Harvard Business Review Press: 568 books
Prediction Machines
The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
"What does AI mean for your business? Read this book to find out." -- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible, magically bringing machines to life--driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that...
Financial Intelligence for HR Professionals
What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
As an HR manager, you're expected to use financial data to make decisions, allocate resources, and budget expenses. But if you're like many human resource practitioners, you may feel uncertain or uncomfortable incorporating financials into your day-to-day work.
Using the groundbreaking formula...
Innovation Tournaments
Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Managers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists all seek to maximize the financial returns from innovation, and profits are driven largely by the quality of the opportunities they pursue. Based on a structured and process-driven approach this book demonstrates how to systematically identify exceptional...
Playing to Win
How Strategy Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Are you just playing-or playing to win?
Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future-something that doesn’t happen in most companies.
Now two of today’s best-known business thinkers get...
by Robert D. Austin, Shannon O'Donnell, Richard L. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
What does it take to lead and manage your company’s tech?
Becoming an effective IT leader and manager presents a host of challenges-from anticipating emerging technologies, to managing relationships with senior executives, vendors, and employees, to communicating with the board. A good IT...
Unstoppable
Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
Over the next decade, two out of every three companies will face the challenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business. Buffeted by global competition and facing an uncertain future, more and more executives will realize that they must make fundamental changes in their core even as...
Fixing the Game
Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilous pattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, and ongoing bad behavior by executives. And it’s getting worse. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we’ve seen two massive value-destroying market meltdowns and a...
by Nancy Duarte
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
TAKE THE PAIN OUT OF PRESENTATIONS.
Terrified of speaking in front of a group? Or simply looking to polish your skills? No matter where you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the confidence and the tools you need to get results.
Written by presentation expert Nancy Duarte,...
The Man Who Sold America
The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
We live in an age of persuasion. Leaders and institutions of every kind--public and private, large and small--must compete in the marketplace of images and messages. This has been true since the advent of mass media, from broad circulation magazines and radio through the age of television and the...
Talent Wins
The New Playbook for Putting People First
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent--and HR
Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century.
Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments,...
The Hidden Wealth of Customers
Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Introducing return on relationship” with your most valued customers
The traditional model of growing your business-by relying on employees in sales, marketing, and product development-is dying. Today’s most successful companies are taking a different approach: getting customers to market,...
Six Simple Rules
How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
New tools for managing complexity
Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.
According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And,...
Silver Lining
Your Guide to Innovating in a Downturn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Experts agree: The turbulence triggered by the economic shock of 2008 constitutes the "new normal." Unfortunately, too many managers have become paralyzed by it, capable only of slashing costs indiscriminately.
Though examining spending during recessions makes sense, the smartest...
Thinking for a Living
How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet, companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed for the Industrial Age. As this critical sector of the workforce continues to increase in size and...