Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Author: Sidetracked
Author: Francesca GinoPublisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1422191389
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on your decisions and behavior, often diverting you from your original plans and desires. Sidetracked will help you identify and avoid these influences so the decisions you make do stick—and you finally reach your intended goals. Psychologist and Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino has long studied the factors at play when judgment and decision making collide with the results of our choices in real life. In this book she explores inconsistent decisions played out in a wide range of circumstances—from our roles as consumers and employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices that we make more broadly as human beings (who we date, how we deal with friendships). From Gino’s research, we see when a mismatch is most likely to occur between what we want and what we end up doing. What factors are likely to sway our decisions in directions we did not initially consider? And what can we do to correct for the subtle influences that derail our decisions? The answers to these and similar questions will help you negotiate similar factors when faced with them in the real world. For fans of Dan Ariely and Daniel Kahneman, this book will help you better understand the nuances of your decisions and how they get derailed—so you have more control over keeping them on track.
Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use
Author: Orit GadieshPublisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 142215632X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
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 public companies. How do PE firms become such powerhouses? Learn how, in Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use. Bain chairman Orit Gadiesh and partner Hugh MacArthur use the concise, actionable format of a memo to lay out the five disciplines that PE firms use to attain their edge: · Invest with a thesis using a specific, appropriate 3-5-year goal · Create a blueprint for change--a road map for initiatives that will generate the most value for your company within that time frame · Measure only what matters--such as cash, key market intelligence, and critical operating data · Hire, motivate, and retain hungry managers--people who think like owners · Make equity sweat--by making cash scarce, and forcing managers to redeploy underperforming capital in productive directions This is the PE formulate for unleashing a company's true potential.
Those Guys Have All the Fun
Author: James Andrew MillerPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316125768
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact with their favorite teams. It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites States and around the world. But the inside story of its rise has never been fully told-until now. Drawing upon over 500 interviews with the greatest names in ESPN's history and an All-Star collection of some of the world's finest athletes, bestselling authors James Miller and Tom Shales take us behind the cameras. Now, in their own words, the men and women who made ESPN great reveal the secrets behind its success-as well as the many scandals, rivalries, off-screen battles and triumphs that have accompanied that ascent. From the unknown producers and business visionaries to the most famous faces on television, it's all here.
HBS Alumni Bulletin
Author: Not Fade Away
Author: Laurence ShamesPublisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9781579546885
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Chronicles the life of the founder of Liberty Media, from his protests against the Vietnam War and his jam sessions with Sha Na Na through his work as a political consultant and businessman and his battle against cancer.
Uncommon Service
Author: Frances X. FreiPublisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1422133311
Category : Customer relations
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Offers an organizational design model for service organizations, covering such topics as funding mechanisms, employee management systems, and customer management systems.
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Author: William Andrews SahlmanPublisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Author: Bootstrapping 101
Author: Bob ReissPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578024134
Category : Entrepreneurship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written for existing and future small business owners, this book provides proven, practical tips requiring little or no money on how to grow a business. It also explains where and how to get free assistance and quality advice.