Stanford University: 1318 books
Leading Culture Change
What Every CEO Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Leading Culture Change: What Every CEO Needs To Know is a practical guide for top leaders who are faced with the challenge of shaping their culture to create long term, sustainable value. Culture is changeable—but only with CEO sponsorship and a methodical, best practices approach. Author Christopher...
Sustainable Innovation
Build Your Company’s Capacity to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
If we can carry in our pockets more computing power than the Apollo program needed to put a man on the moon, why can't we solve problems like climate change, famine, or poverty? The answer lies, in part, in the distinctive challenges of creating innovations that address today's pressing environmental...
Your Money and Your Life
A Lifetime Approach to Money Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Your financial health is more than a mere collection of debits and credits on a balance sheet. In fact, the numbers on a financial statement represent a series of decisions that, if made strategically, can ensure that each of us maintains our desired standard of living at every age and stage of life....
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...
Democracy and Political Ignorance
Why Smaller Government Is Smarter, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This creates a nation of people...
The Physics of Business Growth
Mindsets, System, and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Organic business growth is governed by its own natural laws—underlying truths that set the stage for growth and innovation, much in the way that Einstein's law of relativity accounts for the movement of objects in the space-time continuum. The most fundamental law is that uncertainty is the only...
Reducing Uncertainty
Intelligence Analysis and National Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of disease. In other words, we spend a lot of money to anticipate problems, identify opportunities, and avoid mistakes. A substantial portion of what we...
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers
The Economic Engine of Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers presents a simple, economic framework for understanding the systematic causes of political change. Wayne A. Leighton and Edward J. López take up three interrelated questions: Why do democracies generate policies that impose net costs on society? Why...
The Diplomat in the Corner Office
Corporate Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
In The Diplomat in the Corner Office, Timothy L. Fort, one of the founders of the business and peace movement, reflects on the progress of the movement over the past 15 years—from a niche position into a mainstream economic and international relations perspective. In the 21st century global business...
Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s
An Economic Profile and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Hispanics account for more than half the population growth in the United States over the last decade. With this surge has come a dramatic spike in the number of Hispanic-owned businesses. Hispanic Entrepreneurs in the 2000s is a pioneering study of this nascent demographic. Drawing on rich quantitative...
Flourishing Enterprise
The New Spirit of Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The notion of responsible business has infiltrated our markets, and "going green" is now a part of our mindset. But, sustainability as we know it is not enough. Flourishing—the aspiration that humans and life in general will thrive on the planet forever—should be a key goal for every...
Reframing Finance
New Models of Long-Term Investment Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Since the 2008 financial crisis, beneficiary organizations—like pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and foundations—have been seeking ways to mitigate the risk of their investments and make better financial decisions. For them, Reframing Finance offers a path forward.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Over the last three decades, the field of antitrust law has grown increasingly prominent, and more than one hundred countries have enacted competition law statutes. As competition law expands to jurisdictions with very different economic, social, cultural, and institutional backgrounds, the debates...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The vast majority of the countries in the world are developing countries—there are only thirty-four OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries—and yet there is a serious dearth of attention to developing countries in the international and comparative law scholarship,...