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2009/12/21 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS No reactions yet

HBR on Crisis Management

Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world, but how do companies deal with them? Published in 1999, the Harvard Business Review on Crisis Management is my third post on the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series, not that I intend to review all 73 of them. But this book reflects much of what is on my mind these days. I’ve had this book on my bookshelf for some time now, and I was planning on a review later this month, but the news on SAAB’s demise compelled me to move up my review in my posting schedule. The closure of SAAB is a major crisis by all standards, and is a fitting reminder that this 10-year old book will never go out of date. Why and how do some companies survive, and some not? This book sheds some light on this.

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2009/12/10 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS 6 reactions

Book Review: HBR on Supply Chain Management

hbr-supply-chain-management Today we continue my exploration of the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series that I started yesterday when I reviewed Managing External Risk, an enterprise-wide approach towards risk management. Today it’s back to basics: Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management. It was published in 2006, so it has been out there for a while, but I have been blissfully oblivious to it, preoccupied as I have been with other literature. Besides, the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series, as the “Paperback” in the name implies, are not written for us academics and researchers, but for the professional manager seeking executive perspectives and solutions.

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2009/12/09 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS 2 reactions

Book Review: HBR on Managing External Risk

managing-external-riskI am blessed to have a college library that complies with most of my book acquisition requests and the other day my library told me that the last book I asked them to acquire had arrived. It was the Harvard Business Review on Managing External Risk, brand new, published in September 2009, part of the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series. After flipping through the book my first feeling was general disappointment, perhaps because I am an academic, not a professional. After re-reading and re-considering I have to admit, though,  that it wasn’t that bad after all. In fact, the book has managed to summarize the essence of executive risk management in an excellent manner. You don’t need to have an MBA to be enable to enjoy this book, common sense and curiosity about the inner workings of business decisions are enough. I learned a lot from this book.

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