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- 20 Jan 2021
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Advance Your Career with Greater Purpose and Focus
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 24 May 2021
- News
Putting Purpose at the Heart of Business Is Harder Than It Looks
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Deep Purpose, Finding Your Purpose Unlocks Your Potential
- 25 Nov 2022
- News
Ranjay Gulati: How Deep Purpose Drives Extraordinary Performance
- January 2021
- Case
Rio Tinto Aluminum: Can Purpose Lead to Profit?
By: David Fubini and Agastya Muthanna
This case describes the tradeoffs Rio Tinto faces as it considers investments to ensure environmentally friendly, sustainability produced aluminum with the potential risks of competitive pricing and profit loses. View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Firm Purpose and Problem Wickedness: A Review of the Academic Literature
By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti
Our understanding of the firm’s role in society has evolved greatly over the past 70 years, with more recent years seeing a sharp rise in interest for how firms can contribute more than profits to society – that is, have a purpose beyond profits. Businesses engaged in... View Details
Adelson, Caroline, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price, and Marco Iansiti. "Firm Purpose and Problem Wickedness: A Review of the Academic Literature." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-063, April 2023.
- 20 Feb 2023
- News
How Feeling Like an Outsider Fueled a CEO's Purpose
- 2024
- Working Paper
When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes
By: Christian Kaps and Simone Marinesi
Power systems account for nearly 40% of global emissions. As the world tries to reduce emissions by increasing renewable penetration, storage technologies are playing an increasingly important role in matching variable renewable supply with demand. Batteries have... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Transition; Utilities Industry; Battery Industry
Kaps, Christian, and Simone Marinesi. "When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes." Working Paper, October 2024.
- 07 Feb 2024
- News
Best Buy’s Hubert Joly on Redefining Your Company’s Purpose
- 2015
- Chapter
Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Business managers routinely make decisions that significantly affect the lives of others in both positive and negative ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit... View Details
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well." Chap. 5 in Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy, edited by Georges Enderle and Patrick E. Murphy, 95–118. Studies in Transatlantic Business Ethics. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
- 25 Mar 2024
- News
Debora Spar The Social Purpose of The Firm
- February 2002 (Revised April 2002)
- Background Note
Purposes and Functions of a Mission Statement and Guidelines
Reviews the many great managerial benefits of having an explicit, communicated, and understood company mission and guidelines. View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose
Tagiuri, Renato. "Purposes and Functions of a Mission Statement and Guidelines." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-425, February 2002. (Revised April 2002.)
- June 2019
- Supplement
Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk; Risk Tolerance Exercise
By: Shikhar Ghosh
- May 2004 (Revised August 2004)
- Case
Enron Odyssey (A), The: The Special Purpose of "SPEs"
The board has asked Ron Tolbert, an employee in the Risk Assessment and Control Group, to analyze three SPE transactions executed by Enron executives: the Destec, Rhythms, and Fishtail/Bacchus transactions, which were prominently featured in the Examiner's Report in... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Analysis; Accounting; Financial Strategy; Energy Industry
Chacko, George C., Bala Dharan, and Eli Strick. Enron Odyssey (A), The: The Special Purpose of "SPEs". Harvard Business School Case 204-009, May 2004. (Revised August 2004.)
- 30 Sep 2019
- News
What Gandhi believed is the purpose of a corporation
- 2021
- Article
Purpose Before Profit: Unleashing Individual and Collective 'Human Magic'
By: Hubert Joly
Joly, Hubert. "Purpose Before Profit: Unleashing Individual and Collective 'Human Magic'." Strategy & Leadership 49, no. 4 (2021): 3–8.