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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant 166 reviews
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Strategy will always include opportunity and risk
Strategy:
1. In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set. Companies need to go beyond competing. To seize new profit and growth opportunities, they also need to create blue oceans.
2. Put the clock forward 20 to 50 years and ask yourself how many unknown industries will exist. Surprisingly, many of the unknown industries will exist.
3. ...
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Leading Change 73 reviews
John P. Kotter
Harvard Business School Press, 1996
A MUST HAVE for your leadership library
Very well written book and easy to read and follow. Since change is a modern requirement for any business, it simply makes sense to focus in on what it takes to provide the necessary leadership to do so.
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The Nursing Mother's Companion: Revised Edition79 reviews
Kathleen Huggins
Harvard Common Press, 2005
Read it BEFORE you go to the hospital
Lots of great info I could have used in the beginning. Still good to have now, I thought it was more a reference book when I bought it and didn't read it until later. I could have really used a lot of the information going in and in that first week. It's easy to read, and offers a lot of tips on childcare aside from just breastfeeding.
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Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence84 reviews
Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
Primal Leadership
This is a very intersting book. I am new to leadership and just starting to go through book and I find it with many fascinating ideas.
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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies33 reviews
Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
Groundswell
Groundswell is a very good book if you want to understand modern marketing and customer relationship management. In a world where online accounts for much of everyday life, the way in which companies have to interact with their customers changes. The use of social networks, viral videos, blogs and forums is important. This book really helps to understand, decide what is relevant for a certain ...
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Execution Premium5 reviews
Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
Detailed report on linking strategy with operations
Senior executives love to plan strategies. They believe this puts them in the exalted company of Napoleon, Sun-Tzu and Clausewitz. Indeed, for CEOs and their corporate colleagues, developing strategy is the heart of executive leadership. Unfortunately, most companies end up with strategies that are not linked to their actual operations. The result? Strategy that is not strategic, since companies ...
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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School12 reviews
Philip Delves Broughton
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
The essense of business education
A definite must read for anyone thinking about going into MBA program. This book is highly intelligent, very entertaining and true to the soul (if there is one) description of "experiential" learning which forms the core of HBS case-based education.
It also can serve as a quick refresher on major topics, from corporate finance to negotiations techniques. It even has few good hints for solving ...
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The Complete User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle89 reviews
Harvard Perspectives Press (hppress.blogspot.com), 2007
Worth the price; can't wait for the full edition
Worth the price; can't wait for the expanded full version. Thanks for the great info.
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The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook : 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, ...63 reviews
Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann
Harvard Common Press, 2003
Great Cookbook
I have had this for a couple of months now and have tried many recipes. All good. Some fantastic!
I have no complaints but will say that I have an Z- induction cooker (lucky me) and the instructions that she gives to saute' in the cooker sometimes don't work out so well for me. It'll get real hot for about a minute and then go off and on, so it takes too long and then my cooker is too hot ...
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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels76 reviews
Michael Watkins
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Great Primer for Taking On a Management Job
The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins is squarely aimed at the task of a manager coming in and dealing with a new team. Those first ninety days can really make or break a business relationship and it is well worth studying this information before you take on a new job.
Michael breaks down your task into these discreet steps: promote yourself, accelerate your learning, match your strategy to ...
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The Return of Martin Guerre19 reviews
Natalie Zemon Davis
Harvard University Press, 1984
Great "Micro- History," a new genre in history
At first, Natalie Davis collaborated with the director Daniel Vigne on his film, but she became dissatisfied by how many elements of the story never made it into the movie. Her book adds specific details she thought central to the story; such as, the Guerre's Basque roots, Bertrande first meeting Arnaud du Tilh at an inn outside of the village, and Bertrande's reasons for collaborating with the ...
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Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment42 reviews
Tal Ben-Shahar
McGraw-Hill, 2007
Happiness is a source
This book is a wonderful confirmation of my 77 years on earth. I have given three copies to my psychology compatriates. The basis for happiness is located inside and as with humor, wonder and curiosity fed by our contained energy part. So watch the drains (also in others). Thanks to the author I have freed myself even more from the jealousy of others.
Pieter G. Kuipers,
Sneek, The Netherlands
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What the Best College Teachers Do25 reviews
Ken Bain
Harvard University Press, 2004
Teaching is harder than it looks.
Brief Summary: Ken Bain and his colleagues conducted a fifteen-year study of outstanding teachers from a variety of disciplines at two dozen institutions. The teachers they chose to study had all achieved remarkable success in helping their students make sustained, substantial and positive changes in the way they think, act and learn. The study looked at how good teachers prepare, what they ...
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman22 reviews
Marjorie Shostak
Harvard University Press, 2000
Dense, informitive, sad, and often moving
Majorie Shostak's account of her anthropology trip to Africa's Kalahari Desert examining the rituals, lifestyles and existence of the !Kung tribe is not to be read like an expanded version of a National Geographic article. It is written with academic rigor and precise examination of a !Kung woman Nisa. The majority of the book is told through Nisa's words which are translated into English with as ...
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The Future of Management29 reviews
Gary Hamel, Bill Breen
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
There is a problem in Management!
Organizations are top heavy. Something needs to be done about it. The future of management is about giving everyone the opportunity to say, "This is not going to happen anymore". Be brave and make change in your organization.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 354 reviews
Azar Nafisi
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
One of the best books I've read in a while
Fantastic book, not only does she give u a real insight into her experiences during a key period in Iranian history but also serves as a quasi course on English literature...yet remains fluid, wholly engaging and easy to read!
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The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Eighteenth Edition) 5 reviews
Harvard Law Review Association, 2005
A truly evocative and powerful effort
Let's be honest. A lot of people felt that Bluebook had fallen off. After that award show confrontation with ALWD and the concealed weapons charges, Bluebook looked like they were on the ropes. That only makes this 18th edition more triumphant for the Bluebook. A stunning return to the form that made them such an irresistible bunch of ragamuffins to begin with, Bluebook has a sure answer to the ...
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A Sense of Urgency2 reviews
John Kotter
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
No urgency, no change
John Kotter, professor emeritus of the Harvard Business School, has just written his newest book, A Sense of Urgency. It's an excellent explication of the first tenet of Kotter's now well known 8-step change theory (From his book Leading Change):
1. Establish a sense of urgency.
2. Create a guiding coalition.
3. Develop a vision and a strategy.
4. Communicate the change vision.
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Biological Science (2nd Edition) 12 reviews
Scott Freeman
Prentice Hall, 2004
student
This book is definitely worth the money. I am the type of person who learns better from reading than listening to (mostly) boring lectures. For that type of person this book is perfect. It is one of the best science books I've ever used.
The main thing to say about this book is that it is very readable. The chapters are relatively short (15-25 pages) and are broken up into nice length ...
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Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating124 reviews
M.D. Walter C. Willett
Free Press, 2005
Great customer service!
The quality of the books are excellent. I had a problem receiving the books, though. When tracking them I was told they were delivered, but I had never received them. I got connected with customer service through the website and they helped make things right by re-sending my order. These books came in the same time I should have received my other books. I feel confident that I can order ...
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