Harvard Business Review Press: 568 books
The Innovator's DNA
Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
A new classic, cited by leaders and media around the globe as a highly recommended read for anyone interested in innovation.
In The Innovator’s DNA, authors Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and bestselling author Clayton Christensen (The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution, How...
Seeing What's Next
Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a...
Decide and Deliver
Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Dithering. Decisions that turn out wrong. Decisions that people sabotage or don't know how to implement. If your company's experiencing these problems, it's not alone. Most organizations don't know how to make and execute good decisions. And they're paying a high price-as profitability and competitiveness...
Beyond Budgeting
How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
The traditional annual budgeting process--characterized by fixed targets and performance incentives--is time consuming, overcentralized, and outdated. Worse, it often causes dysfunctional and unethical managerial behavior. Based on an intensive, international study into pioneering companies, Beyond...
Beyond HR
The New Science of Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact.
Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions,...
Spanning Silos
The New CMO Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Powerful product, country, and functional silos are jeopardizing companies' marketing efforts. Because of silos, firms misallocate resources, send inconsistent messages to the marketplace, and fail to leverage scale economies and successes--all of which can threaten a company's survival.
As...
Levers of Control
How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1994
Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies...
The Opposable Mind
How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a particular...
Working Identity
Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2004
How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality
Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown....
What's Next, Gen X?
Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
You're a member of Generation X-the 30-to-44 age cohort. And you've drawn the short stick when it comes to work. The economy has been stacked against you from the beginning. Worse, you're sandwiched between Boomers (with their constant back-patting blather and refusal to retire) and Gen Y's (with...
Buy-In
Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it to the group, but get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, your idea is dead, shot down. You're furious. Everyone...
The New Science of Retailing
How Analytics are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Retailers today are drowning in data but lacking in insight: They have huge volumes of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including stock-outs, overstock,...
by Ben W. Heineman Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Our free-market capitalist system is the world's greatest driver of prosperity, but it has a dark side. Under intense pressure to make the numbers, executives and employees face temptation to cut corners, fudge accounts, or worse. And in today's unforgiving environment, such lapses can be catastrophic....