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Subject: Newsletter: Creating a Positive Professional Image
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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
Creating a Positive Professional Image
HR's New Mandate: Be a Strategic Player
Hurricane Season in the Colonies
Readers respond: Is a "Level Playing Field" a Good Thing?
Plus: Book and Web reports
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NEW ON THE SITE
Creating a Positive Professional Image
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4860&t=career_effectiveness
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.
HR's New Mandate: Be a Strategic Player
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4861&t=strategy
We know what HR does, but what does it deliver? In this excerpt from the new book The HR Value Proposition, two experts contend that the HR function is poised for powerful strategic advantage.
Hurricane Season in the Colonies
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4862&t=bizhistory
Hurricanes were all but unknown to the just-arriving British Greater Caribbean colonists in the seventeenth century. They would quickly find out how much damage a Big Blower could do to their farms. From Business History Review.
Readers respond: Is a "Level Playing Field" a Good Thing?
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4855&t=heskett&oid=4836&rid=4855&hid=-1&aid=-1
There is a lot of talk these days about a level playing field, sparked in part by Thomas L. Friedman's bestseller, The World is Flat. But what is a level playing field in the world today, and does everyone play by the same rules? Readers respond.
BAKER LIBRARY SUMMARIES
BOOK REPORTS
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=globalization&id=4863
The thrills and dangers of a faster, flatter world.
Ponzi's Scheme: The True St! ory of a Financial Legend
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Random House, 2005
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=bizhistory&id=4864
Charles Ponzi: The man behind the scam.
The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness
by Timothy J. Sinclair
Cornell University Press, 2005
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/book-review.jhtml?t=finance&id=4865
Behind the ratings.
ON THE WEB
BlogPulse
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/web-review.jhtml?id=4859&t=marketing
What the blogosphere is saying about your product.
MOST POPULAR STORIES
What an Ex! ecutive Coach Can Do for You
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4853&t=career_effectiveness
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4851&t=technology
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4834&t=technology
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4852&t=marketing
Don't Listen to "Yes"
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4833&t=leadership
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
It's India Above China in New World Order
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/facultyQAs.jhtml?t=facultyQAs
Can India overtake China? That was the title of an influential article in Foreign Policy magazine in 2003. A Q&A with authors Yasheng Huang of MIT and Tarun Khanna of HBS.
ELSEWHERE AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Consumer Marketing Strategy
HBS Executive Education prog! ram
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/cmswk/index.html
June 26-30, 2005
Finance for Senior Executives
HBS Executive Education program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/fsewk/index.html
July 10-16, 2005
Leading Product Development
HBS Executive Education program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/lpdwk/index.html
July 11-15, 2005
Making Corporate Boards More Effective
HBS Executive Education program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/mcbwk/index.html
July 17-20, 2005
Delivering Information Services
HBS Executive Education program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/diswk/index.html
July 24-30, 2005
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
HBS Executive Education program
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/bcaowk/index.html
July 31-August 5, 2005
Burning Questions: The Return to Growth
Harvard Business School Publishing Conferences
http://www.burningquestions.com
October 5-7, 2005
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