Harvard Business Review on Strategies for Growth (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) [Paperback]

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Series: Harvard Business Review Paperback Series | Publication Date: September 1, 1998

The Harvard Business Review paperback series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious business people in organizations around the globe. The Harvard Business Review on Strategies for Growth presents the latest tactics--including acquisitions, diversification, and innovation--for helping managers find and exploit the best opportunities for growth and profitability. Articles include: Breaking Compromises, Breakaway Growth by George Stalk, Jr., David K. Pecaut, and Benjamin Burnett; Value Innovation: The Strategic Logic of High Growth by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne; Growth Through Acquisitions: A Fresh Look by Patricia L. Anslinger and Thomas E. Copeland; To Diversify or Not to Diversify by Constantinos C. Markides; The Living Company by Arie De Geus; Making the Deal Real: How GE Capital Integrates Acquisitions by Ronald N. Ashkenas, Lawrence J. DeMonaco, and Suzanne C. Francis; Capturing the Value of Supplementary Services by James C. Anderson and James A. Narus; and Exploiting the Virtual Value Chain by Jeffrey F. Rayport and John J. Sviokla.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 213 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Business Press; 1 edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875848850
• ISBN-13: 978-0875848853
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #511,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars AN OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF THOUGHT! RECOMMENDED., April 4, 1999

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This review is from: Harvard Business Review on Strategies for Growth (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) (Paperback)

Looking for some informative, original and clear thinking about strategies for growth? This book is a great choice! This is a collection of eight outstanding articles selected from past editions of the HBR. The articles cover: value innovation; growth through acquisitions; growth through diversification; capturing the value of supplementary services; and exploiting the virtual value change. Each article begins with an executive summary which, for the fast-forward crowd, is a big plus.

So many books are merely ONE GOOD ARTICLE embedded in a thicket of verbiage. Chopping away through such a jungle of verbosity for the gist-of-it-all often proves tedious and disappointing. (Blessed are the laconic!) This book, on the other hand, just serves up a bunch of 'gists' -the pure meat and potatoes of ideas. Happily, the HBSP has published several other collections of this sort on such topics as knowledge management, change, and leadership. Each of these is collection of first-rate 'gists'. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates, author of Stern's Sourcefinder The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and the Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.