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You Gotta Serve Somebody, s+b: "To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others", by Daniel H. Pink

March 1, 2013, strategy-business.com

Jeff Thull, author of Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes Are High, introduces a passage that overturns negative stereotypes about sales from To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others, by Daniel H. Pink.

If you want to succeed in sales, set aside manipulative games and mesmerizing presentations. Instead, figure out how you can improve your customer’s life. This is particularly important in the increasingly complex B2B markets, where customers face daunting buying decisions that can involve billions of dollars and where sales professionals struggle to differentiate themselves and their solutions from competitors.

Let’s also set aside outdated sales stereotypes once and for all. I’ve always found that the most successful sales professionals are what Dan Pink would call servant sellers. In the excerpt that follows, Pink hits the nail on the head when he quotes Robert Greenleaf’s vision of servant leadership—“do no harm...listen first...accept and empathize”—as a model for sales professionals. This model is well-supported by my firm’s research: The thinking and behavior of top salespeople are a close match to those of the best doctors. They diagnose and prescribe while keeping the well-being of their clients foremost in their minds.

In the rush to close deals and make the numbers, it is too easy to forget that we need to address the hopes, fears, and aspirations of our customers. But today’s customers are not saying, ‘‘We need solutions!’’ They are saying, ‘‘We need help!’’ If you reframe the way you sell in line with this reality, it will lead you to more valuable business relationships.

— Jeff Thull

 

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An excerpt from chapter 9 of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth about Moving Others

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In 2008, [Wharton professor Adam Grant] carried out a fascinating study of a call center at a major U.S. university. Each night, employees made phone calls to alumni to raise money for the school. As is the habit of social psychologists, Grant randomly organized the fund-raisers into three groups. Then he arranged their work conditions to be identical—except for the five minutes prior to their shift...

Book: "Emerging Markets Rule: Growth Strategies of the New Global Giants" - Guillen/García-Cana

Amazon

Hardcover: 240 pages,McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 23, 2012)

Mauro F. Guillen is the Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, a research-andteaching program on management and international relations. He holds the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professorship in International Management at the Wharton School and a secondary appointment as Professor of Sociology at Penn.

Esteban García-Canal is a professor of Management and International Business at the University of Oviedo (Spain). He is also President of the International Management Division of ACEDE and a member of the Institute of Business and Humanism at the University of Navarra.

"Lunch with the FT - 52 Classic Interviews" (FT 125th anniversary book)

March 14, 2013, www.ft.com/intl/ebooks  (via facebook.com/financialtimes)

Lunch with the FT - 52 Classic Interviews

Our 125th anniversary book published as hardback and ebook, served up with glorious cartoons

A selection of Financial Times interviews with high-profile figures in business, politics, the arts, science and more, illustrated in full color.
 
From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT gathers fifty-two fascinating interviews conducted at the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table.
 
The list of people who have participated in this popular feature since 1994 reads like an international Who’s Who of our times. Meet the rich and famous, the weird and the brilliant, the brave and the virtuous, all brought to you by the Financial Times’ global network of columnists and correspondents...

• Amazon UK (Hardcover)
• Amazon US and Asia (Hardcover)
• Barnes & Noble (Hardcover & ebook)
• Amazon UK (ebook)
• Amazon US and Asia (ebook)
• Apple US (ebook)

Justin Menkes Book: "Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have" + Thinkers50 interview with Prof Stuart Crainer

Justin Menkes is an expert in executive assessment.

Books:

"Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have", HarperBusiness (November 1, 2005), 336 pages

"Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others", Harvard Business Review Press (May 3, 2011), 208 pages

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Video of Justin Menkes interview by Stuart Crainer, Co-creator of the Thinkers 50 and visiting professor at IE Business School

Justin Menkes (On the Thinkers 50 Guru Radar) is an expert in executive assessment. A consultant for the executive search firm Spencer Stuart, he and his colleagues advise the boards of the world's leading companies on their choice of CEO. He authored The Wall Street Journal bestseller Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have and has written articles for Chief Executive and the Harvard Business Review.

Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education

Amazon

Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Crown Business; 1 edition (September 12, 2000)

Peter Senge (Wikipedia)

www.totalleadership.org - Book by Professor Stew Friedman (Wharton)

@StewFriedman

professor @Wharton | author, Total Leadership (http://amzn.to/U2rWOD ) | speaker | blogger @HarvardBiz | ran @Ford's Leadership Center | proud dad | lucky husband

Philadelphia, PA · http://www.totalleadership.org

"The Future", book by Al Gore - former Vice President and winner of the Nobel Prize

@algore, (Wikipedia), "The Future"

Al Gore, Huffington Post, Jan 25, 2013
"Up Ahead: The World According to Gore", Books of The New York Times Jan 23, 2013
"Al Gore on How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think", The Atlantic, Jan 25, 2013

"Most Influential Management Books of the 20th Century" - Organizational Dynamics

25 most influential management books of the 20th century in a poll of the 137 Fellows of the Academy of Management:

(Wikipedia:) Bedeian, Arthur G.; Wren, Daniel A. (Winter 2001). "Most Influential Management Books of the 20th Century". Organizational Dynamics 29 (3): 221–225. doi:10.1016/S0090-2616(01)00022-5.

