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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be ...

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 ...

This book will be useful to any nonprofit leader who lacks formal business training or just isn’t sure how to apply business strategy to a nonprofit sector. The author, an associate professor of ...

Search is a hot topic in high tech right now, so industry experts at Cyberposium's "Search Visionary" panel drilled down for the most promising avenues to growth. by Julie Jette The name of the game ...

Radio Frequency Identification, better known as RFID, is a powerful but controversial technology promising to help companies better manage inventory, track customer preferences, and promote stronger ...

This month's column, in the eyes of several respondents, represents the struggle of competitive strategies based on process versus product. When seen in this light, the triumph of speed over ideas, ...