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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner) Chandler and coeditor Mazlish,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011). Abstract Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
There is a mismatch between what many scholars assume is the purpose of taxes and what most people believe for themselves. That mismatch means that the advice experts offer to policymakers and citizens debating American tax policy can... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
database. Conclusions—Major benefits of the model include its basis in expert judgment, its straightforward application, the flexibility of transforming its output ratings to any linear scale, and its ease of interpretation. This metric serves the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
only one tool toward the larger purpose of motivating value creation. Healy: One of the things that strikes me is we have a whole set of alumni who are really outstanding people with excellent values. We have so many graduates who are... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
(D^3) and the Institute for Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). The purpose of D^3 is to study how technological changes such as machine learning, digitalization, and artificial intelligence are affecting business and society. The... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
summer with a greater sense of urgency and purpose in dealing with racial equity issues? Dean Nitin Nohria wrote to our community about the School’s need to redouble its commitment to combat racism, and he asked Professor Jan Rivkin,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by this standard its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Abstract Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the influence of psychological hardiness, social judgment, and "Big Five" personality dimensions on leader performance in U.S. military academy cadets at West Point.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
it, it was the purpose of it. Definitely a highlight morning.” From Master Plan to Blueprints Digging In: The Spanglers join Dean Kim Clark, Boston Mayor Tom Menino, and others in the groundbreaking for the campus center, designed by... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
my own history and ancestry. I think it’s so important for us to know about where we came from and what our ancestors experienced. I’ve read several of Kazuo Ishiguro’s books and they always inspire me and continue to haunt me long after I’ve put them down. The Remains... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research By: Battilana, Julie, Marya Besharov, and Bjoern Mitzinneck Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to advance research on hybrids by bringing together work from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
and the multiple purposes for which goals are used, including planning, coordination, motivation, and evaluation. We explain why performance goals must pass three important tests: alignment with strategy, measurability, and linkage to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
framework is their degree of fungibility: capabilities span a continuum ranging from highly general purpose (e.g., quality management) to highly market specific (e.g., knowing how to manufacture an airplane wing). To illustrate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
terms of drugs, technology, devices, information technology, and personnel; then secondarily, the current regulations in place and the payment models. Part of the purpose of writing Designing Care has been to emphasize the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
of purpose, they tried to create management as a profession, but never resolved the issues in any kind of meaningful way nor did they articulate a coherent purpose with a single voice. These questions remained unanswered. Q: One turning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
means paying out even more. I’m hoping that’s going to lead to a virtuous cycle of more subscribers. In terms of our pricing, we purposely went a bit low and modest. Not all South Asian Americans are the same, but a large proportion—about... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
aspirations. Through purposeful steps, bold action, and an unleashed imagination, she built her new life from the ground up. Now she is the CEO of her own multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand and ready to share the steps she took with... View Details
- September 2023 (Revised September 2024)
- Technical Note
Measuring and Managing Social Impact
By: Brian Trelstad, Gerald Chertavian and Susan Pinckney
A brief overview of how to measure social impact at nonprofits, social organizations, and impact investments. View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Change; Transformation; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Entrepreneurial Finance; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Mission and Purpose; Success; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Strategic Planning; Programs; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; United States
Trelstad, Brian, Gerald Chertavian, and Susan Pinckney. "Measuring and Managing Social Impact." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-017, September 2023. (Revised September 2024.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
across functions, businesses, and your industry. Engage your peers to deliver solutions to real business problems. Know the customer and the competitor. When you are at the top, be a talent magnet and then build the next generation of leaders. Lead with View Details