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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Faculty Research Online
new book, Implementing E-Commerce Strategies: A Guide to Corporate Success after the Dot.Com Bust, shows how to put appropriate metrics to work to measure performance. IBM Finds Profit in Diversity Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner (MBA ’65)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
launched in July. The final report will be published this fall. Overall, alumni are very interested in strengthening their ties to HBS. The research findings will undoubtedly help to develop strategies and metrics for increasing and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
company that helps restaurants collect and analysis data to better understand their businesses, and, this month, a new book, The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today’s Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim discusses how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
bank account, and family support system.” Up the structure. Build your own board of directors. “You need a group of people who will offer outside support and call you to account,” Burton advises. Evaluate your approach on a monthly basis. “Look at View Details
- 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
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
the same; only the numbers were different. In my current role I think about how to grow, manage, and sustain a nonprofit that has very different metrics from a for-profit entity. But my HBS skills still apply.” View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
renamed and given a broad purview to collect data on equality metrics like composition, pay, policies, and practices from all private-sector employers in Australia with 100 or more employees, criteria that currently cover about 40 percent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
At an executive retreat in 2015, Hood lectured senior leaders on the need for more internal and external metrics to keep employees on a measurable path and communicate better to investors. Nadella and Hood hatched a plan to refocus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
disappointing 71–91 season, it’s imperative for the franchise to stay at the cutting edge of the data wars. For Tippett, that means continuing to add to his arsenal: a massive database of baseball metrics and minutiae that he and the team... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
and corporate partners—tell of the organization’s success, Chertavian’s most prized metric shows the outcomes for the 18- through 24-year-olds that Year Up has served: Some 10,000 young people have participated in the one-year training... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
The nonprofit world required a change in thinking for Tercek. "At Goldman Sachs, goals and metrics were super clear," he said. "At TNC, it's not as black and white. All the work we do is important. But we have to be vigilant about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaching. His coauthored research on golfer performance has aided the PGA’s development of a new metric to measure putting skills. Francesca Gino is an associate professor in the Negotiation, Organizations Markets Unit and teaches... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
on nonfinancial metrics such as lower fuel consumption in new jet engines, and a reduced carbon footprint and lower water consumption in the firm’s factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes UTC’s... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 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
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
That’s incredibly innovative. But some of the regulations don’t address—or sometimes even prevent—this innovation. The legislative process is slow and cumbersome, and to have these regulations not be able to be responsive is a mistake. My other concern is around... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
research has focused on various aspects of customer management in B2B contexts, including customer selection and portfolio management; managing a spectrum of customer engagements, from transactions to long-term relationships; developing appropriate View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
most of his peers, Coach P used a variety of quantifiable metrics for each rower to determine who would sit in the varsity boat. Says Polzer, “The highest-performing individual rowers typically go in the varsity boat, just as a business... View Details