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Catch up here on recent mentions of the GSB in the news.
Barclays' Idzik: Doing Things Right Is Often Hard
To remain a top-tier competitor in its field, Barclays PLC faced replacing two-thirds of its top positions and even members of its executive committee. “Doing the right thing is often hard,” COO Paul Idzik told a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience.
Professor William Barnett addresses the complexities of competition with his new book The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves. In the book Barnett examines the effects and unforeseen perils of competing and winning. He takes a fascinating, in-depth look at two of the most competitive industries--computer manufacturing and commercial banking--and derives some startling conclusions. Organizations that survive competition become stronger competitors ... but only in the market contexts in which they succeed. Barnett shows how managers may think their experience will help them thrive in new markets and conditions, when in fact the opposite is likely to be the case. He finds that an organization's competitiveness at any given moment hinges on the organization's historical experience.
GSB Professor Chip Heath and brother Dan have produced Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. The Heaths address issues of communication by focusing on the phenomenon of 'stickiness', the art of making ideas unforgettable. They draw on their knowledge of urban legends to illustrate the point, and offer six principles for getting your story to "stick". Read Professor Bob Sutton's enthusiastic review from his blog.
The Business of Sports by the Wattis Professor of Management George Foster, Harvard Professor Stephen A. Greyser and legendary coach and GSB teacher Bill Walsh is now available. Containing an extensive collection of case studies, this book focuses on leagues and events, sponsorship and marketing and financing and valuation.
Robert J. Flanagan, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Labor Economics and Policy Analysis at the GSB, has a new book out, Globalization and Labor Conditions (Oxford University Press, 2006.) In the book, subtitled 'Working Conditions and Worker Rights in a Global Economy', Flanagan, a nationally known labor economist, draws on analyses of immigration and historic patterns of globalization to suggest that migration can be important for improving global working conditions. His work is discussed in an interview in the November 2006 issue of Stanford Business.