Harvard Business School Press

Getting It All Done: A book review by Bob Morris

January 24, 2021

Getting It All Done: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) “Until we can manage time and effort, we can manage nothing else.” Peter Drucker This is one of the volumes in…

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Taking Care of Yourself: A book review by Bob Morris

January 19, 2021

Taking Care of Yourself: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) If you don’t care about your health, why should anyone else? This is one of the volumes in a new series…

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Managing Your Career: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2021

Managing Your Career: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”  Oscar Wilde This is one of the volumes in a new series that consists of articles…

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Valuable lessons to be learned from recommendation systems

January 4, 2021

In his just published book, Recommendation Engines, Michael Straight provides a wealth of information, insights, and counsel while sharing the lessons he learned about the power and impact or recommendation machines. More specifically, he “defines, discusses, and details what recommendation…

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Connected Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

May 20, 2019

Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for Competitive Advantage Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch Harvard Business School Press (2019) How connected strategies create competitive advantages in customer relationships Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell coauthored an invaluable book in which they…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers

November 16, 2018

HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers Various Contributors Harvard Business School Press (2017) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  Theodore Roosevelt The eleven HBR articles assembled in this volume were published…

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Build an A Team: A book review by Bob Morris

June 19, 2018

Build an A Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve Whitney Johnson Harvard Business School Press (May 2018) “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”…

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Creating Great Choices: A book review by Bob Morris

October 18, 2017

Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking Jennifer Riel and Roger L. Martin Harvard Business Review Press (September 2017) The alchemy of making great decisions If you did not buy your copy of this book from Amazon (mine…

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Analytics as a Source of Competitive Advantage

September 7, 2017

In the updated and expanded edition of Competing on Analytics (first published in 2007), Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris focus on an important lesson: “Extracting value from information is not primarily a matter of how much data you have or…

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The Delta Model for Building Analytics Capability

August 30, 2017

In the updated and expanded edition of Competing on Analytics (first published in 2007), Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris focus on an important lesson: “Extracting value from information is not primarily a matter of how much data you have or…

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