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- 29 Jun 2013
- News
Hospital operators and Obamacare: Prescription for change
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.) They should even be able to do things that digital computers cannot do at all, like realistically modeling molecules for more efficient drug discovery... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
nonprofits more accountable and transparent with all this money? That’s a very big issue in this sector because there is no common measure or framework to assess whether these organizations are accomplishing their mission. Even simple... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
between agreement on the [private equity] fund, the commitment on the part of investors into the fund, and the closing—it gets measured literally in months, as opposed to days,” he says. There’s the signing and mailing paper contracts,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Taking Tailoring High Tech
width and lining options. But instead of measuring tapes, there’s Molly, a 3D scanner that creates a mathematical model of the shopper’s body. The more than 200,000 measurements collected in just seven... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Philanthropies: ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’ I think you need to have a vision of how you can make a real difference, and have confidence that it’s going to work. And if it’s not working, be willing to adjust it, change... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
learn (or review) and then points to what the student should next master to proceed most efficiently to his or her knowledge goal. FAST FACT: Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. DATA POINT: In a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
knowledge of a market tends to make it more efficient and to intensify competition," Sprinkle noted. "This means that each of us had better start experimenting in this realm right now." At lunch the next day, Vincent H. Tobkin (MBA '75)... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 May 2016
- News
A Focus on Sustainability
governance—into a single report. “For the last 40 years, the mantra has been return on invested capital. While this remains critical, looking ahead, we need to institutionalize the measurement of environmental impact,” says Ferenbach, who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
corporations rely on information planning and control systems and processes that are designed to help management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. "They do this by allocating scarce... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
loses his or her brilliant colors - turns from a butterfly into a moth - then he or she no longer measures up. This view of the director's role creates a terrible perception for the public. Beyond that, it is the antithesis of enlightened... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions inherent in all business," declares HBS professor Robert Simons of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
Also on the agenda would be managing internal and external communications, including dealing with the press and public about the controversies surrounding our work. And the person would have to run the administrative side to make sure we are running View Details