"This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" (book), Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff

Book, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (July 18, 2011) (Amazon)

"[A] masterpiece". (Martin Wolf Financial Times )

"[E]ssential reading . . . both for its originality and for the sobering patterns of financial behaviour it reveals."--Economist

"[A] terrific book."--Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times

"[T]he most comprehensive study of financial crises and their aftermath . . ."--Eduardo Porter, New York Times

"Everyone working on economic policy should own This Time is Different and open it for a bracing blast of sobriety when things seem to be going well."--Greg Ip, Washington Post

Book "Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change" Aaditya Mattoo & Arvind Subramanian

Center for Global Development (December 12, 2012), www.cgdev.org, (On Amazon)

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

#ClimateGreenprint

“This important book sets a sensible and specific way forward. It should be read by all involved in economic development and international action on climate change.”
—Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review

Global negotiations on climate change have been hampered as much by a neglect of scientific facts as a lack of objective analysis. Greenprint fills a large gap and provides a useful departure from standard literature on the subject.”
—R. K. Pachauri, Nobel Prize–winning chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

“Greenprint presents a fresh out-of-the-box approach to climate cooperation and proposes a concrete menu of options. It should be seriously considered by political leaders and the armies of climate negotiators.”
—Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister at the Copenhagen Conference

“Mattoo and Subramanian are the masters at rethinking global compacts in a way that is free of the wishfulness, abstraction, and process-obsession that sometimes bedevil the debate.”
—Sebastian Mallaby, Center for Geo-Economic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

International cooperation on climate change has floundered. With mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and shifting economic and bargaining power from old CO2 emitters to new—what Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian call the “narrative,” “adding up,” and “new world” problems—the wonder is not the current impasse but belief that progress might be possible at all.

Each of these problems must be addressed in a radically different way. First, the old narrative of recrimination must give way to a narrative based on recognition of common interests. Second, leaders must shift the focus away from cutting emissions to generating technology. Third, the old “cash-for-cuts” approach must be abandoned for one that requires contributions from each country calibrated in magnitude and form to its current level of development and future prospects.

The Peterson Institute for International Economics: Arvind Subramanian's Book, Eclipse, Named Best Book by China Business News

December 3, 2012, The Peterson Institute for International Economics  (Board)

Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance (Amazon)
Arvind Subramanian, ISBN paper 978-0-88132-606-2, September 2011, 216 pp. $21.95

WASHINGTON—The Peterson Institute for International Economics is pleased to announce that Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance  (2011), by Arvind Subramanian, has been named one of the three Best Books of 2012 by China Business News. Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Institute and at the Center for Global Development, shares this year's Best Book honor with Henry Kissinger for his book, On China, and with Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the Central Bank of China, for his book, The Global Financial Crisis: Observations, Analysis and Countermeasures. The award was presented during China Business News's annual conference in Beijing on November 24.Eclipse was published by the Peterson Institute and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish (forthcoming). There are more than 100,000 copies in print worldwide.

"We are extremely proud that Arvind's book has been recognized with this award for its important discussion of China's ascendance as an economic power," said C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute. "The award demonstrates that Arvind's historical and political analysis is spurring debate and discussion throughout the world, not just in the United States. He is in very good company with Dr. Kissinger and Governor Zhou!"

In the book Subramanian argues that China's global economic dominance is likely to be more imminent, broader in scope, and larger in magnitude than is generally believed. He explains this dominance as a product of historical forces, economic policies and objectives put forward by China, and argues that the United States cannot do much to alter the trend. This conclusion challenges a widely held view that the right set of economic policies can retain the United States' position as the most economically powerful nation in the world.

China Business News, one of China's leading daily newspapers, is based in Shanghai. The award selection was made by a jury of influential Chinese academics, international economists, and finance executives. The other contenders for Best Book honors included Daniel Yergin's, The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World , Robert Shiller's Finance and the Good Society, former World Bank chief economist Justin Lin's The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Countries Can Take Off, and Nobel Prize winning economist Michael Spence's The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multi-Speed World.

>> Download news release [pdf]

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Arvind Subramanian is senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development. He is also coauthor of Who Needs to Open the Capital Account? (2012) and of a forthcoming book (with Aaditya Mattoo) Greenprint: A New Approach to Climate Change Cooperation. Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world’s top 100 global thinkers in 2011.

About the Peterson institute

The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely and objective analysis of, and concrete solutions to, a wide range of international economic problems. Support is provided by a wide range of chari- table foundations, private corporations and individual donors, and from earnings on the Institute’s publications and capital fund. 

Booz & Company - "Best Business Books 2012 review"

Best Business Books 2012 Our annual review of the year’s best business books.

by Theodore Kinni

New and improved! This promise gets slapped on business books as often as on household cleansers. Many books are new each year, but those with genuine insight and value are very rare indeed.

We take the time to find them. In strategy+business’s Best Business Books 2012, our team of distinguished experts — some veterans of this annual special section, namely James O’Toole, Sally Helgesen, Phil Rosenzweig, and “Z” Holly, and some newcomers, Alice Schroeder, J. Philip Lathrop, and Shaun Holliday — review 21 tomes published between the autumn of 2011 and the autumn of 2012 that fulfill their promise.

Be sure to take a close look at our Top Shelf selections — our reviewers’ picks as the best of this year’s best business books. They include a new appraisal of Dwight David Eisenhower that will prompt you to consider your own effectiveness as a leader, a realistic plan for improving healthcare that eschews political rhetoric for practical solutions, an exploration of cloud computing that gets beyond the surface technological story to look more deeply at how it will change business practices, and four more books that merit your time and attention.                  

Contents:

s+b’s Top Shelf

Biography Virtuosity Squared by Alice Schroeder Strategy Considering Competition by Phil Rosenzweig Marketing Brand New by Shaun Holliday

Innovation Context Is King by Krisztina “Z” Holly Healthcare Beyond the Rhetoric of Reform by J. Philip Lathrop Organizational Culture Small Talk by Sally Helgesen Capitalism Of Markets and Morals by James O’Toole

Dean Robert F. Bruner (Darden): "2012 Recommended Readings"

2012 Recommended Readings

...I read The Economist cover-to-cover usually in one sitting on the day it arrives (Saturday). Time very well spent. I have subscriptions to other periodicals, which I skim and choose maybe one article per edition to read in detail: Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Atlantic, Wired, Forbes, and New Yorker...

