Harperbusiness: 138 books
Earning It
Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
More than fifty trailblazing executive women who broke the corporate glass ceiling offer inspiring and surprising insights and lessons in this essential, in-the-trenches career guide from Joann S. Lublin, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and management news editor for The Wall Street Journal.
Among...
Seoul Man
A Memoir of Cars, Culture, Crisis, and Unexpected Hilarity Inside a Korean Corporate Titan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Recounting his three years in Korea, the highest-ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai sheds light on a business culture very few Western journalists ever experience, in this revealing, moving, and hilarious memoir.
When Frank Ahrens, a middle-aged bachelor and eighteen-year veteran at the...
Circle of Friends
The Massive Federal Crackdown on Insider Trading--and Why the Markets Always Work Against the Little Guy
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The bestselling author of The Sellout tells the explosive story of the government’s crackdown on insider-trading networks—an investigation that has already racked up more than 60 convictions.
In Circle of Friends, award-winning journalist Charles Gasparino—one of Wall Street's most knowledgeable...
Extreme You
Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
As a child, Sarah Robb O’Hagan dreamed she could be a champion. Her early efforts failed to reveal a natural superstar, but she refused to settle for average. Through dramatic successes and epic fails, she studied how extraordinary people in sports, entertainment and business set and achieve extremely...
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This
Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
New York Times bestselling author Kate White is the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, the #1 young women’s magazine in the world, and a hugely successful businesswoman. In I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This, she shares her secrets to success. A witty, wise, straight-talking career guide for women,...
Welcome to the Real World
Finding Your Place, Perfecting Your Work, and Turning Your Job into Your Dream Career
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The essential book every workplace novice needs—a smart, practical, and fun guide to help them navigate the minefield of personalities, learn to work with their boss, identify priorities, and ultimately kick butt at their first job.
It’s a challenging time to be young and new in the workplace....
Woo, Wow, and Win
Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
In this pioneering guide, two business authorities introduce the new discipline of Service Design and reveal why trying new strategies for pleasing customers isn’t enough to differentiate your business—it needs to be designed for service from the ground up.
Woo, Wow, and Win reveals the...
Masters of Management
How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
“Read it before buying any other business book.”—Rosabeth Moss Kanter
In this newly renamed and completely updated edition ofthe BusinessWeek bestseller The Witch Doctors with a new Forewordfrom John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridgedeftly sifts the real wisdom from the dross about management...
Clean Tech Nation
How the U.S. Can Lead in the New Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
From Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder, the authors of Clean Tech Revolution, comes the next definitive book on the Clean Tech industry. In Clean Tech Nation, they shine a light on the leaders at the forefront of the growing movement. USA Today called Pernick and Wilder’s groundbreaking first book, “one...
Art Thinking
How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
An indispensable and inspiring guide to creativity in the workplace and beyond, drawing on art, psychology, science, sports, law, business, and technology to help you land big ideas in the practical world.
Anyone from CEO to freelancer knows how hard it is to think big, let alone follow up,...
by Peter F. Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
A classic since its publication in 1954, The Practice of Management was the first book to look at management as a whole and being a manager as a separate responsibility. The Practice of Management created the discipline of modern management practices. Readable, fundamental, and basic, it remains an essential book for students, aspiring managers, and seasoned professionals.
The Executive in Action
Three Drucker Management Books on What to Do and Why and How to Do It
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Three complete Drucker management books in one volume — Managing for Results, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and The Effective Executive with a new preface by the author.
In his preface, Peter F. Drucker says: "These three books should enable executives — whether high up in the organization...
Yes, And
How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Executives from The Second City—the world’s premier comedy theater and school of improvisation—reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.
For more than fifty years, The Second...
Spellbound
Seven Principles of Illusion to Captivate Audiences and Unlock the Secrets of Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
A professional magician and illusionist—the head magic consultant for the hit film Now You See Me—reveals how to bridge the gap between perception and reality to increase your powers of persuasion and influence.
David Kwong has astounded corporate CEOs, TED talk audiences, and thousands...