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  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the organizational and procedural... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Brian Trelstad
Video Supplement for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details
Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
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  • 19 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: 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 business skills to something more fulfilling and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

    Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation

    Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details
    • Clubs

    Black Investment Club

    Keywords: Affinity
    • May 2025
    • Case

    'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation

    By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan
    Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Fund; Philanthropy; Charitable Donations; Sustainability; Foundation; Impact Investing; ESG; Family Business; Forecasting and Prediction; Private Sector; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Issues; Sustainable Cities; Financial Services Industry; Minnesota; United States
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    • 01 Sep 2010
    • News

    Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

    The 2010 Alumni Achievement Award recipients have made their mark in a wide range of fields, from banking and investing to retailing, entrepreneurship, and space exploration. United by their leadership skills, each of these alumni is... View Details
    Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
    • 01 Dec 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

    when the social mission of an organization depends on its own commercial success: More revenue means more resources to invest in the core mission. “It becomes this catch-22,” Battilana says. In “Harnessing... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Clubs

    Women in Investing Club

    Keywords: Affinity; Venture Capital / Private Equity / LBO
    • 07 Nov 2014
    • News

    In partnership to support a mission

    Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) serves as vice president and cochief investment officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. With business partner Kim Lew (MBA 1992), she manages $3.2... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2000
    • News

    William Jones: Builder with a Mission

    recalls. Nevertheless, he says, during that period "my daughter and I were very close. She loved the environment. It was one of the best things we could have done." After graduating from HBS, Jones worked at Prudential in San Francisco as an View Details
    Keywords: Thomas Frick
    • February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
    • Case

    Korea Venture Investment Corporation

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Billy Chan
    Financial service sector Korea Venture Investment Corporation (KVIC) is the venture capital arm of the Korean government with a founding mission to build a domestic startup ecosystem that would be as competitive as Silicon Valley. KVIC manages a basket of... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Society; Investment; Venture Capital; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Financial Services Industry; Asia; South Korea
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    • Web

    Impact Investments

    Mission Statement The Project on Impact Investments is dedicated to studying the universe of impact investors and portfolio companies that seek to generate social benefits alongside financial returns as well... View Details
    • 27 May 2020
    • News

    Why the SpaceX manned mission is critical to the private space race

    • 18 Nov 2013
    • Video

    Investing in Change

    • October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
    • Case

    Investing at Pivotal Ventures

    By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Emily R. McComb and Eren Kuzucu
    Launched in 2015 by Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pivotal Ventures is an investment and incubation company. The company aims to support and promote transformational ideas, people and organizations, and advance social progress for women... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Management; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital
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    • 01 Mar 2012
    • News

    Investing FAQ

    Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FIELD 2: Global Intelligence Why is participation important? Every gift represents an endorsement of the School’s View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • 01 Aug 2019
    • News

    Investing for Good

    Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, she talks about the organizations View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 27 Apr 2018
    • HBS Seminar

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

    • 01 Oct 1998
    • News

    A Community Investment

    Scoon: While social enterprises are different in many profound ways in terms of mission and style, to run effectively they rely on many of the analytical skills with which we are familiar. Clearly, the School and its graduates can add... View Details