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Should Mission Statements Be Promises? (And should they have to be?)

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Date of Publication: October 2006
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Herman B. (Dutch) Leonard
George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management, HKS; Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, HBS

Hauser Institute Publications: Hauser Institute Working Papers

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Leonard, Herman "Dutch" B. “Should Mission Statements Be Promises? (And should they have to be?),” 2006.

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