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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
that busy people can understand and embrace, and then translating strategic choices into sales tasks that bring results; by hiring, compensating, and measuring salespeople and performance in ways consistent with strategic goals; and by... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Personalizing the Path to Professional Success for Women
silence. We don’t want anyone to know we’re feeling a little less than certain,” says the Landit cofounder and CEO. “There are millions of women who are looking for how they can bring the full measure of their talent and skills to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Faculty Research
investigate. Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science Do the successful Mars missions mean NASA again has the right stuff? Associate Professor Alan MacCormack dissects the space agency’s “Faster, Better, Cheaper” program. His findings may help earthbound managers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Ready for Departure
news? Probably another blip. Changi also implemented a host of new health and safety measures to make the various touch points throughout the airport less touchy. Changi also implemented a host of new health and safety View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
billion of the excessive costs of U.S. health care while all too many quality measures have worsened. Patients learn — sometimes the hard way — to bring along an assertive, intelligent loved one to protect them during a hospital stay.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
in neuroscience research experiments—with former research colleague Julie Yoo to assess cognitive and emotional traits. The games didn’t ask personal questions, they measured responses, providing objectivity in a way that the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
before, which makes it more convenient for applicants. We're also working with the Graduate Management Admissions Council, which designs the GMAT, to further enhance the test with qualitative measures of the personal qualities I mentioned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting Initiative, the world’s leading... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
coming to HBS, that means identifying problems and dreaming up new solutions—that may or may not work. Cities and towns can experiment with bold ideas, discard those that don’t accomplish their goals, and scale those that do. Weiss calls it “possibility government.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
last ten years as executive director of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) in San Francisco. A pioneer in developing VC-like ways of measuring "social return on investment" (SROI), REDF invests substantially in a small... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
institute for the past five years. Measurable Success Some measures of PELP's success to date are quantifiable. PELP's summer institute, a centerpiece of the project, has brought nearly 450 district... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
make a measurable improvement in life on our planet. Learning to build a successful company is a stepping stone to that.” At HBS, Ajanoh acquired the knowledge, contacts, and managerial skills to further CassVita’s early promise. Several... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
as much for the same seeds. That knowledge would help farmers haggle with dealers, but the real insight would come from analytics that go beyond consolidating seed prices to measuring a seed variety’s potential success. The most important... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
is poorly understood—we’ve known that for a while—it’s how surprised they are. I think what’s going on is this: Most executives, when they think about strategy focus on communication, and they measure communication in terms of the numbers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
website is a public good provided by HBS,” says Jones, “and its success will be measured by the extent to which diverse researchers make use of it.” He credits the project with showing how successful businesses emerged from volatile... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Holdings: “During this crisis, First Philippine Holdings (FPH) has provided stop-gap measures to support low-income communities with basic provisions until the government could mobilize its own resources and strengthen social cohesion.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley