Mission And Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

public-private partnership in the world. The core mission is universal service: going everywhere six days a week, and a seventh day for package delivery. Some people believe that only a public agency can be... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid

infrastructure protection. “In BGIE, we saw the corrosive societal impacts of self-dealing, within industries and within government bodies,” Popik observes. The Resilient Societies mission statement states... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

24 Feb 2015
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Florida Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

embody the mission of the School to ‘make a difference in the world’.” As part of the Campaign, the School has created a website that enables HBS alumni to connect with one other based on a wide range of personal View Details

30 Mar 2016
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Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

the School—to better connect alumni with each other and with HBS in powerful ways as a School, as a community, and as individuals, as we strive to embody the mission of the... View Details

05 May 2015
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Alumni in London Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

School—to better connect alumni with each other and with HBS in powerful ways as a School, as a community, and as individuals, as we strive to embody the mission of the School... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

extraordinary researcher and a beloved teacher. His work epitomized the essence of our mission - to be close to practice and to deal with important problems. A person of... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Hierarchy's Last Stand

their critics directly, accept accountability for performance, stop worrying about who is higher or lower, and value the mission more than their own status are likely to be effective, well-regarded, View Details

Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services

11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

Authentic Leadership Development. Reflection and recalibration are so important in leading a purposeful life and career. The book has been perched on my desk at work since... View Details

19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

algorithmic perspective, really trying to put more women in those role-- women and people of non-Caucasian background in those roles. Morrell: So it didn't necessarily start out with that social mission or... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

despite ongoing violence, in meeting the humanitarian needs of the people in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan, without security we cannot fully carry out our mission and our... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

11 Mar 2019
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Enabling Big Thinking

physics. “Because of the mission of the trust, it suited us to support research at HBS,” says Cameron, who recently took over for his father as chair of the trust and is also board chair of the educational... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business

physical condition need to be sorted and cataloged to make them accessible to professors, students, and researchers. “Our mission is to make them available for use,” says... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm

after the initial cleanup operations are finished. Once they’re on the ground, the mission includes repairing homes, rebuilding schools, health clinics, community centers, and whatever else is needed. It’s a... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

01 Jun 2018
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Q&A with Janet Cahill

know that HBS is using my gifts wisely? HBS employs a disciplined budget process—making trade-offs when necessary and focusing new investment in areas of strategic importance to extend the mission of the... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Back to School

alumni who throw pots, drink wine, tell jokes, and collect baseball cards—for fun. (And, yes, some have turned their passions into their professions.) How to: Jump Out of an Airplane Our instructor: Alejandro Montagna (MBA 1996), skydiver... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

summer with a greater sense of urgency and purpose in dealing with racial equity issues? Dean Nitin Nohria wrote to our community about the School’s need to redouble its commitment to combat racism, View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty different countries, among them... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

15 Nov 2013
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Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

learning to read, to reading to learn. By some reports, more than half of kids are getting left behind. A government mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) has been launched to address this. I... View Details