Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

by Laura Alfaro
(World Scientific)

This casebook has three main topics: the determinants and effects of international capital flows; policies and strategies for harnessing the benefits of financial globalization; and the challenges and policies of large economies. The cases, set in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, approach these themes by exploring institutional detail in deep local context, exposing readers to recent key events that have shaped the way economists think about these subjects.

High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage

by Michael Beer
(Jossey-Bass)

Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor Emeritus Beer explains how a company can be transformed to achieve sustained high commitment and high performance. Basing his approach on leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to build a complete system that will spell business success no matter how challenging the economic climate.

One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy

by Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus
(Wiley)

An emerging business trend is for companies to go beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and to integrate them into a single report. They use the Internet to give their stakeholders detailed results and improve the level of dialogue and engagement with them. Senior Lecturer Eccles and his coauthor show how integrated reporting adds value to a company and contributes to a sustainable society.

New Perspectives on Regulation

edited by David Moss and John Cisternino
(The Tobin Project)

New research in the social sciences has yielded insights with important implications for the government’s role in the economy. The financial crisis has made the need to share these ideas with policymakers more urgent. To meet this need, a group of leading scholars in the social sciences provide a sketch of the most promising research about regulation, identify guiding principles for policymakers, and illustrate these principles with concrete policy proposals.

Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice

edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
(Harvard Business Press)

Although the mission statements of many business schools talk about developing leaders, these same schools produce little serious research about leadership. To fill this void, Professors Nohria and Khurana and scholars from fields as diverse as psychology, economics, and history take stock of what we know about leadership and set an agenda for future research.

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