[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

umesh sharma jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 21 02:08:35 PDT 2008 

might be useful for combating double digit inflation in Assam and other parts of India

HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu> wrote:   HBS Working Knowledge Newsletter                  
   Highlights this Week  Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
 Working paper: Gender in Job Negotiations
 Working paper: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship
 What Do You Think: Why Don't Managers Think Deeply?
  
 ==============================  New on the Site  Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5957.html
 Consumers get hit with the price-increase hammer every time they drive past a gas station. Harvard Business School professor John Quelch offers tips on how marketers can cope with inflation and consumer sticker shock. 
  
  Working paper: Gender in Job Negotiations—A Two-Level Game http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5935.html
 Download the PDF. The traditional division of labor between the sexes—women managing the private realm and men the public—continues to have an indirect influence on job negotiation outcomes through links between private realm and public realm negotiations. Women's negotiations at work are often constrained by agreements in negotiations at home. For insights, Hannah Riley Bowles and HBS professor Kathleen McGinn review two bodies of literature on gender in negotiation—one from psychology and organizational behavior on candidate-employer negotiations, and another from economics and sociology on household bargaining over chores and child care.
  
  Working paper: Agency and Institutions—A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5943.html
 Download the PDF. Researchers' understanding of institutional entrepreneurship has evolved since the publication of Paul DiMaggio's seminal text "Interest and Agency in Institutional Theory" 20 years ago. In particular, researchers have begun to establish foundations for a theory of institutional entrepreneurship. This paper by Bernard Leca, HBS professor Julie Battilana, and Eva Boxenbaum analyzes existing work, and proposes an ambitious research agenda that calls for a more systematic investigation of institutional entrepreneurship.
  
  What Do You Think: Why Don't Managers Think Deeply? http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5952.html
 Online forum OPEN for comment until June 26. According to Gerald and Lindsay Zaltman, nearly all research techniques commonly used today probe humans only at their conscious level, though it is the subconscious level that really determines behavior. Jim Heskett asks: What is your organization—and what are you—doing to bring more deep thinking into work and life?
  
  First Look: New Research by HBS Faculty http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5953.html
 New in publications and case studies: Fault lines in government self-policing programs ... Headhunters adapt to change in the executive search landscape ... Video gaming leaps forward.
  
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  Monetizing IP: The Executive's Challenge http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5925.html
  
  Working paper: Gender in Job Negotiations http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5935.html
  
  Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5883.html
  
  Best of Faculty Q&As Six Steps for Reinvigorating America http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5802.html
 In the early stages of the 21st century, America has lost its way both at home and in the world, argues Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. In her new book, America the Principled, she details six opportunities for America to boost its economic vitality and democratic ideals. 
  
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