Author: Peter Navarro
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: competitive, advantage, cycle, business, strategy, managing, timed
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-01-23
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0131494201
ISBN-13: 9780131494206

Most companies ignore one of their best opportunities for honing competitive advantage: the opportunity to proactively manage business cycles and macroeconomic turbulence. Despite the profound impact that the business cycle has on the fortunes and fate of so many businesses large and small--and the employees and investors that depend on them--not fa single book offers a comprehensive guide to strategically and tactically managing the business cycle. The Well-Timed Strategy shows how to manage not just the business cycle and industry cycles but also today’s unprecedented level of macroeco

Author: CK Prahalad
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: school, publishing, paperbacks, wharton, profits, pyramid, eradicating, poverty, fortune
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-02-06
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0131877291
ISBN-13: 9780131877290

The world’s most exciting, fastest-growing new market is where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world’s billions of poor people have immense untapped buying power. They represent an enormous opportunity for companies who learn how to serve them. Not only can it be done, it is being done--very profitably. What’s more, companies aren’t just making money: by serving these markets, they’re helping millions of the world’s poorest people escape poverty. C.K. Prahalad’s global bestseller The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyr

Author: Aswath Damodaran
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: risk, management, framework, taking, strategic
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-08-12
List price: $54.99
ISBN-10: 0131990489
ISBN-13: 9780131990487

Front Flap In business and investing, risk has traditionally been viewed negatively: investors and companies can lose money due to risk and therefore we typically penalize companies for taking risks. That’s why most books on risk management focus strictly on hedging or mitigating risk. But the enterprise’s relationship with risk should be far more nuanced. Great companies become great because they seek out and exploit intelligent risks, not because they avoid all risk. Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management is the first book to take this broader view, encompassing b

Author: Stuart L. Hart
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: wharton, school, publishing, paperbacks, humanity, earth, crossroads, aligning, business, capitalism
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-07-28
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0136134394
ISBN-13: 9780136134398

"Capitalism at the Crossroads is built on strong theoretical underpinnings and illustrated with many practical examples. The author offers a pioneering roadmap to responsible macroeconomics and corporate growth." -Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma "I hope this book will be able to influence the thought processes of corporations and motivate them to adapt to forthcoming business realities for the sake of their own long-term existence. Besides business leaders, this is a thought-provoking book for the r

Author: Oded Shenkar
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: chinese, economy, power, job, balance, impact, century, rising, global
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-10-23
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0131467484
ISBN-13: 9780131467484

Within 20 years -- possibly far sooner -- China will have the world s largest economy. That will powerfully impact you: your job, your company, your economic future, and your country. In The Chinese Century, Oded Shenkar shows how China is restoring its imperial glory by infusing modern technology and market economics into a non-democratic system controlled by the Communist party and bureaucracy. Shenkar shows why China s accelerating growth differs radically from predecessors such as Japan, India, and Mexico -- and how it will lead to a radical restructuring of the global business system.

Author: Stuart L. Hart
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: world, difficult, problems, solving, opportunities, crossroads, unlimited, business, capitalism
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-02-25
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0131439871
ISBN-13: 9780131439870

"Capitalism at the Crossroads is built on strong theoretical underpinnings and illustrated with many practical examples. The author offers a pioneering roadmap to responsible macroeconomics and corporate growth." -Clayton Christensen, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma "I hope this book will be able to influence the thought processes of corporations and motivate them to adapt to forthcoming business realities for the sake of their own long-term existence. Besides business leaders, this is a thought-provoking book for the r

Authors:Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Colin Cook,
Publisher: Wharton School Publishing
Keywords: life, business, school, publishing, paperbacks, wharton, impossible, transform, power, thinking
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-02-09
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0131877283
ISBN-13: 9780131877283

50,000 copies sold, now in paperback...If you can think impossible thoughts, then you can do impossible things!! *The power of change: create new thinking for new solutions! *Includes a new introduction demonstrating the "power of impossible thinking," plus access to exclusive book summary and authors’ interview at the book’s companion Web site. The Power of Impossible Thinking is about getting better at making sense of what’s going on around you so you can make decisions that respond to reality, not inaccurate or obsolete models of the world. This bestseller reveals how ment