is it about Cola companies draining deserts like Rajasthan - they should set up
plants in Assam (floods will go) --but then only in dry areas people will buy
their drinks.
Umesh
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Subject: Newsletter: Industry Self-Regulation--What's Working (and What's Not)?
Highlights this Week
Q&A: Industry Self-Regulation: What's Working (and What's Not)?
Research & Ideas: The Business of Global Poverty
What Do You Think: Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
First Look: New publications from HBS faculty
============================== New on the Site Q&A: Industry
Self-Regulation: What's Working (and What's Not)?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5590.html
Self-regulation is all over the news, but are firms that adopt such programs
already better in terms of labor and quality practices? Does adopting a program
help companies improve faster? In this Q&A, HBS professor Michael Toffel gives
a reality check and discusses the trends for managers.
Research & Ideas: The Business of Global Poverty
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5656.html
Nearly half of the planet's population subsists on $2 a day or less. What role
should business play as the world confronts what may be the most important
socioeconomic challenge of the new century? From the HBS Alumni Bulletin.
What Do You Think: Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5660.html
Online forum OPEN until Wednesday, April 25. A lot of money will be made or
lost for a long time on the effort to combat global warming, says Professor Jim
Heskett. But does the free market have the patience for investments that may
not pay out for many years? What do you think?
First Look: Cutting-Edge Faculty Research
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/firstlook/index.html
Each week First Look summarizes new working papers, case studies, and
publications produced by Harvard Business School faculty. Here readers get a
"first look" at cutting-edge ideas before they enter the mainstream of business
practice.
Most Popular Stories
Making the Move to General Manager http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5608.html
Creating a Positive Professional Image http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4860.html
What Do You Think: Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5660.html
The Business of Global Poverty http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5656.html
First Look: April 3, 2007 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5661.html
Best of Faculty Q&As The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5275.html
Relatively few multinational companies truly understand or take advantage of
international finance. Professor Mihir A. Desai tackles the subject in
International Finance: A Casebook and in this interview from 2006.
Working Paper Spotlight Behavioral Operations
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5401.html
by Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano
Pdf available for download. Organizations often commit to more product
development projects than they can handle. And while people do not always
behave rationally, most research on operations management still assumes they
do. This paper explores theoretical and practical ways to study the effects of
behavior and cognition on operations.
Elsewhere at Harvard Business School
Strategic Management Program Portfolio
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/smpwk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
April 22July 15, 2007
Marketing Management Series
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/mmswk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
April 29June 20, 2007
High Potentials Leadership Program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/hplp_wk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
June 38, 2007
Leadership and Strategy in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/lspb_wk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
June 38, 2007
Healthcare Delivery: Achieving Organizational Excellence
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/hcd_wk/index.html
HBS Executive Education Program
June 1015, 2007
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