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The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series brings managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Gathered in a highly accessible format are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for forward-thinking businesspeople worldwide.
With concern for environmental issues growing, defining the controversial relationship between business and the environment has become even more essential.
Harvard Business Review on Business and the Environment brings together the latest management thinking on the role of the environment in business, and offers a general management perspective that will help outline the critical environmental issues your organization may face. A Harvard Business Review Paperback.
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Just a decade ago, the term "green building strategy" evoked visions of fringe environmentalism and a high cost for minimal good. More recently, there's been a large shift in perception, an awakening of social consciousness, and a realization that a strategy good for the world can also be good for your bottom line. Green Business Strategy is no longer an option; the future depends on it. This collection of HBR articles gets to the heart of why you should and must put a socially-responsible strategy at the top of your CEO's agenda.
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In the Foreword, Rosabeth Moss Kanter observes that today, "women must rely on themselves rather than on institutions to create careers. They must be entrepreneurs who make their own opportunities -- either within or outside of a major corporation -- or professionals with portable career assets -- skills and reputations that can be applied anywhere.....While the message of this book -- that women are caught in the midst of unprecedented social and economic changes -- will not come as a surprise to women who cope with these upheavals daily, the advice and solutions within can help women grapple with vast changes in their organizations." Then in the Introduction, Nancy A. Nichols asserts that "the very first thing that a woman must learn to manage is her femininity. From the moment she enters the work force until the day she leaves the corporate arena, she is judged not just as a manager on the job, but as a woman in the job." For that reason, women find themselves in a "double bind": those who act like a man are forced to act like a man are forced to act in a "sexually dissonant way"; those who act in a "feminine" manner risk being perceived as ineffective, "or worse yet, getting trampled on the way to the top."
The material is carefully organized within four Parts: Breaking the Double Bind, Fitting In or Fighting Back, The Balancing Act, and Tales from the Front. To her great credit, Nichols has selected a diversity of perspectives. One of the book's greatest strengths is the variety of real-world situations ("tales from the front" case studies) which illustrate key points. One of the most informative sections is Eliza G.C. Collins' interview with Lore Heap who (literally) launched Vector Graphics on her kitchen table with a $6,000 investment and built it into a $25-million company. As Heap explains, "I'm not a feminist....I feel that most women gain acceptance from peers, male or female, by proving integrity and intelligence -- not by talking about job discrimination and all sorts of other complaints. I just don't have time for that." I highly recommend this book to women either in business now or preparing for a business career. Also to the men with whom they will associate. Finally, to the parents, grandparents and other older relatives of young men and young women (especially those now enrolled in colleges and university degree programs) who also need to understand "the changing facts of work life." Hopefully, those who read and then re-read this important book will help to ensure that changes yet to occur are of substantial benefit to everyone, regardless of age or gender.
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Title: Burning up: energy usage and the environment.(fuel for thought: ENERGY)
Author: Anthony D. Owen
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Volume: 26
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Climatic Fears: Colonialism and the History of Environmentalism. (Environment).: An article from: Harvard International Review
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Title: Climatic Fears: Colonialism and the History of Environmentalism. (Environment).
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Title: The Environmentalist Paradox: The World Trade Organization's Challenges. (Environment).(globalization and the environment)
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Hot Air Over Kyoto: The United States and the Politics of Global Warming. (Environment).: An article from: Harvard International Review
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Title: Hot Air Over Kyoto: The United States and the Politics of Global Warming. (Environment).
Author: Timothy E. Wirth
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Title: It's Not Easy Being Green: Green Parties: From Protest to Power. (Environment).
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Planet savers: international coalitions for the environment.: An article from: Harvard International Review
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Title: Planet savers: international coalitions for the environment.
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Harvard International Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1998
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Title: Race to the Top: The Biases of the WTO Regime. (Environment).(World Trade Organization)
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The results are in. The evidence has been analyzed. Research shows that the lack of enterprise-wide training is the biggest reason for ERP implementation failures. It is the single most important precursor to achieving success. Integrated Learning for ERP Success is the first resource to offer a specifically defined, comprehensive method for planning, delivering, and evaluating ERP training efforts. It even includes formulas for determining training return on investment. The Learning Requirements Planning (LRP) process presented involves a six-step enterprise-level instructional design model that when implemented correctly assures success. If you would rather have a root canal than oversee an ERP implementation, you are not alone. But like avoiding a root canal, avoiding ERP implementation only causes more pain. This book eases the implementation pain. It shows you how a formal plan for learning will increase the productivity of the ERP implementation team, shorten overall implementation time, and substantially decrease implementation costs. It also provides a discussion on how an ERP implementation can be used as a catalyst for lifelong organizational learning. Implementing an ERP system can cost three to ten times the actual software purchase price. You can't afford to waste money or time in the areas of ERP education. Integrated Learning for ERP Success shows you how to create learning-focused ERP implementations that provide substantial savings and the competitive advantage.
