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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
gifts as key sources of funding for faculty research. These programs help provide the financial resources that enable the School to deliver on its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world. Over the history of HBS,...
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- February 2003 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Large Scale Change at The WSSC
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Corey B. Hajim
Describes the organizational transformation occurring at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), a public utility. Faced with the possibility of privatization after decades of providing service in the absence of competition or performance pressures, the...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Mission and Purpose;
Change Management;
Restructuring;
Privatization;
Resignation and Termination;
Utilities Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., and Corey B. Hajim. "Large Scale Change at The WSSC." Harvard Business School Case 603-056, February 2003. (Revised March 2003.)
- 27 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Management Consulting Club
Mission Statement The Management Consulting Club is one of the most popular student clubs on campus with an annual membership of over 250 students. We aim to serve as a bridge between the industry and Harvard Business School students,...
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Consulting
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Introduction - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
institutional mission and social responsibilities intrinsic to the study of business within the university setting. It soon became apparent that the School, which occupied parts of far-flung buildings on the Harvard grounds in Cambridge,...
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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
founded in 2011. The organization’s mission is make visible the scalable growth entrepreneurs of the emerging world, creating the largest information system and network of growth entrepreneurs. Expanding the world’s entrepreneurial...
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Alfred M. Zeien
When he became CEO of Gillette, Zeien immediately began coordinating a change in the firm’s overall business strategy as well as in the mission statement. He aimed to have every one of Gillette’s products, which range from razors to...
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Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Changing the Culture
To address Dean Nitin Nohria’s concern that HBS can be a difficult place for some groups to thrive, the School has launched a new Culture and Community Initiative to ensure that all members of the community can achieve their full potential in advancing the View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
a large failing school in the Bronx. Seeing the students have to walk through metal detectors, seeing the teachers struggling to teach with even the most basic resources lacking, really inspired me on an emotional level that this is something I want to do. “Education...
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Tim Nicolette
LEK Consulting in Boston where I gained a lot of basic business, analytical, and strategic skills, and exposure to a wide range of industries from airlines and retail to biotech and P.E. But fundamentally, I wasn’t passionate about the View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Meet the Latino Student Association
reception where students’ portraits are featured for all to view. We encourage students to engage with the portraits in hopes that we all learn from one another and build community. Mission We promote an environment for LASO members to...
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All Industries
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Our Work Together | About
School. To do this will require drawing on the vision explicit in our mission and the principles articulated in our community values. As Alan noted, we must work together, wisely and thoughtfully, to bridge the fissures that have weakened...
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HBS - From The Dean
January of the first year of the MBA Program featuring five cases that explore the role business and business leaders play in addressing societal challenges. What drives us to make progress on all these fronts is our steadfast commitment to our View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
When More Is Better
site into a hub for alumni and faculty news, a skeptical friend asked, “Why go to all that trouble?” The answer is simple. The Bulletin and its Web site share the same mission — to help keep HBS alumni in touch with the School and each...
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meta
- August 2009
- Teaching Note
Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (C): Integrating Gillette (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [309032].
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- April 2009 (Revised October 2010)
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 2008
By: Allen S. Grossman, Thomas J. Steenburgh, Lauren Susan Mehler and Matthew Benjamin Oppenheimer
As with many national non-profits, Planned Parenthood is organized as 100 separate 501(c)3 organizations. What is the best structure for Planned Parenthood to fulfill its mission?
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Business or Company Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Structure;
Nonprofit Organizations
Grossman, Allen S., Thomas J. Steenburgh, Lauren Susan Mehler, and Matthew Benjamin Oppenheimer. "Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 2008." Harvard Business School Case 309-104, April 2009. (Revised October 2010.)
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Getting Clear on Corporate Culture: Conceptualisation, Measurement and Operationalisation
By: Nien-he Hsieh, Benjamin Lange, David Rodin and Mira L. A. Wolf-Bauwens
This article provides a review of existing literature on corporate culture, drawing on work from the disciplines of business ethics, management studies, psychology, anthropology, and economics, as well as interviews with business leaders. It surveys different...
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Corporate Culture;
Culture Change;
Business Ethics;
Corporate Purpose;
Corporate Culture Significance;
Culture Measurements;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Ethics;
Mission and Purpose;
Measurement and Metrics
Hsieh, Nien-he, Benjamin Lange, David Rodin, and Mira L. A. Wolf-Bauwens. "Getting Clear on Corporate Culture: Conceptualisation, Measurement and Operationalisation." Journal of the British Academy 6, no. s1 (2018): 155–184. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/006s1.155.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach...
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Capitalism;
Justice;
Corporate Purpose;
Shareholder Value Maximization;
Ethical Reciprocity;
Economic Systems;
Business Ventures;
Mission and Purpose;
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
- 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
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
commercialize innovative ideas. “We want to shape our reputation in a way that we are seen as the leader in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship,” he added. Staying True to the HBS Mission Fall reunion participants filled Burden...
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Roger Thompson