Authors:Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norto,
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: action, strategy, translating, scorecard, balanced
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0875846513
ISBN-13: 9780875846514

Here is the book--by the recognized architects of the Balanced Scorecard--that shows how managers can use this revolutionary tool to mobilize their people to fulfill the company’s mission. More than just a measurement system, the Balanced Scorecard is a management system that can channel the energies, abilities, and specific knowledge held by people throughout the organization toward achieving long-term strategic goals. Kaplan and Norton demonstrate how senior executives in industries such as banking, oil, insurance, and retailing are using the Balanced Scorecard both to guide current pe

Author: Fred K. Foulke
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: guide, strategic, compensation, executive
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0875842100
ISBN-13: 9780875842103

"Executive Compensation" is a comprehensive study of the strategic impact of compensation packages in business today. Thirty leading compensation specialists look at the impact of executive pay on performance, the design of executive pay packages, the role of stock and ownership, the role of the compensation committee, and applications of strategic executive compensation plans in a variety of industries.

Authors:Chris Zook, James Allen, James Alle,
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: era, turbulence, strategy, growth, core, profit
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1578512301
ISBN-13: 9781578512300

Spawned by a 10-year study of 2,000 firms conducted at Bain & Company, a global consultancy specializing in business strategy, Profit from the Core is based on the fundamental but oft-ignored maxim that prolonged corporate growth is most profitably achieved by concentrating on a single core business. To help companies identify this true essence, narrow their focus accordingly, and move forward in a manner that builds upon existing structure, Bain director Chris Zook and former Bain director James Allen present "a set of practical and proven principles, diagnostic tests, and questions for manag

Authors:Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutto,
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: profiting, evidence, based, management, nonsense, total, facts, dangerous, truths, hard
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1591398622
ISBN-13: 9781591398622

The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management "wisdom" isn?t wise at all?but, instead, flawed knowledge based on "best practices" that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidenc

Author: Gerald Zaltma
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: mind, market, insights, essential, think, customers
Number of Pages: 323
Published: 2003-02-21
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1578518261
ISBN-13: 9781578518265

A New Approach to Understanding How-and Why-Customers Buy Despite the resources spent on market research, nearly 80 percent of new offerings fail. The pattern is predictable: Customers say they want something, companies create it, and once it’s available, customers don’t buy it. Why? Is it because customers just don’t know what they want? Gerald Zaltman sorts through this puzzle and concludes that, at some level, customers do know, but marketing’s most overused tools-surveys, questionnaires, and focus groups-and conventional thinking don’t dig deeply enough to he

Author: Peter Cappelli
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: driven, workforce, market, managing, work, new
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 1999-02-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0875846688
ISBN-13: 9780875846682

The days of lifetime jobs and employee loyalty are over. Instead, competition and other market forces lead companies to lay off people, and employees to leave for the highest bidder, writes Peter Cappelli in The New Deal at Work. These changes in the workplace are making a salient impact on companies, employees, and the nation. For instance, companies are less likely to provide employee training and development, for fear employees will be poached by other firms. At the same time, companies are more apt to hire outside consultants than full-time employees, in order to stay competitive in a rapi

Author: Harvard Business School Pre
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: harvard, review, business, series, paperback, corporate, governance
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1578512379
ISBN-13: 9781578512379

The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series brings managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Gathered in a highly accessible format are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for forward-thinking businesspeople worldwide. Corporate governance can raise many difficult leadership, strategy, and policy questions within an organization. Harvard Business Review on Corporate Governance is an essential reference, focusing on both policy and strategic challenges, for