HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy

The HBR anthology that collects ten articles widely considered foundational in strategy — Porter's "What Is Strategy?", Kim and Mauborgne's "Blue Ocean Strategy", Hamel and Prahalad's "Core Competence", Christensen's "Disruptive Technologies", among others. The value is the curation: reading these ten pieces together produces a working vocabulary for contemporary strategy discussions that most managers are missing. For product direction it is an efficient way to cover the foundational literature without committing to the full books. Use it as a reference or as a reading group syllabus. The anthology format has its limits — some pieces lose context — but the compression is worth the tradeoff.