globalization and business
strategy+business: BOOK REVIEWS
Stay abreast of the best business books, covering a wide range of subjects, from marketing and management, to leadership practices and the effects of globalization
- Peanut Butter on the Chin
What The Lucifer Effect , Philip Zimbardo's landmark book on a prison experiment at Stanford University, tells us about the dangers of corporate conformity. - Books in Brief
Why financial markets are brittle, companies stop growing, Ryanair took off, and plans succeed or fail. - Lessons for Business Schools
New books and revisited history illuminate the irrelevance of today's MBA -- and ways to make it compelling again. - Books in Brief
An icon of genius, a turnaround monomaniac, a flat-world skeptic, a psychoanalyst of leadership, and a management futurist. - The Productivity Promisers
Plenty of motivational coaches pledge to boost your efficiency. These are the few who really deliver. - Books in Brief
High-tech entrepreneurial experience, hidden assets, analytical sophistication, and China's global ambitions. - Best Business Books 2007
In our seventh annual survey of the year's best business books, noted business practitioners, scholars, and journalists select and judge the most significant and useful books in their areas of expertise. - Books in Brief
Don't miss the latest books covering a range of issues on management, strategy and leadership. From making ideas survive and rebounding from career disasters to innovative approaches to strategic risk and a study of AIG under Hank Greenberg, the following four book selections won't disappoint. - Knowledge Review: Does Health Care Have a Future?
Eight books attempt to unravel the problems facing the American health care system. Nearly all of these authors agree that a major industry transformation is inevitable, and several offer interesting solutions regarding transparency and the introduction of value-based competition amongst providers. - Books in Brief
Don't miss these noteworthy books on strategy and leadership. Treating everything from the genesis of Xerox and the proper function of the CFO to the continental European model of "family capitalism", these selections will broaden your business acumen.