Authors:C. K. Prahalad, Michael E. Porter,  Harvard Bu
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: harvard, review, business, series, paperback, corporate, responsibility
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-07-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1591392748
ISBN-13: 9781591392743

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility What and whom is a business for? This collection of articles gathers the latest thinking on the strategic significance of corporate social responsibility. Readers will develop an understanding of why businesses should continue to give money away even while laying off workers, how companies play a leadership role in today’s social problems by incorporating the best thinking of governments and nonprofit institutions, and how community needs are actually opportunities to develop ideas and demonstrate business technologies. Readers will see

Author: Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business School
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: harvard, review, business, series, paperback, corporate, ethics
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-07-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 159139273X
ISBN-13: 9781591392736

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics Resolving today’s most pressing questions about business behavior has become a priority in today’s corporate environment. In deciding how to act, managers reveal their inner values, test their commitment to those values, and ultimately shape their characters. Readers of this collection of articles will learn to identify the theoretical and practical issues of recognizing and responding to ethical dilemmas and will find the link between good ethics and good business. The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series The series is designed to br

Authors:Richard Luecke,  Harvard Business School Pre,
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: transition, change, managing
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2003-01-02
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1578518741
ISBN-13: 9781578518746

Harvard Business Essentials Your Guide and Mentor to Doing Business Effectively In the faced-paced world of business today, everyone needs a personal resource-a place to go for advice, coaching, background information, or answers. Bosses and colleagues aren’t always available when you need them-and they might not always have the most reliable solutions to your business problems right at hand. The Harvard Business Essentials series fills the gap. Concise and straightforward, these books provide highly practical advice for readers at all levels of experience. Whether you are a new manag

Authors:Peter F. Drucker, John Seely Brown,  Harvard B
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: harvard, review, business, series, paperback, innovative, enterprise
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-03-20
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 159139130X
ISBN-13: 9781591391302

The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today’s managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe. It’s not enough to come up with great ideas-companies must ultimately turn those idea

Author: Joe Harvard
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: velvet, underground, third, series, thirty, nico, three
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2004-04
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0826415504
ISBN-13: 9780826415509

"Thirty Three and a Third" is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives – often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music. What binds the series together, and what brings it to life, is that all of the authors – musicians, broadcasters, scholars, and writers – are huge fans of t

Author: Harvard Sitkoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: student, american, history, companions, companion, america, postwar
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2000-02-03
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195103009
ISBN-13: 9780195103007

The half-century since the end of World War II has been crucial in defining America’s image of itself and role in the world. A thorough survey of an era dominated by the cold war on the international front and conflicting social forces at home, this authoritative reference volume details every aspect of a turbulent age. It features: --Brief biographical vignettes of notable political and civil leaders, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Newt Gingrich --Insightful portraits of prominent cultural icons, from Allen Ginsburg and Elvis to Billy Graham and Jackie Robinson --Informative analyses of

Author: Harvard Independent
Publisher: NAL Trade
Keywords: second, essays, application, college, successful
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0451207130
ISBN-13: 9780451207135

The essay is the one part of the college application that allows an admissions committee to get a glimpse not only of what you are (grades, scores, club member), but of who you are. "Applicants are constantly advised to ’put their best foot forward,’" says Fred Hargadon, the dean of admissions at Princeton University and a contributor to this book. "But I must confess that I always liked the ones who put both feet forward." That doesn’t mean that your essay needs to shock. It means you must put everything you’ve got into it. It means that "if you think the college might