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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Alumni Books
Surviving the College Application Process: Case Studies to Help You Find Your Unique Angle for Success
by Lisa Bleich (MBA 1992)
(Morgan James Publishing)
This book follows the college application journeys of eleven students in depth, examining what they were thinking when they made decisions about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays.
An Introduction to Real Estate Finance
by Edward A. Glickman (MBA 1981)
(Academic Press)
This textbook for a single-semester first course in real-estate finance combines a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession.
Customers Included: How to Transform Products, Companies, and the World—With a Single Step
by Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998)
(Creative Good)
Why do companies so often fail to give customers what they want? The authors provide a roadmap for anyone wanting to create better products and services. Using real-world case studies (from Apple, Netflix, and Walmart to an African hand pump, a New York City park, and the B-17 bomber), the book explains why including the customer is an essential ingredient of success for any team, company, or organization.
The Moses Virus
by Jack Hyland (MBA 1961)
(Taylor Trade Publishing)
Inside Out: Conversations about Leadership and Innovation in a New Global Economy
So-Young Kang (MBA 2004)
(Awaken Group Pte. Ltd.)
Too often, people look at leaders and focus on their accomplishments and successes, but Kang examines the more human side of 12 Singaporean business and government leaders: what they were like before they became leaders, what their passions are outside of work, and what they really care about—including what drives them, what their fears are, and what they feel is required to succeed in the changing global landscape.
The Generosity Network: New Transformational Tools for Successful Fund-Raising
by Jennifer McCrea and Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), with Karl Weber
(Deepak Chopra)
This book is a guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause. Through personal stories, many innovative suggestions, and inspiring examples, the authors show nonprofit leaders how to build a community of engaged partners who share a common passion and are eager to provide the resources needed to change the world—not just money, but also time, talents, personal networks, creative thinking, and public support.
A Decisive Decade: An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s
by Robert B. McKersie (MBA 1988)
(Southern Illinois University Press)
The deeply personal story of a historic time in Chicago, this book follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. McKersie's participation as a white activist for black rights offers a firsthand view of the debates, boycotts, marches, and negotiations that would change the face of race relations in Chicago and the United States at large.
Think Inside the Box: Discover the Exceptional Business inside Your Organization
by Tim Nelson and Jim McGee (MBA 1980)
(WCG Press)
The authors outline a method to discover and revitalize the exceptional business that exists inside an organization. The method relies on the well-established 80/20 rule to direct focus and attention; anchors analysis in the fundamental elements of any organization (products and services and the customers who use them); adapts to new data as they become available; and has been applied to over 850 businesses acquired and integrated in one Fortune 150 company, ITW, which has consistently produced superior results. The book goes from insight through execution, showing how to identify the most profitable products and customers and demonstrating how, when, and where to apply over twenty distinct improvement tools and techniques. Finally, it discusses how to embed the process and the tools into the ongoing operations of a business.
Decide One Thing: The One Thing EVERY Executive Team Must Decide
by Dave Ramos (MBA 1989)
(Advantage Media Group)
The way for an organization to win is to become differentiatingly great at one thing. Every executive team must decide what their one thing is, and Ramos finds that this concept gets four different responses. Some organizations reject the idea. Some think it is cool but get distracted by the next cool idea that comes along. Some embrace the concept for a time but give up because implementing it is too hard. And a few fully commit to the model and get incredible results.
Shift Points: One Hundred Ideas to Shift Your Organization into Top Gear
by Dave Ramos (MBA 1989)
(Advantage Media Group)
This book is essentially a prequel to Decide One Thing. It features 100 innovative ideas, each of them summarized on a page. Individually, each idea can be a catalyst for an organization; taken as a whole, they represent a comprehensive roadmap to shift performance to a high level.
The Trek: Adventure and Enlightenment on a Climb to the Summit of Kala Patthar, above Mount Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas
by David Schachne (MBA 1990)
(Relevant Corporation LLC)
Schachne tells the story of his adventure in November 2004, when he went on a trek to summit Kala Patthar, a mountain towering above Mount Everest Base Camp (17,598 feet) in the Himalayas.
Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
by Debora L. Spar (PMD 62, 1991)
(Sarah Crichton Books)
Spar explores how American women's lives have (and have not) changed over the past fifty years, detailing how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they arise inherently from being female. Acutely aware that it's time to change course, Spar has written her own personal story and the story of our culture and offer a road map for the future.
Practicing Journalism: The Power and Purpose of the Fourth Estate
by Paul Steinle (MBA 1976) and Sara Brown
(Marion Street Press)
The authors study the reasons journalists remain dedicated to reporting the news. With profiles and interviews with 91 American media members, this book discusses journalistic values in the digital age, taking a hard look at the ethical challenges of the job while offering hope for the ways journalism can make a difference in society and further American democracy.
Faculty Books
Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future
by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
(Stanford Economics and Finance)
Professors Groysberg and Healy discuss the analysts who do equities research and demonstrate how their roles have evolved, what drives their performance, and how they compare with their investors. The book covers key trends and describes how different firms have coped with shifting pressures. It concludes with an assessment of where equity research is headed in emerging markets and the industry's future challenges.
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World
by Geoffrey Jones
(Edward Elgar Publishing)
Individual firms have rarely been identified as significant independent actors in the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty. Professor Jones explores the role of firms as facilitators and preservers of globalization. He demonstrates capitalism's ability to create wealth for societies through innovation but cautions that global capitalism's history has been associated with enormous divergence in the wealth of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, a gap only now partly closing.
The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
by Noel Maurer
(Princeton University Press)
Throughout the last century, US governments willingly deployed hard and soft power to protect American investments around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? Associate Professor Maurer looks at how modern US involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the country from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue.
Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond
by Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
(Harvard University Press)
Associate Professor Musacchio and his coauthor describe two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan (i.e., the government) as a majority and a minority investor. They discuss the implications of such innovations using data from Brazil between 1976 and 2009. As majority investors, governments have started to keep tabs on state-owned enterprises, selected professional managers to run them, and given them more financial autonomy, which has reduced many agency problems commonly faced by SOEs, but not the temptation for governments to intervene in the operation of large strategic enterprises. As minority shareholders, governments have small equity ownership in corporations and generally do not intervene in management. Such equity investments allow firms to alleviate capital constraints and increase capital expenditures.
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