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  • 15 Jan 2019
  • News

Working to Improve the End of Life

Laurie Leonard (MBA 1977) is executive director of End of Life Choices New York, a nonprofit advocacy, counseling, and educational organization. In the following interview, she discusses the group’s mission and her reasons for serving.... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • July 2023
  • Case

Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The founders of Dutch professional services firm Schuberg Philis, and the new leadership team entrusted with the day-to-day management, must set the path forward in 2019. The company has grown into a €70 million revenue strong IT provider with top ranks in the... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Growth Management; Change Management; Transformation; Mission and Purpose; Leadership; Leading Change; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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  • July 2020
  • Supplement

Sesame Workshop (B): Celebrating 50 Years of Helping Kids Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In 2019, Sesame Workshop celebrated its 50th anniversary while on a winning streak of social impact, innovation, and peak media and financial results. Over the past four years, CEO Jeff Dunn and his turnaround team exhibited values-driven leadership, instituted... View Details
Keywords: Social Impact; Children; Media; Television Entertainment; Education; Innovation and Invention; Change Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Education Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Faculty Research

investigate. Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science Do the successful Mars missions mean NASA again has the right stuff? Associate Professor Alan MacCormack dissects the space agency’s “Faster, Better,... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)

INTO THE BLUE: Virts, poised for a space-walk training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near Johnson Space Center. (Photos by NASA) An astronaut with NASA since 2000, Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) piloted the space shuttle Endeavour for a 14-day View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)

Depop, it’s our mission to make fashion circular with a platform that allows anyone to sell what’s in their closet. It’s really amazing to work at a company where the social mission and the business impact... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
  • 05 May 2025
  • Blog Post

Meet the Tech Club

What We Do The mission of the Tech Club is to educate the HBS community on the latest technology trends and essential industry skills. Each year, we provide robust recruiting opportunities and foster meaningful social and professional... View Details
Keywords: Technology; General High Technology; Other Technology
  • June 2024
  • Module Note

Value Creation Potential of New Business Models

By: David J. Collis
A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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  • Article

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... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Purpose; Unilever; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Talent and Talent Management; Transition; Decision Making; Transformation
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  • Web

AI Club | MBA

AI 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 Harvard Business School (HBS) is open to all matriculated HBS students and their registered partners. --------- The... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Yuval Gonczarowski

our first-born son after graduation, I hope he shares my curiosity for 1s and 0s. But it is even more important for me -- and it is my lifelong mission -- to lead by example and share with him my non-binary values: love for my family,... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Sundus Husain

own. I am the keeper of these bright dreams. My mission is to bring her, and all women like her, with me into the boardroom and to places unfrequented by us. Together we will have the temerity to travel the world and breach the skies.... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Agent of change

effective leader, how to bring out the best in people, how to effect change in organizations, and the importance of mission and personal responsibility," she says. "I am more excited than I have ever been about the future and my ability... View Details
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

R. Lakhani on the keys to managing distributed innovation. What Does Nasa's "faster, Better, Cheaper" Teach About Innovation? Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science Do the successful Mars missions mean... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 28 Feb 2025
  • News

Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank

folks they think might want to use Remento in their own families. Why did you decide to pursue an appearance on Shark Tank? Our mission at Remento is to help families preserve the stories of their parents and grandparents before those... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

Gender & Equity Initiative’s mission is to accelerate the advancement of women leaders and promote gender equity in business and society. Importantly, though addressing the underrepresentation of women in leadership is a core concern,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years

GARRETT: The School has been such a powerful force in both our lives, and we wanted to honor that as well as support the School’s mission and excellence. JONES: We’re living at a time when the world faces no shortage of challenges, so the... View Details
  • January 2025 (Revised July 2025)
  • Case

Lime: Survival to Profitability to…World Changer?

By: Ranjay Gulati and Jeffrey Huizinga
Lime CEO Wayne Ting rescues Lime during the pandemic, then charts its path to profitability and industry leader status before trying to decide 'what next?' View Details
Keywords: Profit; Business Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

more specific activities in which there is a significant two-way value exchange. The organizations' core capabilities begin to be deployed and the partnership is more important to each other's missions and strategies. It is no longer... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 14 Jan 2021
  • News

Better Than Cash

financial history. Ruth Goodwin-Groen (MBA 2001) is on a mission to change that. “Our job will not be done until all people—old or young, rich or poor, male or female—are able to make and receive payments in a way that works for them,”... View Details