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Financial Intelligence Set: What You Need to Know to Succeed (3rd Edition)

Calculating and assessing the overall financial health of the business is an important part of any managerial position. Companies expect managers to use financial data to allocate resources and run their departments. But many managers can't read a...

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

OVER 4 MILLION COPIES SOLDWALL STREET JOURNAL AND BUSINESSWEEK BESTSELLERRECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC AND IMPACTFUL STRATEGY BOOKS EVER WRITTEN The global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 49...

HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically Toolkit

Bring strategy into your daily work. It's your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work--and the work of your team--aligns with the objectives of your organization. But when you're faced with competing projects and limited time, it's...

HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers

Leverage gen AI to save time, innovate faster, and lead effectively. You're probably aware that generative AI can output quality text and create stunning images in seconds. But smart managers are now using gen AI for high-level work--problem-solving,...

Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future

Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era. Digital transformation is critical. But winning in today's world requires more than digitization. It requires understanding that...

Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

Named one of the best strategy books of 2021 by strategy+business. Get to better, more effective strategy. In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is...

Sales Management Success: How to Empower Your Team to Drive Sales

Your sales force isn't just a group of people. It's an engine that can propel your organization toward better results, bigger profits and greater success. That is, if you can ensure your sales team is firing on all cylinders. This specially priced 4...

What Is Strategy?: An Illustrated Guide to Michael Porter

When it comes to strategy, the mistake most managers make is thinking they have one when they don't. Joan Magretta, author of the bestselling book Understanding Michael Porter, has teamed up with illustrator Emile Holmewood to capture essential strategy...

Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Companies that don't use AI will soon be obsolete. From making faster, better decisions to automating rote work to enabling robots to respond to emotions, AI and machine learning are already reshaping business and society. What should you and your...

How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart about the Numbers

Based on a popular class taught by a Harvard Business School professor. If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and...

Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

"Tech writer Roberts debuts with a page-turning account of the rise of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase from the Y Combinator startup incubator to becoming a 'pillar of the larger crypto economy.'" -- Publisher's Weekly For a moment late in 2018, one...

The Real Business of Blockchain: How Leaders Can Create Value in a New Digital Age

Blockchain is transforming business. What's your strategy? Leaders of forward-thinking organizations are exploring how blockchain can transform the way they create and seek value. Whether it's used to streamline multiparty processes, create and trade...

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business

Digital transformation is no longer news--it's a necessity. Despite the widespread threat of disruption, many large companies in traditional industries have succeeded at digitizing their businesses in truly transformative ways. The New York Times,...

The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook: How to Lead High-Performing Sales Teams

Sales leadership essentials for an era of rapidly advancing digital technology. Managing an effective sales organization is key to revenue generation, customer satisfaction, and business results. But whether you're a sales manager or leading a large...

Playing to Win, Expanded with Bonus HBR Articles: How Strategy Really Works

The proven playbook for winning—-now updated with a new foreword and two bonus HBR articles. Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It's hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future--something few...

Welcome to the Metaverse: Unlocking the Potential of Virtual Worlds

A clear-eyed guide to the metaverse and how this powerful technology--along with advances in spatial computing, VR, and AR--will impact our economy, our lives, and our world. The metaverse. That term elicits a wide range of ideas and opinions. For many,...

AI First: The Playbook for a Future-Proof Business and Brand

AI is going to change brand strategy and marketing forever. Are you ready? What does the rapid rise and astonishing rate of improvement of AI mean for brands in the next five years? Listen to what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told authors Adam Brotman and Andy...

The Growth Dilemma: Managing Your Brand When Different Customers Want Different Things

Porsches for soccer moms? Finance bros in Patagonia? Drive-through Starbucks? What happens when your growth strategy creates conflict between customers? You always want to grow your brand, but there's a dilemma: the more customer segments you target,...

Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook Toolkit

Sales leadership essentials for an era of rapidly advancing digital technology. Managing an effective sales organization is key to revenue generation, customer satisfaction, and business results. But whether you’re a sales manager or lead a large...

HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers Toolkit, Updated and Expanded

Newly Updated and Expanded. Today’s business environment brings with it an onslaught of data, but leaving the analysis to others in your company just won’t cut it. Now more than ever, managers must know how to tease insight from data--to...

The Activator Advantage: What Today's Rainmakers Do Differently

A proven approach used by today's best professional service partners to win, retain, and grow client relationships. There is a growing problem in the professional services industry that is often acknowledged but rarely discussed: clients--even...

Like: The Button That Changed the World

A riveting, insider's look at the creation and evolution of the like button and what it reveals about innovation, business, and culture--and its profound impact on modern human interaction. Over 160 billion times a day, someone taps a like button. How...

More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead

AI has the potential to transform leadership and business--or to lead us toward an automated and uninspiring work experience. Which will it be? Humans have always been good at inventing tools that change the way we live and work, but not always good at...

Employment Is Dead: How Disruptive Technologies Are Revolutionizing the Way We Work

With disruptive technologies on the horizon, traditional employment models are becoming outdated. How will your organization adapt to the evolving landscape of work? Business is on the cusp of a profound transformation. Conventional work models are...

Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior

A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychology--from the pioneering expert on psychological targeting. There are more pieces of digital data than there are stars in the universe. This data helps us...

Triple Fit Strategy: How to Build Lasting Customer Relationships and Boost Growth

It's time for companies to rethink their growth logic. Business relationships are still dominated by a narrow perspective--trying to match products to customer needs and making deals. It's a buyer-seller relationship built on a transactional mindset,...

Personalized: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI

A USA Today Bestseller In a world where consumers expect more--instantly and seamlessly--personalization is a strategic imperative. Consumers want personalized experiences, but few companies are rising to the challenge. Those that succeed in...

Human + Machine, Updated and Expanded: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI

AI--including generative AI--is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge. Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no...

Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win

A fresh, research-based look at how companies can better compete, on their own terms, with tech giants--from a Harvard Business School professor and a former Bloomberg journalist. Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn...

The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work

Leaders, don't let AI get the best of you. The AI transformation is underway, but where are the leaders who will ensure their companies implement AI successfully and responsibly? Up until now, leaders have largely ceded their role in the AI...

Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future

Two world-renowned experts on innovation and digital strategy explore how real-time data and AI will radically transform physical products--and the companies that make them. Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from...

You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company

Five invaluable lessons for doing sustainability right, doing it profitably, and getting the credit you deserve.Did the title of this book get your attention? Good. Because as silly as it is, the idea behind it is serious, earnest, and authentic: you...

Welcome to AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence

A fascinating guide to the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence and how this powerful technology will impact our lives, our careers, and our world. Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the...

Generative AI: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

The future of AI is here. The world is transfixed by the marvel (and possible menace) of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. It's clear Gen AI will transform the business landscape, but when and how much remain to be seen. Meanwhile, your smartest...

Blue Ocean Strategy + Beyond Disruption Collection (2 Books)

The two landmark books, Blue Ocean Strategy and Beyond Disruption, that together challenge everything you thought you knew about winning the future. These two iconic books, Blue Ocean Strategy and Beyond Disruption, together changed how the world thinks...

HBR Insights Web3, Crypto, and Blockchain Collection (3 Books)

What do Web3, Crypto, and Blockchain really mean for business today?Like the dot-com bust before it, the crypto moment of the early 2020s seemed to rise and fall in a manic instant. Billionaires were minted one week and jail time was handed out the next...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI (with bonus article "How to Win with Machine Learning" by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb)

The next generation of AI is here--use it to lead your business forward. If you read nothing else on artificial intelligence and machine learning, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the...

HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy

Put your strategy into action. Even the best competitive strategies mean nothing if they aren't executed well. Yet many organizations struggle when they move from defining a strategy to actually applying it. Somehow, all the careful planning falls...

Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs

USA TODAY BESTSELLER Blue Ocean Strategy, the #1 global bestseller, forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Now W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth...

Crypto: Tools for Preparing Your Team for the Future

The crypto era has arrived, and business will never be the same.Real applications of crypto technology are growing exponentially: cryptocurrency payments are moving frictionlessly across borders; NFTs are generating real value for creators and consumers...

Web3: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Web3 may be the next big disrupter in business. Don't be caught unprepared.Blockchain and crypto aren't just for speculators anymore--they're the backbone of the rising decentralized internet. Web3 has the potential to rewrite the past decade's rules:...

All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence

A Wall Street Journal and Publisher's Weekly bestseller. A fascinating look at the trailblazing companies using artificial intelligence to create new competitive advantage, from the author of the business classic, Competing on Analytics, and the head of...

I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique

For readers of Sapiens and Homo Deus and viewers of The Social Dilemma, psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic tackles one of the biggest questions facing our species: Will we use artificial intelligence to improve the way we work and live, or will we...

Crypto: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

The crypto era has arrived, and business will never be the same.Real applications of crypto technology are growing exponentially: cryptocurrency payments are moving frictionlessly across borders; NFTs are generating real value for creators and consumers...

HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers

AI is ready for business. Are you ready for AI? From financial modeling and product design to performance management and hiring decisions, AI and machine learning are becoming everyday tools for managers at businesses of all sizes. But AI systems come...

Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines can help you prepare. Artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted many industries around the world--banking and finance, pharmaceuticals,...

Prediction Machines, Updated and Expanded: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Named one of "The five best books to understand AI" by The Economist The impact AI will have is profound, but the economic framework for understanding it is surprisingly simple. Artificial intelligence seems to do the impossible, magically bringing...

Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI

What will you do when your AI misbehaves?The promise of artificial intelligence is automated decision-making at scale, but that means AI also automates risk at scale. Are you prepared for that risk?Already, many companies have suffered real damage when...

Stage (Not Age): How to Understand and Serve People Over 60--the Fastest Growing, Most Dynamic Market in the World

The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty.In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that...

The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

The pressure to "be digital" has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge. The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and relate to each other...

Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future

Technology advances are making tech more . . . human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy.In their groundbreaking book, Human + Machine, Accenture technology leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson showed how...