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Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005 |
Mr. Whimsy During the day, Marc Frederic is a vice president and advisor for Smith Barney's Torrance, Calif., office. But other times he is a children's book poet and writer of Benny's Pets. Here's a sample poem.  |
Reason
April 2005
Kenneth Silber |
Are We Just Really Smart Robots? Two books on the mind put the human back into human beings: On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee... Mind: A Brief Introduction, by John R. Searle...  |
Reason
April 2005
Mark Bauerlein |
Deconstructing Chomsky A book review of The Anti-Chomsky Reader, edited by Peter Collier and David Horowitz: America's leading leftist intellectual sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest. |
Reason
April 2005
Brian Doherty |
Artifact: The Spirit of Popular Art With Will Eisner's 1978 graphic novel work A Contract With God he began a series of semi-autobiographical tales about big-city ethics, earning acclaim both inside and outside the comics community. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 4, 2005
Gunther McGrath & MacMillan |
Mapping Out Your Market Busters In pursuit of strategic growth, companies must figure a path through or around obstacles. This excerpt from the book "MarketBusters" describes a strategy for learning about what your customers really want. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 4, 2005
Manda Salls |
Why Nonprofits Have a Board Problem Plenty of distinguished people serve on nonprofit boards, but for some reason these directors shrink from leadership, argues Harvard professor Richard Chait. In this Q&A, Chait discusses "Governance as Leadership," his new book on how boards can transform into powerful forces of leadership. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 4, 2005
Jim Heskett |
Can an Organization's "Deep Smarts" Be Preserved? In their new book, "Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom," Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap contend that successful organizations rely on people who possess knowledge that provides a distinctive competitive advantage. |
CRM
April 1, 2005
Colin Beasty |
Required Reading: Be the BALLS Filled with useful anecdotes and detailed case studies, Alexi Venneri's book BALLS: 6 Rules for Winning Today's Business Game reveals the unconventional methods used to grow competitive, wildly creative companies with brands as strong as their organization's values without breaking the bank. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2005
Jennifer A. Liptow |
Bookshelf Practice Made Perfect: The Discipline of Business Management for Financial Advisers, by Mark C. Tibergien and Rebecca Pomering is a business management guide written for financial advisory firms of all types. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2005
Matthew Miller |
Online Collaborative Learning Communities: Twenty-One Designs to Building an Online Collaborative Learning Community This book by Chih-Hsiung Tu provides effective and comprehensive guides for educators interested in integrating online collaboration into their instruction. |
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