[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: Future of Social Enterprise; Rethinking Retirement Planning

Wed Jul 2 23:43:08 IST 2008

Join the Conversation: "The Future of Social Enterprise"
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Umesh Sharma

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Ed.M. - International Education Policy

Harvard Graduate School of Education,

Harvard University,

Class of 2005

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--- On Mon, 30/6/08, HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu> wrote:
From: HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu>
Subject: Newsletter: Rethinking Retirement Planning
To: jaipurschool at YAHOO.COM
Date: Monday, 30 June, 2008, 10:31 AM

HBS Working Knowledge Newsletter

Highlights this Week

Rethinking Retirement Planning
Summing Up: Why Don't Managers Think Deeply?
First Look: The latest research by HBS faculty
Join the Conversation: The Future of Social Enterprise

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New on the Site

Rethinking Retirement Planning
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5911.html

Many of us are relying on defined contribution plans to help fund retirement. But Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton believes today's plans are not sustainable. So what's next? A new way to look at the problem.

Summing Up: Why Don't Managers Think Deeply?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5952.html

What is your organization—and what are you—doing to bring more deep thinking into work and life? According to respondents to this past month's column by Jim Heskett, providing time to reflect, particularly in an era of multi-tasking and the tyranny of technology, was most frequently suggested as an antidote to the dearth of deep thinking. (Online forum now closed.)

First Look: New Research by HBS Faculty
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5961.html

New in publications and case studies: How foreign aid could better reduce worldwide poverty ... Managing your boss (yes, it can be done) ... Strategy and competition in economies of the European Union.

Join the Conversation: "The Future of Social Enterprise"
http://www.hbs.edu/centennial/conversation/futureofsocialenterprise/

Web forum with HBS professor  V. Kasturi Rangan and Susan McDonald.

Most Popular Stories

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5957.html

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5908.html

What Do You Think: Why Don't Managers Think Deeply?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5952.html

Spending on Happiness
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5944.html

Creating a Positive Professional Image
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4860.html

Best of Faculty Q&As
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5228.html

Contracts that include a right of first refusal usually benefit the holder of that right. But not always. New research by professor Alvin E. Roth and colleague Brit Grosskopf explains when it's wise to say no, in this Q&A from 2006.

Elsewhere at Harvard Business School

Program for Leadership Development
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/pld_wk/index.html

HBS Executive Education Program

July 2008—January 2009 Session

Strategies for Protecting and Monetizing Intellectual Property
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/ip_wk/index.html

HBS Executive Education Program

July 27–30, 2008

Changing the Game: Negotiation and Competitive Decision Making
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/dm_wk/index.html

HBS Executive Education Program

July 27–August 1, 2008

Corporate Governance Portfolio
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/cgp_wk/index.html

HBS Executive Education Program

July 23–31, 2008

Harvard Business Online
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Visit Harvard Business Online, the Web site of Harvard Business School Publishing. Here you'll find articles from the latest issue of Harvard Business Review, new book releases from Harvard Business School Press, HBR IdeaCast—the biweekly podcast featuring breakthrough management ideas and commentary from the editors and authors of Harvard Business School Publishing—HBS case studies, and much more.

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