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  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Alumni Books Perfect Is Boring: 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me about Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss by Tyra Banks (OPM 42, 2012) and Carolyn London TarcherPerigree Tyra Banks View Details
  • Web

Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategies for Universities & Nonprofits What is strategy for a nonprofit organization? Historically, many organizations have confused mission statements or aspirations with strategies. Their performance has suffered as a result. Using... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Ecosystems and Complementarities

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce two new building blocks to the theory of how technology shapes organizations. The first is a new layer of organization structure: a business “ecosystem.” The second is the economic concept of “complementarity.” Ecosystems are... View Details
Keywords: Business Ecosystems; Complementarity; Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations
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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
  • 06 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) is the Founder and CEO of The Juggernaut, a digital media company for South Asian stories. She’s on a mission to diversify storytelling and newsrooms... View Details
  • November 2022 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

'A Marshall Plan for Africa': James Mwangi and Equity Group Holdings

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Debora L. Spar, Zeke Gillman and Julia M. Comeau
Financial Inclusion. Dignity. Trust. These were the core principles driving James Mwangi’s transformation of Equity Building Society, insolvent in 1991, into what is, today, Equity Group Holdings, East and Central Africa’s largest retail banking institution. Raised in... View Details
Keywords: Income Inequality; Micro Finance; Microcredit; Microfinance; Banks and Banking; Equality and Inequality; Mission and Purpose; Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; Kenya
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  • 05 Feb 2024
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire for Attitude?

includes such things as determining a job candidate’s identification with the mission and values of the organization. It may even include assessing comfort with the leadership, the team with which the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Making Sense of Past and Present

    goals? These questions tore at me, but helped me to strengthen my values and purpose as leader and entrepreneur. EGC pushed me to look into the deepest parts of myself, to... View Details
    • 15 May 2018
    • First Look

    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
    • Fast Answer

    Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

    mobilizing the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions.  Climate Policy Initiative - An independent non-profit organization whose mission is to help governments, businesses, and... View Details
    • 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
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    Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    organization founded in 1994 by Professor Porter. The ICIC seeks to spark the revival of inner cities by bringing market-based approaches to economic development in these distressed areas. Its mission is to help inner cities create jobs,... View Details
    • 31 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

    comes with “co-creation” seriously, with younger generations of employees ready to be judged on their creativity as much as their expertise. New societal expectations. Roundtable participants said that Millennials and members of... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • 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
    • 22 Mar 2016
    • News

    Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

    says George, a recognized expert on leadership who has written four bestselling books on the topic. The Georges’ philanthropy has focused on promoting leaders who give back to society. Not surprisingly, the School’s mission resonates with... View Details
    • 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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    • September 2022
    • Case

    HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential

    By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp
    Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Grants; Scaling And Growth; Nonprofit Organizations; Opportunities; Gender; Income; Employment; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Health Industry; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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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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    • 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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    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

    grandfather. She begins to find purpose on the farm, but is consumed with hiding her impairment and unwilling to form a bond with anyone—until she encounters Daniel Richetelli, a troubled Jesuit priest who... View Details