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Books by Faculty
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Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation
Robert Quinn and Ryan Quinn
We all want to have a positive impact, but often, despite our best intentions, we're tripped up by subtle psychological states we're not even aware of. It doesn't have to be that way. Lift combines cutting-edge social science and real-world examples to describe four mindsets that will help shed light on unconscious ways people hold themselves and others back. The book offers tested, practical guidelines and practices for exerting positive influence in any situation.
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Labor Markets and Economic Development
Edited by Jan Svejnar and Ravi Kanbur
As developing and transition economies enter the next phase of reforms, labor market issues increasingly come to the fore. With the increased competition from globalization, the discussion is shifting to the need for greater labor market flexibility and the creation of "good" jobs. Moreover, the greater actual and perceived insecurity in labor markets has generated a new agenda on how to structure safety nets and labor market regulation. It is clear that an accurate understanding of how labor market structures function is essential to analyze alternative policy proposals in the wake of these concerns. Labor Markets and Economic Development compiles new work by leading labor economists to address these timely issues.
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Strategic Innovation: New Game Strategies for Competitive Advantage
Allan Afuah
In today’s fast-changing business environment, firms that want to remain competitive must also be innovative. Innovation is not simply developing new technologies into new products or services, but in many cases finding new models for doing business in the face of change. It often entails changing the rules of the game in order to gain a competitive advantage. Strategic Innovation demonstrates how to create and appropriate value using “new game” strategies in the face of rapid technological change and increasing globalization. Afuah gives a thorough examination of contemporary strategy from an innovation standpoint with several key advantages, including a detailed, change-inclusive framework for assessing the profitability potential of a strategy or product.
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The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity
Robert Kennedy with Ajay Sharma
By now, most business people, pundits, and politicians in the U.S. and other developed nations have come to grips with the phenomenon of manufacturing jobs moving offshore. But a far bigger wave of change is approaching the shores of those same developed nations: the globalization of services. Where are the jobs going? Which companies benefit—or could benefit? How exactly does services offshoring work? How do you "get in the game"? Who makes a good partner? And what are the policy implications? The Services Shift answers all these questions, and more, offering powerful insights for managers, public policymakers, and citizens alike.
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Managed by the Markets: How Finance Reshaped America
Gerald Davis
The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street now threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida, the homes and college savings of families in Southern California, and ultimately the global economy itself. In Managed by the Markets, Davis examines how finance replaced manufacturing at the center of the American economy to create a “portfolio society” – and illuminates the consequences now faced by corporations, banking, states, and households in the 21st century.
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The New Age of Innovation
C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan
To succeed in the "new age of innovation," firms must partner with individual customers to co-create customized experiences, argue Prahalad and Krishnan in their new book. The authors explain that many companies are not structured to capitalize on co-creation, but rather built around the old model of creating products and services and then offering them to consumers. However, they outline examples of several companies that do adhere to the co-creation model, such as Starbucks, Facebook, ING, and Google. The authors also outline how the co-creation framework allows the consumer's set of choices to be infinite, not limited as they are in the current model of mass-customization.
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Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?
Andrew J. Hoffman
This book urges CEOs to take the issue of climate change seriously as a business issue, rather than an environmental one. Hoffman runs down a series of steps business can take to be pro-active in integrating climate change in their business strategy, preventing competitors from setting the precedent. The author also highlights several companies that are at the forefront of incorporating the realities of climate change into their business strategy and encourages CEOs to follow in their footsteps.
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Global E-Commerce
Edited by Nigel P Melville, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick, and Kevin Zhu
The editors separate reality from hype in this systematic analysis of the impact of the Internet and e-commerce across firms, industries, and economies. Case studies of eight economies—the United States, Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, China, Japan, and Taiwan—show that, rather than creating a borderless global economy, e-commerce reflects existing local patterns of commerce, business, and consumer preference. Its impact, therefore, varies greatly by country. E-commerce may increase efficiency and competitiveness of firms. But it also complicates matters, as firms deal with more business partners and new challenges from competitors.
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