Featured Books Archive at Pardee Library

This book addresses the diverse issues regarding the ways identity affects our consumption behavior and vice-versa. In doing so, it presents a broad perspective on the dynamics of self-identity and consumption.
Chapter 26 co-written by Nailya Ordabayeva, Associate Professor of Marketing. Chapter 42 co-written by Carey Morewedge, Marketing Department Chair.

Generative AI, biometrics, spatial computing, electric vehicles—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption?
Chapter 6 written by Questrom faculty Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Andrei Hagiu, and Dionne Lomax.

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement, providing insights to guide you in broader areas of your life - identity issues, relationship challenges, and questions about creating a new retirement life structure that works for you.

Organizational readiness for research includes the convergence of security, management, and decision-making processes to enable effective and efficient operations. This book explores organizational research into security, management, and decision-making techniques and practices. Chapter 5 written by Questrom faculty Gregory Stoller.

As our workplaces become increasingly global and diverse, being a culturally intelligent leader isn't just a bonus -- it's essential. This classic resource provides you with the adaptability you need to motivate, negotiate, and accomplish results with anyone, anywhere.

A meticulously crafted guide through the murky waters of interdisciplinary study, offering a comprehensive exploration of the critical intersections between healthcare, social sciences, and technology. Through a diverse array of organizational narratives, individual experiences, and managerial insights, this book illuminates the interconnectedness of these fields while providing practical solutions and ethical frameworks to navigate the complexities of modern challenges.

The latest book in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series, What Works, What Doesn't (and When) presents a collection of studies in applied behavioral research with a behind-the-scenes look at how the project actually unfolded. Using seventeen case studies of such translation and scaling projects in diverse domains, the book outlines the processes, the potential pitfalls, as well as some prescriptions on how to enhance the success of behavioral interventions.

This volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations delves into the realm of organizational routines within a continuously evolving society. Exploring the power of routines in navigating our increasingly complex world, this volume argues that routines are as much engines of change as they are of stability, and that organizations are in a position to benefit from both.

Renowned management theorist Des Dearlove delivers an exciting and illuminating discussion of how to build resilience and agility into our lives and businesses. Certain Uncertainty collects advice and fresh thinking from accomplished business leaders to help managers and executives navigate contemporary markets.

A second collection of uplifting, thought-provoking, and informative essays written in the waning days of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, between June of 2021 and September of 2022. They cover a range of topics from mindfulness to gratitude, empathy and curiosity, negotiation and listening, and more, all with the purpose of helping you get through challenging times.

The gap between what you think you offer and what your audience believes you offer is a messaging problem. This book offers step-by-step guidance, advice, and workshops for marketers, founders, and agency leaders on what to do when your marketing efforts don't connect with the people you believe need you. The methodologies are baked into workshops to allow breakthrough insights and progress for individuals, teams, and companies.

In an age marked by increasing polarization, Digital, Diverse & Divided shows how we can build cultural intelligence and get along with people who are different from us. Drawing on seminal research on social identity and cultural intelligence, this book explains our impulse to divide people into "us" versus "them" and reveals how we can tackle tribalism, confront racism, and develop a common vision for the future.

This book assists managers to implement research findings on behavioral change in their own workplace operations. Leading figures from both the academic and applied behavioral sciences develop a nuanced framework for how managers can best translate results from pilot studies into their own organizations and behavior change challenges using behavioral science.

Business Law for Entrepreneurs covers the unique business and legal issues of startups and small businesses. This cutting-edge textbook provides students with the competence and practical insights required to identify and respond to emerging challenges in our rapidly evolving business and legal environment.

This book prepares students for the modern workplace by exploring the opportunities and challenges they will face in today's interconnected, global economy. Chapters on social media and citizen movements, big data and hacking, and privacy in the digital age provide in-depth coverage of how technology is transforming the relationship between organizations and consumers.

As the electric power industry faces the challenges of climate change, technological disruption, new market imperatives, and changing policies, a renowned energy expert offers a roadmap to the future of this essential sector. Power after Carbon makes sense of all the moving parts, providing actionable recommendations for anyone involved with or relying on the electric power system.

This book arose out of a research partnership between the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and Singapore Management University (SMU). It demonstrates the logic of inclusive growth, explaining its principles and the enabling models that define it. Business, government, and civil society must devise implement effective initiatives so that inclusive growth is achieved through the global democratization of productivity.

Today's board rooms, think tanks, and staff lounges are more diverse than ever before. Diverse teams are far more creative than homogenous teams--but only when they are managed effectively. Driven by Difference identifies the management practices necessary to minimize conflict while maximizing the informational diversity found in varied values and experiences.

Organizational Wrongdoing is an essential companion to understanding the causes, processes and consequences of misconduct at work. By providing a contemporary overview of wrongdoing and misconduct, this book provides solid and accessible foundations for established researchers and advanced students in the fields of behavioral ethics and organizational behavior.

A quick and easy resource that puts the intricacies of bond calculations into a clear and logical order. This simple, readable guide provides a handy reference, teaching the reader how to think about the essentials of bond math.

