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The Best of HarvardBusiness.org
8:46 AM Wednesday December 19, 2007
by HarvardBusiness.org Editors
It's been quite a year for managers: the mortgage crisis, the possibility of recession, concerns over climate change, shake-ups in corporate leadership, the continuing China conundrum. And those are just the headlines. What about all your actual, day-to-day challenges? Managing a virtual team spread across the globe. Motivating and retaining your top performers. Identifying and executing on innovative ideas.
And it's been quite a year for us here at HarvardBusiness.org as well. We relaunched our site in March, introducing blogs, interactive tools, and audio and video content in the hopes of making our site a regular destination for managers like you across the globe. We thank you for being so receptive to what we've offered up so far. The interest you’ve shown and the contributions you’ve made have been truly remarkable.
To celebrate our first year as a management community, we've selected some of our favorite content to showcase in a special year-end package. We used three primary criteria in choosing these blog posts, articles, tools, and audio and video clips: the richness and usefulness of the ideas, popularity among the audience, and the quality of the discussion each prompted.
We hope you find this content as enriching as we did. And, as always, we invite and encourage your comments. What were your favorite pieces of content? What would like to see more of in the coming year?
Best wishes for a successful new year,
The HarvardBusiness.org Editors
Blog Posts:
Gill Corkindale: Reinventing Office Politics
Kevin Coyne: Building Morale When Times Are Bad
Marshall Goldsmith: How Can I Delegate More Effectively?
Mark Kramer: Why Robert Reich Is Wrong About Corporate Social Responsibility
John Quelch: How To Be a Customer
Bill Taylor: Beyond Microsoft Millionaires and Rich Googlers: Workers as Owners
Michael Watkins: Are You a Pyromaniac?
Discussions:
Why Enterprise 2.0 Won't Transform Organizations
Placing a Future Value on College Degrees
What Does the Future of Management Look Like to You?
Should Leaders Always Take the Blame?
Podcasts:
HBR IdeaCast Episode 38: Larry Bossidy, What Your Leader Expects of You
HBR IdeaCast Episode 49: Tammy Erickson, What Makes Gen X’ers Tick?
Interactive Tool:
Are You Headed for an Energy Crisis?
HBR Interactive Case:
The CEO's Private Investigation
Video:
Kevin Coyne: Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box
Joseph Bower: Preparing Yourself to Become a CEO
HBR In Brief:
Alice H. Eagly & Linda L. Carli: Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership
Lynda Gratton & Tamara J. Erickson: Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
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Great interest in pulling solutions into problems in expanding markets.
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- Posted by Duane Byron Carlson
December 24, 2007 12:52 AM
Iattended aconference on behaviour based approach to Hiv pevention that was held in Uganda organised by harvard univesity and the award ceremony that was held at serena hotel and iwould always want harvard management to make follow up and come down to uganda and organised more of such management conferences.
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December 24, 2007 4:08 AM
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