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September 2023
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Corporate Purpose in Public and Private Firms

By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim

Analyzing data from approximately 1.5 million employees across 1,108 established public and private US companies, we find that the strength of employee beliefs related to purpose is weaker in public companies. Among public companies, those beliefs are stronger for... View Details

Keywords: Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Culture; Corporate Culture; Public And Private Organizations; Hedge Fund; Executive Pay; Corporate Governance; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Employees; Attitudes; Executive Compensation; Ownership

May 2013
Article

Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan

By: Tom Nicholas

Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary... View Details

Keywords: Prizes; Technological Innovation; System; Patents; Knowledge; Value; Cost vs Benefits; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Performance Effectiveness; Japan

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17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

worried about the ascendance of China, while firms in Taiwan and Hong Kong have reaped enormous benefits from Chinese economic expansion, according to Huang. He presented his new research proposal to an audience of faculty and doctoral... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

placement around this sales cutoff. Moreover, managers appear to exploit this by manipulating sales to be just over the cutoff in favorable industries. Further evidence suggests that managers then engage in activities to realize large, tangible View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

contributed benefits other users (as, for example, when a network is enlarged) as well the organization itself (providing lower costs, greater resources at little cost, better customer service, more effective marketing, increased employee... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

$10,000 each.” Both Mahajan and Gupta have benefited from the School's comprehensive financial assistance program: from need-based scholarships to attend HBS, to summer fellowships between their MBA years to explore careers in less... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 May 2023
Blog Post

6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process

but not limited to, race, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation) benefits an organization. In addition, if the “likeability factor” does matter to you as an organization and it impacts how employees succeed in the role,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Affinity Groups | Employment

Participation in staff affinity groups is open to all and supports our Institutional commitments focused on fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture for all members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) community. Objectives & View Details

01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

extraordinary start to my time at HBS. I can't imagine not having had the experience; it's a perfect fit with Foundations." Faculty, MBA Program staff, and other HBS employees all played active roles as facilitators, coordinators, and even customers of the greeting... View Details

Robert D. Stuart, Jr.

that this and other acquisitions cost Quaker Oats a good deal of cash, the company benefited greatly from the expansion with sales growing from $500 million in 1968 to $2 billion in 1979. View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

such at the time. We had become a nation of equity owners. We were all in the markets; we were all sharing in the benefits of our system. And then what happened? Many were wiped out. Almost all were disillusioned." It is a systemic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

capital-intensive business, and it's important to consider how one's money is obtained. "There are many different funding options, from syndicates to institutions, and there are benefits and drawbacks to all of them." Palandjian... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

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Henry McCance

this without it,” said Tanzi. Although McCance’s wife will not live long enough to benefit from CAF’s contributions to Alzheimer’s science, he still looks to its future with tremendous hope. “If venture research grows the way venture... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Health Care

15 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"

benefits of the degree. As I described in the article “The MBA as a Finance Case” in The Harbus, the bottom line is that the degree quickly pays for itself and more, and alumni typically see increases in long-run compensation of many... View Details

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Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

employees. Professor Paul R. Lawrence. HBS Archives Photograph Collection. Show caption Hide caption In some instances, industry reached out to HBS to develop case studies around specific issues in their companies, benefitting both HBS... View Details

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HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

published in the 1920s through to the early 2000s. The accompanying exhibit website includes an in-depth guide to the Archives and publications on the history of the case method at HBS that are available for research. In preparing this exhibition, we have View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Ink: The Three-Step Startup

benefited from my own scarce resources. I didn’t know how the book was supposed to be structured, but I did know I wanted the readers to become engaged in the process. I didn’t think QR codes were so revolutionary, but my editor said it... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

31 Mar 2022
News

A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man coordinates a food drive to benefit the people in his community. As a local leader in the Robin Hood Army, a nonprofit volunteer organization, he’s on the front... View Details

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