We talked with Jake Harris ’19, a principal at the impact investing firm DBL Partners, about the challenges of measuring the ...

Global impact funds now have over $322 billion in assets under management, PitchBook data shows. Many of them face a similar issue: How do they measure how impactful their investments have been?

A decade ago, I worked on impact-measurement guidelines for what was then called the venture philanthropy and social investment field in Europe. At the European Venture Philanthropy Association, we ...

In 2004, the term “ESG” was officially coined with the publication of the UN Global Compact Initiative’s Who Cares Wins report. ESG is simply another way of measuring the centuries-old concept of ...

In 2021, I wrote about the urgent need to develop a better way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Despite the best of intentions, the social sector struggles to gauge its true impact on the most ...

In 2023, the World Communications Forum Association named Jason Mudd as North America’s Best PR Leader for 2022. He is CEO of Axia PR. Measuring the impact of PR work isn’t the standard—to the ...

Editor’s note: This is part two in a series of articles on, “How to Measure the Success of Your Loyalty Program.” Read part one here. The age-old standard for loyalty measurement is RFV—recency, ...

Measurement has driven interventions to improve patient safety and care provision, with patient-reported experience and outcome measures (PREMS and PROMS) providing supporting insights. Similarly, ...

How can we account more fully for the impact of a faculty member’s research? There are of course the obligatory publications in respected journals with a high impact rating. Official awards from ...