Measurement & Evaluation
You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure
An excerpt from Frontiers in Social Innovation on making ESG metrics trustworthy
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Measurement & Evaluation - Book Excerpts
New ways to measure and evaluate the impact an organization’s work has on society
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Measurement & Evaluation
Randomistas vs. Contestistas
An excerpt from Solving Public Problems on RCTs and their limitations
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Measurement & Evaluation
Looking Back to Move Forward
An excerpt from How Social Science Got Better on how the social sciences are becoming more relevant, diverse, and reflective.
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Leadership
How to Make Shared Leadership a Reality
An excerpt from The Seventh Power presents a five-step engagement-enhancement process to transform leadership and organizational culture.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics
A dialogue with University of Michigan professor Dean Yang on what we can—and can’t—learn from randomized controlled trials.
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Education
Education and the Commercial Mindset
A chief reason for Finnish schools’ much-touted success is that, ironically, they have done a better job implementing core business strategies than many explicitly market-based educational models.
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Health
Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
Drawing on extensive field research and surveys, Lasker suggests several ways to make international health volunteering more effective.
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Education
Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why
Building on his previous work about the importance of personal traits such as perseverance in student success, Paul Tough focuses Helping Children Succeed on how educators, policymakers, and parents can help children develop those attributes.
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Impact Investing
The Impact Investor
The Impact Investor offers precise practices and suggestions for impactful investing from various experiences.
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Measuring Social Impact
Measuring and Improving Social Impacts: A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors
Measuring Social Impacts outlines a five-step method for figuring out which impacts matter and how to measure them.