Books
BCG and the Henderson Institute have a rich history of pushing the envelope in strategy and management thinking. Starting with Bruce Henderson in the 1960s, our thought leaders have authored books introducing new ideas and game-changing insights.
An essential new guide to navigating the turbulent macroeconomic landscape as you form your strategy.
Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Paul SwartzStrategy is by definition a changing art: strategy is about generating competitive advantage, but what it takes to create advantage is always evolving. This series takes a broad view of strategy, reflecting the multifaceted imperatives that leaders face.
Martin Reeves, François Candelon, Ulrich Pidun, Kevin WhitakerExplore our virtual bookshelf below, with titles covering smart simplicity, the role of imagination in business, globalization, business ecosystems, corporate transformation, and more.
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A playbook for delivering true personalization at scale.
An innovative and insightful 7-part guide to heartfelt and collaborative actions that transform the reader into a generous leader.
An essential new guide to navigating the turbulent macroeconomic landscape as you form your strategy.
Pricing is not a business problem, it’s a business solution. It can change the trajectory of a business, a market, and even society. This book offers a simple, yet game-changing framework, looking beyond the numbers to change the way you think—and talk—about pricing.
Drawing on decades of lessons learned from supporting families and the businesses they own, the book brings conflicts to life through the lens of a fictional family and the business conglomerate they own.
Most leaders agree that imagination in business is crucial for success but they struggle to cultivate this capability. Explore how to harness the power of imagination.
Strategy is by definition a changing art: strategy is about generating competitive advantage, but what it takes to create advantage is always evolving. This series takes a broad view of strategy, reflecting the multifaceted imperatives that leaders face.
The world of strategy is thick with ideas and frameworks; Your Strategy Needs a Strategy will help you cut through the noise and find clarity regarding which approach, or combination of approaches, is your best bet.
Great is no longer good enough. Beyond Great delivers a powerful new playbook of 9 core strategies to thrive in a post-COVID world where all the rules of the game are being re-written.
The book covers the fundamental questions of daily strategy work and illustrates them with examples from real companies.
Rocket tells the story of how sixteen remarkable business leaders created great brands. Every story is connected to a “how-to” lesson, and by the end, you’ll have what you need to turn your best customers into apostles, cravers, and brand ambassadors.
Conventional management theories and practices are no match for the dizzying complexity that so many managers face. There’s a better approach. It’s called smart simplicity.
When people think in new boxes, they learn how to ask the right questions in order to open up the most promising doors to creativity, innovation, and opportunity.
The future may be unknowable, but this book offers insights from BCG's 50 years of practice on how readers can position their organization to win—to change the game and to own the future.
The $10 Trillion Prize provides the first comprehensive profile of the emerging middle class, primed to transform the global marketplace.
Traditional strategy must become adaptive strategy. This book brings together a series of essays describing the results of ongoing research, by the Strategy Institute of BCG.
What Poetry Brings to Business presents ways in which reading and thinking about poetry offer businesspeople new strategies for reflection on their companies, their daily tasks, and their work environments.
Women Want More offers companies real strategies for growing their global markets by finding innovative ways to appeal to women′s needs and concerns through the results of their well-timed study.
An absolutely stunning - and scary - wake-up call that reveals how the economic world is about to change dramatically in the next few years as dozens of RDEs ("Rapidly Developing Economies") begin to assert themselves as major economic powers.
It's easy to miss many innovations in strategy until they appear on the front page of a major business publication. As a CEO or senior executive, your job is to detect these strategies and implement them before your competitors. That's where this book comes in.
Payback offers you a new way to think about and manage innovation that will dramatically improve the odds of success.
Since 2003 Dr. Antonella Mei-Pochtler has authored a series of highly successful and original columns on management in the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. This volume presents a selection of these columns.
Treasure Hunt takes us into the homes of real people making real decisions, and into the CEO's offices of innovative companies finding new ways to accommodate them.
This book offers a broad and up-to-date selection of BCG's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry.
Using approachable, witty, and engaging examples from philosophy, science, technology and linguistics, Luc de Brabandere explores the dangers, both in business and in life, of relying on habit and repetition.
George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer show how hardball competitors can build or maintain an enviable competitive edge by pursuing one or more of the classic "hardball strategies".
A fascinating look at why millions of consumers are "trading up" to premium goods, and how companies can profit from this phenomenon.
This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion of the topic in sociological, historical, and economic dimensions. It explores culturally specific forms of modernity with a focus on China and Europe.
A Passion for Ideas gathers together a stunning list of today's thought leaders to shed light on how "the new" is discovered.
BCG's Strategy Institute has excerpted those passages most relevant to business strategy from Clausewitz's classic text On War, the most general, applicable, and enduring work of strategy in the modern West and a source of insight into the nature of conflict, whether on the battlefield or in the boardroom.
Jeanie Daniel Duck, a former BCG senior partner, offers a powerful look at corporate change and why mergers, reorganizations, and transformations succeed or fail. The bestseller was released in 2001 and has been translated into nine languages.
A collection of the best and most recent thinking on marketing and branding.
This book shows how to build new strategies that reflect the new economics of information, and explains how to take advantage of the forces shaping today's competitive advantage.
Stalk and Hout conclude that virtually all businesses can use time as a competitive weapon. In industry after industry, they illustrate the processes involved in becoming a time-based competitor and the ways managers can open and sustain a significant advantage over the competition.
This book brings together many of BCG's most influential Perspectives, as well as several acclaimed articles published in the Harvard Business Review.
Kaisha examines Japanese corporations, including Honda, Canon, Toyota, and NEC, and looks at how they have changed over the last twenty years, and identifies the Japanese competitive edge.
In this book, Henderson introduces basic concepts in strategy, discusses costs, depreciation, pricing, shortages, debt, budgets, equity, and dividends, and provides examples of successful business strategies.
In this book, Henderson discusses techniques for business managers for planning company growth, overcoming competition, dealing with inflation, and improving the organization of the corporation.
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