Stanford University Press: 1317 books
3D Team Leadership
A New Approach for Complex Teams
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Many organizations believe that high-functioning teams hold the key to breakthrough thinking, superior customer service, and high-quality products. But, all too often, leaders and managers fail to support teams so that they can deliver on their promises. For instance, many leaders ask for teamwork,...
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...
by Andrew J. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized. These conversations have become a rhetorical contest, one where opposing sides try to achieve victory through playing on fear, distrust, and intolerance. At its heart,...
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...
Self-Regulation and Human Progress
How Society Gains When We Govern Less
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit. Less known is the fact that this theory arose after arguments for the scientific method and freedom of speech had gone...
Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning
Concepts and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning explores why and how action learning groups have been so successful and creative in solving complex problems. The text begins by briefly reviewing the theories that undergird the effectiveness of action learning, philosophically situating readers and...
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...
The World Under Pressure
How China and India Are Influencing the Global Economy and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The rapid rise of China and India is reshaping our global economic and environmental systems—raising major issues of stability, governance, and sustainability. This book develops a framework that shows the interdependence between economic size, trade, finance, technology, environment, security,...
Microeconomic Theory Old and New
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student's Guide has two main goals. The first is to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students an understanding of the core model of economics: Walrasian general equilibrium theory. The text presents in detail the three building blocks of Walrasian theory—establishing...
Simple Habits for Complex Times
Powerful Practices for Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
When faced with complex challenges or uncertain outcomes, many leaders believe that if they are smart enough, work hard enough, or turn to the best management tools, they will be able to find the right answer, predict and plan for the future, and break down tasks to produce controllable results. But...
by Lucio Picci
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
It would be easy to cheat someone on eBay. However, an essential characteristic of the site prevents this from happening: buyer and seller reviews form what amounts to an "index of reputation." The availability of such an index provides a strong incentive to be an honest trader. Reputation-Based...
Doing Bad by Doing Good
Why Humanitarian Action Fails
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 2010, Haiti was ravaged by a brutal earthquake that affected the lives of millions. The call to assist those in need was heard around the globe. Yet two years later humanitarian efforts led by governments and NGOs have largely failed. Resources are not reaching the needy due to bureaucratic red...
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...
Irrationality in Health Care
What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make...