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| Youngme Moon | Felix Oberholzer-Gee | Mihir A. Desai | Rawi Abdelal
December 22, 2020, Audio: "Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai invite their new co-hosts, Harvard Business School professors Rebecca Henderson and Rawi Abdelal, onto the show to share their predictions for 2021, covering everything from business to politics to fashion.  You can visit our website at HarvardAfterHours.com. You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to:  …
| Eric Van den Steen
Why Do Firms Have "Purpose"? The Firm's Role as a Carrier of Identity and Reputation. Rebecca Henderson, Eric Van den Steen, May 2015 , Paper. "This article develops a theory in which a firm's adoption of a prosocial purpose can increase profitability by strengthening employees' reputation and identity--leading to higher effort and lower wages--as long as implementing purpose is costly with respect to direct monetary payoffs. Employees who value…