Stanford University: 1318 books

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Grow to Greatness

Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses

by Edward Hess
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012

Simply put, most entrepreneurial start-ups fail. Those fortunate enough to succeed then face a second, major challenge: how to grow. This book focuses on the key questions an entrepreneur must answer in order to grow a business. Based on extensive research of more than fifty successful growth companies,...
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Restoring the Innovative Edge

Driving the Evolution of Science and Technology

by Jerry Hage
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011

Considerable evidence indicates that the U.S. is falling behind when it comes to innovation. In part, this shift stems from the globalization of research and the advancement of other nations. But, it also arises from a widespread failure to adapt to the competitive environment generated by the evolution...
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Knowledge as Power

Criminal Registration and Community Notification Laws in America

by Wayne A. Logan
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009

Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. Knowledge as Power traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity—criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated...
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The Culture of Military Innovation

The Impact of Cultural Factors on the Revolution in Military Affairs in Russia, the US, and Israel.

by Dima Adamsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010

This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would undergo analogous changes in their perception of and approach to warfare. However, the intellectual history of the Revolution in Military...
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Raised Right

Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism

by Jeffrey R. Dudas
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

How has the modern conservative movement thrived in spite of the lack of harmony among its constituent members? What, and who, holds together its large corporate interests, small-government libertarians, social and racial traditionalists, and evangelical Christians? Raised Right pursues these...
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Creating New Knowledge in Management

Appropriating the Field’s Lost Foundations

by Ellen O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011

Creating New Knowledge in Management rediscovers lost sources in the work of Mary Parker Follett and Chester Barnard, providing a foundation for management as a unique and coherent discipline. This book begins by explaining that research universities, and the management field in particular, have splintered...
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by William Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons...
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Invention and Reinvention

The Evolution of San Diego’s Innovation Economy

by Mary Lindenstein Walshok, Abraham J. Shragge
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013

Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-war industries like manufacturing, face the issue of how to adapt to today's knowledge economy. In Invention and Reinvention, authors Mary Walshok and Abraham...
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Transforming Relationships for High Performance

The Power of Relational Coordination

by Jody Hoffer Gittell
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016

Whether from customers, supply-chain partners, policymakers, or regulators, organizations in virtually every industry are facing calls to do more with less. They are feeling compelled to provide higher-quality outcomes, more rapidly, at a lower cost. This book offers a road-tested approach...
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The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change

North American Business Schools After the Second World War

by Mie Augier, James G. March
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011

Some rather remarkable changes took place in North American business schools between 1945 and 1970, altering the character of these institutions, the possibilities for their future, and the terms of discourse about them. This period represents a minor revolution, during which business school are reported...
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Constructing Cassandra

Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947–2001

by Milo Jones, Philippe Silberzahn
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks—surprises still play out today...
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Newsworthy

The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom

by Samantha Barbas
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017

In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international...
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Laws of Image

Privacy and Publicity in America

by Samantha Barbas
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015

Americans have long been obsessed with their images—their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation of laws that protect your right to control your public image, to defend your image, and to feel...
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Engaging Resistance

How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change

by Aaron Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change offers an empirically based explanation that expands our understanding about the nature of resistance to organizational change and the effects of champion behavior. The text presents a new model describing how resistance occurs...
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