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Subject: Newsletter: How Can Start Ups Grow?
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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
How Can Start Ups Grow?
Measuring Your "Multisourcing" Progress
Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work
Readers respond: Is Less Becoming More?
Plus: Book and Web reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
How Can Start Ups Grow?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5089&t=entrepreneurship
For new ventures a lack of resources makes growth difficult to come byjust ask those nine out of ten fledgling firms that fail. Professor Mukti Khaire says the key may be in acquiring intangible resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation.
Measuring Your "Multisourcing" Progress
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5090&t=outsourcing&iss=y
Measuring your sourcing environment, especially when you are outsourcing services, is an inexact science. This excerpt from a new book on multisourcing by Gartner's Linda Cohen and Allie Young tells how to steadily improve service processes.
Forced Ranking: Making Performance Management Work
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5091&t=organizations&iss=y
Forced ranking may be the electrified third rail of human resource management. In an excerpt from a new book, author Dick Grote makes the case for the controversial employee-evaluation systemat least on an interim basis.
Readers respond: Is Less Becoming More?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5092&t=heskett&oid=5092&rid=-1&hid=-1&aid=-1
As Jim Heskett wrote in his column last week, Americans these days have a lot more choices in products and services. But do consumers and suppliers suffer from choice overload? Readers respond.
BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
The Pampered Chef: The Story of One of America's Most Beloved Companies
by Doris Christopher
Doubleday, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=entrepreneurship&id=5087
A recipe for success that tempted Warren Buffet.
Business Clusters: An International Perspective
by Martin Perry
Routledge, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=globalization&id=5088
The view from New Zealand.
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
by Charles R. Morris
Times Books, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=bizhistory&id=5086
How four giants of capitalism willed America into an economic superpower.
ON THE WEB
Amber Waves
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/web-review.jhtml?id=5080&t=career_effectiveness
The economics of food, farming, natural resources, and rural America.
MOST POPULAR STORIES
The Three "Ds" of Customer Experience
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5075&t=marketing
What Artists Know About Leadership
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5076&t=leadership&iss=y
Jonathan Byrnes: Learning to Manage Complexity
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5079&t=dispatch
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5077&t=career_effectiveness&iss=y
Jim Heskett asks: Is Less Becoming More?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5078&t=heskett&oid=5078&rid=-1&hid=-1&aid=-1
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
Getting Global Strategy Right
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/ggsrwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
March 12-15, 2006
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/lcorwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
March 12-17, 2006
Real Estate Executive Seminar
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/rewk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
March 19-22, 2006
Leading Professional Service Firms
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/lpsfwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
March 19-25, 2006
Advanced Management Program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/ampwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
April 2-May 26, 2006
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