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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

careers we pursue in a way that maximizes purpose and profit in our own lives. Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions By Leo R. Tsao, Daniel S. Kahn, and Eugene F. Soltes, the McLean Family... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • News

Saving an American Publishing Icon

would do research on any topic for any individual. Turns out, the thing that was more in demand was best-practices research. And that company became the Corporate Executive Board and the Advisory Board Company. “At age 40, at that... View Details
  • October 19, 2021
  • Article

The Facebook Trap

By: Andy Wu
Facebook has a clear mission: Connect everyone in the world. Clarity is good, but in Facebook’s case, it has also put the company in a bind because the mission—and the company’s vision for creating value through network effects—has also become the source of its biggest... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Mission and Purpose; Network Effects; Value Creation; Corporate Accountability; Strategy
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  • 10 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

purpose of the collaboration and to each other.Cross-sector partnerships do not happen; they are built. To trigger the relationship there generally needs to be an emotional connection with the social purpose. The prospect of a program... View Details
Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy
  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

and a lack of foreign competition. This is the environment that allowed the GM's and IBM's of the world to grow, dominate, and achieve previously unseen levels of corporate success. "What's going on now is a return to an earlier more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

field-based research. Its purpose was not to resolve issues on appropriate methodologies for research but rather to begin a discussion to stimulate thinking and debate. The conference, titled "Complementary Research Methodologies: The... View Details
  • August 2006 (Revised July 2007)
  • Background Note

Governance of the Family Business

By: John A. Davis
Reviews the ways to achieve governance of the family business. Points out the importance of plans (e.g., strategic plans), statements (e.g., mission statements), policies, rules, and agreements to the governance process. Discusses the roles of three structures in... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Mission and Purpose
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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

provide employees with a sense of challenge and identity." By framing such a strategy, he says, the CEO can change the organization from one in which employees see themselves as working for an efficient corporation to a view of themselves... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

focuses on a board director of a diversified holding company. The CEO is raising the idea of joining with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to spin off part of the business as a separate company. The board director must... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

marked the inauguration of the School's Asia-Pacific Research Office), Paine added that "in order to be effective, managers must find ways to deal with differences in how people think about matters such as authority, fairness, responsibility, and even the very View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

could not afford them. The executives were far from naive, however, about how tough it can be to create the corporate conditions that also foster social good. When a CEO tries to extend the company mission beyond short-term quarterly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Global Business School Network

By: Christopher Marquis and Rwitwika Bhattacharya
The mission of the Global Business School Network (GBSN) is to strengthen business education for the developing world. The organization was transitioning out of its startup phase and wants to shift its focus from capacity building activities driven by the organization... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Business Education; Development Economics; Globalization; Global Strategy; Education Industry
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  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

Further, the voting cycle truncates long-term progress. "Government is an interest-group groupie," she said. "Who speaks for the less fortunate? The homeless, for example, are not a powerful interest group." Businesses, she added, "will sponsor social issues only if it... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • March 2007 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Aurolab: Bringing First-World Technology to the Third-World Blind

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Aurolab is the in-house producer of IOLs (required in cataract surgery) for the Aravind Eye Care System, a group of charity hospitals with the largest volume of eye surgery in the world. Aurolab's manufacturing capability and capacity had long exceeded the requirements... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Production; Mission and Purpose; Performance Capacity; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy; India
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  • June 2024
  • Module Note

Value Creation Potential of New Business Models

By: David J. Collis
A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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  • 03 Oct 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across countries so that employees of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research, Harvard Business School, 1933 The thousands of images Ayres and Davenport received revealed that behind the product lay a corporate system driven by power, efficiency, and industrial research. These... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2019
  • News

Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

the process—that you cannot plan the path to an innovation. Instead, you have to act your way there. Other key factors that encourage innovation are the vision leaders bring to the table and the sense of purpose that those within an... View Details