Extreme Management : What They Teach at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program

Stevens, Mark

ISBN 10: 0446523216 / ISBN 13: 9780446523219

Published by Warner Books, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2001

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review copy; Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 912356

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extreme Management : What They Teach at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program
• Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446523216
• ISBN 13: 9780446523219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition Review Copy.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business/Agriculture

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Synopsis

Summarizes what is taught at the renowned management school, focusing on decision making, global competition, corporate finance, organizational competence, and teamwork.

Reviews

Originally created to provide the U.S. government with industrial managers who could address the business side of military logistics during WWII, Harvard's intensive nine-week curriculum for senior managers focuses on decision making, global competition, corporate finance, organizational competence and teamwork. Here, marketing consultant Stevens (King Icahn; Sudden Death: The Rise and Fall of E.F. Hutton) aims to distill the program's lessons, drawing on anecdotes from corporate executives who have completed the program and some faculty members (the school did not authorize this book). For example, one sales executive, a former military man, learned to change his authoritarian, micromanaging style to one that allows him to act as a source of experience and information, resulting in his subordinates more actively following his lead and working harder for him. Another learned that he is not always the expert; faced with employees trying to unionize, he reflected on the lessons of the Harvard course and rather than firing the union supporters, which would have been both incendiary and illegal he hired an accomplished labor lawyer. While it may appeal to executives accustomed to self-analysis and who have sought additional professional training, the book falls predictably short of its goal to recreate the Harvard experience for the reader.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.