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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
suppliers—run with thin margins and minimal cash reserves, even in the best of times. “When COVID-19 hit, they felt the shock immediately,” Mills explains. Beginning in March 2020, the pandemic and unprecedented public health measures... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
society. Applegate, an entrepreneurship expert, broke down the steps that Pivotal Ventures has taken to “bend the curve” with gender equity, including developing an ecosystem model, managing risks and measuring the impact of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
compelled states without waiting-period laws to enact them. The stopgap measure was in effect from 1994 to 1998 until instant background-check laws were introduced. However, when the Brady Act went away, so too did federally mandated... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
self-assessments. They can measure their accounting, quantitative reasoning, and writing skills to determine their strengths and weaknesses in order to better prepare themselves for the Program. In addition, for the first time we are... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
impact both measurable and extraordinary. “When we initially invested, we only had 160 university-educated teachers. Now, there are more than 1,000 high-quality educators. This is one part of the solution, but it’s a critical part,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
nonprofit conducts field research, oversees data collection and processing, and presents clients with key findings, program implications, and implementation recommendations and tools. “The data we generate helps managers make the best decisions, improve their work, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Courage and Hope in Africa
Sierra Leone, the West African nation of five million people, has been the scene of a brutal civil war for most of the 1990s. An accord signed last year has yielded an uneasy truce; with it has come an opportunity to restore some measure... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
including start-up, funding, growth, alliances and collaboration, and performance measurement — to help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise context and organizations. Who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
markedly for reasons not associated with identifiable factors,” says Desai. “In 1998, more than half of the difference between tax and book income — approximately $154.4 billion or 33.7 percent of tax income — could not be accounted for by these historically relevant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
COVID-19, there has been such a need—who wants to go to the hospital for a sore throat in a pandemic? In addition, what hospital wants to see them? The acceptance of telemedicine has also led to a boom in wearable sensors. Apple came out with an app that View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
first identified eligible recipients using data such as a home’s roofing material to measure need. In many Kenyan communities, permeable, hard-to-maintain thatched roofs distinguish the poorest residents from better-off neighbors with... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
vouchers for free contraceptives. Half received vouchers with their husbands present while the other half received them privately. A control group received no vouchers. The goal? To measure the influence of spousal pressure in a nation... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
“This isn’t only about giving money. We are planting seeds to increase diversity in recruiting, hiring, and professional development in meaningful and measurable ways. “We want companies to start recognizing that diversity is an advantage... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
organizational properties of each team, measuring factors such as leadership behaviors of nurse managers; adequacy of training, information, and equipment; team characteristics (stability, composition, quality of relationships, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard University community and beyond. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
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,” said Chung. View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
development, Adams left in December 1999, taking a year to travel around the world with his wife before returning to Martha’s Vineyard to start building their home. “As HBS students, we used the balanced scorecard as a way of looking beyond the bottom line to View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
comparisons of performance among industry competitors and to measure whether owners could actually affect performance over time." Kang's data reveal that there were 81 publicly held U.S. textile firms in 1983 whereas by 1992 only 47 such... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
government. Those four measures are completely doable over a 25-year period. Excluding the military, the three major expenditures of the government are education; health care; and retirement security, meaning Social Security and federal,... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
In Brief
professional stories embody all that make HBS such an enriching community. Their ambition and integrity hint at the contributions these remarkable young people will make as the School’s newest alumni. Mission Possible. In social entrepreneurship, the bottom line is... View Details