1. David Herbert Donald, Lincoln. A lifetime project of mine is to read one or more of the “best” biographies of each of the U.S. Presidents, in chronological order. Many good books out there, so progress through the Presidents is slow. More has been written about Lincoln than any President, for good reason. He was a complex and transformational figure. His life offers a host of leadership lessons. This particular book would be a contender for “very best” biography of Lincoln. Suggestion: read this book, then see the new movie by Steven Spielberg, Lincoln.

2. Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America. 

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Albert Bandura - "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory" + "Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control"

Albert Bandura

Books:

(1986) Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory
(1997) Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control

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...(Wikipedia) In addition to Bandura’s work on self-efficacy in relation to phobias and trauma, he also contributed, in 2008 with Caprara and colleagues, a significant amount to the study of self-efficacy in the education system. His focus was on the continuing technological explosion, in that with more information readily available than ever before the education system needs to focus on teaching students self-regulating efficacy. He argued that self-regulating efficacy is the focus on bolstering students belief that they can not only stay up to date with current technology, but also avoid becoming overwhelmed with its continual shift. He stated that this will be invaluable as jobs focus more on cognitive abilities as well as flexibility in light of technologies ever-changing use and applicability.^[20]

orgtheory.net Book - "Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure"

orgtheory.wordpress.com/category/grad-school-rulz/

Next summer, I will revise the best PhD advice book you can get: Grad Skool Rulz: Everything You Need to Know about Academia from Admissions to Tenure. One topic that will be revised is the section on liberal arts colleges. I’ll probably add something more on grants for faculty.

But I am still puzzled about one topic – advice for European academics. Consistently, I’ve been told that the Rulz aren’t very relevant to European academia. So I asked for advice. I got some good feedback on the differences between the US and Europe, but the comments didn’t provide  concrete strategies of the type that make up the Rulz. If you are a successful European academic, I’d love to hear about your experiences.

Studs Terkel - one of the finest qualitative researchers: "The Good War", "Hard Times, "Division Street"

www.StudsTerkel.org

www.socialresearchmethods.net

Copyright ©2006, William M.K. Trochim (Cornell U.): In fact, some of the best "qualitative" research is often published in book form, often in a style that almost approaches a narrative story. One of my favorite writers (and, I daresay, one of the finest qualitative researchers) is Studs Terkel. He has written intriguing accounts of the Great Depression (Hard Times), World War II (The Good War) and socioeconomic divisions in America (The Great Divide), among others. In each book he follows a similar qualitative methodology, identifying informants who directly experienced the phenomenon in question, interviewing them at length, and then editing the interviews heavily so that they "tell a story" that is different from what any individual interviewee might tell but addresses the question of interest. If you haven't read one of Studs' works yet, I highly recommend them. 

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Louis "Studs" Terkel (Wikipedia) (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008)^[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for “The Good War”, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago...

In 2006, Terkel received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. (USA Today)

Tuck Prof. Richard D'Aveni - How America Can Beat China's State Capitalism (Book: "Strategic Capitalism")

Richard A. D’Aveni is the Bakala Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and author of Strategic Capitalism: The New Economic Strategy for Winning the Capitalist Cold War (McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (July 31, 2012), 304 pages)

 

 

 

October 02, 2012 Businessweek

With the rise of China as an economy, a question hangs in the air: Can America beat state capitalism? The evidence is not encouraging. The U.S. has lost millions of jobs to the Chinese. It will lose millions more if China, as it proposes, turns itself into a high-tech giant in critical industries ranging from telecommunications to aviation.

The rise of state capitalism has put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage. State capitalism operates with zero-sum rules, in which one country gains as another loses. This is hardball competition, dog eat dog. And the Chinese dog is eating the American one in products ranging from cell phones to steel.

Zero-sum capitalism is not the form of capitalism U.S. policymakers see as the challenge in global markets. U.S. policymakers are guided instead by the idea of a win-win world. When everyone trades freely, business expands across the board. Every country wins. This free-market, open-trade approach is enshrined in the World Trade Organization...

New Book: “The Business School in the 21st Century” - Lorange/Thomas/Sheth

Peter Lorange's blog, "New Book: 'The Business School in the 21st Century'", 27 August, 2012

Dear reader

Together with Dr Howard Thomas, Dean Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore and Dr Jagdesh Sheth, Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Emory University, Atlanta I have just completed a book on “The Business School in the 21st Century”.

Dr Janglish Sheth (alt. Dr Janglesh Sheth)

Dr Howard Thomas

The chapter headings are given below, and the content should be more or less clear from this, but please let me know, if you would like to have more information.
The book shall be published by Cambridge University Press in May 2013.

CHAPTER 0
Forword: Tripping or Tipping: The Business SChool and its dilemmas

CHAPTER 1
The Business School: History, Evolution, and Search for Legitimacy

CHAPTER 2
Business School Identity and Legitimacy: Its relationship to the modern University and Society

CHAPTER3
Rethinking Management Education and its Models: a critical Examination of Management and Management Education

CHAPTER 4
A Framework for Re-Evaluating Paradigms of Management Education

CHAPTER 5
Evaluation New and Innovative Models of Management Education

CHAPTER 6
Is the Business School a Professional Firm? Lesson learned.

CHAPTER 7
Enhancing Dynamic Capabilitites in the Business School: Leadership Capabilities in Curricula and Management

CHAPTER 8
Afterword: Business School Futures”

Best regards,
Peter

HBS Book "The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India"

HBS Press Book

The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India

by Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, David Michael
Source: Harvard Business Press Books
336 pages.  Publication date: Oct 02, 2012

...this book takes you inside the hearts and minds of today's emerging Chinese and Indian consumers...

