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- 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
- 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
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
our fellows come back and they’ll tell us that they have more confidence, more self-awareness, more conviction around problems that they really feel are worth trying to solve. More clarity of purpose for how they’re going to navigate... View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
faculty as an assistant professor in 2010, Serafeim has received numerous awards for his work. His book Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World explores the challenges and opportunities in building and sustaining profitable... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
by my internship. Although HBS incorporates social impact throughout the first-year curriculum, I enjoyed spending a summer with nonprofit entrepreneurs whose sole purpose is social impact and whose problem-solving approach is often very... View Details
- 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
- August 2024
- Case
Sky Therapeutics: Innovating in Digital Therapeutics
By: Satish Tadikonda, Olivia Reszczynski and William Marks
Shad Faraz and Alex Youssef were intrigued by the opportunities in the relatively new area of Digital Therapeutics. Despite initial successes, early entrants had struggled with reimbursement and revenue-predictability challenges. However, venture investors still... View Details
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr and Bailey McAfee
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 820-104. View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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.)
- Portrait Project
CiCi Barrett
remission, cancer remained in my life. My dad’s leukemia diagnosis when I entered high school turned depression and fear into fury and drive. Cancer fueled me. I entered college with the sole purpose of curing it. But I slowly realized... View Details
- Career Coach
Troy Peterson
unique paths, recognizing that most careers are far from linear. He believes that discovering fulfilling work and crafting an impactful career journey requires continuous introspection and purposeful effort. Troy enjoys working through... View Details
- Profile
Paola Lara
that, she needed “to address shortcomings in areas like finance and strategy. I’d like to understand and communicate clearly on all business issues.” Once she committed herself to getting an MBA, selecting the right program proved simple. “HBS’ View Details
- Web
Diversity on Boards - Alumni
and Anu Atluru BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit Harvard Business School Case 120-042, January 2020. (Revised July 2020.) By: Rohit Deshpandé, Aiyesha Dey and George Serafeim Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Moving Day 2012
capacity to love,” Sternlight urged his classmates. “Figure out your purpose and pursue it with everything you have.” Another highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of faculty teaching awards, as voted by the Class of 2012.... View Details
- 6 PM – 8 PM EST, 01 Feb 2016
Alumnae Circles Open House: Boston
Women's groups are launching- are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- July 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison M. Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Two-Sided Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Allison M. Ciechanover. "Airbnb Emerges from the Pandemic: Lessons for Stakeholder Governance (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-003, July 2021. (Revised August 2021.) (To be taught in September 2021.)
- March 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
IBM: The Corporate Service Corps
By: Christopher Marquis and Rosabeth M. Kanter
Describes the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the CSC program, and 100 of IBM's best global employees... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Global Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations
Marquis, Christopher, and Rosabeth M. Kanter. "IBM: The Corporate Service Corps." Harvard Business School Case 409-106, March 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry