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02 Sep 2014
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Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation

definition—exactly where to go or maybe even how to get there. Instead, a leader needs to create a community that is willing and able to do innovative problem-solving.” Willingness to innovate depends on cultivating a shared sense of View Details

01 Aug 2018
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Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

US domestic policy choices and political priorities.” GeorgeO teed up the issue of the relative power of various constituencies by asking about the purpose of international trade. “At its core the trade debate can be considered to be a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

questions whose purpose is to engage patients with the purpose "to wake someone up" and signal that the doctor is inviting a dialogue about a patient's ailments. In fact, Groopman asserts that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review From Purpose to Impact: Figure Out Your Passion and Put It to Work By: Craig, Nick, and Scott Snook Abstract—We offer opinions on leadership. A need is seen for executives to have a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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27 Oct 2016
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Meet the Management Consulting Club

common challenges faced by students, by passing along useful information and helpful tools, providing transparency to the recruiting process, and coordinating students for case preparation. Benefits: Each member gets free access to all club events, organized with the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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01 Feb 2000
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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

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

offer opportunities for future research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56001 Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose By: Salter, Malcolm S. Abstract—In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Sep 2023
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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Jeffrey Arango (MBA 2025)

beautiful campus, and those same starkly contrasting images come to my mind. They constantly remind me of my purpose here, driven by my family, faith, and friends: to create a more prosperous, equitable, and peaceful world. To borrow from... View Details

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legitimate purposes which benefit the research at Harvard University. Storage Do not store backups of your desktop or laptop data on the research storage , as this high-capacity, high-availability storage is expensive. Please use the... View Details

13 Sep 2022
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Video Perspectives: Magashe Ngoepe

View Video TRANSCRIPT Magashe Ngoepe: My purpose in life is to increase access to meaningful opportunities that allow people to have upward social mobility in society, and to have greater quality of life, specifically geared towards South... View Details

July 2015 (Revised April 2016)
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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
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Connection, Engagement, Participation

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08 Jan 2001
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Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

toughest decisions often are associated with situations in which strategic risk is high but in-house capability is low. Here Doherty suggests a strategic alliance with the purpose of upgrading in-house capability as at least one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

bankrupt the company. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53093 2017 The Moral Responsibility of Firms Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—A long-standing question... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

June 2024
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Value Creation Potential of New Business Models

By: David J. Collis

A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation

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