Amazon

Jim O’Neill, Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management—
“This landmark book documents the rapid growth in consumer spending in China and India over the next ten years. It is an analytic tour de force and a rags-to-riches tale.”

US Immigrant Entrepreneurship Has Stalled for the First Time in Decades, Kauffman Foundation Study Shows - Vivek Wadhwa

New book based on findings warns of potential dire consequences for U.S. economy and urges swift action to reverse the trend

(KANSAS CITY, Mo.), Oct. 2, 2012 — A new Kauffman Foundation study finds that high-tech, immigrant-founded startups — a critical source of fuel for the U.S. economy — has stagnated and is on the verge of decline.

"America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Then and Now" shows that the proportion of immigrant-founded companies nationwide has slipped from 25.3 percent to 24.3 percent since 2005. The drop is even more pronounced in Silicon Valley, where the percentage of immigrant-founded startups declined from 52.4 percent to 43.9 percent...

The implications of the research findings, conducted by Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; AnnaLee Saxenian, dean and professor at the Berkeley School of Information; and F. Daniel Siciliano, professor of the Practice of Law and faculty director, Rock Center for Corporate Governance; are the subject of a bookbeing released today by Wadhwa.

The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, (Amazon) draws on the research to show that the United States is in the midst of a historically unprecedented halt in high-growth, immigrant-founded startups.

"The U.S. risks losing a key growth engine just when the economy needs job creators more than ever," said Wadhwa. "The U.S. can reverse these trends with changes in policies and opportunities, if it acts swiftly. It is imperative that we create a startup visa for these entrepreneurs and expand the number of green cards for skilled foreigners to work in these startups. Many immigrants would gladly remain in the United States to start and grow companies that will lead to jobs."

With funding from the Kauffman Foundation, Wadhwa has launched a website — ImmigrantExodus.com — as a resource for journalists and a voice for immigrant entrepreneurs.

From the 107,819 engineering and technology companies founded in the last six years, the study examined a random sample of 1,882 companies in a nationwide survey. Of those companies, 458 had at least one foreign-born founder.

"The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable" - Book

By Patrick Lencioni (Wikipedia), (Company Bio)

www.tablegroup.com/dysfunctions/

On Amazon, Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (April 11, 2002), 229 pages.

"How to Enchant Your Boss" - Guy Kawasaki

www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/audio-video/ This is the full, one-hour version (plus slides) of Guy’s Enchantment speech at Stanford

bigthink.com, April 10, 2012

Guy Kawasaki: The most powerful, single way to enchant someone you're working for may seem painful, but I have to explain it to you. The answer to that question is, when your boss asks you to do something, no matter how busy you are, no matter what else you're doing, no matter how important you think what you're doing is to the organization or yourself, no matter how suboptimal you may think it is to be interrupted, you should drop everything and do what your boss asks. If you simply do that, you will be an enchanting employee. Sounds painful, may be irritating, but that's the key to enchanting your boss.

Restoring American Capitalism to Its Former Glory

Chicago Booth School of Business, August 8, 2012

From 1945 to 1948, the United States represented an unparalleled productivity machine. It had an educated workforce, advanced production techniques, well-organized institutions, and relative stability. A period of huge growth ensued—one that greatly benefited workers. "It was a virtuous circle that worked well for a long time," said Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance.

But other countries soon learned from its efficiency, and in recent years, the unfettered influence of business lobbyists has further eroded confidence in the US system. The last quarter-century has brought the largest creation of wealth in history, Zingales noted, but it has occurred mostly in developing nations.

The once-robust underpinnings of American success are getting weaker, Zingales told a group of Booth students at Gleacher Center during a Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum event organized by the Initiative on Global Markets. But the trend is not irreversible. In a plea to bolster free markets and not big business, he shared insights from his new book, A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity.

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Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.  He is a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research and a fellow for the European Governance Institute. He is the Lead Independent Director of Telecom Italia and the Vice President of the American Finance Association. He is the co-author of Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists and a contributing editor of City Journal.  He lives in Chicago with his wife and children. (on Project Syndicate)

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J. Bradford DeLong, University of California, Berkeley

“More than 30 years ago, Milton and Rose Director Friedman raised high the banner of small-government free-market libertarianism with their Free to Choose. Now, a generation later, income inequality is substantially higher, the globe is even more interconnected, and our partial financial deregulation has backfired badly. Luigi Zingales thus has a harder task as he tries to update the small-government free-market libertarian position for the 21st century. But he has done a very good job at it.”

Robert J. Shiller (Yale SOM), author of Finance and the Good Society

“This remarkably creative book, driven by a strong moral conviction, offers a bold array of ideas for us to ponder, so we can really make the American capitalist model work better for everyone.”

Edmund S. Phelps, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University

“In A Capitalism for the People, Luigi Zingales joins the small but influential group of economists who see that America’s economy is now more and more corporatist, less and less capitalist. His impressive account of our downhill slide is enriched by his deep knowledge of the harm wrought by the worst excesses of Italian crony capitalism. A must-read.”

N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University, and author of Principles of Economics

“A Capitalism for the People is a wise, deep, and timely book.  With lively prose, Zingales diagnoses what is right and wrong with the U.S. economy.  Whether your political sympathies lie with the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, or someplace in between, you will learn much about how we can best promote an economic future that works for all of us.”

FREE chapter of "Playing to Win" by Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management

Get a sneak peek of the next big book on strategy from Harvard Business Review Press.
Strategy is not about having all of the right answers. It's about making the right choices. It's about making the hard decisions—choosing what to focus on and, just as important, what not to do. It’s about having the courage to do things differently.

In February 2013, A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin will share with you their proven roadmap for getting strategy right. In Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, they outline a simple yet potent 5-step model for making strategy work—for your organization and everyone in it. They key is discovering answers to two questions: Where do we play? How do we win? Your success will flow from there.

