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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award in the Corporate Purpose & Leadership category for the MBA course Reimagining Capitalism: Business and the Big Problems with Rebecca Henderson. George Serafeim : Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Service-National Meeting... View Details

13 Feb 2014
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Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

organization to be successful, it needs to be led, managed, and governed well. Leading, Managing, And Governing Governance provides a broad sense of purpose or mission for the group and gives the group a sense of stability. Without... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

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Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

supporting community development Purpose-Based Strategic Positioning A clear social purpose opens up new opportunities for growth and profitability, while motivating and attracting employees, consumers, business partners, shareholders,... View Details

13 Aug 2012
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When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

purposes of the experiment, participants had no information other than the data in the original applications. In this way, the researchers could determine whether they made good decisions without the benefit of hindsight. In addition to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

We introduced “RC Pilots” to integrate into the curriculum several important topics related to business and societal changes. One is the short, intensive RC course called Social Purpose of the Firm, which speaks to the increasingly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

future endeavors?Listen to others’ stories and points of view. Listen with purpose and without distraction. Listen first and talk second. Over the last two years I’ve listened to my professors, classmates, guest speakers, peers, friends,... View Details

07 Jul 2011
What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

world." Santhanam Krishnan commented on the ultimate complementarity between the two concepts this way: "Commitment to remain adaptable to changing situations is the formula for survival " Lynne Levesque argued that organizations have to commit to a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

with curiosity, candor, and respect. Discussing Sensitive Topics Approaches for managing the discussion of sensitive topics include purposeful actions at the beginning of class, at the time a challenging moment occurs in class, and at the... View Details

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Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

May 2011
Article

The Power of Small Wins

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer

What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers' diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and... View Details

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11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

for yourself. What spurred that movement? Why did you sit down and say, I need to figure out a purpose here. PP: So, I have always been someone that, driven by this question about who am I and where are we going? Why are we here as a... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

caution that it’s a mistake to dwell on the familiar for too long, because the real audience is looking for “what is new, fresh, and unique.” 7. Focus on the job to be done One of the most challenging tensions is between product and View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

back up and running, many women are asking: What’s it going to take to effect real change? According to Tina Opie, visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and author of Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work, it’s... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

15 Sep 2021
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Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

out negative information so they can plead ignorance and continue harmful behavior. Indeed, it may seem like people are purposely avoiding information to create an “excuse” that frees them from the accountability of their own decisions.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

learning, support and opportunities through interactive group programming. Inspiring Capital The Return with Purpose Fellowship is a year-long experiential learning program with exposure to Inspiring Capital's broader social impact... View Details

October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
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NOWaccount

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship

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15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

turning to it for purposes quite different from entertainment. A search for a lunch idea on TikTok returns a collection of videos instead of a list as might be found on Google. A search for a news topic produces creator curations. A July... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

18 Oct 2022
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When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

that Uber was charging people in poor neighborhoods systematically higher prices than those in richer areas. Whether it's purposeful or not, we don't know for every company, obviously, but we believe that it’s likely not intended. That... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

completed together in any order to earn a comprehensive certificate. Business in Society Courses at HBS Online Discover how to align purpose with profit and develop the skills to help your business address today’s global challenges... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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