Connect and Develop: Inside P&G's New Model for Innovation (Harvard Business Review)

For generations, Procter & Gamble generated most of its growth by innovating from within....

Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and scant experience....

Uncommon Business Practices That Will Make You Re-Think, Re-Position, and Re-Tool Your Business

Can you challenge the conventional wisdom and thrive? Phillip Van Hooser did. Listen as he explains how....

What Is Strategy?

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential, says this article from Harvard Business Review...

Avatar-Based Marketing (Harvard Business Review)

Advertising has always targeted a powerful consumer alter ego....

Ending The War Between Sales and Marketing (Harvard Business Review)

Sales departments tend to believe that marketers are out of touch....

Profitable Growth is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning (Unabridged)

In this trailblazing book, Ram Charan provides the building blocks and tools that can put a business on the path to sustained, profitable growth....

Can Science be a Business? Lessons from Biotech (Harvard Business Review)

In 1976, Genentech, the first biotechnology company, was founded by a young venture capitalist....

Better Sales Networks (Harvard Business Review)

Anyone in sales will tell you that social networks are critical....

Managing MiddlescenceConnect and Develop: Inside P&G's New Model for Innovation (Harvard Business Review)

You depend on your mid-career employees....

How to Make Big Money In Your Own Small Business: Unexpected Rules Every Small Business Owner Should Know

Whether you're one of the 47 million Americans who dreams of running your own small business or you're already the owner of one of the 25 million small businesses in the United States....

The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation (Harvard Business Review)

For organizations like GE, P&G, and Visa, management innovation is the secret to success....

The Big Bing: Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe

A corporate mole's-eye view of the society in which we all live and toil, creating one of the most entertaining, thought provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters....

Small Business for Dummies, 2nd Edition

This easy-to-understand guide is also for those who want to write great business plans, create the right legal framework for your business, locate financing that suits your needs....

The Core Competence of the Corporation

To succeed, companies must consider their "core competencies," this article from Harvard Business...

Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance (Harvard Business Review)

The first comprehensive look at what employees are thinking and feeling as they work, why it matters, and how managers can use this information....

When Should a Leader Apologize - and When Not? (Harvard Business Review)

When corporate leaders or the organizations they represent mess up, they face the difficult decision....

The New York Times Pocket MBA: Business Financing (Unabridged)

Learn the 25 keys to securing the funds to start a business and keep it growing...

Mapping Your Innovation Strategy (Harvard Business Review)

In the complex sport of American football, teams rely on playbooks....

The Wisdom of Deliberate Mistakes (Harvard Business Review)

Usually, individuals and organizations go to great lengths to avoid errors....

Breakthrough Ideas for 2007 (Harvard Business Review)

The Harvard Business Review's annual survey of twenty emerging ideas considers....

The Five Messages Leaders Must Manage (Harvard Business Review)

If you want to know why so many organizations sink into chaos....

Business Ethics: Successful Business Practices (Unabridged)

Ken Blanchard, New York Times best-selling author who penned The One Minute Manager, talks with CEOs of leading companies about a subject he knows well....

Your Loyalty Program is Betraying You (Harvard Business Review)

Even as loyalty programs are launched left and right, many are being scuttled....

Wall Street Journal Special Report: The Business of Football

In football, the game is just the beginning. Football is a massive business that involves big money player contracts, endorsements, and media mega-deals....

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (Unabridged)

Our world is being transformed by the Internet and the near limitless choice that it provides to consumers; tomorrow's markets belong to those who can take advantage of this....

The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness (Unabridged)

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval have moved to the top of the advertising industry by following a simple but powerful philosophy: it pays to be nice....

Use What You've Got, & Other Business Lessons I Learned from My Mom

Growing up, Barbara Corcoran shared one floor in a three-family house in New Jersey with her parents and nine brothers and sisters....

The Unwritten Laws of Business (Unabridged)

Here are gems of knowledge and insight on working with others, reporting to a boss, organizing a project, running a meeting, advancing your career, and more....

The Real Deal: My Life in Business and Philanthropy

The Sandy Weill story is truly one for the ages....

Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution

Hammer and Champy have updated and revised their milestone work for the New Economy they helped to create....

How to Start a Business in New Jersey

Do you dream of starting you own business in New Jersey? Then this must-have guide is for you....

How Successful Managers Think (Harvard Business Review)

Roger Martin looks beyond the actions of great leaders....

Business Startup: Launch Your Dream (Unabridged)

Learn what it takes to start your own business and launch your dream in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction....

10 Ways to Create Shareholder Value (Harvard Business Review)

Executives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value....

Crisis at the Summit (Harvard Business Review)

An unrecognized affliction is striking certain gifted performers....

Business Upgrade: 21 Days to Reignite the Entrepreneurial Spirit in You and Your Team (Unabridged)

Recently hand picked by the new CEO, Lucy has 21 days to identify why the international technology company she works for is underperforming....

Animals, Inc.: A Business Parable for the 21st Century

Recharge your thinking with invaluable practical insights....

What It Takes: Speak Up, Step Up, Move Up; A Modern Woman's Guide to Success in Business

In What It Takes, Amy Henry, a formidable businesswoman and national star from The Apprentice, shares her experiences, skills, and in-your-face advice....

The Small Business Bible (Unabridged)

Whether you're a novice entrepreneur or a seasoned pro, The Small Business Bible is a comprehensive A-to-Z library of everything you might need to know....

Surviving Your New CEO (Harvard Business Review)

Everybody knows turnover at the top means upheaval. But new research shows just how bad your chances of keeping your job are....

Managing the Right Tension (Harvard Business Review)

The authors describe how companies can select the right tension.....

