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- 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,...
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- 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...
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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...
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by James Austin
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Grants Assist Veterans
dollar-for-dollar by the Department of Veterans Affairs. HBS program administrators envision providing up to fifty grants to qualifying veterans each year and hope to generate alumni support to underwrite the costs. John French (MBA ’74), a former Marine pilot who flew...
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veterans
- 25 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Working in Tech 4Dev
enterprise-focused and still in beta mode, but Ushahidi’s greater mission of technology for development—“tech4dev”—is worth writing more about. The company uses cloud-based technologies—your smartphone, your computer, and even SMS, to...
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Technology
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Benjamin Peterson
In his two-year mission service in Haiti, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Ben Peterson experienced something that “completely changed my worldview. I had a privileged life. I had never lived in poverty, had never...
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- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories
stories of the business leaders–CEOs, founders, advisors, and more–who are enabling climate solutions to thrive by seeing new business opportunities and focusing on the people who make those solutions both necessary and possible. To accomplish the View Details
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Leadership Collaborative | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
A Peer Group of Mission Driven Leaders A new program of the Social Enterprise Initiative, the Leadership Collaborative is designed to connect and support alumni deeply engaged in social impact as a career. This community will serve as a...
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- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Preaching with a Choir
to take it to more places in the world. The mission of the choir is to be an ambassador for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who's our sponsor, and we wanted to be able to fully utilize all the resources that were...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
Harvard Business School’s continued excellence requires ongoing investment—in people, programs, and ideas. The HBS economic model is tightly aligned with its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, where the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
Paul and Susan Tierney in Ghana. With a mission to create economic value in Latin America and Africa by supporting local entrepreneurs, TechnoServe uses its $15 million budget and four hundred employees to provide business resources to...
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- Portrait Project
Nathan Bruschi
school to step forward at every chance to speak in public, from stage productions to student government. Courage to compete in (and win) the school’s annual oratory contest. Courage to join the military; briefing senior commanders and their troops on deployment....
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- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
technologies. “Innovation should be part of the mission of every physician,” says Amadio, currently chief resident in the neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta. “We have been at the medical game for...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
has a presence in eight countries where its mission is “to prepare individuals for constructive and exemplary leadership roles, and shape public and private policies, through strength in research and excellence in education, all dedicated...
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- 20 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)
program partnership with health care providers, our public policy work, and more. It all rolls up to our mission of ending hunger together. And that’s what has gotten us through 2020: our mission. Mission...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
there are over 100 members, and their mission is to provide a forum for the promotion, understanding, and cross-cultural exchange of East Asian and Asian-American business, social, academic, cultural, political, and community-related...
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Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go. - Advancing Racial Equity
Action Plan Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go. Our action plan begins with a clear position: Harvard Business School rejects racism in all its forms, and anti-Black racism in particular, as wrong and fundamentally inconsistent with our View Details
- 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...
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- July–August 2019
- Article
The Soul of a Startup
By: Ranjay Gulati
There’s an essential, intangible something in start-ups—an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual purpose. While this spirit persists, engagement is high and businesses keep their edge.
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Business Startups;
Mission and Purpose;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Employees;
Creativity;
Business Growth and Maturation
Gulati, Ranjay. "The Soul of a Startup." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (July–August 2019): 85–91.
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The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose
By: Ranjay Gulati
Most forward-thinking executives have embraced the notion that purpose-driven companies can solve social and environmental problems while also generating wealth, creating win-win outcomes that benefit everyone. But ideal solutions are rare. Many purpose-driven...
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Purpose;
Sustainability;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Issues;
Environmental Sustainability;
Profit;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Decision Making
Gulati, Ranjay. "The Messy but Essential Pursuit of Purpose." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 45–55.