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The Innovator's Dilemma (When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail)
Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame...
Blue Ocean Strategy
The global phenomenon that has sold 3.5 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 43 languages and is a bestseller across five continentsnow updated and expanded with new content. This global bestseller, embraced by organizations ...
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Managing Oneself
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility...
Middle East and Making of Modern World
Cyrus Schayegh's socio-spatial history traces how a Eurocentric world economy and European imperialism molded the Middle East...
How to Democratize Europe
An all-star cast of scholars and politicians from Europe and America propose and debate the creation of a new European parliament with substantial budgetary and legislative power to solve the crisis of governance in ...
The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
What gives statistics its unity as a science? Stephen Stigler sets forth the seven foundational ideas of statistics a scientific discipline related to but distinct from mathematics and computer science.Even the most ...
Far-Right Politics in Europe
In Europe today, staunchly nationalist parties such as France's National Front and the Austrian Freedom Party are identified as far-right movements, though supporters seldom embrace that label. More often, "far right" is pejorative, used by liberals to...
Explore Harvard (The Yard and Beyond)
As part of its 375th celebrations, the University has created a new photo book, Explore Harvard: The Yard and Beyond. This collection of photographs brings to life the myriad intellectual exchanges that make Harvard one ...
Riding for Caesar (The Roman Emperor's Horseguard)
Professor Speidel's book represents the first history of the Roman horse guard ever written and provides a readable account of the intricate part these men played in the fate of the Roman empire and its emperors...
Immigration Economics
Millions of people—nearly 3 percent of the world's population—no longer live in the country where they were born. Every day, migrants enter not only the United States but also developed countries without much of a history of immigration...
Encountering China
In Michael Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by their swift embrace of a market economy-one whose communitarian ideas resonate with China's own rich, ancient philosophical traditions...
Short History of European Law (The Last Two and a Half Millennia)
To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West over the past 2,500 years is far from self-evident. In A Short History of European Law, ...
Immunity to Change (How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization)
A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life...
Understanding Global Trade
Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses both of these concerned groups, ...
On Women and Leadership
What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace? If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles ...
Statelessness (A Modern History)
Today over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-contested legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of political and legal authority beyond ...
Inventing the Immigration Problem (The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy)
In 1907 the U. S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis...
Six Simple Rules (How to Manage Complexity Without Getting Complicated)
New tools for managing complexity Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone. According to The Boston Consulting Group's fascinating Complexity ...
The Land of the Elephant Kings (Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire)
The Seleucid Empire (311 - 64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests ...
Darius in the Shadow of Alexander
The last of Cyrus the Great’s dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River...
