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- 17 Mar 2024
- News
How To Find A Greater Sense Of Purpose At Work
- 23 Oct 2023
- News
Values, Passion, or Purpose — Which Should Guide Your Career?
- March 1989
- Supplement
Sematech (IBM Corp.: The Purpose and Accomplishments of Sematech), Video
By: George C. Lodge
Lodge, George C. "Sematech (IBM Corp.: The Purpose and Accomplishments of Sematech), Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 889-514, March 1989.
- 06 Sep 2022
- News
Innovation In Compliance - Profits + Purpose with George Serafeim
- November 2017
- Editorial
Facebook, BlackRock, and the Case for Purpose-Driven Companies
By: George Serafeim
Purpose-driven companies have been shown to outperform their peers over the long term. But purpose-driven companies are also hard to come by. Why is that? Because purpose is costly. At the very least, it requires a credible commitment to that purpose. And credible... View Details
Keywords: Facebook; BlackRock; Purpose; Corporate Purpose; ESG; Short-termism; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Governance; Leadership
Serafeim, George. "Facebook, BlackRock, and the Case for Purpose-Driven Companies." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 16, 2018).
- 2001
- Book
National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective
By: Rawi Abdelal
Abdelal, Rawi. National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
- 2004
- Chapter
The Exploratory Processes of Entrepreneurial Firms: The Role of Purposeful Experimentation
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Murray, Fiona, and Mary Tripsas. "The Exploratory Processes of Entrepreneurial Firms: The Role of Purposeful Experimentation." In Business Strategy Over the Industry Life Cycle. Vol. 21, edited by Joel Baum and Anita McGahan, 45–75. Advances in Strategic Management. Elsevier JAI, 2004. (Earlier version distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 04-031.)
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
how the company has been able to execute both profit and purpose at the same time for 112 years now. I will also be the third generation in my family to have worked with the Tatas. View Details
- January 10, 2022
- Article
The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic
By: Hubert Joly
The traditional corporate approach to motivating people has been a combination of carrots and sticks: a system of financial incentives designed to mobilize everyone around a plan designed by a few smart people at the top. Multiple studies have confirmed that, for any... View Details
Keywords: Meaning; Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Performance
Joly, Hubert. "The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 10, 2022).
- December 2008 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Special Economic Zones in India: Public Purpose and Private Property (A)
By: Laura Alfaro and Lakshmi Iyer
In 2005, the government of India enacted the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Act in order to attract investment, generate export revenues, and create manufacturing jobs. However, several planned projects faced difficulties in acquiring land for setting up the SEZ. In... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Policy; Government Legislation; Property; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; India
Alfaro, Laura, and Lakshmi Iyer. "Special Economic Zones in India: Public Purpose and Private Property (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-027, December 2008. (Revised October 2012.)
- May 2004
- Article
Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology: Evidence from Historical Patent Citations
By: Tom Nicholas and Petra Moser
Nicholas, Tom, and Petra Moser. "Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology: Evidence from Historical Patent Citations." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 94, no. 2 (May 2004).
- 13 Nov 2023
- Podcast
How Levi Strauss & Co.’s Harmit Singh Finds Purpose in Profit
As the Chief Financial & Growth Officer of the Levi Strauss & Co. clothing brand, Harmit Singh makes tough decisions by sticking to a clear set of values that are well-aligned with the company’s larger purpose. He is inspired, in part, by Levi Strauss himself, who... View Details
- Article
A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes
By: Peter Hancock, Roberto G. Mendoza and Robert C. Merton
Hancock, Peter, Roberto G. Mendoza, and Robert C. Merton. "A Proposal for Expensing Employee Compensatory Stock Options for Financial Reporting Purposes." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 17, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 95–101.
- 21 Nov 2022
- Podcast
How Higher Purpose Guides CEO Sim Tshabalala of Africa’s Standard Bank Group
In South Africa, CEO Sim Tshabalala of Standard Bank Group worked his way up from the country’s largest Black township to lead one of Africa’s largest financial institutions. It might seem like an improbable trajectory: from the “dusty streets of Soweto” to the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News