Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "management"

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    • The Corporate Headquarters in the Contemporary Corporation: Advancing a Multimarket Firm Perspective 

      Menz, Markus; Kunisch, Sven; Collis, David J. (2015-09-29)
      The corporate headquarters (CHQ) is the central organizational unit in the contemporary corporation, and is critical for value creation in the overall firm. Since the early 1960s, a significant body of research on the CHQ ...

    • Do Private Equity Firms Have Better Management Practices? 

      Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John (American Economic Association, 2015)
      Using an innovative survey measure of management practices on over 15,000 firms, we find private equity firms are better managed than government, family, and privately owned firms, and have similar management to publicly ...

    • Does Management Matter in Schools? 

      Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with ...

    • Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy? 

      Drake, David Francis; Spinler, Stefan (2013)
      Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying ...

    • Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation 

      Drake, David Francis; Kleindorfer, Paul R.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N. (2016)
      We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected ...