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Idea Practitioners

Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge is featuring a very interesting excerpt regarding the concept of "Idea Practitioners," people who know how to get new ideas across and implemented. It includes a number of helpful tips ...READ»

Strategic Reading

A reading list that focuses on Internet strategy.READ»

A Katzenbach Reader

Since 1993, Jon R. Katzenbach has written prolifically on organizational change, drawing from hundreds of company studies to distill ideas that have, in turn, informed the construction of his new firm, Katzenbach Partners LLC. Here's our must-read list.READ»

Karl Schade

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Budget Busting

Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge presents an innovative and slightly scary idea: Throw out the budget. According to HBS, a "billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the ...READ»

(Data)Base Interests

Harvard Business School has developed a database of 20th Century Great American Business Leaders. Partially available online -- the full data set can be gotten on request -- the database can be sorted by last name, birthplace, ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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A Sense of Urgency

Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is a world-class authority on change leadership. He has written 12 books, each making substantive contributions to the field. His exposure to 100s of organizations provides powerful ...READ»

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An Early Ethics Lesson

MIT's Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Carnegie Mellon said they would reject the applications of the prospective students who hacked into a Web site to find out if they had been admitted before being ...READ»

Variety: Too Spicy?

Harvard Business School has just given a name to a marketing trend that has made shopping particularly annoying lately. It's called "overchoice" -- giving consumers too much product variety. The expert on this, John Gourville, says ...READ»

Get Smart Part Three: Curriculum Report

As the Internet changes the rules of the game, MBA curricula are evolving to keep up.READ»

Fast Company Library

Books previously featured in Fast Company (2001)READ»

Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the Way

And you think you know how to work a crowd? Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make group deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans -- before they attend their first class!READ»

I Download Illegally -- and Harmlessly

Good news for music downloaders: A recent study shows that Internet music piracy not only does NOT hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. That's good news for file swappers of all stripes. In a ...READ»

Extreme Networking: MBAs Show the Way, Part 2

Incoming B-school students from Harvard to Stanford use Web-based communities to get to know each other, to make deals for cell phones, and to launch business plans -- before they attend their first class! Can the schools themselves get into the act?READ»

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HBR IdeaCast 83: Learning Organizations

In the first segment of this week's HBR IdeaCast, I'm joined by Harvard Business School professors David Garvin and Amy Edmonson to discuss how to make your organization a learning organization. We look at the importance of ...READ»

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Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century

Classic entrepreneurs who built companies from scratch dominate the list of the best. Shockingly, only one woman -- Estee Lauder -- made the top 50 of Professors Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria's list of top 100 business leaders.READ»

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Picking the Winning Innovation

Has your company ever had multiple innovations, but resources to develop just one? How can you pick the right innovation and avoid wasting time and money on the others? The latest issue of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge ...READ»

Download Your Way to an MBA

It doesn't cost $40,000. It doesn't take two years. And you're never late to class.READ»

Career Taxidermy

Career taxidermy makes dead models of work and family look alive.READ»

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Digital Matters - Issue 29

In My Humble Opinion: Genomics is the most important economic, political, and ethical issue facing mankind.READ»

Politically Proactive

Make things happen by mastering the game of day-to-day politics.READ»

What's Your Intuition about Consultants?

We have a feeling they're full of it -- intuition, that is. Use your own intuition to take our multiple-choice test.READ»

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Fast Company Library

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A Change Will Do You Good

The guardians of big business are defending their fortress against an army of interlopers whose needs and opinions clash with tradition. Two new books examine what this intrusion means to corporate insiders -- and outsiders.READ»

Learning 101

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