We don't write reports, but we do publish practical insights to help business leaders outperform their industries. "Best of Bain in Harvard Business Review" is a compilation of articles written by Bain VPs previously published in Harvard Business Review. The collection assembles our most current and timeless thinking on five topics critical to business success.

1. Profitable Growth: Innovating with Boundaries
Desperately Seeking Growth: The Virtues of Tending to Your Core, by Chris Zook
Open-Market Innovation, by Darrell Rigby & Chris Zook
2. Mergers & Acquisitions: Beating the Odds
Discipline and the Dilutive Deal, by David Harding & Phyllis Yale
Buying into Japan, Inc., by Ryoji Itoh & Till Vestring
3. Strategies to Win in Turbulence
Moving Upward in a Downturn, by Darrell Rigby
How to Think Strategically in a Recession, by Chris Zook & Darrell Rigby
Taking Advantage of a Downturn, by Sarabit Singh Baveja, Steve Ellis & Darrell K. Rigby
4. Organization: How to Forge a Performance Culture
Value Acceleration: Lessons from Private-Equity Masters, by Paul Rogers, Tom Holland & Dan Haas
Lead for Loyalty, by Frederick F. Reichheld
Look Before You Lay Off, by Darrell Rigby
5. Achieving Full Potential: Managing People and Systems for Maximum Results
Avoid the Four Perils of CRM, by Darrell Rigby, Frederick F. Reichheld & Phil Schefter
Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action, by Orit Gadiesh & James L. Gilbert