100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them (Unabridged)

This accessible and inspirational audiobook examines a diverse collection of business people....

The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve (Harvard Business Review)

Learn how generation gaps are actually just part of a historical pattern - a pattern we can use to forecast market, workplace, and social trends for decades....

What the Best CEOs Know: Seven Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business

What the Best CEOs Know examines the careers of seven CEOs, world-renowned for their consistent success....

Curveball: Strategies to Fool the Competition (Harvard Business Review)

Strategic hardball is about playing rough and tough with competitors....

Guerrilla Marketing for the Home-Based Business (Unabridged)

Home-based businesses are not just small versions of big marketing conglomerates. They are faced with totally different issues, problems, and opportunities...

Tools of Cooperation and Change (Harvard Business Review)

Employers can choose from lots of tools when they want to encourage employees to work together....

Work Like da Vinci: Gaining the Creative Advantage in Your Business and Career

In Gelb's expert perspective, da Vinci's genius can be distilled into seven principles for the business listener....

You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life (Unabridged)

Being on The Apprentice made Bill Rancic an overnight celebrity. But his winning strategies were developed long before that....

Charming Your Way to the Top: Hollywood's Premier P.R. Executive Shows You How to Get Ahead (Unabridged)

Charm is good business. It can increase your income, boost your status, and establish and maintain your reputation....

Innovation, The Classic Traps (Harvard Business Review)

Always in or out of fashion, innovation gets rediscovered as a growth enabler every half dozen years....

Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building Your Successful Brand on the Business Battlefield

In his signature, outspoken style, D'Alessandro offers concrete advice on building a reputation that commands respect....

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail (Harvard Business Review)

Businesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way....

How to Start a Business in New York

Do you dream of starting you own business in New York? Then this must-have guide is for you....

Becoming The Boss (Harvard Business Review)

Even for the most gifted individuals, the process of becoming a leader is an arduous, albeit rewarding, journey of continuous learning and self-development....

Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning

Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published his groundbreaking book Flow more than a decade ago...

How to Build a Fortune: Your Plan for Success From the World's Most Famous Businessman (Unabridged)

Learn from a true master of wealth how to create your own personal fortune....

In Praise of the Incompetent Leader (Harvard Business Review)

Today's top executives are expected to do everything right, from coming up with solutions to unfathomably complex problems....

Small Is the New Big: And 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

Collected here for the first time are eight years of Seth Godin's very best blog posts, magazine columns, and e-books.

The New York Times Pocket MBA: Going Global (Unabridged)

Learn the 25 keys to doing business on an international scale, from foreign exchange risks to import/export duties with this program from...

Secrets of the Great Rainmakers: Proven Techniques from the Business Pros (Unabridged)

In Secrets of the Great Rainmakers you'll learn how to outsmart the competition and set yourself apart from the pack....

Creativity in Business

Learn how to release creativity with this condensed version of one of Stanford Graduate School of Business's...

When a New Manager Takes Charge (Harvard Business Review)

When some managers take over a new job, they hit the ground running....

There's No Such Thing as "Business" Ethics (Unabridged)

Maxwell asserts there's one ethical standard for all behavior.

Make Your Company a Talent Factory (Harvard Business Review)

Douglas Ready and Jay Conger say you can stop losing out on lucrative business opportunities....

What Your Leader Expects of You (Harvard Business Review)

The success of an executive team depends heavily on the relationships the boss has with his or her direct reports....

True to Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolution (Unabridged)

This is the story of how Paul Dolan led his California company, Fetzer Vineyards, to become a model for sustainable businesses everywhere....

Six Rules for Effective Forecasting (Harvard Business Review)

Hear how the wise consumer of a forecast is not a trusting bystander, but a participant and, above all, a critic....

Profiting from Passion: How to Define the Parts of Your Business You Truly Love

You know you're passionate about your speaking/training/consulting business, but some parts are draining....

How Well Run Boards Make Decisions (Harvard Business Review)

In the aftermath of seismic debacles like those that toppled Enron and WorldCom, corporate boards have been shaken up and made over....

Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek (Harvard Business Review)

Today's overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than the workaholics of yore....

Every Move Must Have a Purpose: Strategies from Chess for Business and Life (Unabridged)

From the celebrated "chairman of the board" comes the secrets of strategy that everyone will find useful....

Six Dangerous Myths About Pay

Managers are bombarded with advice about pay. Unfortunately, much of that advice is wrong...

Realizing What You're Made Of (Harvard Business Review)

A ruptured disk pressed against Glenn Mangurian's spinal cord several years ago....

Extreme Management: What They Teach at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program

Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program puts elite members of the business world through a rigorous, $44,000, nine-week training session...

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable about Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (Unabridged)

In his latest engrossing work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings....

How Managers' Everyday Decisions Create - or Destroy - Your Company's Strategy (Harvard Business Review)

Senior executives have long been frustrated by the disconnection between the plans and strategies they devise....

Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters (Harvard Business Review)

Among the tests of a leader, few are more challenging and more painful than recovering from a career catastrophe....

Customer Loyalty: Strategies

These articles from Harvard Business Review address the following questions: How do you...

How to Start a Business on eBay

Do you enjoy the thrill of online auctions? Now you can turn it into an exciting and lucrative business....

The Secrets of Savvy Networking: How to Make the Best Connections for Business and Personal Success

How powerful are your networking skills? In this era of super-communications, "making it" means making connections...

The Platinum Rule: Powerful People Skills for Building Relationships

Once you understand and master The Platinum Rule, you'll be able to build bridges to people of any sort....

Visionary Business: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success

Every successful business is based on a vision. In this presentation, Marc Allen shares his secrets...