Harvard Business Review Leadership & Strategy Boxed Set (5 Books)

Book description

The key concepts every manager and aspiring leader must know—from strategy and disruptive innovation to financial intelligence and change management—from bestselling Harvard Business Review authors. Build your professional library, and advance your career with these five timeless, ground-breaking business classics. Includes Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition; The Innovator’s Dilemma; Leading Change; Playing to Win; and Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Blue Ocean Leadership, Expanded Edition
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Dedication
    4. Contents
    5. Help! My Ocean Is Turning Red
    6. Preface to the Original Edition
    7. Acknowledgments
    8. Part One: Blue Ocean Strategy
      1. 1 Creating Blue Oceans
      2. 2 Analytical Tools and Frameworks
    9. Part Two: Formulating Blue Ocean Strategy
      1. 3 Reconstruct Market Boundaries
      2. 4 Focus on the Big Picture, Not the Numbers
      3. 5 Reach Beyond Existing Demand
      4. 6 Get the Strategic Sequence Right
    10. Part Three: Executing Blue Ocean Strategy
      1. 7 Overcome Key 
Organizational Hurdles
      2. 8 Build Execution into Strategy
      3. 9 Align Value, Profit, 
and People Propositions
      4. 10 Renew Blue Oceans
      5. 11 Avoid Red Ocean Traps
    11. Appendix A
    12. Appendix B
    13. Appendix C
    14. Notes
    15. Bibliography
    16. About the Authors
  4. The Innovator’s Dilemma
    1. Copyright
    2. In Gratitude
    3. Introduction
    4. Part One: WHY GREAT COMPANIES CAN FAIL
      1. CHAPTER ONE: How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry
      2. CHAPTER TWO: Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate
      3. CHAPTER THREE: Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry
      4. CHAPTER FOUR: What Goes Up, Can’t Go Down
    5. Part Two: MANAGING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
      1. CHAPTER FIVE: Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them
      2. CHAPTER SIX: Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market
      3. CHAPTER SEVEN: Discovering New and Emerging Markets
      4. CHAPTER EIGHT: How to Appraise Your Organization’s Capabilities and Disabilities
      5. CHAPTER NINE: Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle
      6. CHAPTER TEN: Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study
      7. CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary
    6. The Innovator’s Dilemma Book Group Guide
    7. About the Author
  5. Leading Change, with a New Preface by the Author
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. New Preface, November 2012
    5. Preface
    6. Part I. The Change Problem and Its Solution
      1. 1. Transforming Organizations: Why Firms Fail
      2. 2. Successful Change and the Force That Drives It
    7. Part II. The Eight-Stage Process
      1. 3. Establishing a Sense of Urgency
      2. 4. Creating the Guiding Coalition
      3. 5. Developing a Vision and Strategy
      4. 6. Communicating the Change Vision
      5. 7. Empowering Employees for Broad-Based Action
      6. 8. Generating Short-Term Wins
      7. 9. Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change
      8. 10. Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture
    8. Part III. Implications for the Twenty-First Century
      1. 11. The Organization of the Future
      2. 12. Leadership and Lifelong Learning
    9. About the Author
  6. Playing to Win
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Introduction: How Strategy Really Works
    5. One: Strategy Is Choice
    6. Two: What Is Winning
    7. Three: Where to Play
    8. Four: How to Win
    9. Five: Play to Your Strengths
    10. Six: Manage What Matters
    11. Seven: Think Through Strategy
    12. Eight: Shorten Your Odds
    13. Conclusion: The Endless Pursuit of Winning
    14. Acknowledgments
    15. Appendix A: P&G’s Performance
    16. Appendix B: The Microeconomic Foundations of Strategy and the Two Ways to Win
    17. Notes
    18. About the Authors
  7. Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Dedication
    4. Contents
    5. Preface: What Is Financial Intelligence?
    6. Part One. The Art of Finance (and Why It Matters)
      1. 1. You Can’t Always Trust the Numbers
      2. 2. Spotting Assumptions, Estimates, and Biases
      3. 3. Why Increase Your Financial Intelligence?
      4. 4. The Rules Accountants Follow—and Why You Don’t Always Have To
      5. Part One Toolbox:
        1. Getting What You Want
        2. The Players and What They Do
        3. Reporting Obligations of Public Companies
    7. Part Two. The (Many) Peculiarities of the Income Statement
      1. 5. Profit Is an Estimate
      2. 6. Cracking the Code of the Income Statement
      3. 7. Revenue: The Issue Is Recognition
      4. 8. Costs and Expenses: No Hard-and-Fast Rules
      5. 9. The Many Forms of Profit
      6. Part Two Toolbox:
        1. Understanding Variance
        2. Profit at Nonprofits
        3. A Quick Review: “Percent of” and “Percent Change”
    8. Part Three. The Balance Sheet Reveals the Most
      1. 10. Understanding Balance Sheet Basics
      2. 11. Assets: More Estimates and Assumptions (Except for Cash)
      3. 12. On the Other Side: Liabilities and Equity
      4. 13. Why the Balance Sheet Balances
      5. 14. The Income Statement Affects the Balance Sheet
      6. Part Three Toolbox:
        1. Expense? Or Capital Expenditure?
        2. The Impact of Mark-to-Market Accounting
    9. Part Four. Cash Is King
      1. 15. Cash Is a Reality Check
      2. 16. Profit ≠ Cash (and You Need Both)
      3. 17. The Language of Cash Flow
      4. 18. How Cash Connects with Everything Else
      5. 19. Why Cash Matters
      6. Part Four Toolbox:
        1. Free Cash Flow
        2. Even the Big Guys Can Run Out of Cash
    10. Part Five. Ratios: Learning What the Numbers Are Really Telling You
      1. 20. The Power of Ratios
      2. 21. Profitability Ratios: The Higher the Better (Mostly)
      3. 22. Leverage Ratios: The Balancing Act
      4. 23. Liquidity Ratios: Can We Pay Our Bills?
      5. 24. Efficiency Ratios: Making the Most of Your Assets
      6. 25. The Investor’s Perspective: The “Big Five” Numbers and Shareholder Value
      7. Part Five Toolbox:
        1. Which Ratios Are Most Important to Your Business?
        2. The Power of Percent of Sales
        3. Ratio Relationships
        4. Different Companies, Different Calculations
    11. Part Six. How to Calculate (and Really Understand) Return on Investment
      1. 26. The Building Blocks of ROI
      2. 27. Figuring ROI: The Nitty-Gritty
      3. Part Six Toolbox:
        1. A Step-by-Step Guide to Analyzing Capital Expenditures
        2. Calculating the Cost of Capital;
        3. Economic Value Added and Economic Profit—Putting It All Together
    12. Part Seven. Applied Financial Intelligence: Working Capital Management
      1. 28. The Magic of Managing the Balance Sheet
      2. 29. Your Balance Sheet Levers
      3. 30. Homing In on Cash Conversion
      4. Part Seven Toolbox:
        1. Accounts Receivable Aging
    13. Part Eight. Creating a Financially Intelligent Company
      1. 31. Financial Literacy and Corporate Performance
      2. 32. Financial Literacy Strategies
      3. 33. Financial Transparency: Our Ultimate Goal
      4. Part Eight Toolbox:
        1. Understanding Sarbanes-Oxley
    14. Appendix: Sample Financials
    15. Notes
    16. Acknowledgments
    17. Index
    18. About the Authors

Product information

  • Title: Harvard Business Review Leadership & Strategy Boxed Set (5 Books)
  • Author(s): Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Clayton M. Christensen, Renée A. Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim
  • Release date: May 2016
  • Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
  • ISBN: 9781633692336