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  • 22 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

Avant Ski Makes Turns in Ski Media Objectivity

It seems like a former life: Investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Healthcare equity research at Citi. Boutique leadership consulting for aspiring CEOs. While Morristown, New Jersey, native Alli Widman (MBA 2009) cut her teeth in finance View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

bimonthly status reports in the Bulletin keep alumni informed about the board's ongoing work. The Board of the Directors of the Associates The Associates of Harvard Business School are individuals that have close personal and strategic... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • November 2017
  • Case

Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

By: Andy Zelleke and Emilie Billaud
This case explores the sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; Denmark
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Zelleke, Andy, and Emilie Billaud. "Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals." Harvard Business School Case 318-088, November 2017.
  • July 9, 2019
  • Article

Setting Better Sales Goals with Analytics

By: Doug J. Chung, Isabel Huber, Vinay Murthy, Varun Sunku and Marije Weber
Sales compensation is a critical lever in motivating a salesforce and driving growth in the business-to-business sector: Studies show that revising compensation in line with market trends can have a 50% greater impact on sales than advertisements have, for instance. A... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives
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Chung, Doug J., Isabel Huber, Vinay Murthy, Varun Sunku, and Marije Weber. "Setting Better Sales Goals with Analytics." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 9, 2019).
  • 04 Jan 2019
  • News

How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals

  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2002
  • Book

Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky
Keywords: Poverty; Housing; Goals and Objectives
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Retsinas, Nicolas P. and Eric S. Belsky, eds. Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
  • 05 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear

When I started at HBS in the fall of 2020, I had one goal in mind: to challenge myself. I previously worked in communications at Cloudflare, a security, performance and reliability company founded in 2009 by... View Details
  • Jul 09 2015
  • Testimonial

Many Journeys, a Single Goal

  • 13 Jun 2025
  • News

Set Goals That Are Meaningful and Will Keep You Motivated

  • April 2023
  • Article

A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing to Boost Volunteering: The Trade-off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility

By: Aneesh Rai, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman and Angela L. Duckworth
Research suggests that breaking overarching goals into more granular subgoals is beneficial for goal progress. However, making goals more granular often involves reducing the flexibility provided to complete them, and recent work shows that flexibility can also be... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement
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Rai, Aneesh, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, and Angela L. Duckworth. "A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing to Boost Volunteering: The Trade-off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility." Journal of Applied Psychology 108, no. 4 (April 2023): 621–634.
  • February 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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PerlAvance: Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) at a Fintech Venture (C)

By: Brian K. Baik, Tatiana Sandino and Tricia Peralta
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Baik, Brian K., Tatiana Sandino, and Tricia Peralta. "PerlAvance: Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) at a Fintech Venture (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 124-084, February 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
  • February 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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PerlAvance: Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) at a Fintech Venture (B)

By: Brian K. Baik, Tatiana Sandino and Tricia Peralta
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Baik, Brian K., Tatiana Sandino, and Tricia Peralta. "PerlAvance: Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) at a Fintech Venture (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 124-083, February 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
  • February 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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PerlAvance: Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) at a Fintech Venture (A)

By: Brian K. Baik, Tatiana Sandino and Tricia Peralta
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Baik, Brian K., Tatiana Sandino, and Tricia Peralta. "PerlAvance: Using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) at a Fintech Venture (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-082, February 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
  • 09 Jul 2019
  • News

Setting Better Sales Goals with Analytics

  • 01 Jul 2019
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Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

sense of co-creation and ensure engagement.” Do asrarqureshi and Jainn have something here? Do super stretch goals require more commitment than a large organization can muster?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2003
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Connecting the Dots: Aligning Projects with Objectives in Unpredictable Times

By: Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan
Keywords: Projects; Goals and Objectives
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Benko, Cathleen, and F. Warren McFarlan. Connecting the Dots: Aligning Projects with Objectives in Unpredictable Times. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
  • 02 Mar 2009
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The pitfalls of goals gone wild

  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals

"There is today a great need for leaders who live their lives with integrity, courage, and commitment," declared Dean Kim B. Clark in his welcoming comments at the Women's Student Association's (WSA) eighth annual business leadership... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 2022
  • Article

The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning

By: Michael Prinzing, Julian De Freitas and Barbara L. Fredrickson
The desire for a meaningful life is ubiquitous, yet the ordinary concept of a meaningful life is poorly understood. Across six experiments (total N = 2,539), we investigated whether third-person attributions of meaning depend on the psychological states an agent... View Details
Keywords: Experimental Philosophy; Folk Theories; Meaning In Life; Moral Psychology; Positive Psychology; Moral Sensibility; Satisfaction
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Prinzing, Michael, Julian De Freitas, and Barbara L. Fredrickson. "The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning." Journal of Positive Psychology 17, no. 5 (2022): 639–654.
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