Author: Yadong Luo
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press
Keywords: markets, emerging, enterprises, multinational
Number of Pages: 405
Published: 2002-10-30
List price: $77.00
ISBN-10: 8763000466
ISBN-13: 9788763000468

Multinational Enterprises in Emerging Markets aims at providing international managers with a series of lessons on how to reap maximum returns while mitigating related hazards arising from economic, regulatory and socio-cultural environments in emerging markets. Unlike other books, which tend to be very general in offering these lessons, Yadong Luo explicates the issues concretely, comparatively, and thoroughly. He articulates how MNEs should properly deal with local governments in a cooperative and at the same time bargaining manner. How to balance business ethics (e.g., anti-bribery) with

Author: Morten T. Hansen
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: unity, reap, results, create, traps, leaders, avoid, collaboration
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2009-05-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1422115151
ISBN-13: 9781422115152

In "Collaboration", author Morten Hansen takes aim at what many leaders inherently know: in today’s competitive environment, companywide collaboration is an imperative for successful strategy execution, yet the sought-after synergies are rarely, if ever, realized. In fact, most cross-unit collaborative efforts end up wasting time, money, and resources. How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need? In this book, Hansen shows managers how to get collaboration right through ’disciplined collaboration’. Based on the auth

Author: Roger L. Martin
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: integrative, thinking, win, leaders, mind, successful, opposable
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-12-04
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1422118924
ISBN-13: 9781422118924

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following "best practice" can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation, you’ll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation is different. Instead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to understand and emulate how they think. Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking--

Author: Michael J. Mauboussin
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: counterintuition, power, harnessing, twice, think
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2009-10-12
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1422176754
ISBN-13: 9781422176757

Leaders in all fields-business, medicine, law, government-make crucial decisions every day. The harsh truth is that they mismanage many of those choices, even though they have the right intentions. These blunders take a huge toll on leaders, their organizations, and the people they serve. Why is it so hard to make sound decisions? We fall victim to simplified mental routines that prevent us from coping with the complex realities inherent in important judgment calls. Yet these cognitive errors are preventable. In Think Twice, Michael Mauboussin shows you how to recognize-and avoid-common mental

Author: David A. Moss
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: students, need, executives, managers, guide, macroeconomics, concise
Number of Pages: 189
Published: 2007-07-05
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1422101797
ISBN-13: 9781422101797

Now more than ever before, executives and managers need to understand their larger economic context. In A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David Moss leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic concepts in engaging, clear, and concise terms. In a simple and intuitive way, he breaks down the ideas into output, money, and expectations. In addition, Moss introduces powerful tools for interpreting the big-picture economic developments that shape events in the contemporary business arena. Detailed examples are also drawn from

Author: Ethan S. Harris
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: reserve, greenspan, federal, fed, bernanke, ben
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 142212584X
ISBN-13: 9781422125847

Ben Bernanke’s swearing in as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006 marked the end of Alan Greenspan’s long, legendary career. To date, the new chair has garnered mixed reviews. Business economists see him as the best-qualified successor to Greenspan, while many traders and investors worry that he’s too academic for the job. Meanwhile, ordinary Americans do not even know who he is.How will Bernanke’s leadership affect the Fed’s actions in the coming years? How will Bernanke build on Greenspan’s success, but also put his own stamp on the Fed? What will all this im

Author: Marshall Goldsmith
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Keywords: ceo, memo, ready, succession
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1422118231
ISBN-13: 9781422118238