A.G. Lafley is the former CEO of Procter & Gamble and one of the most successful business leaders of the last century. Roger Martin is Dean of the Rotman School of Management. Playing to Win is the book that finally brings strategy out of the corner office and into the organization. It’s a book for everyone.

"Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business" - Book - HBR

HBS PRESS BOOK

Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business

by Anthony K. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington 
Source: Harvard Business Press Books 
256 pages.  Publication date: Aug 07, 2012. Prod. #: 10253-HBK-ENG

What's your entrepreneurial profile? Do you have what it takes to build a great business? In this book, three prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs--now venture capitalists and CEO advisers--share the qualities that surface again and again in those who successfully achieve their goals. The common traits? Heart, smarts, guts, and luck. After interviewing and researching hundreds of business-builders across the globe, the authors found that every one of them-from young founder to seasoned C...

 

Administrative Science Quarterly reviewer praises book "Institutions and Entrepreneurship" as “an excellent overview” in “this new area of scholarship”

8/7/2012 Johson Cornell University, "Wes Sine’s new book explores entrepreneurship from an institutional perspective"

Administrative Science Quarterly reviewer praises Institutions and Entrepreneurship as “an excellent overview” in “this new area of scholarship”

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Wesley Sine, associate professor of management and organizations and faculty director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute, at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, has co-edited an important volume in Emerald Books’ ongoing Research in the Sociology of Work series. The book, Institutions and Entrepreneurship, was reviewed by Klaus Weber, professor of management and organizations at Kellogg School of Management, in the June 2012 issue of Administrative Science Quarterly, Johnson’s highly-respected academic journal.  

Weber’s review called attention to the pioneering nature of Sine and his co-author’s diverse, balanced, and well-crafted collection of work on the intersection of institutions and entrepreneurship — two phenomena that are typically considered polar opposites. While institutions are thought to be rigid and formal, entrepreneurship represents an unconstrained and creative impulse. Sine has argued that institutions and entrepreneurship are more interrelated — both in theory and practice — than is commonly assumed. As he pointed out in Institutions and Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activities can be glimpsed in institutional processes, whereas institutions lay the groundwork for different kinds of entrepreneurship.

Sine’s book and its positive review in Administrative Science Quarterly reflect how scholars affiliated with Johnson and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute continue to be on the cutting edge of theory and research.     

Click here to read the review.

"10 Best Books on the Future of Higher Ed" - Online Universities

OnlineUniversities.com, July 17, 2012.

Book Review: “The Learning Curve – how Business Schools are Re-Inventing Educations” by Santiago Iniguez

Book Review: “The Learning Curve – how Business Schools are Re-Inventing Educations”

MBA Channel Barbara Bierach, 24 July, 2012

by Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

How do you create world-class educational institutions that are academically rigorous and vocationally relevant? How do you combine the best of traditional academia with the modern market to meet the need of both? Are business schools the blueprint for institutions of the future, or an educational experiment gone wrong? How can we develop good managers and entrepreneurs in business schools? Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, president of Spain’s IE University, dean of IE business school and a member of the awarding body of accreditation agency EQUIS, tackles all these questions in his book “The Learning Curve”. 

Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño

To report on all of the author’s answers to these questions would mean to re-create the whole book. Let’s therefore concentrate on what he has to say about business schools as institutions and the question if they are up to the task to develop good managers and entrepreneurs.

First of all the author states that “management can still be one of the noblest vocations in the world” since he regards good management as one of the best antidotes to most of the world’s ills. Therefore business schools have to produce managers, and not MBAs. That’s not the same thing, he acknowledges, referring to the critics who claim that business schools attract the wrong people, teach them in the wrong way and produce graduates who are arrogant and overconfident.

Iñiguez de Onzoño ponders the criticism, but he still believes that good management and righteous behaviour can be taught, if education is a “personal transformation process”. “Business schools can provide a valuable platform for cultivating a series of virtues such as hard work, endurance, self-organisation, modesty and common sense.” Good managers, though, are forged over the course of their career, based on the repeated practice of the basic skills. The book is called “The Learning Curve” after all and the analogy is valid: in the end good management is the result of continued learning over a period of time.

Business school can only be a stepping stone, though, but an important one nevertheless. As a result, Iñiguez de Onzoño believes that business schools should provide a more “integrated and rounded education”. Too much specialization has undesirable consequences, he feels: the “silo syndrome” and a narrowed perspective. IE Business School already introduced a number of humanities’ courses as core part of the curriculum. The author also supports the idea of INSEAD’s former dean Frank Brown who suggested “refresher” courses to be given every five years after graduation from an MBA. Wharton and Harvard already provide free top-up training to MBA alumni after seven years.”Other business schools will follow suit,” expects the author.

Iñiguez de Onzoño’s book is no surprise. He spends his life teaching management at a business school and must believe that good managers can be taught and that business schools are the place to do that. Nevertheless, the book is a worthwhile read. Firstly, he sums up all the challenges for business schools and then, secondly, gives an honest account what he feels must be done to keep schools abreast of the learning curve.

If you expect a hands-on report on how to get into a prestigious school and to thrive in it, you will be disappointed. Iñiguez de Onzoño’s book digs far deeper, challenging the future of business education as such, if many universities continue to bow to the commercial interests of the companies that finance their research, if they continue to treat students as “customers” and not as students and if their business schools do not manage to deal with the notion that they foster greed and arrogance.

Book - "Business and Its Environment (7th Edition) - Professor David P. Baron

Baron’s integrated approach combines the disciplines of economics, political science, law, and ethics to provide a deeper understanding of the managerial issues that arise in the business landscape.

