Harvard Business Review

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Michael E. Porter to Katrina Lake and company examples from Alibaba to 3M, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips. This book...

The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs. If you read (or listen) to nothing else on entrepreneurship and startups, listen to these ten articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success. Leading experts and practitioners...

Don't leave creativity up to the "creatives" in your organization. Fostering creativity within your team can help your organization solve problems, create innovative products, break out into a new market, and even communicate and collaborate more effectively. Innovative Teams shows you how to: • Create the right environment for inventive thinking • Build a diverse team • Generate a wide array of new ideas • Manage disagreements • Make...

Feeling stressed about your upcoming presentation? Whether you're nervous about how you'll organize your thoughts or how you'll articulate them on the big day, Presentations provides the quick guidelines and expert tips you need to: • Craft your message • Prepare and rehearse effectively • Engage your audience • Manage Q&A sessions Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager...

Leading any team involves managing people, technical oversight, and project administration, but leaders of virtual teams perform these functions from afar. Leading Virtual Teams walks you through the basics of: - Connecting your people to each other-and to the team's mission - Surmounting language, distance, and technology barriers - Identifying and using the right communication channels Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential...

Working remotely gives you flexibility and independence. But it can pose challenges when you need to team up with colleagues or coworkers. Virtual Collaboration covers the basics of working productively-and collaboratively-from anywhere. You'll learn to: • Communicate clearly over a variety of media • Bond with colleagues across the wires • Keep others-and yourself-accountable • Avoid and mitigate tech glitches Don't have much time? Get...

Whether you're new to running meetings or a seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (and even pleasant!) meetings is a must. Running Meetings guides you through the basics of: • Crafting a useful agenda • Inviting the right team members • Making sure everyone's voice is heard while avoiding conflict • Capturing decisions, ideas, and follow-up tasks Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business...

From crackly conference lines to pixelated video, virtual meetings can be problematic. But you can host a productive conversation in which everyone participates. Running Virtual Meetings takes you through the basics of: • Selecting the right virtual venue • Giving participants the information and support they need to connect and contribute • Establishing and enforcing a common meeting etiquette • Following up from afar Don't have much time?...

Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming-but you have to understand them to manage effectively. Finance Basics explains the fundamentals simply and quickly, introducing you to key terms and concepts such as: • How to navigate financial statements -How to weigh costs and benefits • What's involved in budgeting and forecasting • How to gauge a company's financial health Don't have much time? Get...

Make anxiety work for you. Work is stressful: We race to meet deadlines. We extend ourselves to return favors for colleagues. We set ambitious goals for ourselves and our teams. We measure ourselves against metrics, our competitors, and sometimes, our colleagues. Some of us even go beyond tangible metrics to internalize stress and fear of missing the mark-ruminating over presentations that didn't go according to plan, imagining worst-case scenarios,...