3.14 pm | 21 Jul 2007

A new generation of energy industry managers will make decisions that affect the quality of life for hundreds of millions of people. ...

3.00 pm | 20 Jul 2007

Alfred D. Chandler Jr., who died in May, defined the field of business history and shaped the way we think about the modern corporation. Harvard Busin...

3.25 pm | 19 Jul 2007

In many companies, the marketing function has wandered far from the company's overall strategy. The result: lower margins and declining productivity, ...

2.56 pm | 15 Jul 2007

She may have been the first self-made African American millionaire. Born of emancipated slaves, Madam C.J. Walker traveled from the cotton fields to b...

3.16 pm | 14 Jul 2007

Do investors really behave rationally? Behavioral finance researchers Malcolm Baker and Joshua Coval don't think humans are such cold calculators. One...

1.37 pm | 15 Jun 2007

Can Apple and the recording industry seriously compete against free content? ...

1.44 pm | 09 Jun 2007

Determining a company's true costs and profitability has always been difficult, although advancements such as activity-based costing (ABC) have helped...

4.43 pm | 07 Jun 2007

The flat tax is an idea that has burst to life in post-communist Eastern and Central Europe, especially in Slovakia. But is the rest of the world read...

1.53 pm | 05 Jun 2007

Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza has developed an innovative strategy for selling to the poor, combining technology with great service that please bo...

1.31 pm | 25 May 2007

March's exchange of ideas regarding U.S. healthcare reform ranged far and wide, with lots of thought-provoking ideas from HBS Working Knowledge reader...

8.07 pm | 29 Apr 2007

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun an inquiry into potentially anti-competitive behavior by leading private equity firms. Professor Josh Lerner ...

3.57 pm | 17 Apr 2007

Strategic independence and better leadership assessment-these are the critical issues for both business and government in the future, says Professor D...

5.29 pm | 16 Apr 2007

Healthcare will grab ever more headlines in the US. in the coming months, says Jim Heskett. Any service that is on track to consume 40 percent of the ...

5.27 pm | 14 Mar 2007

Jim Heskett sums up the many interesting responses from readers. Questions that readers raised: Is purpose itself evolutionary? Does it change as orga...

7.12 pm | 13 Mar 2007

Money managers work in a stressful, competitive pressure cooker that's hard to appreciate from the safety of a business management classroom. That's w...