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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

and the Big Problems” with Rebecca Henderson. George Serafeim : Winner of Aspen Institute’s 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award in the Corporate Purpose & Leadership category for the MBA course Reimagining... View Details

30 Nov 2023
Blog Post

College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

under the guidance of HBS faculty members during our case method sessions. Learn more about Peek and the registration process here or read our FAQs below. What is the mission of Peek? Peek is intended as an... View Details

2011
Working Paper

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

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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

24 Apr 2023
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

while working as consultants at Bain & Company in 2018. Alcohol alternative with a social mission Considered one of the first cannabis beverage firms, Cann has sold more than 10 million cans of low-calorie flavored seltzer infused... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

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

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

Differentiate between the myths and realities of management, and learn how to adopt and leverage processes to your advantage. Highlights Managing vs. Leading Columbia Space... View Details

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

07 Jul 2011
What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

to test, experiment, create and innovate along the way and to also be willing to reexamine that purpose frequently enough to be sure it is still relevant." As she put it,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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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

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

process in an organization. In most organizations, this process either does not exist or is incomplete. Shareholder value is left on the table. The purpose of an OSM is to unlock unrealized value by making strategy execution a distinct... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

the payroll at some companies. On a more micro level, Abdelal and DeLong say, creating a covenantal relationship means helping employees find purpose in their work. Rather than telling workers what to do,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

consortium of nonprofit organizations whose mission it was to lobby for an increase in food aid to disadvantaged countries! What explains such seemingly irrational and self-defeating behavior? Why would this... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

examples of where global capitalism is going. (RED) integrates the power of big business, new customer priorities, and the interconnected agents of social change, in the form of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

organizations who have a deep sense of purpose and are true to their core values who have the courage to build their companies to meet the needs of all their stakeholders, and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

attributed his success to "diversity in counsel, unity in command." Two Approaches to Decision Making Advocacy Inquiry Concept of decision making a contest collaborative problem solving Purpose of discussion persuasion View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

didn’t quit our jobs to do something in the commercial sector,” he says. “We quit our jobs to pursue the mission of protecting service members and civilians.” The company may have been a little ahead of its... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

where women traditionally manage both cooking and childcare. A survey showed that 79 percent of mothers in the sample could articulate, without being prompted, that the purpose of soap is to kill germs. But... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Our Values | About

time to recommit to our mission with a sense of urgency and purpose. All the best and kindest regards, Srikant Datar This message was distributed to the Harvard Business School... View Details

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