Corporate Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2021
Supplement

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

Video Supplement for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details

Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas

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June 2010 (Revised September 2013)
Case

IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries

By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari

Indian financial intermediary matching international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; India

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01 Mar 2011
News

The Rankings Game

recent MBA graduates and corporate recruiters. U.S. News is alone in asking deans and MBA program administrators for their views on top schools, and it gives significant weight to undergrad GPAs and GMAT scores. Forbes relies solely on... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

in a U-Stor-It container in Inglewood, California. After losing his day job, he turns to his “auxiliary emergency backup job” as a “freelance stringer for the CIC, the Central Intelligence Corporation of Langley, Virginia.” He, along with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

that in cross-sector social purpose collaborations, unlike commercial business alliances, an essential ingredient for strong leadership involvement is an emotional connection individuals make with the social mission and with their... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hazleton Laboratories Corporation Former President, Seattle School Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION University of Washington, 1960 B.A., Business... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

J.C. Cuddy. 10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture Published: December 22, 2008 Organizations with strong, adaptive cultures enjoy labor cost advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF four Pillars of Purpose - Justice System Reform, Education Parity, Health & Wellness... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

LSP core team. Explains Pisano, “The purpose of this initiative is to create some mechanisms for collaboration and integration across disciplines and among faculty, as well as to connect with outside constituencies.” In this way, the LSP,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Brittani Rettig

"Several cases in Leadership and Corporate Accountability are the most memorable. Particularly "The Fall of Enron" and the Harvard Business Review article by Charles Handy, "What's a Business For?" I got so... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care

15 Nov 2013
News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

its bullying and hate speech. You might consider a carve-out for smaller players to not overly burden innovation. The purpose would be to bring the same level of societal engagement to social media sites—making them responsible for libel... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

26 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 26

Case 111-120 In 2011, the European Commission was deciding on how to best modify the existing European Union policy on corporate disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Previous directives had recommended... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

background stories of organizations, Win-Win Corporations is an inspiring read into what makes companies great. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52757 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

Wall Street, this time working in corporate advisory and M&A where she rose into executive level positions and managed massive strategic clients across West Africa. With a hugely successful career and a growing family at home, it... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

many clients haven't lived through anything like this — and neither have most money managers. It's painful to each of us. But it drives you back to a fundamental analysis: What is the purpose of my portfolio? What am I trying to encompass... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

shepherded a multinational corporation to record earnings. A fascinating and engaging memoir from one of America’s leading female executives, Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? is an inspiring and uplifting true story of how an ordinary... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal, timeless questions of View Details