Great entrepreneurs don't take risks. They manage them. If you need the best practices and ideas for launching new ventures this book is for you. Here are nine inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: zero in on your most promising prospects, set a clear direction for your start-up, test and revise your assumptions along the way, tackle risks that could sabotage your efforts, carve out opportunities in emerging markets, launch a start-up within your company, and hand over the reins when it's time.

Protect the earth and your bottom line. If you need the best practices and ideas for turning sustainability into competitive advantage--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: craft strategy to compete on green turf, redesign your business model, products, and processes to achieve green goals, parlay your efforts into lower costs and higher revenues, capture more value from clean-tech investments, launch sustainability programs with impact, synchronize green initiatives by overhauling your supply chain, engage constructively with environmental activist groups, and mitigate the risks of climate change.

Persuade others to do what you want--for their own reasons. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: seal or sweeten a bargain by uncovering the other side's motives, conquer faulty assumptions to make the right deals, forge deals only when they support your strategy, set the stage for a healthy relationship long after the ink has dried, make promises you can keep, gain your adversaries' trust in high-stakes talks, and know when to walk away.

Beat local companies at their game. If you need the best practices and ideas for gaining market share in developing economies--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: manage risk in unstable environments, ward off political threats to your business, customize your business model for emerging markets, tailor your strategy to capitalize on countries? strengths, gain ground on emerging giants, compete in China’s new high-tech market, win the war for talent in developing economies, and serve the bottom of the pyramid profitably.

Stop pushing products--and start cultivating customer relationships. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: figure out what business you're really in, collaborate with customers to meet current and future needs, create products that perform the jobs people need to get done, get a bird's-eye view of your brands' strengths and weaknesses, tap a market that's larger than China and India combined, deliver superior value to your B2B customers, and end the war between sales and marketing.

Revise your game plan--and profit from the change. If you need the best practices and ideas for creating business models that drive growth--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: reinvent your business profitably, set your model up for success with a winning competitive strategy, test and change your assumptions about customers, spot trends that could transform your business, exploit disruptive technologies, give traditional offerings a shot in the arm, produce game changers for your industry or market, and build a new business in an established organization.

Find and fix your weakest links. If you need the best practices and ideas for making your supply chain strong and agile then this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: use your supply chain as a competitive weapon, gain customers' trust by revealing where your products come from, collaborate with other companies--even rivals--to achieve scale, make smart decisions about where to manufacture, pick the most profitable supply chain for your products, align partners' interests with your own, and revamp your supply chain to meet green goals.

How do you keep your customers coming back-and get them to bring others? Here is a collection of best practices and ideas for making your customers loyal and profitable--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are nine inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: turn angry customers into loyal advocates, get more people to recommend you, boost customer satisfaction by satisfying your employees, focus on profitable customers--whether they're loyal or not, invest in the right CRM technology for your business, mine customer data for more effective marketing, and increase your customers' lifetime value.

Fresh ideas can mean big profits--but only if they make it to market and sell. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: decide which ideas are worth pursuing, adapt offerings from the developing world to wealthy markets, plan all-new ventures by testing and tweaking, tailor your efforts to meet customers' most pressing needs, make inexpensive products on a vast scale, measure and improve innovation performance, and avoid classic pitfalls such as stifling innovation with rigid processes.

How can management cure health care's ills? If you need the best practices and ideas for transforming health care--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. The HBR articles in this collection propose several remedies: focusing incentives on patients' recovery, saving lives and dollars by designing clearer work processes, sharing knowledge through industry networks, knocking down barriers to innovation in funding, policy, and technology, treating common ailments with simpler interventions, bridging the divide between clinicians and administrators, and ramping up R&D productivity by returning power to scientists.