Harvard Business School Bulletin

Author : Orit Gadiesh
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 142215632X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use written by Orit Gadiesh and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James Andrew Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316125768
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those Guys Have All the Fun written by James Andrew Miller and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199712878
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of the MBA written by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MBA is probably the hottest ticket among the current university graduate degree offerings--every year, more than 120,000 students enroll in MBA programs in the United States, and the estimates in Europe do not lag far behind. In addition, job prospects have never looked better for business school graduates; corporations are hiring more business school graduates every year, and compensating them more handsomely. The Future of the MBA provides a sorely needed detailed and systematic review of the major contemporary debates on management education. At the same time, it makes a striking new proposal that will certainly have an impact in business schools: that managers need to develop a series of qualitative tacit skills which could be appropriately developed by integrative curricula brought from different disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, and other social sciences. Moldoveanu and Martin, both involved in the greatly respected integrative business education program at the Rotheman School of Management, provide a guide on how to design a reliable integrated program for management students. One of the main assets of the book is that it relies not just on speculative thinking, but on real life experience, and that it also includes case studies that will appeal to practicing managers. As an authoritative reference on MBA education, it will appeal to faculty and staff of business schools, as well as students in related fields like education and public policy.

Author : William Andrews Sahlman
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Venture written by William Andrews Sahlman and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francesca Gino
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422191389
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sidetracked written by Francesca Gino and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Callahan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kindred Spirits written by David Callahan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the heights of power - 28 percent of the class retired as CEO or president of his company - the 49ers shaped trends in nearly every sector of American business.".

Author : Rakesh Khurana
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830869
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Higher Aims to Hired Hands written by Rakesh Khurana and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism. Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1460 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard Alumni Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Bureau of Business Research, Harvard University written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Srikant M. Datar
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422131645
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the MBA written by Srikant M. Datar and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors give the most comprehensive, authoritative and compelling account yet of the troubled state of business education today and go well beyond this to provide a blueprint for the future.