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Best Business Books 2003: s+b's Top Shelf

(originally published by Booz & Company)

The best business books of 2003, selected by the strategy+business critics who contributed to our third annual "Best Business Books" issue.

	Strategy The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor			Management Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap by Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser

	Innovation Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology by Henry Chesbrough			Corporate Scandals The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

	Globalization One World: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer			Leadership Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround by Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

	Values The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin			Human Capital Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

	Business History Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903–2003 by Douglas Brinkley

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