[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: Understanding 'Want' vs. 'Should'

umesh sharma jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 1 20:48:59 PDT 2007 

review of marketing/microeconomics knowledge::

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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:25:19 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Newsletter: Understanding 'Want' vs. 'Should'

   HBS Working Knowledge Newsletter                  
   Highlights this Week   
   Research & Ideas: Understanding the 'Want' vs. 'Should' Decision 
   What Do You Think? How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?  
  
 ==============================  New on the Site  Research & Ideas: Understanding the 'Want' vs. 'Should' Decision http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5693.html
 Pizza or salad? Consumers use different approaches to buying things they want (pizza) versus items they should buy (salad). In their research on online grocery-buying habits and DVD rentals, Harvard Business School's Katy Milkman and Todd Rogers, along with Professor Max Bazerman, provide insights on the want-should conflict and the implications for managers in areas such as demand forecasting, consumer spending habits, and effective store layout.
  
  What Do You Think? How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5718.html
 Online forum OPEN until Wednesday, July 25. It may be important for us to believe that our leaders have control over performance, whether or not it is true, particularly in times of turmoil or concern about the future, says Jim Heskett. So to what degree should leaders become thespians, creating an impression that fits expectations? What do you think?
  
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  What Do You Think? How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5718.html
  
  Learning to Make the Move to CEO http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5675.html
  
  The Bias of Wall Street Analysts http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4430.html
  
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  Best of Faculty Q&As The Bias of Wall Street Analysts http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4430.html
 Historically, stock analysts' recommendations have been swayed by business relationships between the analyst's employer and the target company, says Professor Mark Bradshaw in this Q&A from 2004. Have recent SEC reforms helped?
  
  Working Paper Spotlight Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller "Footprint" Strategy http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5533.html
 by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark
 Download the PDF. To study dynamic competition, Baldwin and Clark build upon a design principle in computer architecture known as Amdahl's Law. The authors show that firms can study the underlying cause-and-effect relationships in a complex architecture in order to identify "bottlenecks." Firms may then redesign the interfaces of key components to make them more modular. They can then outsource more activities without sacrificing performance or cost. As a result, firms can offer competitive products or services, while investing less, and so enjoy an "invested capital advantage" over competitors. Baldwin and Clark explain how the strategy works and then model its impact on competition through successive stages of industry evolution.
  
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