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  • 11 Apr 2018
  • News

The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

Photos courtesy of Regan Turner Regan Turner (MBA/MPP 2013) is executive director of The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that “deploys” military veterans to community-impact projects to help them find purpose and to serve as role... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

mission of the University, and we are a far better institution for it,” Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers observed in his dinner speech. He then declared, “What HBS does in the next twenty years will be more important than... View Details
  • 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)
  • Case

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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  • 01 May 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • April 2009 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 2008

By: Allen S. Grossman, Thomas J. Steenburgh, Lauren Susan Mehler and Matthew Benjamin Oppenheimer
As with many national non-profits, Planned Parenthood is organized as 100 separate 501(c)3 organizations. What is the best structure for Planned Parenthood to fulfill its mission? View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 08 Oct 2014
  • News

Making a Difference

#HBSMakingADifference Every day, HBS alumni are embodying the School's mission as "leaders who make a difference in the world." Please join us in celebrating this remarkable impact by sharing your story with the HBS alumni community. In... View Details
Keywords: The Harvard Campaign
  • 07 Dec 2015
  • News

Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food... View Details
  • Web

Social Impact Club | MBA

Social Impact Club The mission of the HBS Social Impact Club (SIC) is to inspire, educate and connect leaders who will create social change in the world. Annual Events Social Impact Conference Fall Retreat Speaker Series Career Treks Club... View Details
  • Alumni Changing the World

James Reinhart

James Reinhart, MBA/MPA-ID 2009, is on a mission to keep clothing out of landfills. Co-founder and CEO of thredUP, Reinhart thought of his secondhand clothing business while at HBS and has since built a colossal logistics and supply chain... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

interest in developing social entrepreneurship courses, and last but not least, practitioners themselves, who are seeking to achieve mission impact as effectively, efficiently, and sustainably as possible. Q: What do you mean by social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 4, 2018
  • Article

Management as a Calling

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Business’s capacity to transform society is only as great as the schools that train its future leaders. This demands that business schools reform their vision to promote values of business serving society in order for students to see business as a true calling rather... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Personal Development and Career; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose
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  • November 5, 2013
  • Article

How to Turn Around Nearly Anything

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
In turbulent times, turnarounds are increasingly a fact of life. Some companies need to be rescued from the brink of extinction, but that’s not the only kind of turnaround. Others need a course correction while still profitable, or a momentum shift because of... View Details
Keywords: Turnarounds; Change; Purpose; Team Building; Voice; Positivity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Value; Assets; Mission and Purpose
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  • December 2001 (Revised November 2002)
  • Case

John Smithers

By: Nitin Nohria and Todd Jick
Describes an ill-fated effort to institute a total quality program. Using the vantage point of one of the managers selected to be a quality instructor, the case traces the rise and fall of the quality effort during its very brief existence over the course of six... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Change Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Failure
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  • May–June 2018
  • Article

Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down

By: Ranjay Gulati
Most leaders view employee freedoms and operational controls as antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Framework; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Effectiveness
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  • April 2018
  • Case

Globalizing Japan's Dream Machine: Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
Recruit Holdings, an advertising media, staffing, and business support conglomerate was founded in 1960 by Hiromasa Ezoe. Recruit was built on the principle that the company should add value to society. To do this, it hired young and talented employees and created a... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Crime and Corruption; Transition; Globalization; Japan
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  • Web

Strategic Plan | Information Technology

Strategic Plan Our strategic priorities and initiatives. Our North Star The Harvard Business School (HBS) IT three-year strategic plan (FY24–FY26) is organized around HBS IT’s five strategic priorities, as well as the IT mission and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term

Professor Rebecca Henderson “Doing well by doing good” has rapidly gained momentum in recent years as business leaders, investors, and stakeholders have deepened their understanding of the double bottom line. To help managers combine their values and their work,... View Details

    Alfred M. Zeien

    When he became CEO of Gillette, Zeien immediately began coordinating a change in the firm’s overall business strategy as well as in the mission statement. He aimed to have every one of Gillette’s products, which range from razors to... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products