Epics of Enterprise A connoisseur of corporate histories conducts a guided tour of the favorites in his collection.

Books in Brief Meltdowns past and present, confused credit markets, irrational individuals, and the seedy business of infomercials.

Books in Brief Fixing the mortgage meltdown, mastering disruptive change, inculcating a sense of urgency, and exploring drama at the Economist.

Best Business Books 2008 Our annual review, written by prominent thinkers in their fields, selects the best business books to help leaders navigate the changing economic, social, technological, and political landscapes that affect the way people do business. Topics covered in this year’s review include: strategy, life stories, marketing, rhetoric, innovation, globalization, human capital, capitalism and community, management, miscellany

Peanut Butter on the Chin What The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo’s landmark book on a prison experiment at Stanford University, tells us about the dangers of corporate conformity.

Books in Brief Why financial markets are brittle, companies stop growing, Ryanair took off, and plans succeed or fail.

Books in Brief An icon of genius, a turnaround monomaniac, a flat-world skeptic, a psychoanalyst of leadership, and a management futurist.

Lessons for Business Schools New books and revisited history illuminate the irrelevance of today’s MBA — and ways to make it compelling again.

The Productivity Promisers Plenty of motivational coaches pledge to boost your efficiency. These are the few who really deliver.

Books in Brief High-tech entrepreneurial experience, hidden assets, analytical sophistication, and China’s global ambitions.

Best Business Books 2007 In our seventh annual survey of the year's best business books, noted business practitioners, scholars, and journalists select and judge the most significant and useful books in their areas of expertise.

Books in Brief Don’t miss the latest books covering a range of issues on management, strategy and leadership. From making ideas survive and rebounding from career disasters to innovative approaches to strategic risk and a study of AIG under Hank Greenberg, the following four book selections won’t disappoint.

Books in Brief Don’t miss these noteworthy books on strategy and leadership. Treating everything from the genesis of Xerox and the proper function of the CFO to the continental European model of “family capitalism”, these selections will broaden your business acumen.

Knowledge Review: Does Health Care Have a Future? Eight books attempt to unravel the problems facing the American health care system. Nearly all of these authors agree that a major industry transformation is inevitable, and several offer interesting solutions regarding transparency and the introduction of value-based competition amongst providers.

Best Business Books 2006 This year’s reviews, written by prominent thinkers in their field, identify books to help leaders navigate the changing economic, social, technological, and political landscapes that affect the way people do business. The list features dozens of book reviews in 11 subjects: the Future, Economics, Marketing, Media, Negotiation, Strategy, Governance, Management, the Business of Defense, Fiction, and Leadership.…Read More

Books in Brief: Admirable Strategies Strategy Bites Back: It’s Far More, and Less, Than you Ever Imagined by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel, is an anthology of 69 pieces of writing by leading strategy experts, each followed by critical comments from the authors that emphasizes the often contradictory nature of strategy making.

Books in Brief: The Biography of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight, visiting professor of naval history at the University of Greenwich, tells the story of England’s famous admiral during his celebrated victory over the combined Franco-Spanish armada, and subsequent death, during the Battle of Trafalgar.

Books in Brief: Farsighted Forecasting Joseph H. Ellis, the top-ranked retail-industry analyst for the last 18 straight years, shares his secrets to forecasting success in Ahead of the Curve: A Commonsense Guide to Forecasting Business and Market Cycles. This is an important read for managers who need to interpret economic data and deduce the impact that change in economic indicators can have on business activity.

Books in Brief: A Container-Shipping Retrospective Author and economist Marc Levinson examines the evolution of the humble shipping container, and how it revolutionized transportation economics and the pace of global commerce in his new book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.

Four New Business Books That Offer Insight and Intelligence In a must-read book for CEOs, performance management consultant Dick Grote defends “rank and yank.” James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones explain why there’s profit in respecting the customer’s time and effort. Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble evaluate how to balance core competencies with new competencies in their book on innovation in business. And former BBDO chief Phil Dusenberry focuses on insights in business:  how to get them, recognize them, and keep them coming.

Business Books Not to Miss Hundreds of business books roll off publishers’ presses each year. We’ve winnowed that list to 32 titles you won’t want to miss in eight categories: The Future, Strategy, Globalization, Management, Work and Life, Marketing, Media, and Leadership.