Publications

2006
Article

Voluntary Codes of Conduct for Multinational Corporations: Coordinating Duties of Rescue and Justice

By: Nien-he Hsieh

This paper examines the extent to which the voluntary adoption of codes of conduct by multinational corporations (MNCs) renders MNCs accountable for the performance of actions specified in a code of conduct. In particular, the paper examines the ways in which codes of... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures

08 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

Jeremy Wallace, Associate Professor, Cornell University Department of Government

10 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

promotes education on racial justice and the Black experience by sharing books and conversations on topics of race, identity, systemic racism, and antiracism. Kate Handley (MBA 2021), Uptrust: Uptrust is... View Details

10 Apr 2014
News

Look out, Human Resources departments

01 Jan 2008
News

Lifetime Achievement Award in Economic Development, U.S. Department of Commerce

10 Dec 2014
HBS Seminar

Ben Olken, Professor of Economics, MIT Department of Economics

25 Feb 2015
HBS Seminar

Seema Jayachandran, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Economics

December 1996 (Revised February 2000)
Background Note

Assigning Support Department Expenses to Production Cost Centers (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Describes the first stage of the two-stage cost assignment process from support/service departments to production cost centers. View Details

Keywords: Cost

30 Sep 2015
HBS Seminar

L. Kamran Bilir, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Economics

August 1983 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Nineteenth Century Retailing and the Rise of the Department Store

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Discusses changes in retailing in the nineteenth century. View Details

Keywords: History; Distribution; Change; Retail Industry

25 Sep 2013
HBS Seminar

Michael Hiscox, FAS Department of Government, Harvard University

November 2005 (Revised December 2005)
Case

County Department of Public Health: Organizing for Emergency Preparedness and Response

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze and Minu Ipe

The anthrax attacks of 2001 exposed serious inadequacies in the response of the U.S. public health system to meet such grave threats. The public health infrastructure required rebuilding to respond to any type of large-scale health emergency. The Public Health... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Change Management; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Infrastructure; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; United States

Educators

04 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Christian Fons-Rosen, Assistant Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics

July 2022
Article

Estimating Spillovers from Publicly Funded R&D: Evidence from the US Department of Energy

By: Kyle Myers and Lauren Lanahan

We quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of Energy. Our empirical strategy leverages variation due to state-specific matching policies, and we develop a new approach to measuring both geographic and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Energy; R＆D; Grants; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Patents; Performance; United States

February 2001 (Revised September 2002)
Teaching Note

Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store TN

By: Nancy F. Koehn and William Grundy

Teaching Note for (9-801-349). View Details

Keywords: Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Chicago

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile,... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

February 2001 (Revised December 2002)
Case

Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Analyzes Marshall Field's efforts to develop a market for mass retailing in late 19th-century Chicago. Examines Chicago's expansion in the 1860s and, within this context, how Field struck out on his own to, build a wholesale and retail business. Concentrates on the... View Details

Keywords: Fluctuation; Industry Growth; Corporate Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Society; Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Chicago

Educators