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  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Roots Back to the Roots is a startup with a social mission to “undo food”—to reconnect people to where their food comes from. In late 2017, they are contemplating their next move. Back to the Roots has an eclectic portfolio of products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Case 118-030 JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership In 2017, JetBlue, the airline founded on the mission to “bring humanity back to air travel,” became one of the first companies to report performance according to the Sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Questions By: Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

convert it into actionable initiatives. From founding the Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS), whose mission is to develop tools to teach women View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

Enterprise Press Spirituality, Robert Tribken suggests, can play an important role in our work lives. Our spirituality encourages us to turn toward God and the divine mystery and then, perhaps inspired,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

series focusing on topics such as “Accounting for Climate Change.” “The BEI’s mission is to educate, connect, and mobilize students, faculty, alumni, and other business leaders... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

Business executives regularly use sly tactics to get a better deal during negotiations—often making statements that are technically true, but are purposely skewed to mislead the other side. It’s a distinct form of deception called... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

thinking. Profits involving a social purpose represent a higher form of capitalism—one that will enable society to advance more rapidly while allowing companies to grow even more. The result is a positive cycle of company View Details
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

the MS/MBA program has given me two critical components of my professional journey: mission and means. In my first year I launched into identifying my mission. I realized that empathy provided a strong... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

an enabler for the company’s purpose of empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and business. The case explores ING's innovation priorities and strategy as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya
In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan
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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

with curiosity, candor, and respect. Discussing Sensitive Topics Approaches for managing the discussion of sensitive topics include purposeful actions at the beginning of class, at the time a challenging... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

success in a broad array of projects, such as managing 10 brands and 26 shops across different categories, he also felt the need to reinvent his core confectionery business since not all stores of all his brands were thriving as he had... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

organizations. Despite their fundamental role in the purpose of organizations, scholars have little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. By Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • October 2017
  • Article

Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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  • December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Teaching Note

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
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  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

the crisis without offering solutions and hope to their consumers. And, brands should keep their consumers fully informed about how to continue to gain access to their products and services during the... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Kanter, 2009; Porter & Kramer, 2011). Particularly striking is the marked growth of social enterprises, which adopt a social mission as their principal objective but sustain themselves through commercial activities (Battilana View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • February 1990 (Revised April 1991)
  • Case

Central Maine Power Co.: Goals and Objectives Program (A)

By: Robert L. Simons
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Utilities Industry; Maine
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  • 2018
  • Article

Knowledge about Tuberculosis and Infection Prevention Behavior: A Nine City Longitudinal Study from India

By: Sophie Huddart, Thomas Bossuroy, Vincent Pons, Siddhartha Baral, Madhukar Pai and Clara Delavallade
Background
Improving patients’ tuberculosis (TB) knowledge is a salient component of TB control strategies. Patient knowledge of TB may encourage infection prevention behaviors and improve treatment adherence. The purpose of this study is to examine how... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Knowledge Dissemination; Behavior; India
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