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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
September 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions By: Badaracco, Joseph L. Abstract—The toughest calls managers have to make come in situations when they have worked hard to gather the facts and have done the best View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
private entities, as well as those whose features may proxy for higher quality. Larger entities are disproportionately targeted in litigation. I discuss how the findings are in large part consistent with the theoretical literature on the View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
Harvard College I often felt like I had my head down. I don’t regret that – I ultimately succeeded academically, winning the Harris Prize for best thesis in Economics and graduating Summa, and got into finance -- but with some savings and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
their businesses to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends rather than invest for the long term, undermining job growth and putting the country’s economic future at risk, often pointing to the high ratio of shareholder payouts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
provider must decide whether to IPO or accept an offer to be acquired by Euromoney, a global publishing and information content provider that is eager to launch an Internet information service. The case contains a term sheet that can be reviewed to support View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
groups that have been part of HBS for years. The teams, which meet only during the first year, are assigned across sections and with an eye to mixing students from a variety of backgrounds. They also encourage in-depth case analysis and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
presides over the epicenter of Athens—looking out over Hellenic Parliament on one corner and Syntagma Square on the other—has been witnessing the capital’s highs and lows since 1842. Protesters took hammers to the hotel’s white marble steps in 2015 and hurled hunks of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
insistence on more data and deeper analysis than had been the McKinsey norm. In the 1970s, he began touting the importance of strategic management for every kind of firm; eventually strategy consulting would become the core of McKinsey’s... View Details
- 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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. Boston: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954. “ How Cases Get That Way ,” Harvard Business School Bulletin , vol. 30, no. 3, Autumn 1954, pp. 34-35. This is a description of how cases were written for the Written Analysis of Cases course, which... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
diminished focus on losses and heightened focus on gains when policies are evaluated in bundled form. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-147.pdf PublicationsAssessing the Cost and Benefits of Brokers: A Preliminary View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks performing a financial View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
possibilities of multiple voucher purchases and firm price re-optimization. Despite the potential benefits of online discount vouchers to certain firms in certain circumstances, our analysis reveals the narrow conditions in which vouchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
frame in which these radical changes and directions or redirections in economic policy are going to take place. The issue, if there is one, has to do with timing and phasing, rather than with ultimate objectives and purpose.” Nair... View Details