Arcus Business Best Sellers
| THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads.) |
| FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate. |
| THE BLACK SWAN, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $17.) The hubris of predictions — and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens. |
| SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT, by Matthew B. Crawford. (Penguin, $15.) A philosopher on what manual labor can teach about the world and oneself. |
| LIAR’S POKER, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $15.95.) Wall Street’s tumultuous 1980s, as witnessed by a young bond trader. |
| PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL, by Dan Ariely. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) The hidden forces that shape our decisions. |
| THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, by Ben Mezrich. (Anchor, $15.95.) How two Harvard undergraduates created Facebook. |
| THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE, by Stephen R. Covey. (Free Press, $15.) A new edition of the author’s principles for solving problems. |
| GETTING THINGS DONE, by David Allen. (Penguin, $15.) Methods for reducing stress and increasing performance. |
Hardcover Business Best Sellers
| THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $27.95.) The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight. |
| OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent — from the author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point.” |
| SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. (Broadway Business, $26.) How everyday people can effect transformative change at work and in life. |
| THE WAY WE’RE WORKING ISN’T WORKING, by Tony Schwartz with Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy. (Free Press, $28.) Advice on re-energizing and re-engaging yourself on the job and off. |
| CRISIS ECONOMICS, by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm. (Penguin Press, $27.95.) How the global financial system broke down in 2008, and what may happen if new regulations are not embraced. |
| DRIVE, by Daniel H. Pink. (Riverhead, $26.95.) What really motivates people is the quest for autonomy, mastery and purpose, not external rewards. |
| THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK, by Timothy Ferriss. (Crown, $22.) Reconstructing your life so that it’s not all about work. |
| 13 BANKERS, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. (Pantheon, $26.95.) A call for the restructuring of the banking industry. |
| STRENGTHS BASED LEADERSHIP, by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie. (Gallup, $24.95.) Three keys to being a more effective leader. |
| REWORK, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. (Crown Business, $22.) Counterintuitive rules for small-business success, like “Ignore the details early on” and “Good enough is fine.” |
| THE TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER, by Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson, $24.99.) Debt reduction and fiscal fitness for families, by the radio talk-show host. |
| THE END OF WALL STREET, by Roger Lowenstein. (Penguin Press, $27.95.) A journalist’s account of the financial collapse, from origins to bailout. |
| HOW AN ECONOMY GROWS AND WHY IT CRASHES, by Peter D. Schiff and Andrew J. Schiff. (Wiley, $19.95.) Through wit, humor and illustrations, the complex financial system is explained. |
| TOO BIG TO FAIL, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. (Viking, $32.95.) The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times reporter and columnist. |
| SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $29.99.) A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel. |
Best business books of all time
Back in Fashion: How We’re Reviving a British Icon
Stuart Rose
British Library CEO Lynne Brindley on Helping to Spur Business Innovation
Sarah Cliffe
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
John P. Kotter
Beating the Market with Customer Satisfaction
Christopher W. Hart
HBR Case Study: The Customers’ Revenge
Dan Ariely
How Valuable Is Word of Mouth?
V. Kumar, J. Andrew Petersen, and Robert P. Leone
Northwestern Mutual’s Ed Zore on Staying Relevant to Customers
Thomas A. Stewart
Service with a Very Big Smile
Forethought, May
Silo Busting: How to Execute on the Promise of Customer Focus
Ranjay Gulati
Understanding Customer Experience
Christopher Meyer and Andre Schwager
Work with Me
Simon J. Bell and Andreas B. Eisingerich
Decision Making
Hotter Heads Prevail
Andrew O’Connell
The Wisdom of (Expert) Crowds
Robert S. Duboff
THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis
The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight.
OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell
Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent — from the author of “Blink” and “The Tipping Point.”
HBR Case Study: Good Money After Bad?
John W. Mullins
Environment
Forethought Special Report: Climate Business, Business Climate
Ethics and Society
Beware of Bad Microcredit
Steve Beck and Tim Ogden
HBR Case Study: The CEO’s Private Investigation
Joseph Finder
The Flaw in Customer Lifetime Value
Detlef Schoder
So You Think You Understand Revenues
Robert Shaw and Vincent-Wayne Mitchell
The Truth About Private Equity Performance
Oliver Gottschalg and Ludovic Phalippou
SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
How everyday people can effect transformative change at work and in life.
