[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: Soft Skills of Global Managers

[umesh sharma]

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As we've mentioned in this space for the last several weeks, HBSWK will launch a redesigned product in early July. How will HBSWK change as you know it?

* With a new text font and page design, articles will be easier to read. More links to related material will also be provided. 
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Our last issue of the current HBSWK will be June 19. The new product is scheduled to debut July 5. We will be excited to hear what you think! 
  HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
The Big-Box Balance
Peter Drucker on Managerial Courage
Readers respond to Jim Heskett: How Important Is the "Service Sector Effect" on Productivity?


Plus: Book reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5375&t=marketing
For many companies, distribution channels serve neither customers nor channel partners well. In a new book, Harvard Business School professor V. Kasturi Rangan outlines the concept of channel stewardship. An excerpt from Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy.

The Big-Box Balance
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5376&t=globalization
Big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy have found a method that determines the right mix of standard versus locally customized offerings. How do they do it? Think clusters. An excerpt from Harvard Business Review.

Peter Drucker on Managerial Courage
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5377&t=bizhistory
Each product, operation, and activity should be justified every two or three years, wrote Peter F. Drucker in 1963. But that's a hard step for managers to take. A Harvard Business Review classic.

Readers respond to Jim Heskett: How Important Is the "Service Sector Effect" on Productivity?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5374&t=heskett&oid=5362&rid=5374&hid=-1&aid=-1
In the cost-driven U.S. service economy, are worker benefits being sacrificed in the name of lower-cost services to customers? Are these social costs more than offset by the benefits of job creation, the consumption stimulus that spurs job creation, and lower unemployment? Others: please respond by Tuesday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m. EST.


BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
The Power of Retail Branding: Innovative Marketing Strategies for Achieving BrandPower
by Arthur A. Winters, Peggy Fincher Winters and Carole Paul
Visual Reference Publications, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=marketing&id=5381
Creative ideas for clear branding.

The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
by AnnaLee Saxenian
Harvard University Press, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=finance&id=5379
An "economic geographer" on the rise of formerly marginal regions.

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by Marc Levinson
Princeton University Press, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=organizations&id=5380
The surprising history of the humble shipping container.

MOST POPULAR STORIES
The Soft Skills of Global Managers
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=5370&t=leadership

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5369&t=strategy

India Arrives on the Global Stage
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=5366&t=globalization

Masterly Management
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5371&t=dispatch

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5289&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
Josh 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
Finance for Senior Executives
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/fsewk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
July 9-15, 2006

Leading Product Development
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/lpdwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
July 10-14, 2006

Driving Corporate Performance: Aligning Scorecards, Systems, and Strategy
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/dcpwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
July 16-21, 2006

Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/spnmwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
July 16-22, 2006

Delivering Information Services
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/diswk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
July 23-29, 2006 

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