Stanford University: 1318 books
No Law
Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The original text of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create a regime of intellectual property protection. The first amendment, however, prohibits Congress from enacting any law that abridges the freedoms of speech and of the press. While many have long noted the tension between these...
Private Management and Public Policy
The Principle of Public Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative...
The Pricing Journey
The Organizational Transformation Toward Pricing Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Innovations in pricing can be transformative, but to reach their potential companies must devote equal attention to technical and organizational capabilities. Most firms, however, only pay attention to the technical dimensions of pricing, which severely limits the success of their initiatives. To...
Building the Responsible Enterprise
Where Vision and Values Add Value
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Building the Responsible Enterprise provides students and practitioners with a practical, yet academically rooted, introduction to the state-of-the-art in sustainability and corporate social responsibility. The book consists of four parts, highlighting different aspects of corporate responsibility....
Entrepreneurial Finance
Strategy, Valuation, and Deal Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy, Valuation, and Deal Structure applies the theory and methods of finance and economics to the rapidly evolving field of entrepreneurial finance. This approach reveals how entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and outside investors can rely on academic foundations as...
Introductory Econometrics
Intuition, Proof, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Introductory Econometrics: Intuition, Proof, and Practice attempts to distill econometrics into a form that preserves its essence, but that is acceptable—and even appealing—to the student's intellectual palate. This book insists on rigor when it is essential, but it emphasizes intuition and seizes...
The Dollar and National Security
The Monetary Component of Hard Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Defense establishments and the armed forces they organize, train, equip, and deploy depend upon the security of capital and capital flows, mechanisms that have become increasingly globalized. Military capabilities are thus closely tied not only to the size of the economic base from which they are...
by Andreas Savvides, Thanasis Stengos
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
This book provides an in-depth investigation of the link between human capital and economic growth. The authors take an innovative approach, examining the determinants of economic growth through a historical overview of the concept of human capital.
The text fosters a deep understanding of...
Virtual Freedom
Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Communications giants like Google, Comcast, and AT&T enjoy increasingly unchecked control over speech. As providers of broadband access and Internet search engines, they can control online expression. Their online content restrictions—from obstructing e-mail to censoring cablecasts—are considered...
Feminine Capital
Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Today, there are over 200,000,000 women business owners around the world. Many of these entrepreneurs are not doing business as usual, nor are they simply leaning in. Rather, they are tapping into feminine capital—the unique skills and sensibilities that they have cultivated as women—to create...
Greening of Capitalism
How Asia Is Driving the Next Great Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capitalism as we know them today. Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting unprecedented levels of prosperity and raising hundreds of millions...
by Louis W. Fry, Melissa Sadler Nisiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line through Spiritual Leadership draws on the emerging fields of workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership to teach leaders and their constituencies how to develop business models that address issues of ethical leadership, employee well-being, sustainability, and...
Storytelling in Business
The Authentic and Fluent Organization
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Storytelling can be a lifelong and life sustaining habit of mind, a personal inheritance that connects us to our communities. It can also serve as an organizational inheritance—a management tool that helps businesses to develop and thrive. For more than a decade, award-winning author Janis Forman...
The Real Problem Solvers
Social Entrepreneurs in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Today, "social entrepreneurship" describes a host of new initiatives, and often refers to approaches that are breaking from traditional philanthropic and charitable organizational behavior. Nowhere is this more true than in the United States—where, from 1995–2005, the number of non-profit...