Social Evaluation - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2020 (Revised September 2021)
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Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African... View Details

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09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

take. It allowed them to integrate everything they learned into situations they were likely to encounter in the workforce. As someone who is pursuing a career that requires me to evaluate businesses but also learn its operations, this... View Details

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

want corporate platitudes and passive social activism after living in pandemic limbo for so long. A = Align your post-COVID employee policies, resources, and timelines, like you would with any other business priority or client project. K... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models Authors:Mair, Johanna, Julie Battilana, and Julian Cardenas Publication:Journal of Business Ethics Abstract In this article, we use content and cluster analysis on a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

tougher time getting work done than others. Whenever possible, managers should trust workers to make decisions about what they can and cannot accomplish, Neeley says. And based on input from employees, managers may want to evaluate each... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

of the 75 percent of his classmates who did not go on to college after high school. Ameen has spent much of his time in college working to change the social status quo. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he worked in Harlem,... View Details

2021
Working Paper

The Business of K-12 Education in China

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu

This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details

Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China

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17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

typical startup roles to help you determine which one might be the best fit for you, 2) profiles of startup executives across many different functions who share their stories and describe their responsibilities, and 3) a methodology to identify and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

reference points and it’s made me a better leader in navigating these issues.” To tackle issues facing his company and employees, Soo considers the impact of policy, social change, health, and education in service to a culture at Stitch... View Details

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

expressed concerns about decreased "reliability" (a key component of "verifiability," auditing's touchstone) in proposed standards. To benchmark the auditors' assessments of decreased accounting reliability, the researchers relied on independent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize resumes, diversify interview panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria. Integration. Create opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

professors are evaluated in part on the number of papers they publish in peer-reviewed journals. Primarily written for and read by other academics, many of those journals tend to reward novelty over applicability. In academia, “basic”... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

group decided that I would be the social director!" The benefit was having a good excuse to invite Levitt, who was not teaching in the AMP program, to dinner. "We became good friends," she recalls, adding that she applied a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

with significant rewards," says Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), which coordinates the fellowship program. Childress, herself a former fellow who worked with the Boys and Girls... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2013
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A Mission in Motion

Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John... View Details

Keywords: summary

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Sep 2010
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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... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact

made a leap of faith. If he could just find a management position at a nonprofit, he figured, he could help direct social change. “That was my thesis,” he recalls. Since he made that jump, he’s proved that thesis correct several times... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

accountability and governance, and development and marketing. Professor Kash Rangan, who cochairs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, reviewed his research on nonprofit trends. Professor John Quelch, a marketing expert, focused on... View Details

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

translate for us, willingness to donate isn’t so different—and so my strategy class has also been very helpful. I use accounting to evaluate finances and develop budget documents both here and in my role on the board of the organization I... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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