The Art of Designing Markets
Alvin E. Roth
The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007
The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve
Neil Howe and William Strauss
Who Owns the Long Term? Perspectives from Global Business Leaders
Maurice Lévy, Mike Eskew, Wulf H. Bernotat, and Marianne Barner
Globalization
Cocreating Business’s New Social Compact
Jeb Brugmann and C.K. Prahalad
Forward-Thinking Cultures
Mansour Javidan
China + India: The Power of Two
Tarun Khanna
Mao’s Pervasive Influence on Chinese CEOs
Shaomin Li and Kuang S. Yeh
Nurturing Respect for IP in China
Georg von Krogh and Stefan
If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business
Robert C. Pozen
Reducing Directors’ Legal Risk
Michael Klausner
THE WAY WE’RE WORKING ISN’T WORKING, by Tony Schwartz with Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy. Advice on re-energizing and re-engaging yourself on the job and off.
Health Care
What Health Consumers Want
Caroline Calkins and John Sviokla
Realizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine
Mara G. Aspinall and Richard G. Hamermesh
Human Resources
HBR Case Study: We Googled You
Diane Coutu
How Risky Is Overtime, Really?
Harris Allen and William Bunn, MD
How to Teach Pride in “Dirty Work”
Forethought, September
Making Relationships Work: A Conversation with Psychologist John M. Gottman
Diane Coutu
Munchausen at Work
Nathan Bennett
Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership
Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli
Younger Women at the Top
Forethought, April
Innovation and Creativity
Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box
Kevin P. Coyne, Patricia Gorman Clifford, and Renée Dye
A Buyer’s Guide to the Innovation Bazaar
Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney
Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
Lynda Gratton and Tamara J. Erickson
Innovate Faster by Melding Design and Strategy
Ravi Chhatpar
The Innovation Value Chain
Morten T. Hansen and Julian Birkinshaw
Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?
George S. Day
Meet the Innovation Capitalist
Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney
$152,000 for Your Thoughts
Gary Carini and Bill Townsend
Preparing for the Perfect Product Launch
James P. Hackett
The Value Captor’s Process: Getting the Most out of Your New Business Ventures
Rita Gunther McGrath and Thomas Keil
The Knowledge-Creating Company
Ikujiro Nonaka
Becoming the Boss
Linda A. Hill
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Hans-Paul Bürkner
The Best Advice I Ever Got
Fred Carl, Jr.
Building a Leadership Brand
Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood
Management Development
Employees Get an Earful
Anders Gronstedt
HBR Case Study: The Very Model of a Modern Senior Manager
Mike Morrison
Help Newly Hired Executives Adapt Quickly
Michael D. Watkins
Make Your Company a Talent Factory
Douglas A. Ready and Jay A. Conger
Managing People
Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders
Joseph L. Bower
HBR Case Study: Off-Ramp–or Dead End?
Sharman Esarey and Arno Haslberger
Managing Technology
HBR Case Study: Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve?
John P. Glaser
Marketing
SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. A scholar and a journalist apply economic thinking to everything: the sequel.
Charge What Your Products Are Worth
Venkatesh Bala and Jason Gree
Companies and the Customers Who Hate Them
Gail McGovern and Youngme Moon
Even Commodities Have Customers
François M. Jacques
Getting Attention for Unrecognized Brands
Daniel G. Goldstein
HBR Case Study: Mad About Plaid
Julia Kirby
Hidden Wealth in B2B Brands
James R. Gregory and Donald E. Sexton
If Brands Are Built over Years, Why Are They Managed over Quarters?
Leonard M. Lodish and Carl F. Mela
Quality Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Debanjan Mitra and Peter N. Golder
Sports Sponsorship to Rally the Home Team
Francis J. Farrelly and Stephen A. Greyser
Viral Marketing for the Real World
Duncan J. Watts and Jonah Peretti
Mergers and Acquisitions
Deals Without Delusions
Dan Lovallo, Patrick Viguerie, Robert Uhlaner, and John Horn
Human Due Diligence
David Harding and Ted Rouse
Rules to Acquire By
Bruce Nolop
Negotiation
Investigative Negotiation
Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman
Operations
Are Your Engineers Talking to One Another When They Should?
Manuel E. Sosa, Steven D. Eppinger, and Craig M. Rowles
Are You the Weakest Link in Your Company’s Supply Chain?
Reuben E. Slone, John T. Mentzer, and J. Paul Dittmann
Break the Paper Jam in B2B Payments
Steve Berez and Arpan Sheth
High-Tech Ways to Keep Cupboards Full
Peter J. McGoldrick and Peter M. Barton
Improve Your Return on Returns
Andrew O’Connell
Lessons from the Leaders of Retail Loss Prevention
Adrian Beck and Colin Peacock
Make Your Back Office an Accelerator
Paul Rogers and Hernan Saenz
Pandemic Preparedness: Who’s Your Weak Link?
