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Subject: Re: HBR -- David Goodman
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:21:42 -0500
From: "Janice White" <janice.white@fct-cf.gc.ca>

Ok now I know I should let this go but after reading these mission
statements and policies, I couldn't let it go without a comment.  I
speak my mind when I see things that are unjust and wrong.

I am sorry but they have negated their claims to work at improving the
practice of management by creating such a huge disaster with their
customers and their subscriptions.  If this is an improvement, I would
hate to see how they run their offices.

Publisher of choice for those experts with important management ideas?
Is there a new management idea out there that I am not aware of?  I
always thought management should accommodate and encourage feedback from
their clients and employees?  I see the total opposite.  I wonder if
they have a management directive on communication skills?

I wonder if the latest thinking in management involves not thinking at
all.  I have not seen 1 thing that they have done that has been forward
thinking, in fact it seems we have gone back to the dark ages of
communication, where it takes months to resolve problems.  For all our
technology, we seem to have lost a key factor, courtesy, effective
communication and plain old thinking..

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Subject: HBR
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:37:45 -0500
From: David Goodman <dgoodman@phoenix.princeton.edu>

>>From  the HBR web site,
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/inside/about.html
I quote:

"The mission of Harvard Business School Publishing is to improve the
practice of management and its impact on a changing world.
[...]
We strive to be the publisher of choice for those ...
experts with important management ideas and a desire to improve the
practice of management worldwide.
[...]
As a result of our
association with Harvard Business School, we have
access to the latest thinking in management."

David Goodman, Princeton University Biology Library
dgoodman@princeton.edu            609-258-3235