Success Measures - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Recruiting HBS MBA Students in 2017-2018

organization forward. Quality over quantity – With a population as big as HBS’, it can be tempting to measure success based on how many students apply to your job or attend your presentation. We have found... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do! The Personal Touch Donor Spotlight FAQ Associate Professor Nava Ashraf, the MBA Class of 1966 Research Fellow, exemplifies one of the many HBS faculty members who is actively overturning prevailing assumptions to develop more View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

thinking, translating his insights into practice and correcting the most common misconceptions about them. Guide to Managing Growth: Turning Success into Even Bigger Success by Rupert Merson (PMD 71, 1996)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Commencement 2012 Address | About

the course of his career with his generosity. Now I’m not suggesting that the secret to life is intentionally losing card games. Rather, I’d suggest that you step back from time to time, and to measure your View Details

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

Collegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United States, popularly known as the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2014
News

With No Time to Lose

an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease progression. Next, collaboration... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

leadership among the business community by founding the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG). Our project evaluated the role that AM and EPSMG played during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Measuring the "Impact" in Impact... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

New Releases

an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years... View Details

Portrait Project

Shahar Ziv

money and materialistic measures of success. These nets have stifled the realization that hopes and dreams can be conveyed through various media. My passion is to unite others around a common language that aligns understanding while... View Details

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

impact. In the eco-tourism field, impressive companies are developing advanced methods for both measuring and countering environmental impact. Solutions becoming more complex However, the more speakers considered the business system as a... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business? In a new study, Assistant Professor Michael Luca shows just how much restaurant reviews on Yelp affect companies' bottom lines. The more difficult question: Are these ratings reliable as a View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

Profile

Terrance McGuire

were going to be successful and some who weren’t.” Leaving HBS, McGuire found few classmates heading toward venture capital. “The assumption at the time was that you had to put in your time at a company like Intel or Genentech... View Details

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

destruction" research. As Devdip Ganguli put it: "The sphere of influence of companies goes beyond themselves and their investors: their decisions encompass social and environmental consequences too. Therefore to say that the ultimate View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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,”... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

Portrait Project

Eduardo Weinstein

felt a more tangible, immediate connection to my life and to the ones I love. I thought about how much I still owe to the child that lives inside me, and how I never want to lose him. I will try to live my life thinking of that child, View Details

10 Oct 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

percent. Give low- and middle-income customers access to low-interest-rate loans by using a predictive algorithm that uses nontraditional data to measures creditworthiness. “There’s a spectrum of behavior,” says Ayala. “On the one extreme... View Details

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The Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Conscious and Unconscious Thought Best Solves Complex Decisions

Two studies address the debate over whether conscious or unconscious mental processes best handle complex decisions. According to Unconscious Thought Theory (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006), both modes of thinking have particular advantages: conscious thought can follow... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Values and Beliefs; Information; Knowledge Management; Management Skills; Management Style; Measurement and Metrics; Success; Research; Cognition and Thinking; Personal Characteristics; Perception

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18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

survey data, however, suffers from two main limitations: First, it reveals little about individuals' actual registration or donation behavior. Second, past studies' reliance on average survey measures may have concealed variation within... View Details