September 17, 2017

67 Books from the HBS Course Catalog

I created this reading list from the Harvard Business School course catalog while it was available online. I figured I’d post it to my blog.

Accounting & Management

• Accounting: Texts and Cases
• Cost Accounting
• Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
• One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy

Business, Government & International Economy

• New Perspectives on Regulation
• The People’s Republic of China at 60: An International Assessment
• Mexico since 1980 (The World Since 1980)
• Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management
• Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
• Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (Studies in Macroeconomic History)
• The Economics of Crime: Lessons For and From Latin America (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
• The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes

Entrepreneurial Management

• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
• The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
• Seeing What’s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
• Communities and Organizations (Research in the Sociology of Organizations)
• New Business Ventures And The Entrepreneur
• The Entrepreneurial Venture (Practice of Management Series)
• Airbnb (Case Study)
• The Rise of the Modern Firm (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series)
• Business Structures (American Casebook Series)
• Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms
• The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
• Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

Finance

• Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times
• Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups
• The Theory and Practice of International Financial Management
• Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance
• The Fund Industry: How Your Money is Managed
• Entrepreneurial Finance: A Casebook
• The Venture Capital Cycle (MIT Press)
• Cases in Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation

General Management

• Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies
• From Resource Allocation to Strategy
• General Management: Processes and Action
• Managing Quality: The Strategic and Competitive Edge
• Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work
• Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours
• The Moral Leader: Challenges, Tools and Insights
• Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right
• Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell

Marketing

• Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
• Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run
• Marketing Research
• Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy: The Three Disciplines of Channel Management

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets

• Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace
• 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals
• I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else’s Maze
• Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
• Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications

Organizational Behavior

• Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life
• When You Say Yes but Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies… and What You Can Do About It
• Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work
• When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance
• Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success
• Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results
• Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power their Organizations
• Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
• Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant

Strategy

• Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution
• Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World’s Best Manufacturer
• On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition
• Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries (MIT Press)

Technology & Operations Management

• The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance
• Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge
• Strategic Operations: Competing Through Capabilities

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