HBR Insights Future of Business Boxed Set (8 Books)

HBR Insights Future of Business Boxed Set (8 Books)

by Harvard Business Review
Released January 2021
Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 9781647820251

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Book description

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?

Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues, each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.

You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future. This specially priced 8-volume set includes:

  • Agile
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Blockchain
  • Climate Change
  • Customer Data & Privacy
  • Cybersecurity
  • Monopolies & Tech Giants
  • Strategic Analytics

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Strategic Analytics
    1. Series Page
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction. What Makes Analytics Strategic
    6. Section 1. Understanding Analytics Basics
      1. 1. The Five Essential Elements for Succeeding with Data
      2. 2. Understanding the Types of Data and How They’re Captured
      3. 3. The Right Way to Deploy Predictive Analytics
      4. 4. What Great Data Analysts Do
      5. 5. What Data Is and Isn’t Good For
    7. Section 2. Becoming an Analytics-Driven Organization
      1. 6. Prioritize Which Data Skills Your Company Needs
      2. 7. How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab
      3. 8. Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete
      4. 9. Data Science and the Art of Persuasion
    8. Section 3. Applying Data Analytics
      1. 10. How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers
      2. 11. How to Use Employee Data Responsibly
      3. 12. What AI-Driven Decision Making Looks Like
      4. 13. How Companies Can Use the Data They Collect to Further the Public Good
    9. About the Contributors
    10. Index
  3. Artificial Intelligence
    1. Series Page
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction: The State of AI in Business
    6. Section 1: Understanding AI and Machine Learning
      1. 1. The Business of Artificial Intelligence
      2. 2. Inside Facebook’s AI Workshop
      3. 3. Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up
    7. Section 2: Adopting AI
      1. 4. Three Questions About AI That Nontechnical Employees Should Be Able to Answer
      2. 5. Is Your Company’s Data Actually Valuable in the AI Era?
      3. 6. How to Choose Your First AI Project
      4. 7. What Will Happen When Your Company’s Algorithms Go Wrong?
    8. Section 3: AI and the Future of Work
      1. 8. How Will AI Change Work? Here Are Five Schools of Thought
      2. 9. Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces
    9. Section 4: The Future of AI
      1. 10. Three Ways AI Is Getting More Emotional
      2. 11. How AI Will Change Strategy: A Thought Experiment
      3. 12. The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More
    10. About the Contributors
    11. Index
  4. Cybersecurity
    1. Series Page
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction: We’re All in This Now
    6. 1. Internet Insecurity
    7. 2. Security Trends by the Numbers
    8. 3. Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats
    9. 4. The Behavioral Economics of Why Executives Underinvest in Cybersecurity
    10. 5. Why the Entire C-Suite Needs to Use the Same Metrics for Cyber Risk
    11. 6. The Best Cybersecurity Investment You Can Make Is Better Training
    12. 7. Better Cybersecurity Starts with Fixing Your Employees’ Bad Habits
    13. 8. The Key to Better Cybersecurity: Keep Employee Rules Simple
    14. 9. The Avoidable Mistakes Executives Continue to Make After a Data Breach
    15. 10. Active Defense and “Hacking Back”: A Primer
    16. 11. Cybersecurity Is Putting Customer Trust at the Center of Competition
    17. 12. Privacy and Cybersecurity Are Converging. Here’s Why That Matters for People and for Companies
    18. 13. What Countries and Companies Can Do When Trade and Cybersecurity Overlap
    19. 14. AI Is the Future of Cybersecurity, for Better and for Worse
    20. About the Contributors
    21. Index
  5. Monopolies & Tech Giants
    1. Series Page
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction: How Can You Compete Against World-Dominating Giants?
    6. Section 1: The Dominance of Mega-firms
      1. 1. Managing Our Hub Economy
      2. 2. Is Lack of Competition Strangling the U.S. Economy?
    7. Section 2: The Future of Antitrust and Regulation
      1. 3. Why It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data
