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  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose

Microsoft (whose purpose is “to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more”), and Warby Parker (which seeks “to inspire View Details
  • 25 Nov 2022
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Ranjay Gulati: How Deep Purpose Drives Extraordinary Performance

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

Our Mission & Team We are working with scholars, business leaders, and community leaders around the world to advance our understanding of business' role in society and to... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Finding a cure for cancer became a personal mission

Thai Lee (MBA 1985), president and CEO of SHI International, talks about how a family crisis led her to funding cancer research. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • October 2022
  • Case

Margaret Thatcher: Changing the World

By: Robert L. Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the rise of Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a shopkeeper, from a small industrial town in England to the longest-serving leader in the Western world. The case describes how she became interested in politics at an early age, attended Oxford, and... View Details
Keywords: Politics; Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Business & Government Relations; Values And Beliefs; Work-life Balance; Mission And Purpose; Government Administration; Power and Influence; Great Britain; Europe
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Simons, Robert L., and Shirley Sun. "Margaret Thatcher: Changing the World." Harvard Business School Case 123-021, October 2022.
  • November 2023 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Kickstarter: Crowdfunding for the Arts

By: Rohit Deshpandé and Alexis Lefort
Kickstarter was a virtual crowdfunding platform and community that allowed creators of all kinds to raise funding for creative projects. The executive team was wrestling with a tension in its business model: the organization earned the majority of its revenue from... View Details
Keywords: Fundraising; Mission; Crowdfunding; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Arts; Web Services Industry; United States
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Deshpandé, Rohit, and Alexis Lefort. "Kickstarter: Crowdfunding for the Arts." Harvard Business School Case 524-016, November 2023. (Revised May 2024.)
  • 09 Jan 2023
  • News

The Pursuit of Profit with Purpose Requires Patience

  • 21 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

CPD interviewed Nancy M. Williams (MBA 1992) to share how she leveraged career coaching to make a career switch, launch a venture and find true fulfillment in her professional and personal endeavors. Tell us... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes

By: Christian Kaps and Simone Marinesi
Power systems account for nearly 40% of global emissions. As the world tries to reduce emissions by increasing renewable penetration, storage technologies are playing an increasingly important role in matching variable renewable supply with demand. Batteries have... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Transition; Utilities Industry; Battery Industry
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Kaps, Christian, and Simone Marinesi. "When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes." Working Paper, October 2024.
  • 27 Apr 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Helen Riley, Moonshot Mission Controller at X (formerly Google [x])

  • May 2004 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

Enron Odyssey (A), The: The Special Purpose of "SPEs"

The board has asked Ron Tolbert, an employee in the Risk Assessment and Control Group, to analyze three SPE transactions executed by Enron executives: the Destec, Rhythms, and Fishtail/Bacchus transactions, which were prominently featured in the Examiner's Report in... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Analysis; Accounting; Financial Strategy; Energy Industry
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Chacko, George C., Bala Dharan, and Eli Strick. Enron Odyssey (A), The: The Special Purpose of "SPEs". Harvard Business School Case 204-009, May 2004. (Revised August 2004.)
  • 30 Sep 2019
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What Gandhi believed is the purpose of a corporation

  • November–December 1994
  • Article

Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose

By: C. A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Keywords: Management; Change; Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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Bartlett, C. A., and S. Ghoshal. "Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 6 (November–December 1994): 79–88.
  • 1998
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Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
Keywords: Management Teams; Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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Bartlett, Christopher A., and Sumantra Ghoshal. "Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose." In Delivering Results: A New Mandate for Human Resource Professionals. Edited by David Ulrich, 125–142. Harvard Business Review Book Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
  • 07 Feb 2024
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Best Buy’s Hubert Joly on Redefining Your Company’s Purpose

  • December 1988 (Revised May 1989)
  • Background Note

PROFORMA: An Aid for Analyzing Accounting Statements for the Purposes of Constructing Proformas and Forecasting

By: John E. Bishop
Keywords: Accounting; Forecasting and Prediction
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Bishop, John E. "PROFORMA: An Aid for Analyzing Accounting Statements for the Purposes of Constructing Proformas and Forecasting." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-108, December 1988. (Revised May 1989.)
  • 26 Apr 2022
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What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Figuring Out Her Mission Ming Min Hui (MBA 2015) had a very specific intention in mind when she applied to HBS. After an early career in investment banking and corporate strategy, “I wanted to apply my... View Details
  • October 2017
  • Case

Still Leading (B1): Hon. Bob McDonald – Profiting from Purpose

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Marcus Millen
Robert (Bob) A. McDonald just completed his service as the 8th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), successfully leading the beginnings of a transformation for one of the nation’s most scrutinized departments. Reflecting back, McDonald looked to the... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Transition
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Marcus Millen. "Still Leading (B1): Hon. Bob McDonald – Profiting from Purpose." Harvard Business School Case 318-050, October 2017.
  • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into... View Details
Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Cross-border Frictions; Remittances; Business Startups; Diasporas; Financial Crisis; Money; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Poverty; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Lebanon
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Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon." Harvard Business School Case 222-078, March 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
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