[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack

[umesh sharma]

Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack
by Donna Fenn
HarperCollins, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=entrepreneurship&id=5225
Advice from eight savvy entrepreneurs.

HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu> wrote:                   HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
Jim Heskett wraps up: Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

Plus: Book and Web reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5229&t=leadership
A values-driven organization poses unique risks for its leaders—in particular, charges of hypocrisy if the leaders make a mistake. Sandra Cha of McGill University and Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School discuss what to do when values backfire.

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5228&t=strategy&iss=y
Contracts that include a right of first refusal usually benefit the holder of that right. But not always. New research by professor Alvin E. Roth and colleague Brit Grosskopf explains when it's wise to say no.

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5227&t=organizations&iss=y
Leadership succession and recruitment need the sharp attention of your company's top executives and board. But who should be held accountable—and how? An excerpt from a Harvard Business Review article by Jeffrey Cohn, Rakesh Khurana, and Laura Reeves.

Jim Heskett wraps up: Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5223&t=heskett&oid=5194&rid=5210&hid=5223&aid=-1
A small but growing chorus of public company CEOs is deciding not to provide quarterly earnings guidance. Is this a good or bad development for shareholders, investors, analysts, the marketplace, and the company's short- and long-term health? Readers responded; now Jim wraps up.

BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
End of the Line: The Rise and Fall of the Global Corporation
by Barry C. Lynn
Doubleday, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=globalization&id=5224
Managing risk in a fragile world.

Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack
by Donna Fenn
HarperCollins, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=entrepreneurship&id=5225
Advice from eight savvy entrepreneurs.

Pull: Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
by Pamela Walker Laird
Harvard University Press, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=bizhistory&id=5226
What Ben Franklin knew about social capital—and you can, too.

ON THE WEB
Duct Tape Marketing
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/web-review.jhtml?id=5221&t=marketing
Effective marketing on a small-business budget.

MOST POPULAR STORIES
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5214&t=leadership&iss=y

Are Company Founders Underpaid?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5212&t=entrepreneurship

Productivity Means Working Smarter, Not Longer
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5190&t=srobbins

When Gender Changes the Negotiation
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5207&t=strategy

The Hidden Market for Babies
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5204&t=nonprofit


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
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/facultyQAs.jhtml?t=facultyQAs
Think you negotiate fairly? Harvard Business School professor Michael Wheeler and colleague Carrie Menkel-Meadow have co-edited a new book, What's Fair: Ethics for Negotiators. Here's a Q&A.

ELSEWHERE AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Real Estate Executive Seminar
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/rewk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
March 19-22, 2006

The Corporate Leader
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/tclwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
March 26-31, 2006

Leadership Best Practices
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/lbpwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
March 27-31, 2006

Families in Business: From Generation to Generation
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/fibwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
April 2-7, 2006

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