Harvard Business Review imprint: 574 books
by William A. Sahlman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are glossy five-color charts, bundles of meticulous-looking spreadsheets, and decades of month-by-month financial projections. Yet nothing could be further...
Bad Leadership
What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2004
How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay like Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of power and authority are not leaders at all--at least not as the word is currently used. But, according to Barbara Kellerman,...
Rethinking the MBA
Business Education at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
"Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" As these headlines make clear, business education is at a major crossroads.
For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the...
Beyond Performance Management
Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
There’s a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization’s strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance.
But just 30 percent of these tools deliver...
by Howard Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that?s certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?
In Five Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how...
Changing Minds
The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other Peoples Minds
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Think about the last time you tried to change someone’s mind about something important: a voter’s political beliefs; a customer’s favorite brand; a spouse’s decorating taste. Chances are you weren’t successful in shifting that person’s beliefs in any way. In his book, Changing Minds, Harvard...
Built for Growth
How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Are You a Driver, an Explorer, a Crusader, or a Captain?
Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it’s a stand-alone startup or a venture inside a larger corporation. But the most important and least understood of these factors...
Conscious Capitalism
Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
As seen on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller
In this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring...
Strategy for Sustainability
A Business Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The definitive work on business strategy for sustainability by the most authoritative voice in the conversation.
More than ever before, consumers, employees, and investors share a common purpose and a passion for companies that do well by doing good. So any strategy without sustainability at...
IT Savvy
What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed.
These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform...
True Story
How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Is your company a storyteller-or a storydoer?
The old way to market a business was storytelling. But in today’s world, simply communicating your brand’s story in the hope that customers will listen is no longer enough. Instead, your authentic brand must be evident in every action the organization...
Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck
What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What’s your entrepreneurial profile?
Do you have what it takes to build a great business?
In this book, three prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs-now venture capitalists and CEO advisers-share the qualities that surface again and again in those who successfully achieve their...
The End of Competitive Advantage
How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business?
Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the...
The Network Imperative
How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Digital networks are changing all the rules of business. New, scalable, digitally networked business models, like those of Amazon, Google, Uber, and Airbnb, are affecting growth, scale, and profit potential for companies in every industry. But this seismic shift isn’t unique to digital start-ups...