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Explore the best business and economics books, including top entrepreneur reads, finance essentials, and foundational texts. Browse our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended books in business and economics.
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Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do ItInnovation and Scaling for Impact forces us to reassess how social sector organizations create value. Drawing on a decade of research, Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair transcend widely held misconceptions, getting to the core of what a sound impact strategy entails in the nonprofit...
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Sustainable Innovation: Build Your Company's Capacity to Change the WorldIf we can carry in our pockets more computing power than the Apollo program needed to put a man on the moon, why can't we solve problems like climate change, famine, or poverty? The answer lies, in part, in the distinctive challenges of creating...
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The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los AngelesToday, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would...
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The Co-Creation ParadigmA fundamental shift is underway that will change how we conceive of value. In an era of increasing interconnectedness, individuals, as opposed to institutions, stand at the center of value creation. To adapt to this tectonic shift, organizations can no longer unilaterally devise products...
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Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for LeadersWhen faced with complex challenges or uncertain outcomes, many leaders believe that if they are smart enough, work hard enough, or turn to the best management tools, they will be able to find the right answer, predict and plan for the future, and break...
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Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of NeoliberalismChallenging conventional accounts, Markets in the Name of Socialism chronicles a transnational dialogue among economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These exchanges led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism.Author: Johanna BockmanPublisher: Stanford...
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Evaluation Foundations Revisited: Cultivating a Life of the Mind for PracticeEvaluation examines policies and programs across every arena of human endeavor, from efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to programs that drive national science policy. Relying on a vast array of methods, from qualitative interviewing to econometrics, it is a transdiscipline, as opposed...
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The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands, 1595-1630This book provides a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated account of a key element of the early modern Atlantic world: the sugar trade linking Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The study seeks to illuminate the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of this commerce....
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Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about SustainabilityOver the course of a thoughtful conversation, authors John R. Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman discuss how to leave our wasteful, consumption-addicted culture behind, revealing a new and necessary path to flourishing through sustainability.Author: John R. Ehrenfeld, Andrew J. HoffmanPublisher: Stanford Business BooksPublished: 05/15/2013Pages:...
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Your Career Game: How Game Theory Can Help You Achieve Your Professional GoalsYour Career Game demonstrates how game theory can help readers to understand and proactively take charge of their career strategy. Authors Nathan Bennett and Stephen A. Miles teach readers to manage the interdependencies and interconnectedness among coworkers, managers, and others in a manner that...
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Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive AdvantageWe are in the midst of a sea-change. In years past, corporate social responsibility may have been seen as a feather in a corporation's cap but, today, ecological and social pressures require a new type of business response. In Embedded Sustainability, authors Chris Laszlo...
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CQ: Developing Cultural Intelligence at WorkThis book explains to those living and working in another country how to identify and develop their Cultural Intelligence, or CQ. Cultural intelligence is an outsider's natural ability to interpret and respond to unfamiliar cultural signals in an appropriate manner. CQ is distinguished by...
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Enduring Success: What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding CorporationsEnduring Success addresses a key question in business today: How can companies succeed over time? To learn the source of enduring greatness, author Christian Stadler directed a team of eight researchers in a six-year study of some of Europe's oldest and most stellar companies,...
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Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political EconomyIn Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing...
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Corporate Culture: The Ultimate Strategic AssetOrganizational culture is a quiet, but driving, influence on our perception of a company, whether as a consumer or as an employee. For instance, we know Southwest Airlines as laid back and friendly. We think of Google as innovative. To almost every well-known company...
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Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence Across the Taiwan Strait and BeyondWhy is it that political conflict between countries sometimes undermines commerce between those states, and yet at other times it seems to have little or no effect on cross-border economic flows? The question is an important one, yet, while numerous studies have considered how...
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Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing GoodIn Sustainable Value, Chris Laszlo illustrates how the competitive strategies of some of the world's largest businesses are changing as their leaders begin to take on a number of the world's most important social, environmental, and economic issues. Part I of the book is...
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The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American PoliticsTax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two of the three largest...
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Smile Southern California, You're the Center of the Universe: The Economy and People of a Global RegionThirty-five years ago, a billboard announced to the world: Smile Los Angeles! You're the Center of the Universe. Hyperbolic at the time, today, this exaggeration comes close to reality. While Southern California is not at the literal center of the universe, it is nevertheless...
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Managing as DesigningManaging as Designing explores the design attitude, a new focus for analysis and decision making for managers that draws on examples of decision making and leadership in architecture, art, and design. Based on a series of conference papers given at the opening of the...
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