Review imprint: 1779 books
Driving Digital Strategy
A Guide to Reimagining Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
A roadmap and best practices that allow firms to leverage existing assets and pinpoint areas where new capabilities must be developed.
Useful, clear-eyed framework: Gupta has an HBS- and real-world-tested framework to help readers know where to begin.
Freshly told stories that illustrate real...
by Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
In this McKinsey Award-winning article, first published in May 1989, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad explain that Western companies have wasted too much time and energy replicating the cost and quality advantages their global competitors already experience. Canon and other world-class competitors have...
by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The inside word on business school admissions.
To gain admission to the top business schools, you need more than just high test scores and a strong GPA—you need to crush your essays. Business School Essays That Made a Difference, 6th Edition, gives you resources to help do just that, including:
•...
Back to the Drawing Board
Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Business scandals from Enron to WorldCom have escalated concerns about corporate governance into a full-blown crisis. Institutional investors and legislators have dominated the debate and enacted important changes in corporate accounting and other areas. But Colin B. Carter and Jay W. Lorsch say that...
The First 90 Days in Government
Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges-from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments-that will make their transitions...
Alive at Work
The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Social psychologist Dan Cable explores the link between what he calls our "seeking system" (the parts of the brain that encourage and thrive on new experiences and experimentation) and how productive and happy we are with our jobs.
A fascinating look at the inner workings of the brain...
by The Princeton Review
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Your Last-Minute Guide to a High GMAT Score!
This eBook edition is formatted for on-screen viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations.
If the big test is looming and you haven’t opened a book yet, then here’s your last-minute reprieve: a GMAT book designed for...
Immunity to Change
How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly...
by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
The proven rewards of a gender-balanced business.
Scores of studies have shown the benefits to the bottom line of gender-balanced organizations. A handful of smart companies have tapped into the opportunities of today’s female consumer base and talent pool-yet too many companies still struggle...
Managing the Older Worker
How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Your organization needs older workers more than ever: They transfer knowledge between generations, transmit your company's values to new hires, make excellent mentors for younger employees, and provide a "just in time" workforce for special projects.
Yet more of these workers are...
The New Capitalist Manifesto
Building a Disruptively Better Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
In this manifesto-style book, radical economist and strategist Umair Haque calls for the end of the corrupt business ideals that exemplify business as usual. His passionate vision for "Capitalism 2.0," or "constructive capitalism," is one in which old paradigms of wasteful growth,...
The Good Struggle
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Leadership is struggle
The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.
Leaders...
Class Dismissed
Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in the classroom, Marsh not only shows that...
Set-up-to-Fail Syndrome
Overcoming the Undertow of Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Do you have an employee whose performance keeps deteriorating-despite your close monitoring? Brace yourself: You may be at fault-by unknowingly triggering the set-up-to-fail syndrome. Perhaps things started off swimmingly. But then something--a missed deadline, a lost client-made you question the...