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- 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
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
foundations of strategic costing systems. The breakthrough came by combining an idea I had while writing Cost & Effect with an innovation developed by Steve Anderson, an HBS MBA, who was a student in my second-year elective, Cost View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
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
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
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
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
stay-at-home moms to return to work? Money is probably the biggest motivation but not just for itself. Often it’s a desire to be able to spend one’s own earned money. People often measure how successful they... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
mission." The panelists added, though, that success can be difficult to measure in the nonprofit sector, especially compared to the financial gains of a for-profit start-up. "There's a real problem... View Details
- 13 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
issue. Just like setting sales goals tied to consequences for not meeting those goals, increasing diversity in your workforce is something measurable and it is tied to organizational success so it should be... 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
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
had affected the outcomes of the portfolio companies in the study. (For the purposes of the paper, a successful outcome was defined as one in which a company eventually filed for an initial public offering.) They found that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
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
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
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
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
employees' fears of telling the senior team about obstacles to the organization's effectiveness. They advocate six basic steps to overcoming these barriers and achieving greater success in talent development. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
accessible and assure prospective students that the School will support them on their educational journeys. “The impact of the fellowship program on our students, who see how invested our alumni are in their success and the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
that a leading affiliate network could have invoked an optimal payment delay to eliminate 71% of fraud without decreasing profit. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-072.pdf Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
Series kicked off September 15 with HBS Professor George Serafeim, who talked about his Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS. Impact-weighted accounts offer a tool for measuring a company’s external impacts on society and the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“You think of the whole system, so you change the way you measure success from your own output to how you enable others. At Boston Ballet, I was able to make the transition from an individual contributor... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
What makes a movie click with an audience? How important is buzz in the success or failure of an entertainment product? Should worldwide releases of movies be done over time, or all at once? Those are the kinds of questions that interest... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
that confrontation was not to be avoided. In this way, employees gained experience in working through their problems on their own. Performance, of course, is the ultimate measure of a successful turnaround.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
Don't Learn from Success Authors:F. Gino and G. Pisano Publication:,em>Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011) Abstract We argue that for a variety of psychological reasons, it is often much harder for leaders and organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne