Harvard Business School Press

X-teams: A book review by Bob Morris

December 12, 2012

X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman Harvard Business School Press (2007) A new teamwork model that combines an internal focus with an external approach Here is a review I posted five…

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Michael J. Mauboussin: An interview by Bob Morris, Part 1

December 7, 2012

Michael J. Mauboussin is Chief LMCM. In 2004, Michael was Chief U.S. Investment Strategist at Credit Suisse. Michael joined CS in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst, and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor‘s All-America Research Team and The Wall Street…

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The Thought Leader Interview: Henry Chesbrough

November 2, 2012

Here is the introduction to an interview of Henry Chesbrough conducted by Ron Norton for strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. To read the complete article, check out other sources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information,…

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Big Data: The Management Revolution

October 24, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfss for the Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email…

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Think Twice: A book review by Bob Morris

September 29, 2012

Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition  Michael J. Mauboussin Harvard Business School Press (2009) How to upgrade your mental software and eliminate false beliefs Michael Mauboussin asserts, “Smart people make poor decisions because they have the same factory settings…

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Morten T. Hansen on “When Good Management Is a Matter of Life and Death”

August 21, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Morten T. Hansen for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. *     *     *…

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Morten Hansen on “How Great Leaders Make Their Own Luck”

June 4, 2012

Morten 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 at Stanford University. In addition…

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Five Minds for the Future: A book review by Bob Morris

May 29, 2012

Five Minds for the Future Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press (2009) On nurturing “potentials that are distinctly human” I have read and reviewed all of Howard Gardner’s previous books and consider this, his latest, to be the most valuable thus far.…

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Simply Effective: A book review by Bob Morris

May 19, 2012

Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done  Ron Ashkenas Harvard Business School Press (2009) “Make it as simple as possible…but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Ron Ashkenas is one of my intellectual heroes. I have read, reviewed, and…

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Reverse Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

April 26, 2012

Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home, Win Everywhere Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble Harvard Business School Press (2012) How and why reverse innovation can help to reverse the negative trends and tendencies that can weaken an organization Those who have read one or more of Vijay…

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