Business & economics

Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use

by Orit Gadiesh & Hugh Macarthur

Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional...

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

by Thomas Davenport & Jeanne Harris

You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to “out-think” your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool.

In Competing...

The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

by Clayton Christensen & Michael Raynor

In the worldwide best seller The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen exposed a crushing paradox behind the failure of many industry leaders: By doing what good companies were supposed to do--focus on...

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

by Michael Watkins

Over 500,000 copies sold worldwide.

Fully a quarter of all managers in major corporations enter new leadership roles each year. Whether their assignments involve leading a work group or taking over a company...

What's Next, Gen X?: Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want

by Tamara Erickson

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...

Measuring Performance

by Harvard Press

Organizations want--and need--to track the changes in their overall performance. And the divisions, units, teams, and individuals within these organizations engage in similar success measurement. Performance...

Enterprise 2.0: How to Manage Social Technologies to Transform Your Organization

by Andrew McAfee

"Web 2.0" is the portion of the Internet that's interactively produced by many people; it includes Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and prediction markets. In just a few years, Web 2.0 communities have...

Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage

by Roger Martin

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game-changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative-they...

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

by Clayton Christensen

In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or worse, disappear completely. And he not...

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

by Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian

In Information Rules, authors Shapiro and Varian reveal that many classic economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. They argue that if managers...

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management

by Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert Sutton

The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common...

Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model

by John Mullins & Randy Komisar

You have a new venture in mind. And you've crafted a business plan so detailed it's a work of art. Don't get too attached to it.

As John Mullins and Randy Komisar explain in Getting to Plan B, new businesses...

Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People

by Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones

If your company is like most, it has a handful of people who generate disproportionate quantities of value: A researcher creates products that bankroll the entire organization for decades. A manager spots consumer-spending...

Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference

by Todd Pittinsky

Bringing groups together is a central and unrelenting task of leadership. CEOs must nudge their executives to rise above divisional turf battles, mayors try to cope with gangs in conflict, and leaders of many...

Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

by Jeanne Ross, Peter Weill & David Robertson

Does it seem you’ve formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can’t get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution—an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes...

The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action

by Robert Kaplan & David Norton

The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business...

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization

by Jon Katzenbach & Douglas Smith

Teams -- the key to top performance

Motorola relied heavily on teams to surpass its competition in building the lightest, smallest, and highest-quality cell phones. At 3M, teams are critical to meeting the company's...

Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

by Karen Berman, Joe Knight & John Case

Companies expect managers to use financial data to allocate resources and run their departments. But many managers can't read a balance sheet, wouldn't recognize a liquidity ratio, and don't know how to calculate...

Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital

by John Boudreau & Peter Ramstad

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....

Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path

by Timothy Butler

You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you’re stuck or paralyzed. You’re convinced that something must change, whether in your...