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- 18 May 2016
- News
What Does the American Dream Mean in Today’s America?
Alexander Navab (MBA 1991), head of investment firm KKR’s Americas private equity business, was honored this year with an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, presented annually to “individuals who have made it their mission to share with those...
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- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
businesses to access financing for solar,” Chidalu explains. (01:11) In 2022, Chidalu founded her fintech company Earthbond, with the mission to empower Nigerians and their businesses with affordable financing for clean and reliable...
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Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace
By: Leena Nair, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull and William Kerr
Is keeping pace with the future of work incompatible with using purpose to guide the organization? Unilever is stretching its well-known commitment to purpose for a new and daunting challenge—the transformation of its workforce of more than 149,000 employees. Its...
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Future Of Work;
Purpose;
Unilever;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Talent and Talent Management;
Transition;
Decision Making;
Transformation
Nair, Leena, Nick Dalton, Patrick Hull, and William Kerr. "Use Purpose to Transform Your Workplace." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 52–55.
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Life Is a Marathon
has led “a life heartily lived,” the Times reported. “You’ve got to have goals in life or you wither away,” Mendes said. “It’s no disgrace to fail, only not to try.” Before his career in investment banking, Mendes was a Marine Corps pilot who trained, and flew View Details
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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity
will require a systemic and collective remedy. The mission of the Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. We usually think of our students as the would-be leaders whom HBS is educating. But the...
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- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Africa Business Club
community with Harvard Business School. MISSION The HBS Africa Business Club, founded on November 12, 1997, is dedicated to increasing the awareness of business opportunities on the African continent. Our activities are professional,...
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From the Dean - Annual Report 2020
From the Dean From the Dean Dear Friends, FY20 was a year unlike any other. The barriers that typically separate the key spheres of our lives—work and home, professional and personal—became porous and fuzzy. Yet the challenge we faced was crystal clear: delivering on...
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- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Chicago high-rise in the fall of 2019, giving even more of the city’s students the chance to experience a tailored high school public education. For Zaikos, the mission is personal, having spent most of her life in Chicago and raised her...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
inspired me as I have pursued my research and continued teaching agribusiness on campus and around the world. HBS’s success in fulfilling its mission depends on maintaining a strong and vibrant faculty. This requires an unwavering...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years
that has educated more than 50,000 people in 170 countries. “We have brought much of what is special about the HBS experience to life online, helping the School to achieve its educational mission of educating leaders, wherever they are...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
and seeking to create a new business model for how to do early-stage R&D,” Reeve explains. “In addition to the science and a host of other issues, the real challenge is, How do you create a virtual company, with a sense of mission and...
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- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
Khushboo Maheshwari (MBA 2012) is new initiatives leader of The/Nudge Foundation and director and head of N/Core, which support nonprofits working on problems related to poverty in India. In this interview, she describes N/Core’s mission...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President
president. Whether we do it for the School, our country, or our communities, serving is an important part of the mission of HBS grads.” Back in Karachi, where he lives with his wife and four-year-old daughter, Shirazi heads a joint...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
mission statements of many business schools talk about developing leaders, these same schools produce little serious research about leadership. To fill this void, Professors Nohria and Khurana and scholars from fields as diverse as...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Paulson Speaks on China at HBS
has been named president of Brigham Young University–Hawaii. Wheelwright retired from the HBS faculty in 2000 after 22 years to become president of the London Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2003, he...
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- January 1983 (Revised May 1984)
- Case
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...
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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
- Supplement
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.
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- 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...
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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
- Article
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...
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Gulati, Ranjay. "To See the Way Forward, Look Back." Harvard Business Review (November–December 2022): 53–57.
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
requests for essential deliveries of food and medicine in their local community. We are on a mission is to efficiently allocate resources to at-risk and underserved communities with the power of technology. Laurens De Poorter (MBA 2020),...
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