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Through an effective blend of analysis and examples this text integrates the game theory revolution with the traditional understanding of imperfectly competitive markets. The book's focus is on strategic competition and how firms can shelter their market power and economic profits from competitors. This focus establishes the intellectual foundation for determining business practices that warrant antitrust examination and prohibition and underlines recent activist antitrust policy. The author's stress an integrated understanding of industrial organization and the development of students' analytical abilities.
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The Dynamics of Industrial Collaboration revisits and reformulates issues previously raised by inter-firm collaboration. The latest research in collaboration, processes and evaluation of cooperation, and industrial and research networks is presented by way of both empirical and theoretical studies.
The authors use several theoretical perspectives to explain inter-firm and inter-institutional collaboration: the theory of transaction costs and contracts, evolutionary theory, and the resource-based view. The book illustrates that none of these approaches are dominant.
The issue of collaboration is raised in various contexts such as the new economics, biotechnology, and the motor industry. It will be of special interest to industrial economists and scholars of evolutionary economics.
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New Product Development: An Empirical Approach to Study of the Effects of Innovation Strategy, Organization Learning and Market Conditions
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This is an authored book based upon a survey of a large number of companies, on the role of organization learning and innovation strategy in successful new product development. The audience for these insights is any practitioner working with corporations in new product development, as well as advanced undergrad and graduate students taking courses in new product development of management science in schools of business and engineering.
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Standardization - A Business Approach to the Role of National Standardization Organizations
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This study is the first academic analysis of national standardization organizations. The growing importance of consortia, and the shift from standardization at the national level towards the regional or international level, have prompted a discussion about the importance of national standardization organizations. Against this background, Henk de Vries analyzes the role of these organizations.
The book aims to provide both practitioners and scholars with a better understanding of standardization. The introductory general chapters concern the concept of standards and standardization and depict the relevant organizations with special attention to the national standardization organizations and their portfolio of services. The book discusses the needs of users of standards in depth as well as the mechanisms that determine the market success of standards, the methods for standards development and standardization at a company level. The practical chapters, which alternate with the ones with a more theoretical focus, describe the case of standardization of management systems and the case of standardization in service sectors. The book is balanced with a fundamental analysis of how the national standardization organizations can meet the business needs of their customers.
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This book is based on the author's considerable experience at Netherlands Normalisatie-Instituut (NNI) a National SDO (National Standardization Organization[NSO] is the term he offers) and at ISO and IEC, both international SDOs. Almost all of the book's wealth of analysis is applicable to any SDO. The first four chapters develop the concepts of standards, standardization, NSO and actors (the many different types of participants in the standardization process). Chapters 5-7 then expand on the details of NSO operation and services, and suggest areas where NSOs can improve. He develops the concept of a "co-producing customer" who participates in standards development and then purchases the resulting standard. The author discusses the process of standards development and the issues raised by the co-producing customer. In total, chapters 1-7 form Part A. The author is very knowledgeable and thorough and able to clearly analyze the standardization process.
In Part B, the author rigorously provides analysis supporting the work in the first chapters and then expands into a number of areas of interest to an NSO or SDO: Improved systems to manage the development of standards, service standardization, propagation of standards, standards development methods and the idea of an SDO offering an outsourcing function to in-company standards departments. In each area, the author is meticulous in the development of the subject and provides a significant survey of the available literature and related concepts. He provides extensive references from English, Dutch, German and French sources.
As extensive as this work is, it does not consider some important areas of NSO interest: The Internet is causing a major change in the way all SDOs develop and deploy standards. While this book notes the possibility that standards may become available on the Internet at no charge, it offers little suggestion of how NSOs will fund themselves, in such an event. It also notes the widespread use of independent document selling organizations (DSOs) to sell standards, but does not explore how the Internet will effect the NSO - DSO relationship. Coordinating the development of Internet standards with the development of communications standards is changing the way telecommunications SDOs operate. Coming from an ISO and IEC background, the author does not substantively address such issues of specific interest to telecommunications SDOs.
This book provides a wealth of background ,detail and analysis of the NSO as it exists today. The book notes the decline in importance of NSOs as well as the rise of consortia, but does not provide guidance on how NSOs should respond. The growing problems with intellectual property rights in some NSOs is not addressed. In sum, the author develops and presents an academic and operational view of an NSO and its current issues and does not address the more market and legal oriented future issues of the NSO. In fairness to the author and the depth of material that has been provided, these omissions would be more acceptable if they were not so critical to the future of NSOs.
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