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  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Spangler Center in Top Form

microphone and thanked all of those who had "used their hands and their brains to put this building together perfectly." Spangler, who together with his wife and two daughters made the building possible, praised the new structure's "noble View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’

with a new name, Crossroads, and a renewed sense of purpose — helping alumni identify and build a plan for achieving personal goals. “Our focus is to help people plan their lives, not just their careers,” says HBS senior lecturer John... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark

to die within three years. So 15 years later, standing before 936 graduating MBAs, family, and friends on a sunny May afternoon full of hope and promise, Class Day speaker Giusti had as much to celebrate as her audience, as well as hard-won wisdom to impart about View Details
Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)

there are plenty of merchandising opportunities around great content in China. Last year, we made an investment in Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners and released A Dog’s Purpose in China. It’s very different from visual spectacles like... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

HBS Releases First-Ever Financial Report

represents about 7.5 percent of Harvard’s overall endowment. Over 93 percent of the HBS endowment is restricted for purposes specified by donors. The University distributes approximately 4 to 5 percent of the market value of the endowment... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    Academic Excellence

    I had the great pleasure of receiving the Thomas McCraw Fellowship in 2023 and spending a semester at Harvard Business School. Although the purpose of my stay was research, I was particularly impressed by the excellence of the teaching.... View Details
    • Web

    Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    among the most important tools to drive shared value in practice. Shared Value & Investors Shared value investing represents an evolution in the relationship between investors, business, and society. Shared Value by Sector: Read New FSG Research Extracting with View Details
    • July 2015 (Revised April 2016)
    • Case

    Lomography: Analog in a Digital World

    By: John T. Gourville, Karol Misztal and Emer Moloney
    In spite of the world's move to digital photography, in 2013 Lomography continues to design and offer analog (film) cameras to a loyal following of artistic photographers. Now it must decide whether to stick to its traditional offerings, to expand into artistic lenses... View Details
    Keywords: Positioning; Product Lines; Product Line Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Brands and Branding; Fine Arts Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry
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    • 01 Sep 2016
    • News

    Connection, Engagement, Participation

    Learn more about how you can get involved at alumni.hbs.edu View Details
    • 28 Feb 2025
    • News

    Joy to the World

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
    • March 2008
    • Case

    Ujjivan: A Microfinance Institution at a Crossroads (A)

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Pamela Freed
    Samit Ghosh, the CEO and founder of Ujjivan, a major microfinance provider in Bangalore, wants to grow his business rapidly and become financially sustainable, but he's struggling with staff fraud, high costs, and how to stay true to Ujjivan's mission of poverty... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Institutions; Microfinance; Ethics; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Bangalore
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    • 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
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    • Portrait Project

    Umaimah Mendhro

    storms, I led my way to Harvard to be amongst you. You who helped me build a school in my home-village... a place for children to craft and realize purposeful dreams. Where they can learn to reason and judge for themselves. And do not... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Sarah Shanfield

    and invested in. I will be remarkable by being approachable, and purposeful through listening. Like my mother, I will challenge myself to raise the standard of each interaction and encourage others to meet me there. View Details

      Responsibility of Business

      rich collections at the Harvard libraries, along with energetic assistance from the librarians, were also indispensable resources. During my fellowship, I was honestly surprised by the number of faculty who were critically examining the View Details
      • March 2024
      • Supplement

      Negotiating the Gift of Life (B)

      By: Alex Chan
      Describes a negotiation where lives are truly at stake, where key lessons on persuasion and the role that identity might play in a negotiation are on display through an effort by a frontline negotiator from OneLegacy, the US's largest organ procurement organization. As... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Negotiation; Communication; Diversity; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry
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      • June, 2023
      • Article

      Walking the Purpose-Talk Inside a Large Company: Sustainable Product Development as an Instance of Divergent Change

      By: Marissa Kimsey, Thijs Geradts and Julie Battilana
      There is a growing interest in large companies pursuing a new purpose—changing their core reason for being from a singular focus on financial gain to a renewed responsibility to people and the planet alongside profit. Yet knowledge of how a large company can walk that... View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Leading Change
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      • 01 Aug 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

      Silicon Valley and Hong Kong. As for Latin America, in addition to the new Center in Buenos Aires, according to Stevenson, there is also a satellite office in Rio de Janeiro and may soon be one in Mexico. "Our purpose with the Center... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Use of Electronic Resources | Baker Library

      Use of Electronic Resources Baker Library negotiates access to electronic resources for members of the Harvard or Harvard Business School communities, and, in some cases, to visiting researchers, for the purposes of research, teaching,... View Details
      • 26 Nov 2019
      • News

      Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

      the process—that you cannot plan the path to an innovation. Instead, you have to act your way there. Other key factors that encourage innovation are the vision leaders bring to the table and the sense of purpose that those within an... View Details