      2. 4. What the Future of U.S. Antitrust Should Look Like
      3. 5. Don’t Break Up Facebook—Treat It Like a Utility
      4. 6. How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire
    8. Section 3: Competing Against Giants
      1. 7. The Amazon–Whole Foods Deal Made Every Other Retailer’s Plan Obsolete
      2. 8. What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy
      3. 9. Crafting a Strategy in the Age of Giants
      4. 10. Who Will Win the Industrial Internet?
      5. 11. What to Learn from the Grocery Stores Holding Their Own Against Amazon
    9. About the Contributors
    10. Index
  6. Blockchain
    1. Series Page
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction: Blockchain and the Data Integrity Revolution
    6. Section 1: Understanding Blockchain
      1. 1. The Truth About Blockchain
      2. 2. A Brief History of Blockchain
      3. 3. The Blockchain Will Do to the Financial System What the Internet Did to Media
      4. 4. Who Controls the Blockchain?
      5. 5. How Safe Are Blockchains? It Depends
      6. 6. What Blockchain Can’t Do
    7. Section 2: Blockchain and Business
      1. 7. How Blockchain Is Changing Finance
      2. 8. As Cryptocurrencies Rise, Who Needs Banks?
      3. 9. Global Supply Chains Are About to Get Better, Thanks to Blockchain
      4. 10. What Blockchain Means for the Sharing Economy
      5. 11. How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers
      6. 12. Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works
    8. Section 3: The Future of Blockchain
      1. 13. Does Your Idea Actually Require Blockchain?
      2. 14. How Regulation Could Help Cryptocurrencies Grow
      3. 15. Using Blockchain to Keep Public Data Public
      4. 16. Blockchain Will Help Us Prove Our Identities in a Digital World
      5. 17. Making Cryptocurrency More Environmentally Sustainable
    9. About the Contributors
    10. Index
  7. Agile
    1. Series Page
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction. Agile: How to Get in the Game (and Not Get in the Way)
    6. 1. Agile at Scale
    7. 2. Why Agile Goes Awry
    8. 3. How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together
    9. 4. How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform
    10. 5. HR Goes Agile
    11. 6. How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite
    12. 7. How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed
    13. 8. Making Process Improvements Stick
    14. About the Contributors
    15. Index
  8. Climate Change
    1. Series Page
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction: Climate Action: The New Business Imperative
    6. Section 1: Understanding Climate Change
      1. 1. Leading a New Era of Climate Action
      2. 2. When Environmental Regulations Are Tighter at Home, Companies Emit More Abroad
      3. 3. The State of Socially Responsible Investing
      4. 4. Dematerialization and What It Means for the Economy—and Climate Change
    7. Section 2: Taking Action
      1. 5. Why “Degrowth” Shouldn’t Scare Businesses
      2. 6. Is Your Company Ready for a Zero-Carbon Future?
      3. 7. Making Cryptocurrency More Environmentally Sustainable
      4. 8. Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build
      5. 9. How Businesses Can Brace for Catastrophe
      6. 10. Young People Are Leading the Way on Climate Change, and Companies Need to Pay Attention
    8. About the Contributors
    9. Index
  9. Customer Data & Privacy
    1. Series Page
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright
    4. Contents
    5. Introduction. Trust: The New Competitive Advantage
    6. 1. Uninformed Consent
    7. 2. Why It’s a Bad Idea to Let a Few Tech Companies Monopolize Our Data
    8. 3. Privacy and Cybersecurity Are Converging: Here’s Why That Matters for People and for Companies
    9. 4. A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions
    10. 5. Do You Care About Privacy as Much as Your Customers Do?
    11. 6. How to Exercise the Power You Didn’t Ask For
    12. 7. To Regain Consumers’ Trust, Marketers Need Transparent Data Practices
    13. 8. How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers
    14. 9. The Dangers of Digital Protectionism
    15. 10. Why Companies Are Forming Cybersecurity Alliances
    16. About the Contributors
    17. Index

Product information

  • Title: HBR Insights Future of Business Boxed Set (8 Books)
  • Author(s): Harvard Business Review
  • Release date: January 2021
  • Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
  • ISBN: 9781647820251