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28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

Struggle is an experience we instinctively avoid, looking for any way to minimize the hard work and pain involved in getting what we want. And yet—nearly every book we read and movie we watch involves someone struggling mightily to achieve their ends. Like them, we... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

February 7, 2023
Editorial

Business Schools are Ignoring Students’ Changing Aspirations: They Must Focus on Management as a Calling

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Many management students today are concerned about the mounting threats of climate change, income inequality, health care, and more. They increasingly see business as a place to make a difference in the world. Andrew Hoffman writes that business schools are slow to... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Social Issues; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose

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August 2019 (Revised January 2020)
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Essential Explorations at MUJI

By: Tomomichi Amano, Das Narayandas, Naoko Jinjo and Akiko Kanno

Launched as a private brand in 1980 to counter the increasingly brand-conscious consumer in Japan, MUJI offered beautifully designed, fairly priced, no-frills quality goods. The once modest private label brand with 40 products had expanded significantly by 2019 to more... View Details

Keywords: Product Portfolio Management; Brands and Branding; Product; Management; Change Management; Mission and Purpose; Retail Industry; Japan

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Central & Eastern European Club | MBA

Central & Eastern European Club All recognized student clubs are part of a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax exempt organization, called Student Clubs of HBS, Inc. Each student club at HBS is open to all matriculated HBS students and their registered partners. The primary View Details

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Structuring the Organizational Response

View Dutch Leonard's Slide Presentation View Amy Edmondson's Slide Presentation You do not need to read the case study to benefit from the recording. If you want the case, Harvard Business Publishing offers Columbia's... View Details

6 PM – 8 PM EDT, 13 Sep 2018
HBS Alumni Events

HBS Alumnae Circles Washington DC Open House

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6 PM – 8 PM EDT, 06 Sep 2018
HBS Alumni Events

HBS Alumnae Circles Boston Open House

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01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

— because that's really what HBS is about. Has the School's mission changed in light of recent developments? No, our mission remains the same: to educate leaders who will make a difference in the world. This... View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

cons of mixing business with social service? Can nonprofits effectively serve two masters, their nonprofit mission and the call of the market? At the annual Dialogue on Social Enterprise, a daylong event held April 20 at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Alumni Changing the World

Esther Hsu Wang

Esther Hsu Wang, MBA 2009, Founding Partner of IDinsight, is on a mission to change the way the world supports those in need. Based in Lusaka, Zambia and serving organizations across Africa and Asia, IDinsight uses data and measurement to... View Details

20 Sep – 02 Oct 2018
HBS Alumni Events

HBS Alumnae Circles Bay Area Open Houses

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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

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

August 19, 2024
Article

The Business Roundtable’s Stakeholder Pledge, Five Years Later

By: Lynn S. Paine

Five years ago, the Business Roundtable issued a statement pledging to “lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.” In the past five years, stakeholderism has gained wider acceptance and helped many corporate leaders see the value of taking the interests... View Details

Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business or Company Management; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Governance

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April 2024 (Revised August 2024)
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The Engine

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Jim Matheson, Fiona Murray and Nicholas Christman

The Engine, a venture capital firm founded by MIT to fill a gap in the technology funding landscape by commercializing breakthrough science and technology. Led by managing partner and CEO Katie Rae, the Engine's unique approach involved an unusually longer fund life,... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financial Services Industry

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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society

Democratizing Development Inequality in Latin America, 2023 Why do we host Roundtables? Our mission at BiGS is to develop an intellectual hub that will highlight business's role in addressing societal challenges and to create a thriving... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise

the past decade, social enterprise has become an integral part of HBS and central to its mission of developing leaders who make a difference in the world,” he said. “This award reinforces that centrality by recognizing the vital... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

September 2021
Article

Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time

By: Rebecca Henderson

Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges... View Details

Keywords: Architectural Innovation; Systemic Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability

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01 Jun 2004
News

How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts

“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many nonprofits don’t have a strategy... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

October 2018
Case

Phuc Huynh and Teach for Vietnam (A)

By: Leslie Perlow and Eunice Eun

This Harvard Business School case is about Harvard Kennedy School graduate, Phuc Huynh, who wants to establish Teach for Vietnam (TFV) in his home country and become an official Teach for All partner. It considers the concepts of giving back in one’s career and the... View Details