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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
the Bulletin, a cavalcade of ideas, old and new, that have put the School on the intellectual map. Some of the articles will look back on outstanding accomplishments of distinguished faculty. Others, based on a series of faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Social Enterprise Celebrates Tenth Year, Looks Ahead
faculty chair), Allen Grossman, and F. Warren McFarlan each led a lively exchange that encompassed topics such as measuring SEI’s success in 2014, ensuring that the knowledge generated is applied, View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
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Green Pioneer
terms. As Zofnass explains, Envision is “based on the simple premise that you can’t improve something unless you have the means to measure it.” Envision considers five key areas of large civic infrastructure projects, criteria that were... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
vision has resulted in many financially driven companies becoming more mission-oriented. In this changing climate, HBS professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton (DBA '73), president of Renaissance Solutions, offer a performance View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
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 to fund preventive measures against heart... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
Research by Whillans and three HBS doctoral students—Jaewon Yoon, Hayley Blunden, and Ariella Kristal—found that people who go seeking advice receive information that’s far more useful than those who request... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
when they leave; the restaurant will do whatever's necessary to ensure that. A qualitative experience measured quantitatively - it's a case study in successful customer service and service management. What's... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
What’s a typical day like as executive director of Children’s HealthWatch? “Days vary quite a bit here, and that is one piece of what drew me to this role. As executive director, I work closely with our academic/pediatric leadership, our... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2014
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An investment in meaningful results
meaningful and measurable results. It is supported entirely by its board of directors; all public donations go directly to programs and services. "Wanting to help your... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
expanding her focus to principles as well as profits has enabled her to become more the person she hoped to be when growing up. “I’m sure some measure of feeling abandoned—by my mom through death, by my dad through sadness View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
Dr. Margaret Chan (PMD 61, 1991) is worried. She believes that a serious human influenza pandemic will almost certainly occur at some time in the near future. Chan is particularly concerned by the avian influenza virus H5N1 that is currently moving across continents... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities
in their careers. “Being at a business school, you’re perceived as a leader,” says Faw. “It’s important to apply our skills beyond personal accomplishments. It’s too easy to get caught up in success measures View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
housing department and helping to set up the deployment of Detroit’s $28 million share from the American Rescue Plan. Although the fellowship grant that augments her salary has ended, Mendu has extended her stint with the city to be... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
stage isn’t the goal; it’s the indicator. The goal is learning what users need and value, and how successful you are is measured by growth in users, retention, View Details