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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. From Alexander the Great to the modern day, the elements of management — from organizational behavior to supply chain management — have made the difference between success and failure. It's a fair question.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

Are there peculiar features of African entrepreneurship we may consider relevant to big global debates on development and sustainability? We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

Previously, she was the vice president of Global Public Policy at Facebook. When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

as global hegemon. A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. Unpacking the past decade's experience with innovation can guide us.