Stanford faculty page, David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy and Strategy, Emeritus

David Baron has published in the fields of industrial organization, economic theory, political science, business strategy, operations research, statistics, and finance. He has authored over 100 articles and 3 books, one of which is in its 5th (now 7th) edition. His principal research interests have been the theory of the firm, the economics of regulation, mechanism design and its applications, political economics, and nonmarket strategy. His current research focuses on political economics and strategy in the business environment.

David Baron began his academic career at Northwestern University where he taught for thirteen years in the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

PhD Distinguished Service Award - Standford GSB, 1999

Papers on SSRN

Amazon, 768 pages, Prentice Hall; 7 edition (August 2, 2012)

Businesses compete in many ways, including nonmarket areas like corporate responsibility. Learn how to sharpen your firm’s competitive edge. Baron’s integrated approach combines the disciplines of economics, political science, law, and ethics to provide a deeper understanding of the managerial issues that arise in the business landscape.

Strategy and the Non-Market Environment; Public Politics and Non-Market Strategy; Government and Markets; Global Non-Market Strategy; Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

Today’s businesses need to compete in both the market and nonmarket arenas. Written to assist managers improve the performance of their businesses, this text teaches readers how to balance shareholder profits and the consumer appeal of corporate social responsibility.

Dean Roger Martin of Rotman Bschool(Toronto) - New Book, Canada: What It Is, What It Can Be, Examines Canadian Competitiveness

Rotman News, Toronto, June 18, 2012 – With a balance of economic prosperity and civic harmony, Canada is the envy of most countries around the world. But a new book warns that Canadians cannot be complacent as the country’s high paying jobs, world-class learning and research institutes, excellent health care, and social safety nets exist only to the extent that Canada is innovative and competitive globally.

Canada: What It Is, What It Can Be, published by Rotman-UTP Publishing, an imprint of University of Toronto Press in partnership with the Rotman School of Management, provides an incisive examination of Canada’s increasing prosperity gap – the difference in value between what we do create and what we could create if we performed at our full potential. It calls for the country to take ground-breaking new approaches to ensure Canada will continue to be an economic leader in the coming decades.

Written by Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School, and James Milway, the book builds on their work of more than a decade at the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, which supports the Ontario government’s Taskforce on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress.

 

Rotman(Toronto) Dean Roger Martin and Mihnea Moldoveanu - "Diaminds: Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers"

Book on Amazon, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division; 1 edition (November 28, 2009)

What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are some of the techniques used by top business minds in order to solve problems and create value? Diaminds breaks new ground in addressing these questions.

Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum at the Rotman School of Management, draw upon case studies and interviews - as well as theories and models from cognitive psychology, epistemology, analytic philosophy, and semiotics - to offer a new conception of successful intelligence that is immediately applicable to business situations. The 'diamind' (or dialogical mind) is characterized by bi-stability (simultaneously holding opposite plans, models, courses of action in mind while retaining the ability to act), meliorism (increasing the logical depth and informational breadth of one's thinking processes), choicefulness (retaining the ability to choose among various representations of the world, the self and others) and polyphony (thinking about the way one formulates and solves a problem while at the same time thinking about the problem itself)...

"Strategic Alliances: Theory and Evidence" (Oxford Management Readers)

On Amazon, Oxford University Press, USA (April 15, 2004)

This book addresses the basic concepts and theories of collaborative strategy. It presents an introduction on the topic of alliance research. This volume goes on to suggest the economics perspectives on alliances as well as how to select the most beneficial alliance. It also presents features a section on real options, an important and emerging feature in the area of strategy. The concluding section introduces relational perspectives of collaborative strategy.

About the Author

Jeffrey J. Reuer is the Blake Family Endowed Chair in Strategic Management and Governance at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, where he is also the Area Coordinator. Before joining Purdue, he was the Boyd W. Harris, Jr. Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Strategic Management at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina.

He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Purdue University. Professor Reuer serves as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal and as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. He is the Chief Grants Officer at the Strategy Research Foundation and serves on that organization’s Executive Committee. He was a program chair of the Strategic Management Society’s international conference in Washington, DC, and was elected to a five-year term as an officer of the Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division of the Academy of Management and is currently serving as the Program Chair. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management Journal and two Outstanding Editorial Board Member Awards from the Strategic Management Journal. He also received the Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of International Business Studies as well as the Journal of Management Studies.

"The Learning Curve" book by Santiago Iñiguez will be presented March 27 at 7pm at IE Business School in Aula Magna

@SantiagoIniguez

I invite all readers to attend the presentation of my book The Learning Curve on March 27 at @IEbusiness School http://t.co/25w1y3Ql

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"The Learning Curve" was featured in the March/April 2012 edition of AACSB's BizEd magazine

Download "Bookshelf" (PDF 2 pages)

...As of January 2012, the AACSB accredits 643 institutions, representing 43 countries and territories on six continents...

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Presentación del libro: "The Learning Curve"

(thelearningcurvebook.com)

Mar 27, 2012

Only available in Spanish

IE Business Publishing, tiene el placer de invitarle a la presentación del libro: “The Learning Curve"

Escrito por Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, que se celebrará el martes 27 de marzo de 2012 a las 19,00 horas.

Presentación del Acto e Introducción:

Diego del Alcázar Silvela, Presidente de IE

Intervendrán:

- Carina Szpilka, Directora General para España, ING Direct
- Alberto Artero, Director General y Analista Económico, El Confidencial
- Fernando Barnuevo, Presidente de Antiguos Alumnos, IE Business School
- Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, Decano, IE Business School y Presidente, IE University

Al finalizar la presentación, se servirá un vino español

Book: "Finance and the Good Society" by Robert Shiller, (Princeton University Press, March 20, 2012)

Book on Amazon, at Princeton University Press

Previously on DeansTalk, 05 September 2011, Professor Robert J. Shiller of Economics at Yale - Reuters TV: "new" "bigger" "balanced budget stimulus"

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Yale School of Managment blog: Finance and the Good Society, March 9, 2012

Finance has a reputation problem; it is perceived by some as a bad actor behind the mortgage and debt crises in the United States and Europe, economic inequality, and market manipulations. In his new book Finance and the Good Society (Princeton University Press, April 4, 2012), Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, argues that finance shouldn't be condemned, but used as a force to achieve the greater goals of society. 

