Success Measures - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Faculty Research Online

work of the School’s Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse areas of HBS to conduct research on the sector and prepare future leaders in these two important areas. Start to Measure Your... View Details

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

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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

carried from school. The fellowship enabled me to take a role I wouldn’t ordinarily be able to consider.” Measuring success at the consumer level Kasia joined Acumen in 2014 in New York City as an Innovation... View Details

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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Suppliers Suppliers Suppliers of medical products, technology, and services play vital roles in the value of health care delivery and innovation in health care practice. By increasing patient success rates... View Details

23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers

Tony Klemmer Photo courtesy of NAATE Plans for a second career took an abrupt turn in just one day for Tony Klemmer (MBA 1983) when, after a quarter century of successful startup launches, he left the business world to pursue personal... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

climate risk as an asset owner, measuring climate risk and using metrics in portfolio construction, incorporating physical climate risk into portfolio analysis. The last day turned to financing innovation with a focus on early stage... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Wide Screen Approach

Immersive Media “The single largest revenue stream for sports in North America is media rights. The sports industry is slowly adapting to new formats and platforms, which is having an immediate impact on the acquisition and retention of audiences. The traditional model... View Details

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

decades, including those who have found success professionally, when they lift their heads up in their 40s or 50s and question whether their lives are heading in the right direction. “We sit back, look ahead, and ask, 'What do I really... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

Portrait Project

Cameron Johnson

glamorize everyday life, depict the idea that more is better, and often masquerade success as happiness; driving my generation to measure ourselves not by our own standards, but by the accomplishments and... View Details

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

pollution, and growing inequality. The case concludes with the decision to abandon GDP growth as a measure of success and opens questions about what this means for Shanghai and China. Moreover, the case... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

leaders must bring to bear a new perspective on how growth efforts are situated in their companies, how they measure and reward executing the present and building the future, and how they align behaviors to their specific growth... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

01 Sep 2012
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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

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2014
News

Taking Tailoring High Tech

2010) created Birchbox, a wildly successful monthly beauty-samples subscription service that has inspired countless in-a-box imitators. Motlagh’s Acustom Apparel showroom in Soho, which opened in 2013, has some things in common with a... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion

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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Alumni The Challenges Ahead in the field of impact investing Multiple Alumni Measuring Success in Impact Investing Multiple Alumni Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference Adam Nathan MBA 2015 The... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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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... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and Phillip E. Auerswald. Chesbrough and Rosenbloom discuss the... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

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, and... View Details

Keywords: SEI; Social Enterprise Initiative; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

because they have not implemented reforms proposed to them by creditor nations. My belief is that there is plenty of blame to go around, but there is still a way for Greece to recover to the betterment of the entire European community. The View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

gathering tasks. We use the framework and examples of successful research studies in the nancial reporting literature to clarify how data-gathering choices affect a study’s ability to achieve its goals and conclude by showing how the... View Details