Stanford Business Books imprint: 100 books
Fast/Forward
Make Your Company Fit for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The leading companies of the past twenty years have all harnessed the power of information to gain competitive advantage. But as access to big data becomes ubiquitous, it can no longer guarantee a leg up. Fast/Forward makes the case that we are entering a new era in which firms that understand the...
Swans, Swine, and Swindlers
Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Swans, Swine, and Swindlers addresses a core, contemporary question: What steps can we take to better anticipate and manage mega-crises, such as Haiti, Katrina, and 9/11? This book explores the concept of "messes." A mess is a web of complex and dynamically interacting, ill-defined, and/or...
by Alfredo Behrens
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Latin Americans are culturally different from North Americans in ways that so far have been inaccurately portrayed in the management literature. In Culture and Management in the Americas, Alfredo Behrens argues that these differences merit a substantial overhaul of management theory and practice to...
Lead and Disrupt
How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed; think of Blockbuster, Kodak, or RadioShack. When we read about their demise, it often seems inevitable—a natural part of "creative destruction." But closer examination reveals a disturbing truth: Companies large and small...
Life Is a Startup
What Founders Can Teach Us about Making Choices and Managing Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
After two decades of research on founders, a best-selling book on the subject, and experience teaching and mentoring thousands of students in this field, Noam Wasserman is a prominent authority on startups. Hearing from countless readers and students that his insights helped them with important life...
The Ethical Executive
Becoming Aware of the Root Causes of Unethical Behavior: 45 Psychological Traps that Every One of Us Falls Prey To
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
In this book, Hoyk and Hersey describe 45 "unethical traps" into which any one of us can fall. These traps, they say, can erupt in any organizational environment. Some of these traps distort our perception of right and wrong—so we actually believe our unethical behavior is right. Many...
Epinets
The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Epinets presents a new way to think about social networks, which focuses on the knowledge that underlies our social interactions. Guiding readers through the web of beliefs that networked individuals have about each other and probing into what others think, this book illuminates the deeper character...
The Science of Science Policy
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Basic scientific research and technological development have had an enormous impact on innovation, economic growth, and social well-being. Yet science policy debates have long been dominated by advocates for particular scientific fields or missions. In the absence of a deeper understanding of the...
Innovation and Scaling for Impact
How Effective Social Enterprises Do It
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Innovation 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 world. They reveal...
Engine of Impact
Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
We are entering a new era—an era of impact. The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be under way, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract...
Inside Man
The Discipline of Modeling Human Ways of Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Inside Man presents readers with an exercise in modeling human ways of being—thinking, feeling, acting. This book does not merely introduce models, but also attempts to teach modeling and to produce, within the reader, the predispositions and attitudes of the modeler: a distance from the individual...
Changing on the Job
Developing Leaders for a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Listen to people in every field and you'll hear a call for more sophisticated leadership—for leaders who can solve more complex problems than the human race has ever faced. But these leaders won't simply come to the fore; we have to develop them, and we must cultivate them as quickly as is humanly...
Serial Innovators
How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms zeros in on the cutting-edge thinkers who repeatedly create and deliver breakthrough innovations and new products in large, mature organizations. These employees are organizational powerhouses who solve...
Learning From the Global Financial Crisis
Creatively, Reliably, and Sustainably
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
This book is motivated by the simple hope that the cloud of the global financial crisis may yet have a silver lining—that political leaders, economists, and management scholars might seize this opportunity to reflect critically on the assumptions, practices, and infrastructures that have precipitated...