Stever Robbins: Thinking Outside Your Beliefs
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5309&t=srobbins
Beliefs form the box that everyone seems to want to think outside of, says Stever Robbins. So if you really want to know how to succeed, you better start challenging your own beliefs.
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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
Managing Alignment as a Process
Understanding the Chinese Consumer
The Life of the Indy Producer
Jim Heskett Sums Up on Globalization: The End of One Phase, the Beginning of the Next?
Stever Robbins: Thinking Outside Your Beliefs
Plus: Book reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
Managing Alignment as a Process
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5305&t=strategy
"Most organizations attempt to create synergy, but in a fragmented, uncoordinated way," say HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan and colleague David P. Norton. Their new book excerpted here, Alignment, tells how to see alignment as a management process.
Understanding the Chinese Consumer
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5306&t=globalization&iss=y
The Gallup Organization's ten-year study of the consumer market in China dispelled myths and identified opportunities. In this excerpt from Harvard Business Review, Gallup executives explain that products must appeal to the emotions of the Chinese as well as their needs.
The Life of the Indy Producer
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5303&t=entrepreneurship&iss=y
Given the uncertainties of the movie industry, what drives HBS alumni to find careers as producers outside the big-budget studios?
Jim Heskett Summing Up on Globalization: The End of One Phase, the Beginning of the Next?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5308&t=heskett&oid=5283&rid=5291&hid=-5308&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?
Stever Robbins: Thinking Outside Your Beliefs
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5309&t=srobbins
Beliefs form the box that everyone seems to want to think outside of, says Stever Robbins. So if you really want to know how to succeed, you better start challenging your own beliefs.
BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
Lead Like an Entrepreneur: Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive Within the Corporation
by Neal Thornberry
McGraw Hill, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=entrepreneurship&id=5300
Promoting an entrepreneurial spirit anywhere.
Access for All: Building Inclusive Financial Services
by Brigit Helms
World Bank, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=finance&id=5302
Credit and savings services from Cambodia to Bolivia and beyond.
International Business and Government Relations in the 21st Century
edited by Robert Grosse
Cambridge University Press, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=globalization&id=5301
From global warming to emerging markets.
MOST POPULAR STORIES
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5289&t=organizations&iss=y
Lessons from the Browser Wars
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5288&t=technology
How to Adjust Your Decision-Making Style
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5281&t=leadership
Do I Dare Say Something?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5261&t=organizations
How's Your Workforce IQ?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5280&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
John Lerner on the U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/facultyQAs.jhtml?t=facultyQAs
Innovators and society are paying too high a price in the current patent system, says a new book by Adam B. Jaffe and Harvard Business School's Josh Lerner. A book excerpt and Q&A.
ELSEWHERE AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Marketing Management Series
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HBS Executive Education Programs
Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/pmnowk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
May 31-June 3, 2006
Creating Corporate Advantage: Strategy in the Multibusiness Firm
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/ccawk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
June 7-9, 2006
Comprehensive Leadership Programs
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/clpwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Programs
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