Corporate Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2015 (Revised February 2017)
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MOD Pizza: A Winning Recipe?

By: Boris Groysberg, John D. Vaughan and Matthew Preble

Scott and Ally Svenson, the founders of MOD Pizza, had to make a number of decisions in planning how to scale their small company. They wanted to grow MOD from 45 stores as of May 2015 to 200 stores by the end of 2016, and while the two believed that MOD could manage... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Service Industry; United States

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20 Jan 2010
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research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose of this paper is to show that this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

strategic opportunities and articulate the business case for sustainability to achieve corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals within your or your clients' organization. "I now have a better understanding of sustainability and which... View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

meaning Special Experiment). 49 Land devoted massive efforts toward the secret project, which took place concurrently with other routine Polaroid manufacturing activities. Reams of daily research reports, diagrams, and test photographs in the Polaroid View Details

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

volume hope to rectify that with the first scholarly business history of Modern Turkey. 30 Sep 2019 The Conversation What Gandhi believed is the purpose of corporations Geoffrey Jones and Sudev Sheth discuss... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Business Ethics category for Deep Purpose (Harper Business, 2022). 2022 Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 First Prize in the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition for "Hidden... View Details

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Enroll Now Key Concepts Identify any misalignments between the dynamics of your organization and external market conditions Communicate purpose and vision, and inspire your organization to execute on that vision Extend the reach of your... View Details

17 Mar 2009
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market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-098.pdf A View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Aug 2012
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Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

corporate strategy, Wells has learned that the seeds of failure are often planted years before they sprout, and only by overcoming complacency and constantly adapting to the changing competitive environment can companies prosper in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

accounting and discuss the intended purposes of the balance sheet and income statement (with particular attention to net income). Students will also have a chance to review the business model of Berkshire Hathaway to debate how to measure... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Feb 2013
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Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

foster income inequality That being said, the collective corporate hierarchy (needs to) make the long needed effort to voluntarily minimize the gross inequality that now exists." Desiree Halse, after quoting verses memorized as a child... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg

In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details

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called the Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD), the 300-person organization includes faculty administration, research administration, and a wide array of faculty research, teaching, and administrative support services. The View Details

01 Feb 2011
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accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well spent, or pressure from regulators to demonstrate that they are serving a public View Details

09 Jan 2006
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When Benchmarks Don’t Work

in strategic job families to the business unit strategy?1 Of course not. One corporation in a Hackett database might report that it spends 0.2 percent of revenue on employee competency development, whereas your company spends 1.0 percent... View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Chertavian : Received the Bowdoin Common Good Award in 2017. Rebecca M. Henderson : Winner of Aspen Institute’s 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award in the Corporate Purpose & Leadership category for the MBA... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Teaching Award in the Corporate Purpose & Leadership category for the MBA course Reimagining Capitalism: Business and the Big Problems with George Serafeim. Rebecca M. Henderson : Awarded the 2017 Viipuri... View Details

April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
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Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock

By: Shawn A. Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and John Masko

In early 2021, BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM)—sought to become a leader in promoting environmental and social sustainability. Over the previous ten years, CEO Larry Fink had written an annual open letter to... View Details