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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Faculty Books for December 2016

improved living conditions worldwide and provide guidelines for measuring a company’s population health footprint. Examples, statistics, and visuals showcase emerging corporate involvement in public health and underscore the business... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

mistakes. But there is another approach: alter the environment in ways that encourage people to make decisions that lead to good outcomes. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/05/leaders-as-decision-architects April 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

industry’s normative acceptance of gender diversity. In countries where gender diversity has been highly accepted (e.g. European countries), gender diversity is positively correlated with firm performance, as measured by market value and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

other measures aimed at getting more federal funding for social service programs, and is under debate in Washington. The Act aims to promote and greatly increase the number of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). IDA accounts provide... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

of the study. "Already we’re seeing how generative AI can change people's lives." Businesses that were already financially stable used the AI-generated advice to produce measurable improvements, while struggling businesses ran into... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Research Brief: Field Research

that boost an individual’s income as well as regional food security. Second, PAD’s work responds to the long-standing challenge among social enterprises to measure impact—something Cole has seen firsthand in his research with the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations

the 21st century: “Advancing women means breaking free of a new set of stereotypes and assumptions, not only for women, but also for men. It means challenging a much wider range of conventional wisdom about what we value and why, about View Details
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • News

Building Great Schools around Great Teachers

performance. While Klemmer delights in the anecdotal evidence, he cautions that the sample is too small to claim measurable student improvement. But he is thinking big. "Look at World War II. We had 150,000 trained military personnel in... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

John R. Davis

and accounting for all 800 “cow units” (a standard measurement that in this case means about 1,175 actual cattle). Calving season calls for constant monitoring of the pregnant cows and helping them give birth — including stitching them up... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • News

Serious Fun

unexpected) expenses and making investment decisions along the way about upgrades (such as lights and equipment) that will improve Angel’s performances (and pay). The impact of the games to date is encouraging. In surveys of participants who played Farm Blitz and Bite... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 21 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

mission." The panelists added, though, that success can be difficult to measure in the nonprofit sector, especially compared to the financial gains of a for-profit start-up. "There's a real problem of figuring out what... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 07 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

the inefficiencies of the Medicare system. One insurance executive said that there are currently 111,000 pages of Medicare regulations on the books. A cardiologist at the session described, with frustration, his ongoing multiyear crusade to convince Medicare officials... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 13 Oct 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
  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

agglomeration economies, including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion, play a particularly important role in multinationals' economic geography. These findings remain robust when we use alternative measures of trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

my vehicle' rather than 'the inspector accurately measured my vehicle's emissions,'" says Toffel, an associate professor and Marvin Bower Fellow in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at HBS. "This results in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

That means that a first-class human-resources executive must be at the CEO's right hand. Eventually, traditional strategic-planning processes will need to be overhauled and the financially calibrated measurement and reward systems will... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

traditional measures like observable improvements in public health outcomes, economic activity, and time savings. John Macomber is a senior lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, where his work focuses on climate adaptation and the future... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

remotely and how productive they were. It was striking to see that people thought they were much more productive at home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

The Plight of the Global Poor

anything they can eat or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus — nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy — are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
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