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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

challenges inherent to large corporations, it continued to turn to photography. The more than 1,200 images at Baker Library testify to the corporation’s inventive deployment of the medium and the emerging profession of public relations to shape View Details
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Harvard Business School

Archives Films HBS Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit More Baker Library Exhibits Baker Library Special Collectons To address the educational and social experience of African American students at HBS, AASU... View Details
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Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement

Among historians, Alfred Chandler's influence is by far the greatest, as he has affected economics, sociology, and business administration. Chandler never took short cuts, never stinted, and never published until he was satisfied that he had done his very best.... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Success; Books; Demand and Consumers; Power and Influence; Economic Growth; Ethics; Knowledge Sharing; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Fair Value Accounting
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  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

prepare a force for the first engagement with the enemy and little more. It is no coincidence that some entrepreneurs today echo Clausewitz's observation and say the purpose of a business plan is to prepare a new organization for its... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

significant impact in the structure and interpretation of financial information of banks. This document explains the major changes on bank accounting, their purpose and structure, and discusses their impact on financial information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose of this paper is to show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2021
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Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details
Keywords: Subscription Model; Price; Financial Strategy; Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Goals and Objectives; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Markets; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Strategy; Commercialization; Expansion; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Europe; North and Central America; South America
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  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

instruments (including price-setting) to implement desired outcomes. Non-price instruments were very much at the core of MSP strategies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-061.pdf Platform Competition, Compatibility, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

thought were well behind us as well as some brand-new ones we may never have imagined: laws that limit women’s right to access reproductive health care and brazen attacks on principals of equity, equality, and social justice,” Ely said... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

studied the corporate headquarters (CHQ)-the multidivisional firm's central organizational unit. The purpose of this article is to review the diverse and fragmented literature on the CHQ and to identify the variables of interest, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF four Pillars of Purpose - Justice System Reform, Education Parity, Health & Wellness... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 07 Jun 2019
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Are You a Digital Manager?

to thrive today, managers need to make sure team members can have an impact on an organization whose purpose they deeply care about. Lagace: You’ve spoken recently about the importance of building ecosystems. What do you mean? Hill: For... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

The Spangler Effect

Impressive as they are, numbers like these don’t reflect the building’s less tangible, but no less important, impact on the HBS community. From the beginning, Spangler was never just about meals, or study sessions, or events. Its planners and architects aimed to create... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • January 2012
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How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

By: Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways. This article is based on analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Performance; Strategic Planning; Leading Change; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose
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Program Policies - HBS Online

Online from another language to English, please allow the Accommodations team an additional 5 business days to complete the translation process before the Accommodations team can review the accommodations request. Please also remove any View Details
  • June 2010 (Revised September 2013)
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IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries

By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
Indian financial intermediary matching international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

HBS faculty members with various perspectives on the issue provide some insights on these questions. A Sense of Purpose "I see the movement to incorporate more of a spiritual feeling in business as a reflection of people's age-old need to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from LGBT rights to race relations to gender... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace