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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
How's Your Workforce IQ?
How to Adjust Your Decision-Making Style
Jim Heskett asks: Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
The Bottom Line with Jonathan Byrnes: Making the CFO Chief Profitability Officer
Plus: Book reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5275&t=finance
Relatively few multinational companies truly understand or take advantage of international finance. Professor Mihir A. Desai tackles the subject in a new book, International Finance: A Casebook. Here's a Q&A.
How's Your Workforce IQ?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5280&t=organizations&iss=y
Lifelong learning has advanced from a nice-to-have to a business essential, write the authors of Workforce Crisis. Their book examines the business implications of trends in the pool of current and future employees. Here's an excerpt.
How to Adjust Your Decision-Making Style
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5281&t=leadership&iss=y
To move up the ladder, it's important that your method of making decisions develops as you do. This excerpt from Harvard Business Review reports on research drawn from a comprehensive Korn/Ferry International database.
Jim Heskett asks: Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5283&t=heskett&oid=5283&rid=-1&hid=-1&aid=-1
A new book argues that globalization has led corporations to outsource too much of their work and, more important, their intellectual capital. What with the increasing fluidity of labor markets, is it all too much for global managers to handle?
The Bottom Line with Jonathan Byrnes: Making the CFO Chief Profitability Officer
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5282&t=dispatch
Companies suffer from "embedded unprofitability," says Jonathan Byrnes. Time for CFOs to build grassroots profitability management processes into their companies' core management activities.
BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage Through Collaborative Networks
by Peter Gloor
Oxford University Press, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=innovation&id=5249
Why it takes a village to innovate.
The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage
by Peter Navarro
Wharton School Publishing, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=strategy&id=5268
Why you should be a "master cyclist."
Bigger Isn't Always Better: The New Mindset for Real Business Growth
by Robert M. Tomasko
AMACOM, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=organizations&id=5274
Seven mental habits that lead to real growth.
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Three Myths of Management
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5270&t=organizations
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http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5269&t=strategy&iss=y
Nine Steps to Prevent Merger Failure
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5271&t=finance&iss=y
Do I Dare Say Something?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5261&t=organizations
Creating a Positive Professional Image
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4860&t=career_effectiveness
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
Creating a Positive Professional Image
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/facultyQAs.jhtml?t=facultyQAs
In today's diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with professor Laura Morgan Roberts.
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http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/dmwk/index.html
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April 30-May 5, 2006
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http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/wlbwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
May 7-10, 2006
Understanding Customers
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HBS Executive Education Program
May 10-13, 2006
Managing Human Capital
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HBS Executive Education Program
June 12-16, 2006
Comprehensive Leadership Programs
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