Author: Nan Stone
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: review, harvard, business, book, winners, excellence, mckinsey, award, managerial
Number of Pages: 335
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 087584670X
ISBN-13: 9780875846705

"Managerial Excellence" presents some of the best ideas and practices of the past 15 years from the leading management voices of our time, including William J. Abernathy, Kim B. Clark, David A. Garvin, Charles Handy, Gary Hamel, Robert H. Hayes, James Moore, Michael Porter, C.K. Prahalad, James Brian Quinn, Wickham Skinner, and George Stalk, Jr. Since 1959, the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research has awarded prizes for the two best articles published each year in the "Harvard Business Review". The pieces in this collection - all first place winners - are distinguished by their relevanc

Author: Andrew Hargadon
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: innovate, companies, truth, surprising, breakthroughs
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-06-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1578519047
ISBN-13: 9781578519040

This book presents lessons from the famous ’Invention Factories’ past and present. Did you know that the incandescent lightbulb first emerged some thirty years before Thomas Edison famously ’turned night into day’? Or that Henry Ford’s revolutionary assembly line came from an unlikely blend of observations from Singer sewing machines, meatpacking, and Campbell’s Soup? In this fascinating study of innovation, engineer and social scientist Andrew Hargadon argues that our romantic notions about innovation as invention are actually undermining our ability to pur

Author:
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: driven, manager, results, innovations, breakthrough, creating
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1422101835
ISBN-13: 9781422101834

Innovation is vital to every organization’s survival, yet few companies get it right. This practical guide debunks common myths that impede innovative success, and offers tips and tools that will help managers to: -Identify and assess opportunities -Choose prospects with high growth potential -Experiment creatively and execute successfully The Results-Driven Manager Series Managers are under increasing pressure to deliver better results faster than the competition. But meeting today’s tough challenges requires complete mastery of a full array of management skills, from communicat

Author: Charles Handy
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: flea, elephant
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1578518229
ISBN-13: 9781578518227

From his childhood in an Irish vicarage, to Oxford University, to his first job as an oil executive with Royal Dutch/Shell in the Far East, to a professorship at the London Business School, to chairmanship of the Royal Society of Arts, and finally to his current status as an eminent social philosopher and international business guru, Charles Handy has viewed the business and economic workings of the twentieth century inside and out. Now, in the twenty-first century, Handy provides a firsthand account of how we got here and where we are headed. The Elephant and the Flea is a fitting capstone to

Authors:Alfred Rappaport, Michael J. Mauboussin,
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: prices, returns, stock, reading, investing, expectations
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1578512522
ISBN-13: 9781578512522

About 75 percent of active investors consistently deliver returns below those of passive index funds. Why? In part, it’s because proven methods for valuing assets are too complex to apply-causing investors to rely on commonly used benchmarks such as current earnings and price-earnings multiples that simply don’t reflect how the market prices stocks. Now, leading valuation experts Alfred Rappaport and Michael J. Mauboussin argue that the secret to beating the market stands in plain sight. Embedded in the stock price-the most accessible piece of information in the investment arena-

Author: Regis McKenna
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: access, total
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-03-29
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1578512441
ISBN-13: 9781578512447

Marketing as we know it is disappearing, declares industry legend Regis McKenna. As marketers focus on advertising and promotion, the chief information officer is automating their core functions. As they obsess over brand, the chief strategy officer is dispersing their responsibilities throughout the organization. And as they squabble over whether marketing is an art or a science, McKenna argues that they’re completely overlooking what marketing has become: a technology. What does this displacement mean for the future of marketing and its role in today’s increasingly networke

Authors:Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, Robert Moriso
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: results, decisions, smarter, work, analytics
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-02-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1422177696
ISBN-13: 9781422177693

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results. In their previous book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris showed how pioneering firms were building their entire strategies around their analytical capabilities. Rather than "going with the gut" when pricing products, maintaining inventory, or hiring talent, managers in these firms use data, a