Management Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

Academy of Management Review, HBS professor Christopher Marquis and coauthors Gerald Davis and Mary Ann Glynn develop a framework for understanding an important aspect of this issue: how social and governmental forces in local communities... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

products. Prior to the acquisition, Whole Foods began rolling out a new order-to-shelf (OTS) inventory management system that many observers believed had led to shortages. For years, store team leaders at... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

Trail is really difficult to describe. Starting out, leaving from the area around Anchorage, you're just leaving the road system and you're starting to ski through a whole bunch of kennels and dog trails, and then you start getting onto... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual work has been done by... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

employment. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-079.pdf Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States Authors:David Vogel, Michael Toffel, Diahanna Post, and Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon Abstract The United States (U.S.) and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

could have been—for creating a resolution mechanism to manage the failure of large financial institutions, for example—and by late summer, as you know, Fannie and Freddie were in deep trouble, and in September, Lehman failed and the whole... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

$200-million, ten-year commitment to sponsor the Brazilian team, the world's soccer leader. Bronx Cheers If a principal challenge for pro sports is managing the high level of player salaries while keeping the onfield product affordable... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Jun 2018
News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

those thousands of pieces, they start moving through the plane's wing and through the plane itself like shrapnel from a bomb. And they start cutting through hydraulics lines and fuel lines. Ultimately, it knocked out, in just under 30 seconds, 12 of the 14 View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

revenue.) The exchange and nearby buildings were checked for safety and cleaned up, power was reestablished, and computer systems tested and retested over the weekend. On Monday, September 17, Lhota stood by as the bell rang to open the... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

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