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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... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Energy & Environment Club
Are you interested in connected with other HBS MBA students dedicated to tackling climate change? Student Clubs are a vital part of the HBS Community experience that support the school's mission to educate leaders who make a difference in... View Details
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Hrithik Bansal Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Living the HBS Mission with BRAC Donella Rapier Hrithik Bansal 26 Oct 2017 During the... View Details
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Aerospace & Defense Club | MBA
Aerospace & Defense 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... View Details
- June 2019 (Revised November 2019)
- Technical Note
Sustaining Corporate Culture in a Growing Organization
By: Dennis Campbell and Tatiana Sandino
An organization’s culture can be a significant source of sustainable competitive advantage. For the organization, it can attract job candidates who fit and align employees working in different teams around common goals. For employees, a strong culture can generate... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Growth and Development; Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Management Systems
Campbell, Dennis, and Tatiana Sandino. "Sustaining Corporate Culture in a Growing Organization." Harvard Business School Technical Note 119-109, June 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
leaders—there are plenty of fine people who can lead an organization. What these two did, as you point out, was create a culture around the mission of their organizations. Their employees live the mission in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
these collaborations? What about the downsides? Does a nonprofit run the risk of muddying or diluting its mission as a result of collaboration? A: Nonprofits in strategic alliances often state that often more than financial assistance,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Carol Fishman Cohen
consulted when navigating our own returns: Back on the Career Track (2007). Today, through our company iRelaunch, we are on a mission to help others on career break and to impress upon employers the high quality and workforce readiness of... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Veteran entrepreneur and public education innovator Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) is on a mission to get kids excited about math. In addition to his profit-sector job as executive chairman of ANC Sports Enterprises, Daugherty has been the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
1998, and the “Love Our Local Business” program, which encourages growth for small businesses by giving grants to entrepreneurs. In India, Intuit’s free mobile application, Fasal, has connected 1.5 million farmers with agents to get fair-market prices for their... View Details
- May 2004 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Brief Biographical Note on P. Roy Vagelos
By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
Provides background biographical information on P. Roy Vagelos, chief executive officer of Merck Pharmaceuticals. Teaching Purpose: To chart the development of a leader in the pharmaceutical industry. View Details
Keywords: Biography; Teaching; Leadership Development; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Ethics; Pharmaceutical Industry
Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Brief Biographical Note on P. Roy Vagelos." Harvard Business School Case 404-132, May 2004. (Revised June 2004.)
- Profile
Jeff Nelson
says. “For years, our mission had been to give all segments of society access to housing. Now we wondered, is home ownership a realistic goal for everyone? Are we helping people or setting them up to fail?” In his two-year rotation... View Details
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HBS - From The Dean
differences. Because everything we do is in service to our mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, the third aspiration is transformation in our educational programs. This includes both what we teach and how we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
but his choice was driven by the School’s mission to develop leaders who contribute to the well-being of society. “HBS has given me an expanded sense of perspective and of what is attainable,” says Moret, who recently completed a field... View Details
- 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.... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Delivering HBS-style training for teachers
Inspired by an HBS lecturer who asked why there wasn’t a service academy for teachers, Tony Klemmer (MBA 1983) founded the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2010. The academy’s mission is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
RallyPoint a Winner
In military parlance, a rally point is where soldiers scattered on a mission are to meet up. So when Iraq veterans Yinon Weiss (MBA 2011) and Aaron Kletzing (HBS 2013) launched a start-up to help veterans network and land civilian jobs,... View Details
- February 2022
- Case
Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Amram Migdal
This note focuses on the antecedents of, reactions to, and clarifications about The Business Roundtable’s August 19, 2019, “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The note includes background information on corporate governance as practiced in the United States in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Business History; Mission and Purpose; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Amram Migdal. "Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?" Harvard Business School Case 122-023, February 2022.