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How Does Accountability Affect Mission? The Case of a Nonprofit Serving Immigrants and Refugees
By: Rachel Christensen and Alnoor Ebrahim
Christensen, Rachel, and Alnoor Ebrahim. "How Does Accountability Affect Mission? The Case of a Nonprofit Serving Immigrants and Refugees." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 17, no. 2 (Winter 2006).
- 2022
- Book
The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ
By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ. 英治出版, 2022, Japanese ed.
- August 2023
- Case
Sky Therapeutics: Innovating in Digital Therapeutics
By: Satish Tadikonda and Olivia Reszczynski
Shad Faraz and Alex Youssef were intrigued by the opportunities in the relatively new area of Digital Therapeutics. Despite initial successes, early entrants had struggled with reimbursement and revenue-predictability challenges. However, venture investors still...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Mission and Purpose;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry
Tadikonda, Satish, and Olivia Reszczynski. "Sky Therapeutics: Innovating in Digital Therapeutics." Harvard Business School Case 824-023, August 2023.
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6812.html. How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission As nonprofits add more for-profit elements to their business models, they can suffer mission drift. Associate Professor...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Voice for Women Leaders
mission and goals of the high-level women leaders who make up the organization, which was founded in 1996. “The mission of the Council of Women World Leaders had actually started with a question that I had,...
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Sanford I. Weill
At Travelers, Weill focused on growing the company’s assets with a particular emphasis on global expansion, a mission that led to the creation of Citigroup Inc., following the acquisition of Salomon Brothers in 1997 and the famous...
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Finance
- December 2, 2021
- Article
Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly: Empowering Workers to Create ‘Magic’
By: Hubert Joly and Adi Ignatius
Hubert Joly was behind an amazing turnaround at Best Buy. While everybody was saying he should lay people off to solve the company’s problems, Joly instead listened to the people working for him and found solutions that didn’t involve people losing their jobs....
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Keywords:
Purpose;
Meaningful Work;
Employee Empowerment;
Mission and Purpose;
Employees;
Organizational Culture;
Leadership
Joly, Hubert, and Adi Ignatius. "Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly: Empowering Workers to Create ‘Magic’." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 2, 2021). (Interview with Adi Ignatius, with embedded video.)
- August 22, 2019
- Article
CEOs Say Their Aim Is Inclusive Prosperity. Do They Mean It?
By: Lynn S. Paine
Earlier this week, the Business Roundtable issued a statement on corporate purpose. It is noteworthy both for its endorsement of inclusive prosperity as an ideal and for its rejection of maximizing shareholder returns as the sole corporate objective. However, the real...
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Paine, Lynn S. "CEOs Say Their Aim Is Inclusive Prosperity. Do They Mean It?" Harvard Business Review (website) (August 22, 2019).
- September 2021
- Article
Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time
Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges...
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Architectural Innovation;
Systemic Innovation;
Innovation and Invention;
Mission and Purpose;
Environmental Sustainability
Henderson, Rebecca. "Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time." Management Science 67, no. 9 (September 2021).
- January 1983 (Revised May 1984)
- Case
Beliefs of Borg-Warner
Shows how the Borg-Warner Corporation developed a statement of values and beliefs under the leadership of its chief executive officer, James F. Bere. The "Beliefs," a set of general principles intended to guide business behavior, now must be given operational meaning...
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Goodpaster, Kenneth E., and Dekkers L. Davidson. "Beliefs of Borg-Warner." Harvard Business School Case 383-091, January 1983. (Revised May 1984.)
- October 2023
- Supplement
Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business Supplement 2
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
Pitch deck explaining the later vision of the company that was presented by the CEO to potential investors.
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- 2023
- Chapter
Business, Climate Change and the Anthropocene
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Sukanya Roy
This chapter will assess climate change as a concern for business, both as a stand-alone issue and as part of the broader shift that scientists are calling the Anthropocene. It will begin by examining the extent to which the market – comprised of corporations, the...
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Hoffman, Andrew J., and Sukanya Roy. "Business, Climate Change and the Anthropocene." Chap. 23 in Corporate Sustainability: Managing Responsible Business in a Globalised World, edited by Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing, Jeremy Moon, and Arno Kourula, 484–505. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- November–December 2022
- Article
To See the Way Forward, Look Back
By: Ranjay Gulati
Most business leaders focus on the future much more than on the past, believing that their job is to embrace disruption and innovation, transform their organizations, and explore new frontiers. But decades of research on companies worldwide shows that most successful...
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Gulati, Ranjay. "To See the Way Forward, Look Back." Harvard Business Review (November–December 2022): 53–57.
- 13 Jan 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA
- Article
181 Top CEOs Have Realized Companies Need a Purpose Beyond Profit
By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim
On August 19, 2019, the Business Roundtable (BR) issued a memo entitled “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The Business Roundtable, one of the most preeminent business lobbies in the United States, includes 192 CEOs of leading U.S. companies from Apple to...
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Keywords:
Purpose;
Corporate Purpose;
Stakeholder Management;
CEO;
Mission and Purpose;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Strategy
Gartenberg, Claudine, and George Serafeim. "181 Top CEOs Have Realized Companies Need a Purpose Beyond Profit." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 20, 2019).
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Strategy is About People
points to a key lesson learned. “Strategy in an educational institution is in part about institutional mission and institutional objectives, and how you get to those,” Light explains. “But it’s also about what’s best for the people,...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
In Brief
professional stories embody all that make HBS such an enriching community. Their ambition and integrity hint at the contributions these remarkable young people will make as the School’s newest alumni. Mission Possible. In social...
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- 2022
- Book
L'entreprise, une affaire de cœur
By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Keywords:
Capitalism;
Leadership;
Mission and Purpose;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Leading Change
Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. L'entreprise, une affaire de cœur. Plon, 2022, French ed.
- 2007
- Chapter
The Rationales and Performance of Public Venturing: Survey Evidence from Belgium and Finland
By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "The Rationales and Performance of Public Venturing: Survey Evidence from Belgium and Finland." In Essays in Entrepreneurial Finance, by Ant Bozkaya, 95–139. Université libre de Bruxelles, 2007. (Reprinted in Entrepreneurial Finance: Financing of Young, Innovative Ventures (Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009), 95-139.)
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
Editor's Note: Back in the day, crafting and owning the company strategy was at the forefront of a business leader's priorities. Over the years, though, more and more, the responsibility has tended to be outsourced to consultants armed with shiny frameworks and...
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by Cynthia A. Montgomery