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    Sanford I. Weill

    At Travelers, Weill focused on growing the company’s assets with a particular emphasis on global expansion, a mission that led to the creation of Citigroup Inc., following the acquisition of Salomon Brothers in 1997 and the famous... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • February 2025
    • Article

    Seeing the Whole: Configurational Cognition and New Venture Resource Mobilization

    By: Goran Calic, François Neville, Santi Furnari and C. S. Richard Chan
    Research is scant on how multiple venture attributes combine as “whole packages” of signals (or cognitive configurations) in resource holders’ eyes, shaping a venture’s ability to mobilize resources. Drawing on a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 1,395 crowdfunding... View Details
    Keywords: Crowdfunding; Mission and Purpose; Entrepreneurship; Communication; Perception
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    Calic, Goran, François Neville, Santi Furnari, and C. S. Richard Chan. "Seeing the Whole: Configurational Cognition and New Venture Resource Mobilization." Strategic Management Journal 46, no. 2 (February 2025): 309–347.
    • 2022
    • Book

    The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ

    By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
    A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
    "It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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    Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ. 英治出版, 2022, Japanese ed.
    • August 20, 2019
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    An Encouraging Step to Reorient Corporate Purpose

    By: Peter Tufano
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Business Education
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    Tufano, Peter. "An Encouraging Step to Reorient Corporate Purpose." LinkedIn Pulse (August 20, 2019).
    • November–December 1994
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    Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose

    By: C. A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
    Keywords: Management; Change; Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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    Bartlett, C. A., and S. Ghoshal. "Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 6 (November–December 1994): 79–88.
    • October 2003
    • Book Review

    Review of Leading with Purpose: The New Corporate Realities, by Richard R. Ellsworth

    By: Scott Snook
    Keywords: Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business Ventures
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    Snook, Scott. "Review of Leading with Purpose: The New Corporate Realities, by Richard R. Ellsworth." Academy of Management Review 28, no. 4 (October 2003): 675–677.
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    Other Student Organizations | MBA

    Other Student Organizations Disability Advocacy & Affinity Group Disability, A Student Association at HBS has a mission to destigmatize the experience at Harvard Business School (HBS) of living with or being the caretaker of someone with... View Details
    • January 1983 (Revised May 1984)
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    Beliefs of Borg-Warner

    Shows how the Borg-Warner Corporation developed a statement of values and beliefs under the leadership of its chief executive officer, James F. Bere. The "Beliefs," a set of general principles intended to guide business behavior, now must be given operational meaning... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Business Processes
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    Goodpaster, Kenneth E., and Dekkers L. Davidson. "Beliefs of Borg-Warner." Harvard Business School Case 383-091, January 1983. (Revised May 1984.)
    • October 2023
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    Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business Supplement 2

    By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
    Pitch deck explaining the later vision of the company that was presented by the CEO to potential investors. View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mission and Purpose; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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    Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business Supplement 2." Harvard Business School PowerPoint Supplement 724-385, October 2023.
    • 2023
    • Chapter

    Business, Climate Change and the Anthropocene

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Sukanya Roy
    This chapter will assess climate change as a concern for business, both as a stand-alone issue and as part of the broader shift that scientists are calling the Anthropocene. It will begin by examining the extent to which the market – comprised of corporations, the... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Mission and Purpose
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    Hoffman, Andrew J., and Sukanya Roy. "Business, Climate Change and the Anthropocene." Chap. 23 in Corporate Sustainability: Managing Responsible Business in a Globalised World, edited by Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing, Jeremy Moon, and Arno Kourula, 484–505. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
    • November–December 2022
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    To See the Way Forward, Look Back

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    Most business leaders focus on the future much more than on the past, believing that their job is to embrace disruption and innovation, transform their organizations, and explore new frontiers. But decades of research on companies worldwide shows that most successful... View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Transformation; Mission and Purpose; Leadership
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    Gulati, Ranjay. "To See the Way Forward, Look Back." Harvard Business Review (November–December 2022): 53–57.
    • October 26, 2023
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    How to Connect Employees to Your Company’s Purpose

    By: Hubert Joly
    We know making a noble corporate purpose — that is, one aimed at doing something good in the world — come to life is both important and hard. Emerging practices from leading companies show that the journey is not about top-down messaging. If anything, it’s about... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Employee Relationship Management
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    Joly, Hubert. "How to Connect Employees to Your Company’s Purpose." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 26, 2023).
    • 01 Mar 2004
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    Campaign Hosts Events in Washington and Seattle

    School’s world-changing impact, and dinner. Dean Clark’s after-dinner address reminded everyone that the School’s mission — to educate leaders who make a difference in the world — dates from its inception nearly one hundred years ago.... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • March 2022
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    Metric

    By: Christina Wallace, Rebecca Cink and Maria Lappas
    Megan Murday, the founder of Metric, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics startup, must decide which customer segment to target as a beachhead market. She received positive feedback from a Swiss venture capital (VC) firm, indicating their... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Customers
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    Wallace, Christina, Rebecca Cink, and Maria Lappas. "Metric." Harvard Business School Case 822-057, March 2022.
    • 01 Dec 2011
    • News

    Faculty Research Online

    See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6812.html. How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission As nonprofits add more for-profit elements to their business models, they can suffer mission drift. Associate Professor... View Details
    Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
    • 2014
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    No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery

    By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Kelsey Jack
    A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Non-monetary Rewards; Intrinsic Motivation; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Motivation and Incentives
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    Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack. "No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery." (March 2014. Conditionally accepted, Journal of Public Economics.)
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    How Does Accountability Affect Mission? The Case of a Nonprofit Serving Immigrants and Refugees

    By: Rachel Christensen and Alnoor Ebrahim
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Refugees; Demography
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    Christensen, Rachel, and Alnoor Ebrahim. "How Does Accountability Affect Mission? The Case of a Nonprofit Serving Immigrants and Refugees." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 17, no. 2 (Winter 2006).
    • 10 Jan 2017
    • News

    A Voice for Women Leaders

    mission and goals of the high-level women leaders who make up the organization, which was founded in 1996. “The mission of the Council of Women World Leaders had actually started with a question that I had,... View Details
    • Web

    1.1 HBS Community Values | MBA

    have open discussion, reflect on their thinking, and learn from one another. Together with HBS’s Honor Code, our Community Values are intended to create an environment of trust, respect, free expression, and inquiry. The HBS Community Values Statement The View Details
    • 1998
    • Chapter

    Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
    Keywords: Management Teams; Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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    Bartlett, Christopher A., and Sumantra Ghoshal. "Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Strategy to Purpose." In Delivering Results: A New Mandate for Human Resource Professionals. Edited by David Ulrich, 125–142. Harvard Business Review Book Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
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