by Richard Conniff
Crown Business, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=organizations&id=5034
Lions and tigers and bears—and you.
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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
How Emerson Rebounded from a Bad Loss
Readers Respond: What's the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
Plus: Book and Web reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5035&t=bizhistory
Homers are things you make for personal use while on company time. Professor Michel Anteby says that although the practice might be illegal, some companies secretly endorse it. Here's why.
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5036&t=nonprofit&iss=y
Does it make legal, ethical, or economic sense for companies to participate in environmental corporate social responsibility programs? A new book from HBS professor Richard Vietor and colleagues Bruce Hay and Robert N. Stavins attempts to separate fact from fiction on the debate.
How Emerson Rebounded from a Bad Loss
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5037&t=strategy&iss=y
Emerson Electric was humming along in the early 1980s when it got a jolt of reality: Suddenly, it was losing valuable business to global competitors. An excerpt from the new book Performance Without Compromise.
Readers Respond to Jim Heskett: What's the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5038&t=heskett&oid=5029&rid=5038&hid=-1&aid=-1
Will the concept of cooperation and individual sacrifice for the common good work in a global labor market populated by large multinational employers? Here's what some readers think.
BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
The Ape in the Corner Office: Understanding the Workplace Beast in All of Us
by Richard Conniff
Crown Business, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=organizations&id=5034
Lions and tigers and bears—and you.
Exchange Rate Regimes: Fixed, Flexible or Something in Between
by Imad A. Moosa
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=finance&id=5033
Disappointment with Iraq's currency decision led the author to explain exchange rate regime choices.
Latino Boom: Everything You Need To Know To Grow Your Business in the U.S. Hispanic Market
by Chiqui Cartagena
Random House, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=marketing&id=5032
A first step for segmenting a vast and important market.
ON THE WEB
Milken Institute Cost of Doing Business Index
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/web-review.jhtml?id=5042&t=operations
How costs compare in America's fifty states.
MOST POPULAR STORIES
Why Budget Games Don't Add Up
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5027&t=finance
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=5026&t=leadership
The Box Office Power of Stars
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=5025&t=marketing
The Essence of Leadership
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4983&t=dispatch
Rethinking Company Loyalty
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5000&t=organizations
NEW RESEARCH AT HBS
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/new-research.jhtml
A listing of the latest research papers, publications, and cases written by Harvard Business School faculty.
BEST OF FACULTY Q&As
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=3080&t=bizhistory
A new book by Harvard Business School professor David A. Moss explores government's under-appreciated role as risk manager in everything from disaster relief to Social Security. How did this role evolve into something today that touches on almost every aspect of economic life?
ELSEWHERE AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Private Equity and Venture Capital
HBS Executive Education Program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/pevcwk/index.html
October 19-21, 2005
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Strategies to Create Business and Social Value
HBS Executive Education Program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/csrwk/index.html
October 23-26, 2005
Strategic Negotiations: Dealmaking for the Long Term
HBS Executive Education Program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/snwk/index.html
January 22-27, 2006
Real Estate Executive Seminar
HBS Executive Education Program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/rewk/index.html
March 19-22, 2006
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