Mission and Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

practices that companies can follow to put this into place: Link work to social purposes employees care about Recruit Holdings believes work should add value to society. It also operates under the philosophy that a good manager should... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

around them. To be in tune with their operating environment, they have to make many key strategic decisions about their mission focus, their product/service portfolio, and their value-creation model across a... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

October 2019
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Harlem Capital: Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship (A)

By: George Serafeim

Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their Harvard Business School MBA program fund raising for their start-up venture capital (VC) firm, Harlem Capital Partners. Harlem Capital was founded upon the... View Details

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07 Jun 2022
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Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies

15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

bankrupt the company. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53093 2017 The Moral Responsibility of Firms Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2017
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Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

By: Andy Zelleke and Emilie Billaud

This case explores the sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; Denmark

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Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rigorously track the interdependency between social and business results, they miss important opportunities for innovation, growth, and sustainable social impact at scale. An approach to shared value... View Details

October 18, 2021
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How to Reframe What Work Means to You

By: Hubert Joly

Our society often conceives of work as something we must endure so we can afford to do something else. The former CEO of Best Buy explains why this view has led to a crisis of engagement among leaders and employees alike, and offers a different model that he introduced... View Details

Keywords: Work; Meaning In Life; Employment; Attitudes; Perspective; Mission and Purpose

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25 Mar 2022
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Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

HBS feel supported, both professionally and personally. Our mission is to connect, empower, and celebrate the next generation of women leaders. We feel it's our responsibility... View Details

22 Feb 2021
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I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too

While flying combat missions in Afghanistan, I reflected on my childhood and how lucky I was not only to have a dream but also the belief that I could obtain it. Few children in Appalachia were afforded such... View Details

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By: Rebecca M. Henderson

My work focuses on two tightly related topics. I explore why purpose or mission driven firms might be significantly more productive and creative than their more conventional rivals, focusing particularly on the role of trust in building path dependent relational... View Details

07 Dec 2015
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Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient View Details

2018
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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional maps that can be used to identify investment opportunities and to formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a... View Details

Keywords: Bottlenecks; Information Technology; System; Investment; Opportunities; Strategy

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01 Dec 1996
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Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

Jensen chairs, Organizations and Markets. Each of the unit's five faculty members brings specific expertise to its mission - "to develop a modern theory of organizations and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

03 Jun 2020
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Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

between competitors in health care markets—whether payers or providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52843 May 2017 Strategic Organization Firms, Crowds, and Innovation By: Felin, Teppo, Karim R.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2023
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ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

18 Apr 2016
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Meet the HBS Family Business Club

The mission of the Family Business Club (FBC) is to bring together students with family business backgrounds to facilitate discussions and conversations about their experiences working with family... View Details

20 May 2020
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Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, View Details