Higher education is awash in data. Whether it’s the indicators the college rankings industry uses to compare institutions, the metrics faculty and administrators employ to gauge the importance of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anne Field covers impact entrepreneurship and impact investing. A few years ago, Acumen, the pioneering patient capital impact ...

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 ...

Over the last few years, impact investors have made many efforts to standardize “output metrics”—data about products, services, and business practices—so that they can draw better comparisons across ...