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- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
of the Newport, Rhode Island–based organization. “It’s like living in two different worlds. I run a nonprofit, but I apply all for-profit principles to it. Consequently, we achieve great outcomes with very low cost, per participant,” he... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
A personal mission to serve veterans
cemeteries in 2010. Last year’s controversy at Veterans Affairs compelled her to return to public service full time. “My younger brother, Kenneth, is an infantry officer in the marines and our future customer. Everyone on active duty is a future customer,” she said.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Private capital, public good
private capital to fund preventative social programs that address various challenges, such as recidivism, health disparities, and homelessness. If pre-specified program outcomes are achieved, government repays investors and provides an... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
Vivian Wu (MBA 2000) manages Zuckerberg Education Ventures, an impact investing initiative that supports education entrepreneurs who are developing scalable businesses that will improve learning outcomes and increase access to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
most effective use of business resources to help solve social- sector problems," explained BLSS chair, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "We examined what business can and can't do well and the outcomes and impacts of business activism... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
and offered a range of recommendations. Fetter and Isaac are pleased that the School has already implemented some of those recommendations, and after the cofounders graduated, Mbanusi continued their work as a copresident. One notable View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
farmer working 2,000 fertile acres in Iowa, the outcome will not be good, especially when no safety nets are in place. The real per capita GNP in Mexico is about the same as it was in 1973. The average manufacturing wage has dropped 60... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
physicians, nurses, and other care providers to assess the progress of patients). The authors argue that the way hospitals hold care providers accountable for cost and quality outcomes also influences whether they work as members of... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
itself, but it actually forces you to think about building companies not in an institutionalized manner. It asks you to essentially create an outcome in a matter of five to ten years and kind of go away to the next View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
would become Trey Athletes, a leadership-development program for high-potential high school athletes that Feickert founded with Brian Reynolds, a college classmate who had seen similar outcomes among his high school basketball teammates... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
handful more in other locations over the following two years, totaling $100 million in impact investments. Social Finance will work with state and local governments to structure and monitor the funded programs. “Social impact bonds have a lot of promise,” says... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- News
Managing the Unintended Consequences of Your Innovations
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Club of Dallas Explores Election Reform and Political Innovation in Virtual Talk As the presidential election nears, the potential for an unusual outcome that could spark a Constitutional crisis seems to grow... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
was adopted by the World Bank and other institutions. Finally, in an effort that posed unique performance measurement challenges, 250 schools were either constructed or rehabilitated. "The outcome of investments in education, such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform that collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context and then assesses its impact... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
role in several of them," says Laguë. "I learned that you spend 90 percent of your time on the companies that don't make it. Investing in fewer companies is more interesting than investing in many, and you have better outcomes. The View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
mobilize their organizations to prevent them. Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Christensen and his coauthors (both MBA ’01) present a framework for predicting View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
about giving back to the people who gave me a chance, making possibility scalable while breaking the cycle that leads to poor outcomes for everyone involved.” Note: This article was updated in February 2022 to update the name of Rahkeem’s... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
Millions tickets, when in reality they’re taking bets on the outcome of our game. So we’re fighting trademark battles, even as we have efforts well under way to develop the game internationally.” “When I started as director of the New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
activities? How does one evaluate the reasonableness of a manager’s performance on large projects where traditional outcome methods don’t seem to apply? HBS emeritus professor Fox and his coauthor answer these questions based on records... View Details