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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for the clinic’s... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
photo by Chad Kirkland Randy Shumway (MBA 2000) and his family were regular supporters of clothing and blanket drives for shelters in their Salt Lake City community. But, like many well-intentioned people who are moved by the outcomes of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
sailboats to a former America’s Cup boat that we adapted—although no one said it could be accomplished.” A competitive sailor who has raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and in London in 2012, Callahan takes a measured... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
lowest-income countries," he explains, "76 percent of health spending is private, and 70 percent is out of pocket." Furthermore, the health services and products that poor people pay for are all too often inferior. Thus, making better health services and View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
from People magazine to CNN, happened during downturns, as did the growth of cosmetic companies such as Estée Lauder and Revlon. How to Deliver. A common outcome of downturns is an abundance of underutilized resources that may be... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Professor Allen Grossman and Senior Lecturer John Kim with HGSE professor Susan Moore Johnson Searching for System-Wide Solutions Baltimore City College's stellar education outcomes stand in sharp contrast to those of schools with similar... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
book to articulate the nuts and bolts of what goes into creating an environment for this transformation to occur.” As seen in these excerpts from DeLong’s new book, teaching—whether the milieu is the classroom or a conference room—is a delicate balancing act, requiring... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
measures that are applied to employees." When they leave the course, Barrett hopes students will take away a realistic understanding of the time, energy, and human capital required from corporations involved in working on complex social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and the moral hazard associated with that. Or the additional capital and regulatory requirements will put these firms at a disadvantage relative to their competitors, and you will have weakened the firms that you believe to be systemically significant. Neither is a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
that presents a wide array of commitment decisions. He analyzes the match between case outcomes and model predications both qualitatively and quantitatively. The case method offers clues about how to refine existing theory. In addition to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
used to measure everything from weather to traffic. (NASA) All of these futuristic space-mining plans, though, still struggle against the oldest barrier: getting into space. Most of the cost of carrying people, satellites, supplies, or... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
says. “It’s all about brainstorming how you can leverage resources and market forces to spin off quality outcomes like affordable housing, new job opportunities, and goods and services that may be missing in a community.” At BCC’s weekly... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
to measure. How should we measure ours? This book of advice on life is dedicated to the younger generations, which have so many capabilities and the potential to solve the many problems that we face today. Final Delivery and Eight Others... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
ensuring high-quality care across the system. The arrival of COVID-19, he says, presented “the challenge of a lifetime.” In addition to gaining a deep appreciation of frontline health care providers, says Hatanaka, Ontario Health has worked to build View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
startup, for-profit context might. There’s nothing soft about nonprofit work. In many ways, it’s even harder. We’ve been really committed to demonstrating, with the data, the learning outcomes from the year. We look broadly before and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
challenges. When I joined BlackRock in 2015 to launch their impact investing platform, it involved taking my experience from the nonprofit side and thinking about how to measure social outcomes and drop that... View Details