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Mid-Year Business Book Review

John Landry, HBR book reviewer.




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Customize Your Career

Cathleen Benko, vice chairman and chief talent officer for Deloitte LLP and coauthor of "Mass Career Customization."




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Sustainable Innovation

Cheryl Perkins, founder and president of Innovationedge.




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Lead with Just Enough Anxiety

Dr. Robert Rosen, founder and CEO of Healthy Companies International and author of "Just Enough Anxiety: The Hidden Driver of Business Success."




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The Internet, the Brain, and the Future of Business

Jeff Stibel, president of Web.com.




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Sustainability—The Only Strategy

Adam Werbach, global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S and author of "Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto."




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Reinventing Your Business Model

Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Reinventing Your Business Model."




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What Business Leaders Can Learn from Today’s Military

Colonel Tom Kolditz, professor and head of the department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.




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In a Recession, Provoke Your B2B Customers

Philip Lay and Todd Hewlin, managing directors at TCG Advisors and coauthors of the HBR article "In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers."




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Use Failure to Grow Your Business

Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and coauthor of "Discovery-Driven Growth."




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Use the Right Incentives for Gen Y, Gen X, and Boomers

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy and coauthor of the HBR article "How Gen Y and Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda."




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Innovation to Delight (and Surprise) Your Customers

Roberto Verganti, professor of management of innovation at Politecnico di Milano and author of "Design Driven Innovation."




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Is Your Business Ready for H1N1?

Dr. Robert Blendon, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.




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Applying Design Thinking to Your Business

Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management and author of "The Design of Business."




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How Enterprise 2.0 Will Reshape Your Business

Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business and author of "Enterprise 2.0."




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Using Checklists to Prevent Failure

Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and author of "The Checklist Manifesto."




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Rebuilding Trust at Toyota

Anna Bernasek, financial journalist and author of "The Economics of Integrity."




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What Motivates Us?

Daniel Pink, author of "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us."




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The Right Way to Collaborate (If You Must)

Morten Hansen, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and author of "Collaboration."




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Why Delighting Your Customers Is Overrated

Matthew Dixon, managing director of the Corporate Executive Board's Sales and Service Practice.




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Why Businesses Need to Think Like the Media

Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch, Inc., and author of "C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today."




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Build a Better Business Model

Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and coauthor of "Discovery-Driven Growth."




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The Holy Grail of Continuous Growth

Paul Nunes, executive director of research at the Accenture Institute for High Performance and coauthor of "Jumping the S-Curve."




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Productivity Secrets of a Very Busy Man

Bob Pozen, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and author of the HBR article "Extreme Productivity."




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Disney’s CEO on a More Modern Mouse

Robert Iger, CEO of Disney.




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Tenacious Leadership on the Mountain and in the Organization

Rick Ridgeway, vice president of environmental initiatives at Patagonia.




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Customer Loyalty in the Twitter Era

Fred Reichheld and Rob Markey, authors of "The Ultimate Question 2.0."




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All Business Is Green Business

Jib Ellison, founder of Blu Skye and coauthor of the HBR article "The Sustainable Economy."




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Business Wasn’t Always the Villain

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."




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HBR’s 2012 List of Audacious Ideas

Scott Berinato, HBR senior editor, featuring the ideas of Yale economist Robert Shiller, journalist Gregg Easterbrook, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman.




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Business Jargon Is Not a “Value-Add”

Dan Pallotta, president of Advertising for Humanity and author of "Uncharitable."




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The End of Customer Service Heroes

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of "Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business."




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Unilever’s CEO on Making Responsible Business Work

Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever.




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Who Your Customers Want to Become

Michael Schrage, research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business and author of the HBR Single "Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?"




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How Campaign Finance Reform Could Help Business

Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United.




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Improve Your Business Writing

Bryan Garner, editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of the "HBR Guide to Better Business Writing."




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Austerity’s Big Bait-and-Switch

Mark Blyth, professor at Brown University and author of "Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea."




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Yes, Business Relies on Nature

Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of "Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature."




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The Booming Business of Craft Cocktails

Thomas Mooney, co-owner and CEO of House Spirits Distillery.




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The Management Myths Hurting Your Business

Freek Vermeulen of London Business School explains how best practices become bad practices.




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John Cleese Has a Serious Side

The iconic comedian speaks with HBR's Adi Ignatius about work, life, and, yes, comedy.




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We Need Economic Forecasters Even Though We Can’t Trust Them

Walter Friedman, director of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School, on the pioneers of market prediction.




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Identify Your Primary Customer

Robert Simons, Harvard Business School professor, says companies still struggle to choose the right customer.




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How Unusual CEOs Drive Value

William Thorndike, investor and author of "The Outsiders," looks at some less-known but more effective executives.




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Taking Business Back from Wall Street

Gautam Mukunda, HBS professor, on the dangers of managing companies for shareholders.




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The Condensed July-August 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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The Fukushima Meltdown That Didn’t Happen

Charles Casto, recently retired from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on how smart leadership saved the second Fukushima power plant.




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Focus More on Value Capture

Stefan Michel, professor at IMD, says your business should rethink how it captures value, not just how it creates it.




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Disrupting TV’s Status Quo

Famed producer Norman Lear on developing groundbreaking sitcoms, managing creative partnerships and the lessons he wants to pass on to the next generation.




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Is the Corporate Campus Dying?

Jennifer Magnolfi, Founder & Principal Investigator at Programmable Habitats LLC, on how digital work, and the Internet of Things will fundamentally change the how we use the buildings and neighborhoods we work in.