[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: The Hard Work of Analyzing Failure

[umesh sharma]

Could help analyse why India was a slave nation for so long.

 

Umesh
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:42:28 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Newsletter: The Hard Work of Analyzing Failure

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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
Balancing the Future Against Today's Needs
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
Readers Respond: Is there an "Efficient Market" in CEO Compensation?

Plus: Book and Web reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4959&t=organizations
We all should learn from failure—but it's difficult to do so objectively. In this excerpt from "Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently)" in Long Range Planning Journal, HBS professor Amy Edmondson and coauthor Mark Cannon offer a process for analyzing what went wrong.

Balancing the Future Against Today's Needs
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4960&t=leadership&iss=y
It's hard to dream five years out when your organization is doing all it can to take care of the here and now. This article from Harvard Management Update offers a new lens for positioning growth efforts within your company while staying focused on your core strengths today.

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4961&t=bizhistory&iss=y
In his recent book Multinationals and Global Capitalism, professor Geoffrey Jones dissects the influence of multinationals on the world economy. This excerpt recalls the rebuilding of the global economy following World War II.

Readers respond: Is There an "Efficient Market" in CEO Compensation?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4941&t=heskett&oid=4930&rid=4941&hid=-1&aid=-1
Readers respond to Jim Heskett: Could change in inflated CEO compensation come from the increased level of competition among global companies with significantly different approaches to the compensation of senior managers?

BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit From It
by Tony Davila, Marc J. Epstein and Robert Shelton
Wharton, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=innovation&id=4957
The key to making innovation work? Good management.

The Power of Unfair Advantage
John L. Nesheim
Free Press, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=entrepreneurship&id=4958
How to stand out from the competition.

Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New Global History
edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish
Cambridge University Press, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=globalization&id=4956
Definitive essays on multinationals based in the United States.

ON THE WEB
Wall Street Executive Library
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/web-review.jhtml?id=4965&t=career_effectiveness
One-stop reference for executives on the go.

MOST POPULAR STORIES
The Founding CEO's Dilemma: Stay or Go?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4948&t=entrepreneurship

Classic Cases Live On at HBS
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4949&t=career_effectiveness&iss=y

Can Superstars Play the Team Game?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4950&t=leadership&iss=y

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4938&t=marketing

Six Steps to Operational Innovation
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4927&t=operations

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 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 with Lerner.

ELSEWHERE AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Apply for the CWE-Springboard Venture Capital Forum at HBS
http://www.springboardenterprises.org
Calling all women entrepreneurs seeking funding: Applications due by September 7 for VC Forum to be held at HBS on November 17 and 18, 2005

Burning Questions: The Return to Growth
Harvard Business School Publishing Conference
http://www.burningquestions.com
October 5-7, 2005


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