This SloanSelect Collection is made up of three articles from the MIT SMR archive of seminal articles, which discuss how performance measurements, managing suppliers and breaking free of linear chain thinking can lead to great opportunities for innovation. "Managing Risk to Avoid Supply-Chain Breakdown" (Chopra, Sodhi), "The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains" (Lee, Padmanabhan, Whang), and "A Supply Chain View of the Resilient Enterprise" (Sheffi, Rice).