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  • 2015
  • Chapter

How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein and Ryan Raffaelli
How do strategic leaders create change-adept organizations? Based on qualitative field research, this chapter argues that well-defined institutionalized purpose, values, and principles act as an organizational guidance system that integrates and strengthens the... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Field Research; Intrinsic Motivation; Organizational Identity; Ecosystem; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Research; Management Systems; Change
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    Academic Excellence

    I had the great pleasure of receiving the Thomas McCraw Fellowship in 2023 and spending a semester at Harvard Business School. Although the purpose of my stay was research, I was particularly impressed by the excellence of the teaching.... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

    On October 19, the School conferred its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on seven distinguished individuals. Since 1968, the School has selected outstanding men and women for the award, recognizing their accomplishments in the public and the private... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade
    • 01 Mar 2005
    • News

    Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

    organizations and communities they join. “What we do here has a deep and broad impact on society as a whole. The School really is a pioneer. Just look at our current research in entrepreneurship and social enterprise, and our new... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
    • August 2022
    • Supplement

    Broadway Angels (2022)

    By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
    In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group’s future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena Yesil, started the group to gather together the most successful and powerful women in venture capital and... View Details
    Keywords: Gender Equity; Impact; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Social and Collaborative Networks; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Mission and Purpose; Groups and Teams; Financial Services Industry
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    • June 1991 (Revised February 1999)
    • Case

    Willow Creek Community Church (A)

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger
    Describes the historic evolution and current positioning of a Christian church which focuses on the attraction of "unchurched" individuals. Describes the church's strategic service vision and its current growth and leadership problems. View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Marketing Strategy; Growth Management; Religion; Service Industry
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    • 04 May 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    How Do Managers Think?

    questions whose purpose is to engage patients with the purpose "to wake someone up" and signal that the doctor is inviting a dialogue about a patient's ailments. In fact, Groopman asserts that... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 01 Sep 2024
    • News

    Alumni Books

    Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
    • Profile

    Anja Anliker

    On September 11, 2001, Anja Anliker was a senior in high school. “Even though I had no direct relationship to any of the victims, the events of that day shook me to my core,” she says. “It made me think of the state of the world and our View Details
    • Web

    5.1 Information Technology | MBA

    their own professionalism, but also on the reputation of the school. Communications with Large Groups To avoid email overload, email communications should be tailored to a specific purpose and targeted to an appropriate audience. To... View Details
    • October 2021 (Revised February 2022)
    • Case

    Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood

    By: Susanna Gallani and Youssef Abdel Aal
    The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management system, which Dr. Sherif Abouel Naga, founder and CEO of the hospital, had championed. This was a critical juncture as... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare; Performance Management; Performance Incentives; Strategic Alignment; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Alignment; Performance Evaluation; Mission and Purpose; Change Management; Health Industry; Egypt; Middle East
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    • 01 Sep 2016
    • News

    Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

    school districts, and social enterprise) to explore how they can improve their regions’ competitiveness. The School’s nine Global Research Centers and four Research Offices deepen the faculty’s understanding of and contributions to global... View Details
    • September 2006
    • Tutorial

    Management Control Process - Online Tutorial

    By: David F. Hawkins
    Introduces the Management Control Process by detailing its six components: 1) the management control environment, 2) organizational structure and responsibilities, 3) information and communication, 4) management control systems, 5) incentives, and 6) monitoring.... View Details
    Keywords: Communication; Information; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; System
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    • Profile

    Cherian Kurien

    Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? For me the purpose of an MBA is to develop and refine one's political, economic and social worldview, by debating, listening to and understanding the views... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail
    • December 2021
    • Case

    Green Monday

    By: José B. Alvarez, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau
    This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of David Yeung, from campaigning for plant-based diets to building Green Monday, a purpose-driven business and an ecosystem based in Hong Kong comprising a retail platform, an alternative meat brand (“OmniPork”), a... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Hong Kong; China; Asia
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    • August 2021
    • Supplement

    Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (B)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
    Describes the events that took place in the first six months after Danone became France’s first “entreprise à mission” (mission-driven company). View Details
    Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
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    • August 2021
    • Supplement

    Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (C)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud
    Describes the events that took place in the first year after Danone became France’s first “entreprise à mission” (mission-driven company). View Details
    Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
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    • 25 Sep 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

    those things together.” “So we are determined, in whatever way we can, to try to get businesses to understand the kind of corrosive effects that is having on our entire economy, on everything they need to happen in our economy,” he said. “Today’s CEOs also need to... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
    • Profile

    Kwame Owusu-Kesse

    By his own description, Kwame grew up within challenging circumstances: "a single-parent household, the child of immigrants from Ghana trying to find their way in America." But he also found drive and purpose at an early age. In... View Details
    • 04 Jun 2024
    • Blog Post

    Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

    here that you could choose to participate in if you want to or not. I could make myself more wealthy. I could make other people more wealthy. That was my job. But it didn't feel big enough, purposeful enough, meaningful enough to me.”... View Details