Faculty Books
Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant
by Michel Anteby
(Princeton University Press)
Employees know that not every workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks breaches of regulations, gray zones emerge where workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited yet tolerated practices. When discovered, these transgressions may provoke disapproval or, when company materials are diverted in the process, be labeled theft. Assistant Professor Anteby examines the manufacture and exchange of illegal goods tolerated in a French aeronautic plant and shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers’ identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control.
On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition
by Michael E. Porter
(Harvard Business Press)
This collection of Professor Porter’s articles from the Harvard Business Review is arranged by topic. Parts I and II present the well-known frameworks addressing how companies, nations, and regions gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part III shows how strategic thinking can address society’s most pressing challenges, from environmental sustainability to improving health-care delivery. Part IV explores how nonprofits and corporations can apply strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V examines the link between strategy and leadership.
Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities
edited by Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky
(Brookings Institution Press and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University)
Increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States, rental housing faces widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock, concentrated poverty, and health hazards. In this book, leading housing researchers, including Lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, examine these problems and assess whether existing government policies and programs have helped or hindered, ask what lessons have been learned, and suggest new directions for housing policy, including integrating best practices into existing programs and innovating with large-scale, long-term solutions.
Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations
by Abraham Zaleznik
(Palgrave Macmillan)
Examining charismatic leaders and their leadership styles, Professor Emeritus Zaleznik asserts that leaders are either “hedgehogs,” who view leadership as a single-minded track driven by unwavering rules, or “foxes,” who assess and reevaluate their goals and strategies based on ever-changing factors in business, politics, and culture. Zaleznik draws illuminating conclusions about psychopolitics and negotiating from positions of power and command.