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Read excerpts from Finance and the Good Society in a four-part series published by Bloomberg:

Part I: Walt Whitman, First Artist of Finance 

Part 2: Finance Isn't as Amoral as it Seems 

Part 3: Don't Resent the Rich; Fix the Tax Code

Part 4: Logic of Finance Can Banish Corruption

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Princeton University, Archived Lectures.

October 14, 2010
Robert J. Shiller, Professor of Economics, Yale University: "Finance and the Good Society" (69 mins 15)

Prof. Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford - Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't (Book)

YouTube, Organizational Behavior Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer spoke about the role power plays and how sometimes hard work doesn't necessarily equal success. Book, On Amazon: "Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't"

"Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle" author @saulsinger, conference at IE

...translated into 17 languages..

"at the start of 2009, some 63 Israeli companies were listed on the NASDAQ, more than those of any other foreign country."

The Economist notes that Israel now has more high-tech start-ups and a larger venture capital industry per capita than any other country in the world.

Saul Singer on Wikipedia. Start-up Nation... on Wikipedia, on Amazon

www.startupnationbook.com

Interview by Techcrunch

 

The Economist, January 2012, What next for the start-up nation?

Even in Israel, it is hard to turn young companies into adults...

Professor Lynda Gratton, Organisational Behaviour, LBS - Book: The Shift, The Future of Work

Professor Lynda Gratton Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School, today at IE Business School

www.lyndagratton.com

Book (Amazon) - The Shift, The Future of Work is already here.

Lynda's new book is for anyone keen to take charge of the future of their work. Through the lens of six people from globally diverse business cultures, Lynda identifies the 32 key trends that are shaping the future of work. Read the book to understand how you can manage the shift.

 

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Glow: bringing energy and innovation to your work - are you going to be a Fred or Frank?

Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession - Carnegie Foundation

From Carnegie Foundation studies of Higher Education, carnegiehighered.org

Book

• Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, William M. Sullivan, Jonathan R. Dolle, Foreword by Lee S. Shulman
• Jossey Bass, January 2011

“The authors have provided the most thoughtful and systematic study of undergraduate business education since the famous Ford Foundation and Carnegie Corporation reports of the 1950s. It is difficult to imagine a more bold and timely study that also offers a path for revitalizing America’s undergraduate business schools and, in turn, our nation’s business leadership.”
–Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School; author of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands (Princeton, 2007)

University of North Carolina as job laboratory

Reuters, February 9, 2012

CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA — At the age of 17, Holden Thorp (@chanthorp) placed fifth in a nationally televised Rubik’s cube competition on the ABC show That’s Incredible! At 24, he received a doctorate in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology after studying for three years instead of five. And at 43, he was named chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming one of the country’s youngest university presidents.

Today, Thorp is trying to turn this 29,000-student public university into an engine of economic innovation. A business owner who has twice launched $25 million pharmaceutical startups, Thorp has streamlined the process for faculty members to turn their discoveries into private companies. He has made “entrepreneurship” a minor for all undergraduate students.

And Thorp has co-written a book, Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the 21st Century, with the university’s “entrepreneur in residence” — a former venture capital banker. It calls for the top 125 U.S. research universities to revitalize the American economy. (www.revupinnovation.com)

“The jobs of the near and distant future,” he told me, “are going to be for those who create them for themselves.”

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Thorp and Goldstein insist they are not backing the commercialization of academia. Their definition of entrepreneurship is a broad one, they say, that includes social entrepreneurship.

“It’s not Donald Trump,” Goldstein said.

Former Harvard University President Derek Bok, whose book “Universities in the Marketplace: the Commercialization of Higher Education,” looked at the phenomenon...

The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives - features Professor Sydney Finkelstein of Tuck

2 January, 2012, Forbes by Eric Jackson

Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, published “Why Smart Executives Fail” 8 years ago.

In it, he shared some of his research on what over 50 former high-flying companies – like Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Rubbermaid, and Schwinn – did to become complete failures. It turns out that the senior executives at the companies all had 7 Habits in common. Finkelstein calls them the Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives.

These traits can be found in the leaders of current failures like Research In Motion (RIMM), but they should be early-warning signs (cautionary tales) to currently unbeatable firms like Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and Amazon.com (AMZN).  Here are the habits (PDF Ivey Business Journal), as Finkelstein described in a 2004 article:

Habit # 1:  They see themselves and their companies as dominating their environment

Habit #2:  They identify so completely with the company that there is no clear boundary between their personal interests and their corporation’s interests

Habit #3:  They think they have all the answers

Habit #4:  They ruthlessly eliminate anyone who isn’t completely behind them

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"In Defense of Globalization", book by professor Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University)

On Amazon

Jagdish Bhagwati Wikipedia

Reviews (PDF, 7 pages)

In Defense of Globalization is an important contribution to an often incoherent debate. As we expect from Mr.Bhagwati, it is cogently argued and well written. It sets out a persuasive case in favour of globalization. And because of Mr. Bhagwati’s impeccable credentials, there is a better chance his book will be given a fair hearing than might be the case with some other authors. Put simply, Mr. Bhagwati has “street cred.”
Anne Krueger, The Financial Times

 

Why globalisation works—and how to make it work better, The Economist, Apr 29th 2004

"An outstandingly effective book.... Until further notice In Defense of Globalization becomes the standard general-interest reference, the intelligent layman's handbook, on global economic integration."

