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- July 2024
- Case
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
Joly, Hubert, Alicia Dadlani, and Martha Hostetter. "Living up to Purpose and Performance at Parker Hannifin." Harvard Business School Case 525-015, July 2024.
- January–February 2015
- Article
Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?
By: Debora L. Spar
For months, the news out of West Africa has been unrelentingly grim. As of early December, the devastating Ebola epidemic had infected a reported 17,942 people and killed 6,388, according to the World Health Organization (WHO); the actual toll, which would also account... View Details
Keywords: Ebola; Multinational Corporation; Epidemics; Foreign Investment; Extractive Industries; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Africa
Spar, Debora L. "Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?" Foreign Policy 210 (January–February 2015).
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
A CEO’s Guide to Planning a Return to the Office
- 31 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Building a DTC Brand Through COVID
right decision to start my own company with HBS’s Rock Summer Fellowship. Sometimes I wonder why they accepted me and let me start my own apparel company amidst a pandemic. Yes, an apparel company. An apparel company is already risky to start in a non-COVID world much... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
put the figure at 37 million before the pandemic and some researchers suggest it could rise to 54 million before 2020 is out. And yet 133 billion pounds of food go to waste every year, according to the USDA. That’s $162 billion straight... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
these programs to exist beyond the global pandemic because of the unique ability to connect with students across geographies and expand the pool of potential candidates. To help organizations think through the process of creating a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
like he had hope. He said, ‘I went home and hugged my kids. I haven’t felt love like that in 10 years.’” Zapolin hopes this is only the beginning. Because the pandemic has made in-person treatment a difficult proposition for many people,... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
the HBS Fund provide flexible funding that the School can use immediately to support core priorities like financial aid and faculty research, pursue new ideas and initiatives, and respond to unexpected opportunities and challenges. The View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
recognize the power of food and entertaining as a cultural trend.” Listen and learn. “The pandemic paused our live outreach events and created uncertainty about how we’d stay connected and relevant to consumers. Then a customer posted a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
helps school districts—many of which cancelled assessment testing—predict year-end math proficiency and better plan for post-pandemic instruction. Woolley-Wilson believes that ed tech products that prove to be useful during the pandemic... View Details
- March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Last Mile Health (A)
By: Brian Trelstad and V. Kasturi Rangan
As the Ebola outbreak threatens the fragile health system of Liberia, Raj Panjabi, the founder of Last Mile Health, faces a dilemma: should he expand beyond the organizaton's core mission to help the country build emergency health care capacity, or should he stick to... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Ebola; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Rural Scope; Health Pandemics; Growth and Development; Decisions; Health Industry; Africa
Trelstad, Brian, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Last Mile Health (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-027, March 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
pandemic that the virus would find her; yet she had always taken life by the reins. My grandmother had said she wanted to pass in her own house. She did, and it also felt like part of her plan that she passed calmly, on a sultry Sunday... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
pandemic to a pretty healthy level today. As long as the economy stays strong, it’s going to drive a lot of Hispanic employment,” Perez says. Source: National report on early-stage entrepreneurship in the United States: 2020, Kauffman... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
themselves. “They’re working very long hours. They’re away from home. It’s just a tough place for them to be, which is why they’re burning out.” Yet Moreno sees brighter days ahead. The pandemic has put a spotlight on the importance of... View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
conceive of the idea that hygiene products were as fundamental to health and well-being as food. But the pandemic changed that: Suddenly, everyone understood the importance of a bar of soap; the organization distributed 1.5 million in the... View Details
- January 2025
- Supplement
Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc.
By: Ryan Raffaelli
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
Raffaelli, Ryan. "Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 425-711, January 2025.
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ideas against AIDS
CLAWSON AND VIRAVAIDYA: Early allies in the fight against AIDS. Photo courtesy Curtis Clawson In Thailand, anti-AIDS activist Mechai Viravaidya is known for getting not only Santas and tollbooth operators to hand out condoms, but traffic police as well, in a campaign... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the CFO In fiscal 2021, Harvard Business School navigated the operational and financial challenges of the global pandemic by staying true to its... View Details
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
photographer, so many of my favorite childhood and adult memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization... View Details