Founded in 1993, the Global Policy Forum monitors global policy making at the United Nations. They seek to make the UN "more responsive to citizen concerns, and so to foster democracy, social justice, ...

This book presents three changes influencing the role of supply chain today: technology, new management paradigms, and a more highly trained workforce. Fredenhall, an associate professor at Clemson ...

Harvard Business School faculty dissect where U.S. auto makers went wrong, and how they might again get on the road to growth. From HBS Alumni Bulletin. For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled ...

Women’s commercial activities are typically buried in the historical record. Only recently, for example, have scholars clarified just how deeply involved women were in the industrial revolution. This ...

For decades, Procter & Gamble fueled its consumer products engine from R&D inside its own walls. But as its markets have matured, P&G has directed its search outward. An excerpt from Harvard Business ...

Eamonn Kelly, a partner of the Monitor Group and CEO of Global Business Network, a scenario strategy consultancy, offers the thinking manager a clearly marked path towards a future full of uncertainty ...

Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an interesting twist, her research on ...

Martin Perry, currently teaching management and business research methods at New Zealand’s Massey University, has been affiliated over the years with university programs of urban planning, land ...

Homers are things you make for personal use while on company time. Professor Michel Anteby says that although the practice might be illegal, some companies secretly endorse it. Here's why. A factory ...

According to Eileen C. Shapiro and HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson, three key elements help you size up an option: your satisfaction to date, predictions about likely results, and future intentions.

Knowledge management is a tad passé if all we imagine is managing the brainpower of our colleagues. More important these days, according to this book, is for individuals to actually lead the creation ...

The title of this amusing and instructive memoir refers to an accident involving the hair of Michael Jackson during the shooting of a Pepsi commercial in 1984. The superstar’s hair got in the way of ...