Mission and Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

(AMP 1999, 2021): My name is Kelly Mackey, AMP 2021. My favorite podcast has to be Deep Purpose by Ranjay Gulati. I read his book, I joined one of his classes last year, and it's been fantastic. So much so... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

question poses, and plumb the depths of your thoughts searching for an answer. While I don’t yet have a suitable answer to the question, I do know that I want to act with purpose View Details

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

the case mentions the father’s long-standing relationship with the Vietnamese American franchise owners and the common sense of purpose and responsibility shared by the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

04 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Social Enterprise Club’s conference, are on the leading edge of new technologies and exploring the purpose of business today as we know it. Students have the opportunity to hear from some of the world’s... View Details

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Online Online certificate courses for professionals. Understand what it takes to combine purpose and profit and how businesses can face today's global challenges. Power View Details

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

Before coming to Harvard Business School, I spent four years working in the education sector, designing learning experiences that I hoped would be powerful and transformational for my students. It was strange finally being in the... View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Featured Exercises Record business transactions as journal entries Construct a trial balance 8.5 hrs Module 3 Financial Statements Understand the content and purpose of the income statement View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

executives is to imply that business management itself is a profession—but is it? Sociologists who study the professions have employed a wide range of perspectives and criteria for determining what makes an occupation a profession. For... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

07 Jun 2021
Blog Post

The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

program, I felt a sense of relief and spent the day thinking “mission accomplished.” However, the mission is just beginning. Coming from a non-traditional background, there was a sense of hesitation View Details

08 Feb 2023
News

Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion

2019. Oak Street Health CEO Mike Pykosz, a 2007 Harvard Law School alumnus, told the Journal that “[this] agreement with CVS Health will accelerate our ability to deliver on our mission and continue... View Details

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Regional Winners - Alumni

Sophie Jewsbury, MBA 2024, Co-Founder & COO Region: Northeastern U.S./New York Together Achieving Dreams (TAD) 3 out of 4 blind Americans are job-ready, but unemployed. TAD is on a mission to increase employment for the blind View Details

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

funny—but remember your brand’s purpose Social media is a place where people appreciate humor—as long as it fits with the brand image, Avery says. Squatty Potty does an excellent job of engaging its audience with amusing View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

hamper productivity through “human obstruction” tactics, by purposely and surreptitiously making poor decisions and being uncooperative. “Making a faulty decision may be simply... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Planned Giving - Alumni

provides secure, fixed payments for life to one or two people, and will ultimately support the HBS purpose you specify. To learn how to do this through your IRA, please contact us (see below). Charitable... View Details

12 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

alongside physicians and students alike who believed there was a dire need to leverage technology to address the social needs of the patients we cared for. Our mission for the DIH is to support innovation... View Details

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

they're clearly oriented toward maintaining the status quo. They're suspicious of new ideas. Sometimes the organization has a culture where new ideas are evaluated harshly, and people see that. It speaks much louder than any corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award in the Corporate Purpose & Leadership category for the MBA course Reimagining Capitalism: Business and the Big Problems with Rebecca Henderson. George Serafeim : Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

stress those results are only illustrative. Their main purpose in writing the paper, they say, is as proof of concept in opening up the conception of what kind of data machine learning can effectively analyze. “There are so many new forms... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

Like: Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here? What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose Stereotypes and Politics Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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