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- October 2010 (Revised January 2012)
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Book Publishing in 2010
By: Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy Bartlett
Legacy book publishers wrangled with ebook retailers over royalty rates, release strategy, and distribution rights as customer demand for cheaper ebooks eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad that invigorated the...
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Price;
Information Publishing;
Books;
Disruptive Innovation;
Demand and Consumers;
Distribution;
Strategy;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Publishing Industry
Bradley, Stephen P., and Nancy Bartlett. "Book Publishing in 2010." Harvard Business School Background Note 711-419, October 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
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Donating Books
Baker Library does not accept donations of used books. Please consider donating books to View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Faculty Books
developing organizational capabilities and managerial competencies to implement a clearly defined strategic intent. This case-based book discusses the marketing challenges faced by global U.S. companies (Bausch & Lomb, Reebok, and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Books
carrier-based jet fighter program. When introduced, the first jet aircraft were underpowered and in many ways inferior to propeller-driven aircraft of the time. This book examines the Navy’s internal struggle to adapt the jet engine to...
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Management
- 01 Jun 2009
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Alumni Books
better. To this end, they offer a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and government agencies. After showing why the federal personnel system needs reform, the book presents specific...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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regulatory institutions. The book ends by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences. Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Crown Business) When...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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This book brings together scholars from multiple disciplines who examine contemporary regulation to gain a clearer grasp of what regulatory capture is, where and to what extent it occurs, and what prevents it from occurring more fully and...
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- September 2010 (Revised April 2012)
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Better World Books
By: Michael I. Norton, Fiona Wilson, Jill Avery and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Better World Books, a young start-up, provides a socially conscious alternative to Amazon, collecting and selling used books to keep them out of the waste stream, while donating a portion of their profits to support global literacy efforts. The case presents an...
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Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Marketing;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Public Opinion;
Social Issues;
Online Technology;
Retail Industry
Norton, Michael I., Fiona Wilson, Jill Avery, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "Better World Books." Harvard Business School Case 511-057, September 2010. (Revised April 2012.)
- 01 Dec 2007
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Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming “inside outsiders” — leaders with the perspective of someone who...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books
Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye: How to Get beyond the One Word That Stands between You and Success by Joe Azelby and Bob Azelby (MBA 1997) (HarperBusiness) The Azelbys want to help professionals become aware of the things they do, or fail to do, that prevent them from being...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the United States and other countries....
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety of topics in managing business...
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Expanding on my work on BP, I am starting a new book on the transformation of the major international oil companies since the 1970s. Prior to that, the oil majors largely controlled the international flow of oil, which was channelled through their vertically... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
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and the social sciences. Bringing together leading scholars, the book is organized in four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. Capitalism, Democracy and...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Alumni Books
Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, and dense — and end up unread and unrealized. This View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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implementing successful transformations. In this book he examines the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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firm. China and Globalization The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society by Douglas Guthrie (Routledge) This book is about the economic reforms sweeping across China over the last 25 years. Visiting Professor...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly globalizing world. The View Details