can get into trouble trying to repeat past success by measuring every potential acquisition against a comparable film from the past. A film like Winter’s Bone would be a great... View Details

July 2010
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Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis (CW)

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery

Pricing is one of the most difficult decisions marketers make and the one with the most direct and immediate impact on the firm's financial position. This toolkit will introduce the fundamental terminology and calculations associated with pricing and profitability... View Details

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Decisions; Strategic Planning; Price; Partners and Partnerships; Cost; Demand and Consumers; Revenue; Profit; Mathematical Methods; Measurement and Metrics

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January 2010
Teaching Note

IFRS in China (TN)

By: Karthik Ramanna

Teaching Note for [110037]. View Details

Keywords: Planning; Adoption; State Ownership; Corporate Disclosure; Interests; Economic Growth; Financial Reporting; Standards; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Power and Influence; China

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Impact Investing: Challenges and Opportunities

Never has there been a time when so many believed in both the ability and responsibility of the private sector to combat the world's greatest social challengesfrom poverty to climate change to accessible health care. Recent years have seen the creation of thousands of... View Details

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

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Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

its residents a measure of privacy. Architect William T. Aldrich designed the stately residence, which was completed in 1929. Dean’s House. Exterior View. Landscaping of the entire campus began after the Dean’s House was built. The... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

necessary but no longer sufficient. Nonprofits need to show that they are making systemic changes.” For their part, some participants expressed concern that the push for business-like practices, while necessary, put too much emphasis on quantitative View Details

01 Jun 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

School's and alumni visibility in the community while providing a substantial educational experience to its members. The amount of preparation that goes into these conferences is staggering - even by HBS measures - and appropriately might... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

Big Data to Your Advantage by Kaiser Fung (MBA 2001) (McGraw-Hill) With advancements in smartphones and computers, huge amounts of data are being collected, and more and more things can be measured that previously could not be. Fung... View Details

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

Marquis. Language, on the other hand, is a more objective difference that can be easily measured. Better yet, no one had studied this question. In recent years, researchers have taken increasing interest in measuring CSR (or as it's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

inequality is measured in terms of opportunity or the actual accumulation of varying levels of income and wealth. Inequality is inevitable and perhaps necessary in a free society, according to one line of thought. As Guy Higgins put it,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

five-point scale about how much they could rely on those partners to complete tasks effectively (in order to measure cognitive trust), and how much the partners shared the same goals and feelings (in order to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

banking, media, and the nonprofit world, Kevin and Kenneth shared 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 View Details

26 Mar 2025
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Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

impactful class at HBS? My most impactful learning happened after I finished my program in 2010. This was through Professor Clayton Christensen’s article (which later became a book) – “How Will you Measure Your Life?” I learned that true... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?

say Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen, assistant professors at Harvard Business School. By one broad measure of products, about 16 percent of US exports from Vietnam—or $15.5 billion—were estimated to be rerouted Chinese products in 2021. But that... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua; Manufacturing; Shipping

08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Commencement 2011 Address | About

competent to tackle the challenges that lie ahead. Remember that the quality of your decisions and actions will always matter, and the judgment you display in various situations will be a key measure of your leadership. As you gain... View Details

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

different organizational contexts, i.e., summer field training and during academic semesters. Leader performance was measured with leadership grades (supervisor ratings) aggregated over four years at West Point. Findings-After controlling... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—Online prices are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2010 (Revised August 2011)
Case

Australian Vintage Ltd.

By: David F. Hawkins

Following International Financial Reporting Standards guidance company records a number of significant losses and a related deferred tax asset. View Details