Faculty

Jim Post Co-authors New Book, “Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience”

Although today constructive corporate citizenship is a hallmark of many leading companies, no single-volume history exists of the concept and practice of corporate responsibility. In his new book, Boston University School of Management's James E. Post, the John F. Smith Professor in Management, aims to fill this gap. More

Closing the Gap in Online Personalized Recommender Systems

Commercial websites are constantly suggesting new products and content to us. But how can these computer systems account for the age-old human tendency to change our desires as time goes on? A new study by Nachiketa Sahoo et al. is one of the first to address this problem. More

Dean Freeman Named a Top 100 CEO by HBR

The 2013 Harvard Business Review‘s CEO Scorecard named Allen Questrom Professor and Dean Kenneth W. Freeman the 76th best-performing CEO in the world. Dean Freeman served as Chief Executive Officer of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated from 1996-2004. More

Professor Salinger in Forbes: Why the FTC Was Right Not To Sue Google

On January 10, Jacqueline J. and Arthur S. Bahr Professor of Management Michael Salinger's piece "Why the FTC Was Right Not to Sue Google" was featured in the Forbes Leadership Forum on Forbes.com. More

S. Karim Publishes Lead Article in Strategic Organization on Product Market Activities

This paper defines "embeddedness" as the dependence on routines and coordination mechanisms within one's own business unit, and explores the degree to which embeddedness impacts the success of product market activities More