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- 16 Oct 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
"My wife says I flunked retirement," says Julian Earls (PMD 37, 1979) with a laugh. Maybe so, but he clearly has never flunked anything else. The holder of 10 university degrees, including six honorary doctorates, the recipient of government service awards from two US...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses left for the suburbs, property...
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Thomas Frick
- 18 Feb 2010
- News
A Mission to Improve Patients' Lives
- June 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Supplement
Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (C)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Herman B. Leonard and Melissa Tritter
McFarlan, F. Warren, Herman B. Leonard, and Melissa Tritter. "Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-106, June 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- May 12 2016
- Article
Food Rescue is on a Mission
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
In partnership to support a mission
Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) serves as vice president and cochief investment officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. With business partner Kim Lew (MBA 1992), she manages $3.2 billion in assets, which have...
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- December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever
By: James E. Austin and James Quinn
In the months after Ben & Jerry's was acquired by Unilever, Ben & Jerry's head social mission faces challenges and opportunities unique in the company's history, including: how to manage employee morale; whether to include synthetic ingredients to meet consumer...
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Brands and Branding;
Problems and Challenges;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
Management Teams;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Value Creation;
Corporate Governance;
Employee Relationship Management;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States
Austin, James E., and James Quinn. "Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever." Harvard Business School Case 306-037, December 2005. (Revised January 2007.)
- 04 Feb 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission
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Re: Amy C. Edmondson
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation
Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage...
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- September 2007
- Teaching Note
Opportunity International: Measurement and Mission (TN)
By: Herman B. Leonard, Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
figuring out what that mission should be.” Although her mother is an artist and Ming had majored in English as an undergraduate, “I didn’t think the arts was necessarily a career path for an MBA.” But as a member of the HBS Arts Society,...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 11 Feb 2015
- News
Dedicated to a public service mission
for the 100,000 Jobs Mission for military veterans. The White House Fellowship brings Hunt’s devotion to his country to a governmental level, where he hopes to effect change on a national platform. “I have a real passion to be part of the...
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- June 2017
- Teaching Note
The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission (Supplement)
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
Supplement to the Kursk Teaching Note 114-097.
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- June 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Supplement
Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Herman B. Leonard and Melissa Tritter
McFarlan, F. Warren, Herman B. Leonard, and Melissa Tritter. "Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 306-100, June 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
A personal mission to serve veterans
Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009) served as assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs at the US Department of Veterans Affairs in 2014-15, where she helped to correct mismanagement problems that plagued the agency. “I can’t imagine anything more worthy of...
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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
On a Mission to Have an Impact
organization that had a strong sense of strategic value and I was really bought into the mission that they were creating. And then I left and I started my own company, Eve.com, where we were really trying to help women around the world,...
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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
No Grand Plan, but a Clear Mission
because you’re really mission-driven in terms of using government to help improve the lives of as many people as possible,” she said. “What attracted me to Facebook and Instagram was the same thing, the mission of connecting the world.”...
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