Harvard Business Review imprint: 574 books
The Knowing-Doing Gap
How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1999
Why are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and what they actually do? Why do so many companies fail to implement the experience and insight they've worked so hard to acquire? The Knowing-Doing Gap is the first book to confront the challenge of turning knowledge about how to...
Calculating Success
How the New Workplace Analytics Will Revitalize Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Create an Organization That Runs on More than Intuition and Guesswork
Most companies today have access to reams of data: marketing, supply chain, finance, as well as critical data about their workforce. Yet research shows that leaders at these companies lack the confidence to effectively integrate...
by John P. Kotter
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2008
Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The book...
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Profiting from Evidence-based Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management wisdom” isn’t wise at all-but, instead, flawed knowledge based on best...
by Karen Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Don’t let destructive drama sideline your career.
Every organization has its share of political drama: Personalities clash. Agendas compete. Turf wars erupt. But you need to work productively with your colleagues—even difficult ones—for the good of your organization and your career. How...
The Balanced Scorecard
Translating Strategy into Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 1996
The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives,...
The HR Scorecard
Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2001
Three experts in Human Resources introduce a measurement system that convincingly showcases how HR impacts business performance. Drawing from the authors' ongoing study of nearly 3,000 firms, this book describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm's overall strategy--what...
by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This collection highlights the most important ideas and concepts from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, authors of The Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allows organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships....
Redefining Global Strategy, with a New Preface
Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The world isn't so flat after all--distance still matters. Businesses that want to grow international markets profitably need to take differences seriously--here's how.
Debunks the myths that minimizing or overcoming differences are the only options for business, that bigger is always better...
Standing on the Sun
How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
For half a century the US has sat at the center of the global economic system, and Western-style capitalism has dominated. Now, it's no secret that the center of gravity is shifting. The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75% of the world's output will, by 2050, consume just 32%. Meanwhile,...
Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? With a New Preface by the Authors
What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Authenticity is the key to being an inspiring leader. But what does that really mean for your leadership, every day? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue it takes "being yourself, in context, with skill," and show readers how to do it.
New preface from the authors resetting the context...
If You Really Want to Change the World
A Guide to Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Silicon Valley’s latest trend for creating new ventures is based on trial and error: test market needs with new product concepts and a minimum amount of capital, expect that the product may not meet the market need, so fail fast and try another product with the hope that a product-market fit will...
When Professionals Have to Lead
A New Model for High Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2007
For too long, professional services firms have relied on the producer-manager” model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today’s managing directors must balance often conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations...
Aligning the Stars
How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2002
Most businesses rely on talent to succeed, but none so much as professional service firms. Within this rapidly expanding, trillion-dollar industry, professionals--and how they're managed--are the primary source of competitive advantage. In fact, success in this sector is determined more by the people...