...As you might expect, given the thrust of the author's previous academic and policy work, Mr Bhagwati regards liberal trade—the principal driver of globalisation—as essential to raising the incomes and improving the longer-term development prospects of the world's poor.

Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy - Book

On Amazon

Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing (October 18, 2011)

It’s no wonder American higher education is facing a crisis.

Andrew S. Rosen is chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., one of the world’s largest and most diverse education organizations.  Throughout his career, Rosen has pioneered new approaches to education with a focus on student achievement and success. He is an outspoken advocate for adult learners, and a frequent speaker on the challenges facing higher education in a knowledge economy.  Mr. Rosen holds an A.B. degree from Duke University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

On Bill Gates' Reading list

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel Pink

www.danpink.com/drive

Daniel H. Pink is an American author and journalist. From 1995 to 1997, he worked for Vice President Al Gore in the capacity of chief speechwriter, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.^[1]

Drive, #1 New York Times bestseller

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money--the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink in Drive. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction--at work, at school, and at home--is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does-and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation--autonomy, mastery, and purpose--and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Jeremy Rifkin, senior lecturer at Wharton bschool - Books: The Third Industrial Revolution+The Empathic Civilization

Jeremy Rifkin is an American economist, writer, public speaker, political advisor and activist. He is the founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends. Rifkin's work explores the potential impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment.

The Third Industrial Revolution

The Guardian - Saying goodbye to Adam Smith at the Dawn of the Third Industrial Revolution, 3 November 2011

EmpathicCivilization.com

Jeremy Rifkin on "the empathic civilization" on Ted Talks

On Huffington Post

Book - Theory of the Firm for Strategic Management - Manuel Becerra Professor IE Business School

Cambridge University Press

Strategic decisions deal with the long-term direction of the firm and its main activities, usually the responsibility of the top managers in an organization. Because the firm is the critical unit of analysis in strategy, we need to define what firms are, how they create value, and what their organizational boundaries are in order to understand their overall performance. However, this must be done in a manner that is most useful for strategic analysis and decision making. In other words, we need a theory of the firm for business strategy. Theory of the Firm for Strategic Management integrates and expands key existing theories, like transaction costs economics and the resource-based view, to develop a value-based theory of the firm. This provides a framework to show how firms can create value for customers and, at the same time, capture economic profits for their owners through business, corporate, international, and social strategies...

Dean Glenn Hubbard - Book - The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty

Book on Amazon, (August 24, 2009) R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan, two leading scholars in business and finance

Over the past twenty years more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector—the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions the business sector is weak, but foreign aid continues to fund government and NGOs. Switching aid to the local business sector in order to cultivate a middle class is the oldest, surest, and only way to eliminate poverty in poor countries.

"Poor Economics" named Financial Times Business Book of the Year + FT Video interview

www.pooreconomics.com  (on Amazon)

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Poor Economics argues that so much of anti-poverty policy has failed over the years because of an inadequate understanding of poverty. The battle against poverty can be won, but it will take patience, careful thinking and a willingness to learn using an evidence-based approach based on randomized control trials.

...Through a careful analysis of a body of evidence, including hundreds of randomized control trials Banerjee and Duflo’s lab pioneered, they show why the poor, despite having the same desires and abilities as anyone else, end up with entirely different lives. Banerjee and Duflo used randomized control trials across five continents to test the impact of policies aimed at beating poverty...

Bill Gates, (October 21, 2011): Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Book Review)

...The book Poor Economics is very helpful, because it is both empirically rigorous and insightful about the realities that the data doesn’t always capture.

Poor Economics is by two MIT economists, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Esther Duflo.  Their life’s work is traveling to poor countries, looking closely at what works and what doesn’t work in efforts to fight hunger and disease, improve education, and broaden access to basic financial services. The authors are directors of J-PAL, an MIT poverty action lab that’s a network of 59 professors around the world who use scientific methods to answer critical questions about alleviating poverty...

One of Bill Gates's G20 bookshelf, recommends five books.

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Financial Times: Business Book of the Year 2011

Poor Economics, which champions radical new ways of tackling global poverty, is the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Abhijit Banerjee received the £30,000 award on behalf of his co-author Esther Duflo at a dinner in London on Thursday.

Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times and chair of the panel of judges, said he had been “blown away by the thoroughness of [Banerjee and Duflo’s] empirical research. This is going to be a real basis for innovation in policy, innovation in government, and a guide to intellectual debate. This is a business book in the broadest sense”. Read more about the winning book...

’Flat’ World Will Take Time to Smooth Out: Professor Pankaj Ghemawat

Businessweek, October 24, 2011.

...No matter how you slice the numbers, the bulk of the flow of goods and services is domestic, not international, and will remain so for the foreseeable future...

...Understanding that the world is much less integrated than many believe, and that distances and differences still matter, provides breathing room to consider more calmly whether to continue pushing forward with globalization.

The simple answer is: We should...

...The world is not flat.

www.TheLearningCurveBook.com - new book by Santiago Iniguez - Chapter 1 downloadable

www.thelearningcurvebook.com

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Book - Professor Lynda Gratton, London Business School - The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here

The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here

Paperback: 384 pages, HarperCollins UK (July 15, 2011)

Lynda Gratton is a professor at London Business School and the author of Hot Spots and Living Strategy. She has been hailed by the Times as one of the top 20 business thinkers in the world today, esteemed by the Economist for "leading the world's top 200 business minds to predict the future of work," and the Financial Times called her the business thinker most likely to make a real difference over the next decade.

Description: Lynda Gratton's groundbreaking book looks at the five forces that will fundamentally change the way we work in the next 10 to 15 years: globalization, society, demography, technology, and energy. It remains to be seen whether this will be a bad thing or a good thing. The invaluable advice that Lynda imparts, however, is that there are three key shifts that individuals can make to prepare themselves in this fast-moving world.