Mission and Purpose - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

a higher-ambition company if we didn't have higher-ambition leaders?” Many people weren't cut out for the job. In the first three years, 300 of the top 350 leaders at the company exited. Conant focused on making those who stayed and were... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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

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

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

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

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

communities; better quality of life and good jobs. The Justice40 InitiativeDirects 40% of some federal investments to disadvantaged communities.[5] About $29 billion falls under this program.[6] Examples and... View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

extraordinarily difficult and controversial management task." And therein lies a big problem, because how effective an organization is at making high-quality decisions consistent with its View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

community.” HARVARD INNOVATION LABS: WHERE PASSION AND PURPOSE MEET The Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem has been called a place of “structured serendipity” where innovation is fueled by connection View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

21 Nov 2022
Blog Post

HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club

In this blog, hear from 2022-23 Sustainability Club co-presidents: Angela Son, Erin O’ Malley & Meghavi Talati (all MBA 2023). What are the mission and activities of your club? The Sustainability Club is... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

prior to HBS was the Under Secretary of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) at the Brazilian Ministry of Economy. Jeremy Fischer (MBA 2023, Section H), Summer Internship: MBA Associate at Energize Ventures Energize Ventures’ View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

It hardly needs to be said that organizations cannot learn from failures if people do not discuss and analyze them. Yet this remains an important insight. The learning that is potentially available may not be realized unless thoughtful... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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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27 Nov 2006
What Do You Think?

What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

discussion, one that is often hard to summarize. But in an attempt to do it, here is my "take" on what you have said collectively. Everyone sensed the imperfections in performance reviews and the difficulty of discussing them... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

in an area of interest and working directly with a portfolio company. Projects are customized to align with company needs and students’ interests and experiences. “Students... View Details

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

to Medtronic's 30,000 employees worldwide, featuring the stories of patients who have benefited from the company's products. "Our people end up feeling personally involved in our company's mission to restore people to full... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

(Physician, Entrepreneur, Co-founder and CEO of Arctoris) Recalling my experience at university, I asked them how they manage the tension between a strong lack of exposure to the outside world and their... View Details

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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

that address all aspects of the climate crisis. Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard - Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab The mission of the lab is to advance our... View Details

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Greenhill House | About

global engagement is even more critical today, when more than 30 percent of the MBA class is international, and 31 percent of alumni live and work outside the United States. The Greenhills’ generous... View Details

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