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  • January 2024 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Essex County Community Foundation: Pivot to Systems Philanthropy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Brian Trelstad and Courtney Han
2023 marked five years of the Essex County Community Foundation (ECCF)’s “systems philanthropy” approach to grantmaking. Located in northeastern Massachusetts, the community foundation served 800,000 residents across 34 cities and towns that varied widely by... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Reputation; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Alignment; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Massachusetts
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  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Business as a Force for Good

workforce with the skills and that level of understanding, I think that it helped me chart a course that was very aligned with my personal values. “I love the work that I'm doing now. I work with an organization called B Lab. We're the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

evolving, mutually beneficial channel strategies. To navigate the complex distribution environment successfully, companies must map the industry channel, build and continually edit their own channel to best serve customers, and align and... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 17 Mar 2017
  • News

Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)

thread in my experiences was satisfaction in fixing things that were broken and creating efficiencies and processes.” While at HBS, she talked with alumni, professors, and classmates, and ultimately concluded that human resources aligned... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Faculty Books

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 26 Sep 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

strategy is an aligned combination of set-up moves that occur away from the table, deal design moves, and tactics at the table, all designed to overcome the barriers you've identified. The best response to a barrier in one dimension may... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2024
  • News

From One to Many

aligned with and support the specific type of culture you want to cultivate, such as a more collaborative, accountable, or customer-centric culture. The practice should be easy to understand and implement, so that it can be adopted... View Details
  • Profile

Rob Self

spouses and partners. I wanted her to be part of the experience. At HBS, she’s invited and welcomed to the same events; there’s no discrimination between who is going to school and who is the partner.” With a long-term goal of encouraging sustainability, Rob asks, “How... View Details
  • Web

IT Strategy: Empowering the Future of Generative AI Innovation at HBS | Information Technology

HBS IT and Harvard University IT (HUIT), the team ensured alignment with broader institutional goals and encouraged responsible exploration of AI tools. By collaborating across HBS and Harvard, the team supported adoption efforts,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

business administration Research at Work: Crowdsourcing Challenge Harvard Business School, in conjunction with its partners, hosted a series of challenges to develop algorithms for faster DNA sequence alignment and to improve analysis of... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Feedback

Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a political bureaucracy could have... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value - Recruiting

align with their skills and interests. These self-driven efforts often lead to meaningful, high-impact internships that wouldn’t exist through traditional recruiting channels. If your organization is contacted by an HBS student with a... View Details
  • Web

Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

competencies, and shifting customer needs Who Will Benefit Service Organization Leaders Professionals in Service Functions Entrepreneurs and Consultants Elevate your employees and create the conditions for them to thrive and deliver standout service View Details
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

of the energy company Cinergy, has led the company from the brink of bankruptcy to one of the premier energy companies through selecting a focused strategy, aligning the organization to support it, and mobilizing all the employees to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life

supported through inclusive language, DEI initiatives, and aligned project work.” Inclusive language also means ensuring that all members of the LGBTQ+ community feel supported and safe. “Celebrate folks in different gender relationships... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Reflections on the Peek Weekend Family Business Cohort

three-day program, the intensity of the schedule allowed me to forge genuine friendships with individuals whose interests and aspirations align with mine. To this date, I have kept in touch with members from the Peek network, and I’m sure... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2014
  • News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

was a systems thinker, GMP gave me new ways to think about how to align incentives and manage an ecosystem,” he says. “It had me sit back in an environment that’s challenging, asking, Am I following the right strategy?” The GMP program... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 09 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

of psychological safety can be seen at Pixar, where candor is essential to the creative process and has helped the organization create hugely successful films and become a leader in the entertainment industry. Psychological safety is also closely View Details
  • 10 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

“I gave myself a few months after leaving McKinsey to ideate on the topics that aligned with my passions and the business problems I could address based on my background.” Meanwhile, van Poecke was closely collaborating with her portfolio... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2024
  • In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

and align expectations with your partner Want to be grateful for your partner when it comes to household tasks and management? Communicate, reframe, and align your expectations. Women and men in mixed-gender... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne