Goal Pursuit - Publications - Faculty & Research

Program

Building a Legacy

insights to build a professional family office Establish the right structure, governance, and organizational design for a family office Make savvier financial decisions based on a deeper understanding of family wealth management Set clear View Details

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Placement - Doctoral

Organizations Dissertation: Workers and the Pursuit of Social Objectives in Organizations Advisors: Julie Battilana (Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan , and Daniel Schneider 2023 Nicole Abi-Esber Organizational Behavior, 2023 Placement: London... View Details

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

Competitive Advantage Authors: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher Abstract Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

interactions that matter most are not with the people you work with closely every day, such as people in your home department. Instead, the real influence comes from colleagues whose intellectual pursuits are vastly different from your... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Profiles - MBA

the last years, I've enjoyed getting to see the value and impact we will bring to the world, and look forward to seeing what is to come. Professional goals: I hope to lead the sustainable development of space, to guide us en masse towards View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

and start-up founders. We focus our research on the identification and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities; domestic and international funding of entrepreneurial endeavors; innovation, particularly technological innovation in... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

what causes the pursuit of new growth initiatives to face far more risk from friendly-fire incidents than external forces? In this session, we explore the dynamics described by Professor Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovation... View Details

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

capital for entrepreneurs seeking to build businesses and make a difference in their communities. The fund has dual goals of creating social change and the pursuit of reasonable investment returns, allowing... View Details

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social enterprise-focused alumni comprise a powerful network for social impact that spans across the globe. Whether it’s within the nonprofit, public, or private sector, HBS alumni pursue a variety of managerial, entrepreneurial, voluntary, and philanthropic roles in... View Details

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

When your boss asks you to meet with clients for last-minute drinks, are you tempted to clear your calendar, even if it means missing your child’s piano recital? If so, you’re among the many professionals who tend to prioritize professional relationships over personal... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

see themselves as change agents"—we should do more than blindly accept our fate. We should still seek to understand why the change was forced on us, how we might exert greater control over our lives or business in the future, whether the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

a new business case called Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance. Shackleton, who died in 1922 at the age of forty-seven, never achieved his goal of traversing the continent of Antarctica. He is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

these two additional measurements, they may end up with trousers that fit them better. For retailers, the goal is to devise measures that capture the variability in people’s preferences well enough, while minimizing the number of... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

to plan and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

own capabilities with those of its suppliers and partners to address some of those problems. The goal is to bring value to customers in ways that are beneficial for them while also creating additional value for the company itself. Q:... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

threat lack credibility, but you also have no way of changing course if the situation becomes dire. 3. Visibly incur sunk costs Suppose you are negotiating with a consulting firm to renew its contract to provide information technology (IT) services to your company. In... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

impression (by seeming smart, kind, competent, funny, charming, creative, etc), and still other times we need to manage disagreement or conflict, or convey or receive information. Sometimes we need to aim for all of these things at once—and our View Details

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

commensurate with their needs and goals. Consider the following: Define “enough” When a person’s definition of success remains open ended, that openness can lead to pursuits without end. Money, accomplishment, status – ultimately, what is... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

Corporate Sustainability. Arla shared their commitments to a stronger planet and stronger people, grounded in a selection of eight priority UN Sustainability Goals. In pursuit of these commitments, Arla has set ambitious goals, including... View Details

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

What’s a company’s purpose? Too often it has been hijacked by one extreme or the other claiming it’s either the unbridled pursuit of profit on behalf of shareholders or it’s anything but profit. I also take issue with the idea that... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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