books by Harvard Business Review

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The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

Harvard Business Review, 2000

Introduction into the Balanced Scorecard
This 1992 Harvard Business Review article, by Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton, president of Nolan, Norton & Co., was the introduction into the now world-famous Balanced Scorecard - there is now even a Balanced Scorecard website. This ...

What Is Strategy? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Michael E. Porter

Harvard Business Review, 2000

Definitions of Strategy
This paper is one of the benchmarks in strategy and management thinking. Essential reading for managers at all levels. It is, however, available on the internet in PDF format. Search Google.

How to Write a Great Business Plan

William A. Sahlman

Harvard Business Review, 1997

Hmmm
Well, I paid $6.00 for this ebook. I am very disappointed. The "book" is a 12 page adobe file that is basically useless. If I had it to do over, I would have saved the $6.

Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Jim Collins

Harvard Business Review, 2001

Leadership to outperform the market
Jim Collins operates a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Together with Jerry I. Porras he wrote the bestseller 'Built to Last' (1994). This article was published in the January 2001 issue of the Harvard Business Review. This article reports on the ...

Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

William, Jr. Oncken, Donald L. Wass

Harvard Business Review, 2000

How to manage time and delegate effectively
William Oncken Jr. was chairman of the William Oncken Corporation until his death in 1988; Donald L. Wass was president of the William Oncken Corporation Company of Texas when the article first appeared. He now heads the Dallas-Fort Worth region of The Executive ...

How Venture Capital Works

Bob Zider

Harvard Business Review, 1998

Clear introduction into venture capital
Bob Zider is president of the Beta Group, a firm that develops and commercializes new technology with funding from individuals, companies, and venture capitalist. This Harvard Business Review-article was published in November-December 1998, which was during the ...

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail (HBR Classic) (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

John P. Kotter

Harvard Business Review, 2007

Make Change Irresistibly Attractive
The leaders of some organizations have no idea how to make successful changes, and are likely to waste a lot of resources on unsuccessful efforts. Professor Kotter has done a solid job of outlining the elements that must be addressed, so now your organization will at ...

Competing on Analytics (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Thomas H. Davenport

Harvard Business Review, 2006

An excellent overview of the power of analytics
Davenport's 2006 Harvard Business Review article is a great overview of the power and importance that business analytics can play in creating the competitive platform upon which a business can succeed. As other reviewers have found out, Davenport later expanded this ...

IT Doesn't Matter (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Nicholas G. Carr

Harvard Business Review, 2003

"Focus on risks, not opportunities"
Nicholas Carr's article is at the centre of a firestorm. At a time when the IT industry seems to be in a bottomless freefall, the suggestion that companies should spend even less on IT investments is unwelcome to many ears. "IT Doesn't Matter" certainly isn't the first ...

Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

Harvard Business Review, 2000

Mapping Strategy
The authors of this article have used an extension of their ground breaking work "The Balanced Scorecard, Translating Strategy into Action" to come up with strategic map template to translate strategy into action. The balanced scorecard measures a company's performance ...

The Discipline of Building Character (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Joseph L., Jr. Badaracco

Harvard Business Review, 2002

How to choose between right and right - and feel good!
Joseph L. Badaracco is a famous Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. This article, published in the March-April 1998 issue of the Harvard Business Review, is based on his 1997-book 'Defining Moments'. His latest book is 'Leading Quietly' (2002). "We ...

Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2004

It's no secret that health care delivery is convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to consumers. But what is less obvious is that a way out of this crisis exists. Just as the PC replaced the mainframe and the telephone replaced the telegraph operator, disruptive innovations are changing the landscape of health care. Nurse ...

The Real Reason People Won't Change (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey

Harvard Business Review, 2001

Change...
A must read for those who want/need to implement change and for those resisting the need for change.

The Making of a Corporate Athlete

Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

Harvard Business Review, 2001

A performance pyramid for Ideal Performance State (IPS)
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz are respectively co-founder/CEO and executive vice president of LGE Performance Systems, an Orlando-based consulting firm that applies training principals developed in sports to business executives. Loehr has worked with athletes such ...

Organization Design: Fashion or Fit?

Henry Mintzberg

Harvard Business Review, 1981

An excellent guide into organizational structures and design
Henry Mintzberg is Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a Professor of Organization at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. This classic article was published in the January-February 1981 issue of the Harvard Business Review. In ...