Meaningfulness - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Transitioning From the Military to Business School

do you make responsible decisions at the top to ensure each of your employees is excited to come to work, has the opportunity to build a meaningful career, and feels like their contributions are being recognized and rewarded? And how do... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

Companies with care cultures: Understand their employees’ evolving caregiving needs. They routinely survey their employees and evaluate the company’s demographics, so they can offer meaningful benefits and policies. They promote existing... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

Portrait Project

Ahmed Farag

can I look at my younger reflection and not desire for them to have ambition? Without my own parents, I would’ve just been another statistic of illiteracy in a third world country. My moral insomnia continues to drag. If I can’t find enough motivation to act for them,... View Details

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

beginning. We have founded a nonprofit think tank, Innosight Institute, to promote the ideas from our work to the stakeholders in the system so that we can help create meaningful change. We also are employing the think tank to continue... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

hear the arguments for and against the options that were rejected. In addition, they must address employees' fears: "People want to know why you think they can make it through the change," Garvin observes. "They also want to know how you're going to help... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

options. As the authors of a recent book, Managing the Generation Mix, put it, they demand "the immediate gratification of making an immediate impact by doing meaningful work immediately." In short, they are high maintenance,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

skills, to give those people a meaningful pathway into an opportunity to have earned success.” "With OneTen’s backing, Black employees could move up the ranks and become role models for those who follow." Rometty and her team at IBM... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

29 Nov 2023
News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

Executive Education courses: Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation and Governing for Nonprofit Excellence. “Through these scholarships, we’re able to have a direct and meaningful impact on the local community,” says Chen. “We’re... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

about business problems and arrive at a solution yourself." Sichao Ni Commercial Attaché, U.S. Embassy Singapore at U.S. Department of Commerce Develop the skills to implement meaningful change and challenge the status quo. "HBS Online... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

lessons of the course was around change. From her service experience, Frei learned that making small changes are often more trouble than their worth-but in order to make big, meaningful changes, you often have to change at a pace faster... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

news network, or on their own. The cognitive referents traded the additional publicity that a big public debut offered for tighter control over their timeline and for having a meaningful message that would resonate with customers. Not all... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

entrepreneurship post-graduation, having the chance to build something meaningful while at HBS is a transformative experience that can help you grow in many unexpected ways. VIDEO GAMING Wabantu Hlohpe (MBA 2024) Wabantu is a member of... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

doing a lot of price comparisons. But there are a lot of consumers on the lower end of the income spectrum for whom it could be a real challenge to get 25 percent less product at the same price. Such changes could be meaningful in terms... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

08 Feb 2017
Blog Post

How I Chose My HBS Recommenders

all walks of life. As an example, my section’s classroom last year had 38 flags hanging on the wall, celebrating the countries we all come from. There is so much to learn by engaging with classmates in a deep and meaningful way, both... View Details

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

value is to choose customers or purchase situations where the value is recognized. Managers are beginning to understand that it is impossible to provide a meaningful reason to purchase and outstanding service to all customers in all... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

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HBS - The year in Review

and meaningful lives and careers.” Following an extensive renovation, Cash House will become home to the newly created Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. More on Cash House Renaming Doctoral Students Receive Awards... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

process to foster meaningful progress for individuals, using new research conducted over the past 15 years. He will provide strategies for employers, managers, and mentors to retain and develop talent effectively, aligning individual... View Details

12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

copresident gave me a chance to help others in the spirit of those who had led the organization before me. It was really an honor.” Majors says helping corporate recruiters think through how they could more effectively engage with students of color was one of his most... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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