Publications

April 2007
Article

The Structure, Size, and Performance of Corporate Headquarters

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold

Keywords: Size; Performance; Business Ventures

Article

Accounting Standards and the Globalisation of Indian Businesses

By: Gregory S. Miller and V.G. Narayanan

Keywords: Standards; Globalization; Business Ventures; India

November 23, 2021
Article

The Nasdaq Mandate Will Expand Diversity in Business—and That’s Good for Business

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Andrea Silbert

As The Boston Club’s corporate census has identified, Massachusetts is moving the needle on the advancement of women and people of color in the business community. In our work, we measure this data year after year, and we are seeing incremental progress, but it is... View Details

Keywords: Women; Equity; Board; Diversity; Race; Gender; Measurement and Metrics; Policy; Massachusetts

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2021
Working Paper

Accounting for Organizational Employment Impact

By: David Freiberg, Katie Panella, George Serafeim and T. Robert Zochowski

Organizations create significant positive and negative impacts through their employment practices. This paper builds on the substantial body of research regarding job quality and impact measurement to present a framework for monetized analysis of employment impact. We... View Details

Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Employment Impact; Employment; Jobs and Positions; Quality; Measurement and Metrics; Analysis; Framework

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15 Mar 2024
News

Hungry for Change

gluten-free. They are grown mainly in the United States, and most products come in compostable packaging (with a return service for those who lack a compost pile). In 2021, the commitment to composting kept about 50,000 plastic bags out of landfills, Flynn observes,... View Details

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

Austin, Fearing develops a "fairness" metric that (in the case of severe weather, for example) balances the trade-off between the most efficient and the most equitable allocation of delays. The FAA's current Traffic Flow... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

February 2006 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Atheros Communications

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren Barley

Managers at Atheros, a leading provider of wireless local area network chipsets, must decide whether to join a special interest group (SIG) proposed by Intel to end an impasse over standards for the 802.11n (11n), the next generation of "Wi-Fi" technology. Two factions... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Standards; Wireless Technology; Semiconductor Industry; United States

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2009
Book

Measuring Identity

By: Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko M. Herrera, Alastair Iain Johnston and Rose McDermott

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Identity

winter 2007
Article

The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

By: Josh Lerner, Benjamin Chiao and Jean Tirole

Keywords: Standards; Organizations; Theory

February 2004
Article

Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Strategy; Assets

25 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children

with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around the world. In this role, she... View Details

2006
Article

Using Investment Behavior to Assess the Pervasiveness of Price Mismeasurement

By: Diego Comin

Keywords: Investment; Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Price

February 2019 (Revised October 2019)
Teaching Note

The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Sarah Mehta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-041. View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Equity; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

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25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

1,000 metric tons of OceanCycle’s certified material every month; he plans to announce several large retail and brand partnerships early this year. By 2021 Goodwin expects OceanCycle’s customers to be using tens of thousands of View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Feb 2021
Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

because, as Manso- Brown stated, “organizations need to create environments where people can show up with the full humanity recognized every single day.” Without this important aspect of organizational policy and culture, adjusting hiring practices will not make... View Details

2023
Other Unpublished Work

If 3 Was 9

By: Randolph B. Cohen

One determinant of where economies and markets are headed is how well we handle the climate crisis. Headlines on the climate tend to emphasize two points. First, average global temps are rising, with it being the hottest summer in 1,000 centuries per some estimates.... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics