Harvard Business Review imprint: 574 books
Levers Of Organization Design
How Managers Use Accountability Systems For Greater Performance And Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
The design of an organization--the accountability system that defines roles, rights, and responsibilities throughout the firm--has a direct impact on the performance of every employee. Yet, few leaders devote focused attention to how this design is chosen, implemented, and adjusted over time. Robert...
The Good Struggle
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Leadership is struggle
The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.
Leaders...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Scores of books and articles have been written in the popular press and mainstream marketplace about leadership: who leaders are, what they do, and why they matter. Yet in academia, there is a dearth of rigorous research, journal articles, or doctoral programs focused on leadership as a discipline....
The Architecture of Innovation
The Economics of Creative Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Find the right innovation model
Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just...
The Medici Effect, With a New Preface and Discussion Guide
What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.
Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how...
Indispensable
When Leaders Really Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Will your next leader be insignificant-or indispensable?
The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long been the subject of debate. Are they made by history, or do they make it?
In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly...
Sidetracked
Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on your decisions and behavior, often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick-and you finally reach your...
How Brands Become Icons
The Principles of Cultural Branding
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
Coca-Cola. Harley-Davidson. Nike. Budweiser. Valued by customers more for what they symbolize than for what they do, products like these are more than brands--they are cultural icons. How do managers create brands that resonate so powerfully with consumers? Based on extensive historical analyses of...
Sleeping with Your Smartphone
How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Does it have to be this way?
Can’t resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office-but at what cost?
In Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveals how you can...
Crossing the Divide
Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Bringing groups together is a central and unrelenting task of leadership. CEOs must nudge their executives to rise above divisional turf battles, mayors try to cope with gangs in conflict, and leaders of many countries face the realities of sectarian violence.
Crossing the Divide introduces...
The Medici Effect, With a New Preface and Discussion Guide
What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs.
Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how...
Becoming a Manager
How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Harvard Business School professor and leadership guru Linda Hill illuminates what it takes to make the most crucial transition in your career – going from individual performer to competent manager.
A powerful framework and argument for understanding the transition from individual performer...
The Execution Premium
Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial...
Reinvent Your Business Model
How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Named a Top 10 Business Strategy Book of 2018 by Inc. magazine
In his pioneering book Seizing the White Space, Mark W. Johnson argued that business model innovation is the most proven path to transformational growth. Since then, Uber, Airbnb, and other startups have disrupted whole industries;...