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08 Oct 2014
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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

Portrait Project

Ann Chao

mission to tell their stories, to make their beauty and their worth known, and to testify that love is stronger than death and indifference. I want to challenge others to examine their lives while there is still time to look to the... View Details

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Tim Day Fitness Room | About

service laid the foundation for his success, Tim has dedicated much of his life to supporting the Marine Corps. One of the primary missions of the Timothy T. Day Foundation is to provide fellowships at Harvard Business School to develop... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Giving Through HBS

advance; and they give to HBS because they believe in our mission and understand that their support will be leveraged to have a broad and deep impact. Many of the big ideas that have changed the global understanding of business originated... View Details

Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson

02 Feb 2017
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A Vision for the Earth

science: human medicine, materials science, combustion science. There are a lot of different fields that will eventually help folks here on Earth. “But another thing that I found during my mission that was the most impactful was help to... View Details

August 2024
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Scaling Seven Starling

By: Ryan W. Buell and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Seven Starling, a maternal mental health startup, is scaling its digital clinic model. Seven Starling addresses perinatal mental health challenges by providing licensed therapists, peer support, and medication to mothers across five states, with a hybrid care model... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry

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July 2024
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Living up to Purpose and Performance at Parker Hannifin

By: Hubert Joly, Alicia Dadlani and Martha Hostetter

In 2019, Parker Hannifin, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of motion and control technologies, did something unusual for an industrial company: it created a purpose statement. Even though it already had a clear business strategy and longstanding culture of... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Communication Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Cleveland; Ohio; United States

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September 2023
Teaching Note

Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 304-009. The case is part of the first module of the Innovating in Health Care course. Its purpose is to demonstrate how to evaluate the “do good” and do well” potential of a health care innovation. View Details

Keywords: Innovation In Healthcare Delivery; Innovation; Obesity; Digital Health; Weight Loss; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Management; Business Model; Medical Specialties; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry

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March 2001 (Revised May 2001)
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&Samhoud Service Management

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Monica Mullick

&Samhoud, a small service management consulting firm in the Netherlands, grapples with the dilemma of firing its largest client while introducing Heskett's theory of the service profit chain. View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Management Practices and Processes; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Consulting Industry; Netherlands

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12 May 2011
Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

schools and why, appropriately socialized, those with for-profit backgrounds can contribute so much to the nonprofit world. Repeatedly we have seen new trustees and ineffective boards try to wag the mission dog with the financial tail.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2014
News

In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership

students participate in HBS's mission of making a difference in the world. "We saw it when we talked to young kids about their lives, ambitions, and ways they could make their dreams happen," Leach says. "Our presence in these countries... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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LBS Picks New Dean

Commenting on his appointment, Buchanan told the Times (November 8, 2006): “London Business School is an outstanding asset, not only to this city and this country, but also to business around the globe.” He expressed eagerness to help the school deliver on its View Details

Keywords: dean appointment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2018
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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

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

everyone focused on mission through regular engagement with employees—much more so than CEOs in my generation. So if CEOs are focused on the mission, why aren't these messages getting through to employees? “Instead of managers who... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Oct 1997
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A Message from Dean Clark

I know you will join me in congratulating the Class of 1972 as they observe this important milestone. This is an exhilarating time to be associated with HBS. The mission of the School - to educate leaders - has never been more important,... View Details

20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success

among all they’ve accomplished.” As remarkable an achievement as Fass Koffe is, it’s but one of several the Oregon-based nonprofit has completed since its founding in 2008 with a mission to empower poor and displaced communities in the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Commencement 2019 Address | About

motivated by a cause that is larger than themselves. We are inspired by those who create a collective sense of mission and purpose. We are inspired by people who connect with us in a deep or profound way. We are inspired by those who... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Faculty Research Online

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers? Every corporate mission statement pays lip service to respecting customer needs, but actual customer expertise is typically a mile wide and an inch deep, says Professor John Quelch. Here’s... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Using an online platform to reinvent education

With more than 350 million lessons delivered worldwide, on everything from arithmetic and physics to history and art, Salman Khan (MBA 2003) is on a mission to provide a free education for anyone, anywhere, through his not-for-profit Khan... View Details

June 2023
Article

Can Purpose Foster Stakeholder Trust in Corporations

By: Ranjay Gulati and Franz Wohlgezogen

As part of institutional changes toward more responsible capitalism, firms increasingly articulate a purpose beyond simply profit as a central tenet of their governance. Management scholarship has noted the potential advantages of such purpose-focus for stakeholder... View Details

Keywords: Stakeholder Management; Moral Identity; Mission and Purpose; Trust; Corporate Governance; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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