Harvard Business Press

Design-Driven Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

July 30, 2011

Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean Roberto Verganti Harvard Business Press (2009) Does design drive innovation or does innovation drive design? The answer is “Yes.” The success of each approach depends almost entirely…

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Workforce of One: A book review by Bob Morris

July 14, 2011

Workforce of One: Revolutionizing Talent Management Through Customization Susan M. Cantrell and David Smith Harvard Business Press (2010) According to Susan M. Cantrell and David Smith, the single most important factor contributing to superior business results is how supported employees…

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Beyond Budgeting: A book review by Bob Morris

July 11, 2011

Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser Harvard Business Press (2003) How to avoid or escape from “the annual performance trap” Given what Hope and Fraser perceive to be an…

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Reinventing the CFO: A book review by Bob Morris

July 11, 2011

Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value Jeremy Hope Harvard Business Press (2006) Those who are — or who aspire to become — a CFO need to understand that, as Hope explains, “too…

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The Design of Business: A book review by Bob Morris

July 4, 2011

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Edge Roger Martin Harvard Business Press (2009) I just re-read this book and value it even more now than I did when it was first published. One point I…

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Unleashing the Killer App: A book review by Bob Morris

July 1, 2011

Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance Larry Downes and Chunka Mui Harvard Business Press (1998) In this book, Downes and Mui provide a brilliant analysis of how “a new good or service that establishes an entirely new…

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Morten T. Hansen: An interview by Bob Morris

June 29, 2011

Hansen is a professor at University of California, Berkeley, and at INSEAD, France. He was previously a professor at Harvard Business School for a number of years. Prior to joining Harvard University, Hansen obtained his Ph.D. from the business school…

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What Were They Thinking?: A book review by Bob Morris

June 28, 2011

What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management Jeffrey Pfeffer Harvard Business Press (2007) According to Jeffrey Pfeffer, there seem to be three themes that unify many of the ideas he shares in this volume: “(1) the importance of considering…

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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: A book review by Bob Morris

June 28, 2011

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton Harvard Business Press (2006) In this book, Pfeffer and Sutton examine what they call “the doing-knowing gap”: doing without knowing, or at least…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2011

HBR’s 10 Must Read on Managing Yourself Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Press (2010) This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider to be the “must reads” in…

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