Harvard Business Review imprint: 574 books
The Other Side of Innovation
Solving the Execution Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
In their first book, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, the authors provided a better model for executing disruptive innovation. They laid out a three-part plan for launching high-risk/high-reward innovation efforts: (1) borrow assets from the existing firms, (2) unlearn and unload certain processes...
Reinforcements
How to Get People to Help You
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
People have a natural instinct to help other human beings; you just need to know how to channel this urge into what it is you specifically need them to do.
Addresses a core need that remains a mystery to most of us: how to get the help we need.
Each chapter ends with a summary and a list of do's...
The Power of Unreasonable People
How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." By this definition, some of today's entrepreneurs are decidedly...
Power Cues
The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Take control of your communications-before someone else does
What if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim-but it’s largely true. Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals of which...
Keeping Up with the Quants
Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Why Everyone Needs Analytical Skills
Welcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up)-your world is awash with data.
As...
Data Driven
Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Your company's data has the potential to add enormous value to every facet of the organization -- from marketing and new product development to strategy to financial management. Yet if your company is like most, it's not using its data to create strategic advantage. Data sits around unused -- or incorrect...
Alignment
Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance.
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton...
Human + Machine
Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
AI is radically transforming business. Are you ready?
Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now--in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and robots that respond to changes in their environment....
The Innovator's Dilemma
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors
A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos,...
Get Backed
Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Anyone who comes to pitch on Shark Tank should read this book first!”
-Barbara Corcoran, ABC's Shark Tank
I have seen literally thousands of companies trying to raise capital and know that a great pitch deck is critical. This book gives you the playbook for creating yours.”
-Naval Ravikant,...
Jumping the S-Curve
How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Recently, some bestselling management books have focused on providing a recipe for greatness, while others have sought to unlock the secrets of long-term success. But a detailed analysis at the intersection of the two, one that explains how some companies manage to achieve repeated peaks of business...
What Were They Thinking?
Unconventional Wisdom About Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Every day companies and their leaders fail to capitalize on opportunities because they misunderstand the real sources of business success.
Based on his popular column in Business 2.0, Jeffrey Pfeffer delivers wise and timely business commentary that challenges conventional wisdom while providing...
by Theordore Levitt
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
What business is your company really in? That's a question all executives should all ask before demand for their firm's products or services dwindles.
In Marketing Myopia, Theodore Levitt offers examples of companies that became obsolete because they misunderstood what business they were in...
The Solution Revolution
How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Government Alone Can’t Solve Society’s Biggest Problems
World hunger. Climate change. Crumbling infrastructure. It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle these and other towering social problems....