Measurement Of Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

considering the many different opinions for tackling the crisis, the multitude of parliamentary and electoral processes involved, and the constraints of treaties not designed to withstand these unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

risks? Robert C. Merton: The measurement and management of risk permeates all corporate activities and thus it is central to strategic decisions as well as tactical ones. The management View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

09 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Enterprise Risk Management

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event:... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

key components: It is organized into "integrated practice units" that focus on a particular disease, as well as the conditions associated with that disease. It measures outcome based on the patient's condition before, during, and after... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

and name. “This way, the host can review and accept guest requests on a nondiscriminatory basis, considering a guest’s request on the merits (such as dates, number of people, and purpose View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

complications (surging waves) arise. In the Agile environment, the purpose of rapid development is to produce a minimal workable product at the end of each delivery cycle, or... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

the proxy statements of 478 large U.S. companies, analyzing executive compensation between 1980 and 1994. "We built a database that enabled us to measure with great precision, using the Black-Scholes... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

magazine covers, which were dominated by the smiling faces of people who had "made it." Boy, they sure seemed happy! As a student, I was regularly assessed, tested, graded, and otherwise measured... View Details

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

giving them license to grow to such an extent, people expect that these businesses will behave in a responsible way. So ESG data is important for every industry because it helps measure that behavior, though the value View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

is even harder to measure than price. But there’s a great amount of price variation that doesn’t seem to be correlated to quality (at least to quality that we can measure). Which brings us to the question... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

2011. And Sucher believes they have served their purpose of helping students understand both the financial and the emotional toll of layoffs on workers. In one video, Kelly... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

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... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua; Manufacturing; Shipping

14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

allocated. Clickstream data was provided by ComScore, an audience measurement firm. In the development of the internet, 2008 and 2013 were landmark years. Netflix and Hulu began offering streaming services... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

interesting and important thing." Another question: Do leaders in these industries give the audience what they want, or something new and different? Of course, the safe thing to do is to sell work that aligns with prevailing cultural... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

Super Bowl Sunday is sure to bring the usual barrage of clever soda, beer, and car ads featuring everyone from Vegas showgirls selling Coca-Cola to pop celebrity Psy charming us to buy pistachios Gangnam-style. But at a whopping $3.7... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

of its own; it reflects only the collective outcome of a relentless pursuit of individual gain. "A company prospers by creating a broader sense View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

certainty of not being nickel-and-dimed," he said. The cost of measurement itself can sometimes override any benefits. For this reason, ABP may be a better bet for B2B... View Details