Harvard Business Review Press: 568 books
Project Management for Profit
A Failsafe Guide to Keeping Projects On Track and On Budget
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
No More Headaches, Hypertension, or Heartburn
If your work involves projects, then this book is for you. It will show every company owner and project manager-at businesses large and small-how to run projects differently. You’ll benefit if you’ve ever:
been over budget on a project
...
by George Stalk, John Butman
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
It's easy to miss many innovations in strategy until they appear on the front page of a major business publication. But by then everyone--including all your competitors--is using them.
As a CEO or senior executive, your job is to detect these strategies?and implement them--before your competitors.
That's...
The Next Factory of the World
How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Will Africa be the world’s next hub of manufacturing? China is answering in the affirmative and investing accordingly. This book dispels the notion that this crucial story is merely about China’s exploitation of Africa’s resources, illuminating deep questions about our own, Western approach...
Remix Strategy
The Three Laws of Business Combinations
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
How to Create Joint Value
Alliances, partnerships, acquisitions, mergers, and joint ventures are no longer the exception in most businesses-they are part of the core strategy. As managers look to external partners for resources and capabilities, they need a practical roadmap to ensure that...
Strategic Alliances
Three Ways to Make Them Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
As a top executive, you've almost certainly forged strategic alliances with other companies. Some of these deals have worked--but many others have likely failed. In fact, companies worldwide launch more than two thousand strategic alliances every year, and more than half never deliver as promised.
In...
Can You Hear Me?
How to Connect with People in a Virtual World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Communicating virtually is cool--but it's often a bad connection. Communication expert Nick Morgan explains what's lost in virtual communication, how to guard against its risks, and how to ensure that the human richness of our messages gets through.
Clearly outlines the problem and what's lost...
Get Your Venture Backed with Persuasive Data Viz
An HBR Collection for Building the Perfect Pitch Deck
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Two books to help you craft your story, design better visualizations, impress your audience, and turn your idea into reality.
Provides the new "how to write a business case" for the start-up generation.
Great visual examples of pitch decks.
Detailed walkthroughs on how to create your...
Return on Character
The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Does the character of our leaders matter?
You may think this question was answered long ago. Countless business authors and analysts have assured us that great leadership demands great character. Time and again, we’ve seen that truth play out, as once-thriving organizations falter and fail...
ReOrg
How to Get It Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A Practical Guide in Five Steps
Most executives will lead or be a part of a reorganization effort (a reorg) at some point in their careers. And with good reason-reorgs are one of the best ways for companies to unlock latent value, especially in a changing business environment.
But everyone...
Succeeding Generations
Realizing the Dream of Families in Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1999
Finding the right successor to a well-loved founder or president is often the most difficult task an organization can face-and the challenge can be even greater for family-run businesses. Succeeding Generations explores leadership transitions in family businesses, offering a clear-eyed assessment...
What I Didn't Learn in Business School
How Strategy Works in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Meet John Downs. He's a new MBA graduate who's landed a job with a strategy consultancy. His engagement team is on a mission: help HGS Inc., a specialty chemicals firm, define and execute a strategy for exploiting a textile technology the company developed.
John and his team deploy state-of-the-art...
by Jeff Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Forget about the hard bargain.
Whether you’re discussing the terms of a high-stakes deal, forming a key partnership, asking for a raise, or planning a family event, negotiating can be stressful. One person makes a demand, the other concedes a point. In the end, you settle on a subpar solution...
The Big Pivot
Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
We live in a fundamentally changed world. It’s time for your approach to strategy to change, too.
The evidence is all around us. Extreme weather, driven by climate change, is shattering records all over the planet. Our natural resources are in greater demand than ever before as a billion...
Matchmakers
The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Facebook to Visa, and the most valuable start-ups, such as Airbnb and Uber, are matchmakers that connect one group of customers with another group of customers. Economists call matchmakers multisided platforms because they provide physical...