[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

[umesh sharma]

can we learn from this experience and stop treating business as a ethical debate question?
   
  Umesh

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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:40:37 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Newsletter: How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

                
  Highlights this Week    
   Research & Ideas: How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI  
   Lessons from the Classroom: HBS Cases: Governing Sumida Corporation  
   First Look: Governance of family business, American Airlines, more   
   What Do YOU Think? What's to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
==============================   New on the Site  Research & Ideas: How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5528.html
After the fall of apartheid, South Africa accepted the standard prescription for countries to receive more foreign direct investment. Yet FDI has been a mere trickle. Why? The answer may reside in the country's strong corporate environment, says HBS professor Eric D. Werker.
  Lessons from the Classroom: HBS Cases: Governing Sumida Corporation  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5511.html
In a new Harvard Business School case, Professor Lynn Paine and her colleagues explore the nature of corporate governance systems by studying Japanese electronics components maker Sumida Corp. CEO Shigeyuki Yawata looks to create a governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders worldwide. From the HBS Alumni Bulletin.
  First Look: Cutting-Edge Faculty Research  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/firstlook/index.html
New papers for download and cases on: A new framework for assessing macroeconomic risk ... Running a family business ... The birth of American Airlines ... How Warner Bros. and BitTorrent hooked up.
  What Do YOU Think: What's to Be Done About Performance Reviews?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5563.html
Online forum OPEN until Friday, November 24. Jim Heskett asks: What can we do to make performance reviews more productive and less distasteful? Should their objectives be scaled back to just one or two? Should they be disengaged from the determination of compensation and, if so, how?
  Most Popular Stories  What's to Be Done About Performance Reviews?  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5563.html
  The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/2766.html
  The History and Influence of Andy Grove  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5561.html
  Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5556.html
  Birth of the American Salesman  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4068.html
  Best of Faculty Q&As  Birth of the American Salesman  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4068.html
Modern sales management is a uniquely American story, says Harvard Business School's Walter A. Friedman, author of Birth of a Salesman. PLUS: Book excerpt.
  Working Paper Spotlight  Economic and Technical Drivers of Technology Choice: Browsers  http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5439.html
by Timothy F. Bresnahan and Pai-Ling Yin
Pdf available for download. Did Microsoft defeat Netscape in the browser war because its technology was better, or because MS created a better business strategy? The authors draw on the 1996-1999 browser battles to examine technical progress versus economic forces in driving diffusion on new technologies.
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