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Concrete Economics
The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
an excellent new book” - Paul Krugman, The New York Times
History, not ideology, holds the key to growth.
Brilliantly written and argued, Concrete Economics shows how government has repeatedly reshaped the American economy ever since Alexander Hamilton’s first, foundational redesign.
This...
by Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
For more than half a century, Peter F. Drucker's landmark essays have inspired and educated managers-and influenced the nature of business. Now, the learning continues with the Harvard Business Press release of the new Drucker Library Series.
In Managing in a Time of Great Change, the first...
Getting to Plan B
Breaking Through to a Better Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
You have a new venture in mind. And you've crafted a business plan so detailed it's a work of art. Don't get too attached to it.
As John Mullins and Randy Komisar explain in Getting to Plan B, new businesses are fraught with uncertainty. To succeed, you must change the plan in real time as...
The Essential Advantage
How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Conventional wisdom on strategy is no longer a reliable guide. In Essential Advantage, Booz & Company's Cesare Mainardi and Paul Leinwand maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.
Achieving...
Dual Transformation
How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Game-changing disruptions will likely unfold on your watch. Be ready.
In Dual Transformation, Scott Anthony, Clark Gilbert, and Mark Johnson propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming your business in the face of imminent...
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...
World 3.0
Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?
Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or...
Conscious Capitalism Field Guide
Tools for Transforming Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
You subscribe to the basic idea that business can do more than make money, but you're not sure how to act on that conviction or how to share it with the rest of your organization. The Conscious Capitalism Field Guide--the authoritative follow-up to the bestselling book Conscious Capitalism, by John...
Good Charts for Persuasive Presentations
How to Use the Best Data Visualizations for Great Presentations (2 Books)
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The right visual revealed at the right time can turn an unremarkable presentation into a resonant, emotional experience. This two-book collection provides you with the tools you need to craft and deliver presentations that will impress your audience, increase your influence in your organization, and...
by Raymond Sheen
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Get your idea off the ground.
You’ve got a great idea that will increase revenue or boost productivity—but how do you get the buy-in you need to make it happen? By building a business case that clearly shows your idea’s value. That’s not always easy: Maybe you’re not sure what kind...
Good Charts
The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Dataviz-the new language of business
A good visualization can communicate the nature and potential impact of information and ideas more powerfully than any other form of communication.
For a long time dataviz” was left to specialists-data scientists and professional designers. No...
Earth, Inc.
Using Nature's Rules to Build Sustainable Profits
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Having trouble reconciling your desire to do good by the environment while also moving your company forward? In Earth, Inc., Gregory Unruh shows you how to embed sustainability into everything your company does - profitably. Providing prescriptive steps that will inform your business decisions, Unruh...
Green Recovery
Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green.
Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency,...
Number Sense and Nonsense
Building Math Creativity and Confidence Through Number Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
These 80-plus math activities and number games help kids to think critically about math instead of just memorizing rules. The emphasis is on the underlying relationships between numbers and the process of manipulating them. Kids get together and play games with odd and even numbers, prime and composite...