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Book Description

Revitalize your company and roar out of the recession.

We're facing the second major global downturn in a decade. To survive, companies must balance managing the crisis in the short term with innovation and reinvention to return to growth in a changed world. HBR's 10 Must Reads for the Recession Collection offers the ideas and strategies you need to lead your company on the path to renewal. Included in this set are:

  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn (Expanded Edition)
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Organizational Resilience
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management

It includes 60 articles selected by HBR's editors from renowned thought leaders such as Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, Rita Gunther McGrath, W. Chan Kim, and Renee Mauborgne, and features the indispensable articles "Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World" by Willy Shih and "Roaring Out of Recession" by Nitin Nohria and Ranjay Gulati. It's time for companies to be bold in the face extraordinary headwinds. HBR's 10 Must Reads for the Recession Collection will help you face them.

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

Table of Contents

  1. Contents
  2. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn, Expanded Edition
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Seize Advantage in a Downturn
    5. How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward: A Research Roundup
    6. How to Bounce Back from Adversity
    7. Rohm and Haas’s Former CEO on Pulling off a Sweet Deal in a Down Market
    8. How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy
    9. Layoffs That Don’t Break Your Company
    10. Getting Reorgs Right
    11. Reigniting Growth
    12. Reinvent Your Business Model Before It’s Too Late
    13. How to Protect Your Job in a Recession
    14. Learning from the Future
    15. 5 Ways to Stimulate Cash Flow in a Downturn
    16. The Case for M&A in a Downturn
    17. Include Your Employees in Cost-Cutting Decisions
    18. Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World
    19. About the Contributors
    20. Index
  3. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Organizational Resilience
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. How Resilience Works
    5. The Quest for Resilience
    6. Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
    7. Organizational Grit
    8. Leading in Times of Trauma
    9. Learning from the Future
    10. Leading a New Era of Climate Action
    11. The High Price of Efficiency
    12. Reigniting Growth
    13. Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
    14. Roaring Out of Recession
    15. About the Contributors
    16. Index
  4. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Managing Risks: A New Framework
    5. How to Build Risk into Your Business Model
    6. The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management
    7. From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions
    8. Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing? Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio
    9. Superforecasting: How to Upgrade Your Company’s Judgment
    10. Managing 21st-Century Political Risk
    11. How to Scandal-Proof Your Company
    12. Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture
    13. The Danger from Within
    14. Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy
    15. About the Contributors
    16. Index
  5. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Innovation
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. The Innovation Catalysts
    5. Stop the Innovation Wars
    6. How GE Is Disrupting Itself
    7. The Customer-Centered Innovation Map
    8. Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?
    9. Six Myths of Product Development
    10. Innovation: The Classic Traps
    11. Discovery-Driven Planning
    12. The Discipline of Innovation
    13. Innovation Killers
    14. About the Contributors
    15. Index
    16. Back Cover
  6. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Why Business Models Matter
    5. Reinventing Your Business Model
    6. When Your Business Model Is in Trouble
    7. Four Paths to Business Model Innovation
    8. The Transformative Business Model
    9. Competing Against Free
    10. Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
    11. Finding the Platform in Your Product
    12. Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
    13. When One Business Model Isn’t Enough
    14. Reaching the Rich World’s Poorest Consumers
    15. About the Contributors
    16. Index
  7. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
    5. Change Through Persuasion
    6. Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano
    7. Radical Change, the Quiet Way
    8. Tipping Point Leadership
    9. A Survival Guide for Leaders
    10. The Real Reason People Won’t Change
    11. Cracking the Code of Change
    12. The Hard Side of Change Management
    13. Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change
    14. About the Contributors
    15. Index
    16. Back Cover
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