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- 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.)
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
learning. The HBS Economic Model What distinguishes the HBS economic model is a commitment to research that is largely internally funded. At the heart of this research is the School’s faculty, scholars who are passionate about advancing knowledge, shaping the View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
hands of knowledgeable recruiters when it comes to transparency? And what is the net effect on the educational process of grade disclosure? What do you think? Original Article Disclosure of grades to recruiters and others has been an... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
educator. In particular, what is asserted to be knowledge about leadership must be true. This is particularly challenging when it comes to leadership. Because when an academic makes an assertion in the field of leadership and communicates... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
adequacy of that framework in practice or its ability to support the kinds of changes that are being suggested. ... Righting The Imbalance The compromised boardroom climate is a serious obstacle to good governance. Proposals for reform... View Details
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Training Course in Personnel Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Introduction Training Certificate Management Program Harvard-Radcliffe HBS MBA Program Methods of Instruction Theory to Practice Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 001, 002, 086 A "Daring Experiment" Beginning in... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Developing ideas that have tangible, real-world impact—not just in academia but in practice and policy—has always been a vital part of HBS’s DNA. So not... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
care SEC would have many issues to work out. It would have to establish standard definitions for specific quality measurements. Risk-adjusters would need to develop ways to compare providers’ performance at widely varying practices... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of the knowledge economy. But it isn't new, at least to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Make Furloughs... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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South Asia - Global Activities 2021
objectives. Regular knowledge sharing between the cohort members aided the thought process on innovation. Through SELPI, I gained a better understanding of leadership during emergencies, conflicts, and while facing other challenges, which... View Details
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Shared Value Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
practice committed to driving adoption and implementation of shared value strategies among leading companies, civil society, and government organizations. Launched by Michael Porter, Mark Kramer, and FSG at the Clinton Global Initiative... View Details
- Career Coach
Betsy Edwards
working with individuals on all aspects of the job search process and at every stage. She combines her years of coaching experience and industry expertise with her practical approach and extensive knowledge... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
at Heifer, Ferrari has helped the organization set and reach a number of internal goals that he says are critical to its mission to end poverty. From revising its global systems—for accounting, project and data management, and knowledge... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
percent battery power. Your brain is your most vital asset; it is a physical organ that, like any other piece of equipment, requires maintenance and care. Both physical and mental hygiene practices need to increase right now, because both... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to live here, then you have to make... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
million students every month. It’s been translated into the world’s languages. It’s been used formally in about 300,000 classrooms in some way, shape, or form. “There are two goals here: one is to provide not just videos but also interactive software and feedback and... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Student-Profile
Byungyeon Kim
outcomes be more precisely forecasted? Couldn’t the business practices be more efficiently designed? Despite his increasing intellectual curiosity, he found no outlet to explore the many questions that occurred to him. “I realized what I... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
perform. That is, AI could inadvertently serve to exacerbate the patient-volume problem, rather than relieve physician workloads and improve the patient experience. Health care is at a turning point: We need policies and organizational View Details