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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Goodwin explains: “If [the lettuce] is grown in Massachusetts, I can put it on [a grocery store’s] dock at the same price or lower than if you grow it in California and truck it across the country. And so I get all that benefit of the... View Details
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
correlations of cash flow shocks raises the risk of a globally diversified portfolio at all horizons. By contrast, an increase in the cross-country correlations of discount rate shocks has a much more muted effect on portfolio risk at long horizons, suggesting that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
Look at the business model. Walmart catapulted into a $400-billion-plus company by luring customers into stores with groceries at very low margins, reaping the benefits of additional trips, which generated increased sales of higher-margin... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented CBA and have reached a set of conclusions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
tradeoff between safety and efficiency, fixing operational failures can yield benefits for both. Thus, prioritizing improvement of work systems in general, rather than focusing more narrowly on specific clinical conditions, can increase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
on the HBS campus created a deep reservoir of goodwill. “This place means something to us,” Spangler explains. “It was significant in my dad’s life, my life, and my daughter’s and son-in-law’s lives. But more than that, it the Spangler Center was an opportunity to do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
California NN: These are great questions, and both reflect my deeply held belief that business has a crucial role to play in creating jobs, solving problems, and generating the economic prosperity that will benefit societies around the... View Details
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marketing of creative talent? In particular, how should companies invest in and capture value from "superstars" and the teams to which they belong? How are digital technologies changing the entertainment industries? For instance, how are creative businesses affected by... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
nonprofit—foundations, governments, donors—are usually different from the people benefiting from the work of the nonprofit. There are some exceptions in situations where fees are paid for services. But generally speaking a nonprofit CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
save time, money and heartache, enabling us to enjoy long healthy life spans and the benefits of our multi-generational families. Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985), founder of Circle of Life Partners, will facilitate a conversation that... View Details
- September 2023 (Revised September 2024)
- Technical Note
Measuring and Managing Social Impact
By: Brian Trelstad, Gerald Chertavian and Susan Pinckney
A brief overview of how to measure social impact at nonprofits, social organizations, and impact investments. View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Change; Transformation; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Entrepreneurial Finance; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Mission and Purpose; Success; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Strategic Planning; Programs; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; United States
Trelstad, Brian, Gerald Chertavian, and Susan Pinckney. "Measuring and Managing Social Impact." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-017, September 2023. (Revised September 2024.)
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
when it results from using discretion, suggesting that the benefit of repetition does not compensate for the cost of exercising discretion in this setting. Our research offers a behavioral perspective on queue management and highlights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
risk-taking incentives. Under reasonable parametrizations, the marginal benefit of higher capital requirements related to this channel significantly exceeds the marginal cost, indicating that U.S. capital requirements have been... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
significantly. Both numerical simulations and a controlled experiment using regular and edited commercials provide evidence of the benefits of brand pulsing to ward off commercial avoidance. Implications for advertising management and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
might benefit his fund to the detriment of the other limited partners. The process of discussing these helps the class explore the nuanced role of a limited partner in a private equity firm. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
that, relative to offering free shipping, offering contingent free shipping increases basket sizes by encouraging consumers to meet the minimum order threshold. Consumers incur search costs to meet this threshold exactly; sellers may View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
Benefits Fund (PBF) enacted by the state legislature. With renewed effort by activists in 2006 to expand AE's role, there was a possibility of the PBF swelling to $50 to $80 million. Naturally, this put AE at conflict with electric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
would say that they're validated, so much as they're just glad that other people are seeing the value in that lifestyle. And that's kind of how I feel. It doesn't feel like a battle and so I don't feel like I've won anything, but it is certainly great to see other... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
explicitly a function of current product offerings. The setting illustrates firms' dual incentives at work: A firm better differentiates products under a looser standard but may want to induce a tighter standard if it can benefit from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman