[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: Do I Dare Say Something?

[umesh sharma]

HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu> wrote:  To: umesh.sh05 at POST.HARVARD.EDU
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:28:06 -0500 (EST)
From: HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu>
Subject: Newsletter: Do I Dare Say Something?

                 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
Do I Dare Say Something?
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
P&G's New Innovation Model
Readers respond to Jim Heskett: The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

Plus: Book reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
Do I Dare Say Something?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5261&t=organizations
Are you afraid to speak up at work? The amount of fear in the modern workplace is just one surprising finding from recent research done by HBS professor Amy Edmondson and her colleague, Professor James Detert from Penn State.

Unlocking Your Investment Capital
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5264&t=finance&iss=y
By reassessing risk exposure, many companies can create more equity capacity to fund investments, says Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton. Just don't leave it up to the Finance Department.

P&G's New Innovation Model
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5258&t=innovation&iss=y
For decades, Procter & Gamble fueled its consumer products engine from R&D inside its own walls. But as its markets have matured, P&G has directed its search outward. An excerpt from Harvard Business Review.

Readers respond to Jim Heskett: The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5253&t=heskett&oid=5246&rid=5253&hid=-1&aid=-1
If you were an advisor to the senior managements of these companies doing business in China, what would you propose that they do?

BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy
by Benn Steil and Robert E. Litan
Yale University Press, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=finance&id=5245
The limits and potential of buying and selling financial assets across borders.

The Ultimate Customer Support Executive: Unleash the Power of Your Customer
by Phil Verghis
Silicon Press, 2006
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=marketing&id=5257
The customer is always right, and other myths of customer support.

Finding the Best and the Brightest: A Guide to Recruiting, Selecting, and Retaining Effective Leaders
by Peg Thoms
Praeger, 2005
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=organizations&id=5255
Hiring the best person, from trainee to CEO.

MOST POPULAR STORIES
Understand What Motivates Your Boss
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5252&t=srobbins

Use a Rolling Forecast to Spot Trends
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=5250&t=finance

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=5237&t=strategy

A Satisfied Customer Isn't Enough
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5236&t=leadership

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=5251&t=globalization


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.

ELSEWHERE AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Corporate Restructuring, Mergers, and Acquisitions: Creating Value in Turbulent Times
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/crmawk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
April 23-26, 2006

Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Evaluation
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/sfawk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
April 26-29, 2006

Agribusiness Seminar -- Paris
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/agbpwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
May 7-9, 2006

Understanding Customers
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/ucwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
May 10-13, 2006

Managing Human Capital
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/mhcwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
June 12-16, 2006 

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Umesh Sharma
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
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Class of 2005
		
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