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- 01 Jun 2000
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Books
strategy, organizing for performance, and using information for performance measurement and control. He then explains how to create performance-measurement systems by building... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon
Art by James Yang/Getty Images Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it’s been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a couple of years View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
Image by John Ritter Companies can spend millions curating their social media presence—with sometimes famously funny results, like the Twitter accounts for Wendy’s and Denny’s—but how relevant is that to revenues? Here, Associate... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
a suitcase, and headed back to work. A pro bono study by several of the city's top consulting firms has estimated that the damage to New York City totals $83 billion. That figure may be low, some observers say, View Details
- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
Economic Development under Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. “I had learned from [HBS professor] Michael Porter about the synergy that comes from establishing industry clusters, and that became our focus. We became View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara
taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Philanthropies: ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’ I think you need to have a vision of how you can make a real difference, and have confidence that it’s going to work. View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
equal measures on the capital campaign and the entire External Relations organization.” Melnick first came to HBS as a research associate in 1986. He joined the Financial Office in 1992 as assistant director... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells
research management, to pay more attention to achieving results rather than expanding knowledge for its own sake,” Van Etten says. “In part, we’re encouraging academics to team up with industry in the hopes that the private sector’s focus on View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
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Transforming the IRS
traditional services on the telephones and in local offices, and offered new electronic services for filing, paying, and information. Why did you change the way the IRS View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Robert Buzzell Remembered
known as the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategies (PIMS), designed to identify and measure the determinants of profits in individual businesses. The author or coauthor of eleven books, Buzzell worked... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Series kicked off September 15 with HBS Professor George Serafeim, who talked about his Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS. Impact-weighted accounts offer a tool for measuring a company’s external impacts on society View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Biohacking Conference featured a keynote by David Asprey, creator of Bulletproof Coffee—a drink that promises increased mental focus, among other benefits—as well as addresses by an international memory champion and the CEO of a company... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
across a dozen jurisdictions in Asia. Being educated and having worked in Asia, the United States, and Europe has given me a measure of appreciation of the diversity in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
Every year, specially chosen committees help the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) decide how to allocate massive—totaling more than $24 billion in 2014—competitive federal grants for medical research. But the evaluators on the various committees come from... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started the boom in retailing, while... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
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Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Students Negotiate a Victory
airline, curtailed the union's right to strike, and indexed pay scales to profitability. “We concentrated on our common interests; the measure of our success was that both sides felt they got a great deal,”... View Details
- 25 May 2016
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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