Author: Gary Field
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: computer, dell, innovation, technology, world, swift, enterprises, communications, profit, capitalist, development, innovative, territories
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-11-24
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0804747229
ISBN-13: 9780804747226

Territories of Profit compares Dell Computer, the dominant computer manufacturer of the late twentieth century, and G. F. Swift, the leading meatpacking firm of the late nineteenth century, to reveal how communications revolutions in different periods enabled businesses to innovate their operations, reorganize the structure of the firm, and reshape the geography of profit-making. By depicting the parallel experiences of Dell and Swift, which both deployed revolutionary communications technologies in their business systems and transformed patterns of development through their innovative advance

Author: Chris Laszlo
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: doing, companies, leading, world, value, sustainable
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-01-16
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0804759634
ISBN-13: 9780804759632

In Sustainable Value, Chris Laszlo illustrates how the competitive strategies of some of the world’s largest businesses are changing as their leaders begin to take on a number of the world’s most important social, environmental, and economic issues. The book’s website is at www.sustainablevaluebook.com.Part I of the book is a management fable about a young CEO and the challenges she faces in addressing her company’s impact on society and the environment, while remaining profitable. Based on forward-thinking business leaders the author has worked with over the past twent

Authors:David Berri, Martin Schmidt, Stacey Brook,
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: sport, stanford, business, books, modern, myths, wins, taking, measure, wages
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-09-07
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0804758441
ISBN-13: 9780804758444

Arguing about sports is as old as the games people play. Over the years sports debates have become muddled by many myths that do not match the numbers generated by those playing the games. In The Wages of Wins, the authors use layman’s language and easy to follow examples based on their own academic research to debunk many of the most commonly held beliefs about sports. In this updated version of their book, these authors explain why Allen Iverson leaving Philadelphia made the 76ers a better team, why the Yankees find it so hard to repeat their success from the late 1990s, and why even

Authors:Buzz McCoy, Bowen H. McCoy,
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: business, books, stanford, ethics, leadership, journey, living
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804755760
ISBN-13: 9780804755764

"Describing the aim of the book as an aid to ’increase ethical awareness and sensitivity in myself and in others,’ the author does an admirable job on both counts."--Library Journal "Experience is a great teacher but only when you are prepared to learn. Buzz McCoy provides lively preparation and insights into the arts of life and leadership. Read and learn."--George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State and a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution "Leading a successful life, as in leading an organization, requires a person to identify and confront an endless stream of t

Authors:Ira Millstein, Paul W. MacAvoy,
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: governance, corporate, crisis, recurrent
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-08-18
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0804750866
ISBN-13: 9780804750868

In the last thirty years, there has been a gradual erosion in the abilities and responsibilities of corporate boards. In addition to the ethics scandals that have plagued companies both new and established over the last three years, a number of over-diversified, over-staffed companies experienced failures that might have been avoided had there been proper oversight on the part of the board. While reform of the governance system has received considerable attention from the press, business leaders, and politicians, there have been few analyses of what is really happening on a systemic level, and

Authors:Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald Salancik,
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: stanford, business, classics, perspective, dependence, control, organizations, resource, external
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-03-26
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 080474789X
ISBN-13: 9780804747899

Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, The External Control of Organizations has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book, reissued on its 25th anniversary as part of the Stanford Business Classics series, includes a new preface written by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which examines the legacy of this influential work in current research and its relationship to other theories.The External Control of Organizations explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these cons

Authors:David Herold, Donald Fedor,
Publisher: Stanford Business Book
Keywords: change, really, work, strategies, leadership, way, lead
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-05-16
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0804758751
ISBN-13: 9780804758758

Change is never a stepwise or easily prescribed process. Rather, it is messy and complicated, and its outcomes are easily swayed by a host of factors. In this context, leaders need to develop and utilize realistic frameworks for organizational change. They need to implement a holistic change model that defines and justifies the proposed change, and takes account of both the abilities of those who will be asked to lead and carry out the change, and the context in which the change is to occur.To develop such a model, Herold and Fedor examined more than 300 changes and interviewed over 8,000 indi