George Abercrombie
Performing a Project Premortem
Gary Klein
The Process Audit
Michael Hammer
Selecting Management Tools Wisely
Darrell Rigby and Barbara Bilodeau
Organization and Culture
Avoiding Integrity Land Mines
Ben W. Heineman, Jr.
HBR Case Study: Why Didn’t We Know?
Ralph Hasson
Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance
Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
A Larger Language for Business: A Conversation with David Whyte
Lisa Burrell
Promise-Based Management: The Essence of Execution
Donald N. Sull and Charles Spinosa
Reconcilable Differences
Jonathan Knowles and Richard Ettenson
Simple Rules for Making Alliances Work
Jonathan Hughes and Jeff Weiss
To Thine Own Staff Be Agreeable
Gary Davies and Rosa Chun
What It Means to Work Here
Tamara J. Erickson and Lynda Gratton
Why Employees Are Afraid to Speak
James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
The Cost of Myopic Management
Natalie Mizik and Robert Jacobson
Higher Net Price–Or Bust
Paul Calthrop
Performance Measurement
Maximizing Your Return on People
Laurie Bassi and Daniel McMurrer
Productivity Is Killing American Enterprise
Henry Mintzberg
The Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Felix Barber and Michael Goold
Research and Development
Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Getting Unusual Suspects to Solve R&D Puzzles
Karim R. Lakhani and Lars Bo Jeppesen
Novartis’s Great Leap of Trust: A Conversation with Daniel Vasella
Andrew O’Connell
Where More R&D Dollars Should Go
Jim Scinta
Risk Management
A Growing Focus on Preparedness
Darrell Rigby and Barbara Bilodeau
HBR Case Study: Boss, I Think Someone Stole Our Customer Data
Eric McNulty
HBR Case Study: The Dark Side of Customer Analytics
Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris
Reputation and Its Risks
Robert G. Eccles, Scott C. Newquist, and Roland Schatz
Scorched Earth: Will Environmental Risks in China Overwhelm Its Opportunities?
Elizabeth Economy and Kenneth Lieberthal
Sales
Managing Global Accounts
George S. Yip and Audrey J.M. Bink
Self-Management
Cognitive Fitness
Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts
Crisis at the Summit
George D. Parsons and Richard T. Pascale
Find the Gold in Toxic Feedback
Fernando Bartolomé and John Weeks
How Leaders Create and Use Networks
Herminia Ibarra and Mark Hunter
The Making of an Expert
K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy
My Extreme MBA: A Conversation with Rory Stewart
Lew McCreary
Realizing What You’re Made Of
Glenn E. Mangurian
Surviving Your New CEO
Kevin P. Coyne and Edward J. Coyne, Sr.
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Robert S. Kaplan
Strategy and Competition
TOO BIG TO FAIL, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times reporter and columnist.
The Battle for China’s Good-Enough Market
Orit Gadiesh, Philip Leung, and Till Vestring
Competitive Advantage on a Warming Planet
Jonathan Lash and Fred Wellington
Finding Your Next Core Business
Chris Zook
The Four Principles of Enduring Success
Christian Stadler
How Managers’ Everyday Decisions Create–or Destroy–Your Company’s Strategy
Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert
If You Love Your Information, Set It Free
David Weinberger
Managing Differences: The Central Challenge of Global Strategy
Pankaj Ghemawat
Managing Our Way to Economic Decline
Robert H. Hayes and William J. Abernathy
Mapping Your Competitive Position
Richard A. D’Aveni
Outdoor-Apparel Start-Up CEO Chris Van Dyke on New Ways to Feed Customers’ Passions
Andrew O’Connell
Private Equity’s Long View
Walter Kiechel III
A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, and Paul Hawken
Set Up to Fail: A Conversation with Paul Ormerod
Gardiner Morse
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Paul Saffo
A Staged Solution to the Catch-22
Andrei Hagiu and Thomas Eisenmann
Strategic Insight in Three Circles
Joel E. Urbany and James H. Davis
Strategies to Crack Well-Guarded Markets
David J. Bryce and Jeffrey H. Dyer
Strategy Lessons from Left Field
José Santos
Take Your Third Move First
Jeff Cares and Jim Miskel
To Succeed in the Long Term, Focus on the Middle Term
Geoffrey A. Moore
The Upside of Falling Flat
Stefan Michel
The Wealth of African Nations
Vijay Mahajan
Which Levers Boost ROI?
Margeaux Cvar and John A. Quelch
CEOs Misperceive Top Teams’ Performance
Richard M. Rosen and Fred Adair
The New Deal at the Top
Yves L. Doz and Mikko Kosonen
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