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01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

HBS, notes Kim: “In order to fulfill its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, the School needs to produce educators who can disseminate relevant and rigorous research.” PRIMO administrator Marais Young,... View Details

20 May 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great potential to make a global... View Details

22 May 2020
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Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

over the scheme of maneuver, running through radio calls, and memorizing headcounts. After a mission I would complete post mission products and then experience the sleep that is only possible after expending... View Details

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

an urban location is a magnet for the young and upwardly mobile. But as crucial, if not more so, are the flexible work arrangements, meaningful mentorship programs, and sense of mission that millennials crave. "COMPANIES STRUGGLING... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

public-private partnership in the world. The core mission is universal service: going everywhere six days a week, and a seventh day for package delivery. Some people believe that only a public agency can be trusted to provide this kind of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Stephanie Atiase

over time,” Stephanie says, “I came to see that business was about more than making money. I firmly believe that business is a way to have a huge impact socially. For-profits with a social mission can be stronger than traditional... View Details

28 Nov 2022
Blog Post

College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

Peek and the registration process here or through our FAQs below. What is the mission of Peek? Peek is intended as an introduction to the MBA experience and the benefits of business school. As an attendee, you will learn how to thrive in... View Details

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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

graduation, returning to her hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, to make good on the organization’s mission to combat youth unemployment by identifying, training, and placing graduates of the program’s 3-week training program in entry-level jobs.... View Details

03 Aug 2022
News

Hungry for Change

that hunger, Sun & Swell was born in 2016. “We started with the mission of bringing healthier foods to the world,” says Flynn. But that goal quickly expanded as she began to research the grocery and packaged food industry. Packaged food... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Feb 2016
News

Alumni in Mexico City Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage the next generation of leaders at the School—to better connect alumni with each other and with HBS in powerful ways as a School, as a community, and as individuals, as we strive to embody the View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa

street kids — five- and six-year-olds living by their wits, selling things on the street, with no access to education or hope for the future. I thought about everything my parents had done to give us the best education possible, and it became my View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; UNICEF; Educational Services

September 2006
Tutorial

Management Control Process - Online Tutorial

By: David F. Hawkins

Introduces the Management Control Process by detailing its six components: 1) the management control environment, 2) organizational structure and responsibilities, 3) information and communication, 4) management control systems, 5) incentives, and 6) monitoring.... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Information; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; System

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18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

ourselves to mitigating 10 billion tons of carbon in our lifetime. It may sound like an absolutely audacious goal, and maybe we won't meet it, but it gives us a mission to chase every day. We feel fortunate for the opportunity to use our... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

A Janus-Faced Reflection

The former managing editor of Fortune magazine,Walter Kiechel (MBA '76, JD '77) once said,"I hope that if you woke up a sleeping Fortune writer in the middle of the night and asked,'What is the mission of the magazine?' the answer would... View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that "conventional MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences." Leadership, central to the View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508102 The Energy Foundation Harvard Business School Case 308-078 The Energy Foundation, a philanthropic foundation established through a partnership among major donors with a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Commencement 2013 Address | About

this situation, you will be well-served to be aware of the importance of showing appreciation, and showing it often. At HBS our mission is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, and every leader must recognize and... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

Photo courtesy Clean Line Energy Partners “We’re kind of like the express line,” says Michael Skelly (MBA 1991). That’s how he likes to explain Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners’ mission of developing high-voltage transmission... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

attractive. Match.com, which got its start in 1995 when only 14 percent of American adults used the Internet, began to move online dating into the mainstream. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw a boom in dating sites, such as eHarmony, launched in 2000 with a stated... View Details