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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
book excerpt Leading Innovation From Collective Genius: The Art of Practice of Leading Innovation By Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Linebeck Though each of our leaders and their firms differed in key ways, all... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming “inside outsiders” — leaders with the perspective of someone who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye: How to Get beyond the One Word That Stands between You and Success by Joe Azelby and Bob Azelby (MBA 1997) (HarperBusiness) The Azelbys want to help professionals become aware of the things they do, or fail to do, that prevent them from being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the United States and other countries.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety of topics in managing business... View Details
- October 2010 (Revised January 2012)
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Book Publishing in 2010
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett
Legacy book publishers wrangled with ebook retailers over royalty rates, release strategy, and distribution rights as customer demand for cheaper ebooks eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad that invigorated the... View Details
Keywords: Price; Information Publishing; Books; Disruptive Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Distribution; Strategy; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Publishing Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., and Nancy Bartlett. "Book Publishing in 2010." Harvard Business School Background Note 711-419, October 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- September 2010 (Revised April 2012)
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Better World Books
By: Michael I. Norton, Fiona Wilson, Jill Avery and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Better World Books, a young start-up, provides a socially conscious alternative to Amazon, collecting and selling used books to keep them out of the waste stream, while donating a portion of their profits to support global literacy efforts. The case presents an... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Online Technology; Retail Industry
Norton, Michael I., Fiona Wilson, Jill Avery, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "Better World Books." Harvard Business School Case 511-057, September 2010. (Revised April 2012.)
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
decades of mismanaged immigration, lack of growth, and the threat of the euro bringing down the EU. The book offers a multidimensional, irreverent portrait of a decaying Europe and the causes and consequences of its decline. Breakthrough... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Alumni Books
innovation management breakdown, premature core abandonment, and talent shortfall. The book includes methods for articulating and monitoring strategic assumptions and ends with a self-test built around fifty signs of an impending growth... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
also create business opportunities. In this book Professor Di Tella and his colleagues present case studies taught in his HBS course of the same name, which addresses opportunities created by globalization and proposes strategies for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
stories and cases drawn from years in the field, Bohmer shows how to manage both modes successfully. Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide by Bill George, Andrew McLean, and Nick Craig (Jossey-Bass) Based on Professor of Management Practice George’s best-selling... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Community by Bert Berkley (MBA ’50) and Peter Economy (Wiley) Profiling many highly effective charitable organizations — for example, Kiva, Horizons for Homeless Children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Stonyfield Farm Profits for the Planet — and the... View Details
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Expanding on my work on BP, I am starting a new book on the transformation of the major international oil companies since the 1970s. Prior to that, the oil majors largely controlled the international flow of oil, which was channelled through their vertically... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
anyone in business and sales. The book ends with a series of analytical exercises to illuminate basic principles on which readers can base business plans. The Power Curve: Smart Investing Using Dividends, Options, and the Magic of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
’56) (R&R) Many unemployed Americans are discarding their résumés to pursue their dream of owning their own business, and many existing entrepreneurs are struggling to make ends meet in the current economic downturn. This book helps... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Faculty Books
this second book from the HBS Leadership Initiative’s Great American Business Leaders project, Professor Nohria and his coauthors, with a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership database and in-depth biographical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books
offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Faculty Books
in investment banking. The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century edited by Jay W. Lorsch (Harvard Business Review Press) Edited by Jay W. Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, this View Details