Measurement and Metrics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

technologies are often disruptive to established organizations because they have a different set of attributes that aren't valued in existing markets. Market potential can seldom be measured and profit... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey

known as ‘reparations,’ ” he explains. “But I approach this with realistic expectations as policy analysis, not a cause. I’m attempting to correctly understand chronic racial inequality by putting it in a historical context and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

transactions—the metrics Karavites tracks most closely—are up at all his locations. Formulating a turnaround strategy required Kempczinski and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?

Mac Bartels (Photo courtesy of Mac Bartels) Just back from the Toronto Film Festival, Eric d'Arbeloff (MBA 1993), copresident of independent film producer and distributor Roadside Attractions, talks to Mac Bartels (HBS 2016) about how he... View Details

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

seeing is everyone is incredibly tired right now. Where we saw this huge spike of usage of Khan Academy at the early phases of the pandemic, I think as people started to have Zoom fatigue, we started to see in schools, some of that usage go down View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts

and the state (“made manifest in better tax compliance, fewer court actions, and less corruption”), reversing the brain drain (“we must get back the tens of thousands of educated people who left during the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

25 Feb 2020
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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

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

at HBS that attracted nearly 300 individual donors in addition to a number of companies and other organizations. “I knew the measure of whether I’d lived up to the chair wouldn’t be how many books I wrote or... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

and applying to business school. HBS Outreach While it's too soon to measure these specific initiatives, the overall philosophy behind outreach to young leaders is clearly working. For years, MBA Admissions... View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver

When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jun 2019
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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

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

AASU Holds 25th Annual Conference "Our Silver Past and Golden Future" was the theme of the 25th annual Career/Alumni Conference of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU), held January 30 to February 2 at HBS View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Street Singer

price for the aftermarket.” If intuition and financial fundamentals figure in Harris’s work, so too does a good measure of faith. “It’s not like I wear it on my sleeve, but everybody knows that it’s part of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

01 Jun 2013
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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

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2003
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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 View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Sep 2016
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Charting Alumni Impact

The impact of an educational institution is often measured anecdotally, using the achievements of its alumni. In late 2015, Harvard released the results of the inaugural University-wide research study to quantify the “economic View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

with staff to create the BooWow Factor, measuring the “wows” and “boos” generated through follow-up phone calls to a sampling of patients who visit a salauno clinic. Management finds that such direct... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

Now some have criticized the efficacy of campaigns like the one that you ran with the Georgia Meth Project saying that it's very difficult to prove success and to attribute success to particular ads. How do you View Details

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

subconscious, says Brooks, “if your metric is ‘success’ and ‘investment opportunity’ and assuming that attractive men have it easiest all the way along, then that might be the... View Details