Event Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’ environmental and occupational... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

excitement generated by the public source case made Koehn's team even more committed to filling in the gaps with personal feedback from Harpo management and, ideally, from Winfrey herself. Finally, events... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, reflects on the book's implications for managers and executives. Martha Lagace: What is there of interest to a businessperson in this book? D. Quinn Mills: This book is full of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

percent had been acquired, and 6 percent had experienced an IPO. The incidence of bankruptcy in these social purpose companies was not unlike traditional early stage companies, but the percentage (15 percent) of companies that were able to achieve a liquidity View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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