This practical guide helps leaders craft a clear vision, align teams, and foster a culture of excellence through strategy, accountability, and continuous improvement.

An ideal entry point into health economics for everyone from aspiring economists to healthcare professionals, Better Health Economics is a warts-and-all introduction to a field that is more exceptions than rules. It's a reminder that healthcare may be a failed market--but it's our failed market.

Developing a solid strategy is critical for long-term business success, but many leaders are not clear about what makes a good strategy. In this collection of essays about strategy, Barry Horwitz addresses many elements in an approachable and clear way.

Negotiations are challenging and sometimes scary. You prepare and know what you want, but then things go terribly wrong. Sometimes you don't even try, or lose your way and fail to achieve your objectives. This book helps you get out of your own way, manage your emotions, and negotiate effectively.

This book guides B2B leaders along a step by step path to uncommon growth through three transformative shifts: The Digital Selling Shift to digital demand generation; The Digital Customer Experience Makeover to digital customer engagement; and The Digital Proposition Pivot to data-powered, digital solutions.

This book presents a self-contained, comprehensive, and yet concise and condensed overview of the theory and methods of probability, integration, stochastic processes, optimal control, and their connections to the principles of asset pricing.

Facebook, PayPal, Alibaba, Uber--these companies have upended entire industries by harnessing a single phenomenon: the platform business model. Platform Revolution delivers the first comprehensive analysis of how platforms match producers and consumers in a multi-sided marketplace, unlocking hidden resources and creating new forms of value.

A collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of the first book, but takes the study of brand relationships outside of traditional realms by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering new contexts. The perfect read for marketing faculty and graduate students interested in branding dynamics, as well as managers responsible for stewarding brands.

The first comprehensive mentoring guide written specifically for 21st-century career building, this entrepreneurial approach to work relationships addresses the key issues of our time.

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page. Relying on his first-hand experience as an HBS faculty member, Michel Anteby takes readers inside HBS in order to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. A perceptive must-read for anyone looking for insight into the moral decision-making of today's business leaders and those influenced by and working for them.

Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. Arguably, the book's major contribution is its broad outline of an alternative theory of the firm in society--one that offers the possibility of overcoming traditional public and private dichotomies.

A practical guide to getting personal investing right. Authors Zvi Bodie and Rachelle Taqqu understand the dilemma that today's investors face, and they will help you find your financial footing. Risk Less and Prosper will show you how to make investment decisions that will make your financial life less stressful and more profitable.

Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. We show that innovation butterflies, if improperly managed, most often lead to negative outcomes. On the other hand, it is also argued that while the complexity of the innovation system precludes precise planning, innovation leaders can actually tame innovation butterflies through the design and implementation of appropriate processes, strategies, tools and leadership choices.

A must-read for engaged citizens, policymakers, students, and scholars alike. The book takes a close look at our problems, proposes solutions to them, and explains how to navigate our political system to effect positive change. Davidson's captivating and persuasive book demonstrates that only a solution with a large public-sector role can lead us to real reform.

For everyone who is financially conservative, wants to own a business, and finds the traditional risky method frightening and not right for them. Anastasi shows how you can make decisions using data easily gathered that gives realistic advice on how to start a business with minimal risk as well as how to manage human resources, sales, and marketing.

In this dramatic and compelling account of Lehman Brothers' spectacular rise and fall, author Mark T. Williams explains how uncontrolled risk toppled a 158-year-old institution--and what it says about Wall Street, Washington, D.C., and the world financial system. Williams provides a ten point plan to implement today--so another Lehman doesn't collapse tomorrow.

While the valuation of standard American option contracts has now achieved a fair degree of maturity, much work remains to be done regarding the new contractual forms that are constantly emerging in response to evolving economic conditions and regulations. This book is written to be easily accessible not only to those with a background in stochastic processes and/or derivative securities, but also to those with a more limited exposure to those areas.

Professor Jay Zagorsky delivers a startlingly insightful and eye-opening discussion of the harmful and unintended consequences of the demise of paper money. The author convincingly argues that cash is an essential and helpful tool that's worth preserving for the long run. A must-read for people interested in the implications of a truly "cashless" society on personal finance, technology, politics, and social justice.

A practical and theoretical guide for field researchers struggling with access. Michel Anteby explains how community members often disclose more than intended when they close ranks and create obstacles. An essential guide for ethnographers, sociologists, and all field researchers seeking access, The Interloper shares practical and theoretical insights into the value of having the door slammed in your face.

Despite being a game-changer in powering human growth, discovery remains a mystery. This book lays out a process of inquiry that drives belief change and leads to discoveries, empowering leaders, groups, and the organization with a powerful tool for navigating an uncertain future. An enriching resource for current and aspiring leaders and managers across industries.

Two world-renowned experts on innovation and digital strategy explore how real-time data and AI will radically transform physical products--and the companies that make them. A first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best--create physical products--with what digitals do best--use algorithms and AI to parse expansive, interconnected datasets--to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible.

Technology has changed the way consumers shop, communicate and consume media so profoundly, we feel like we are already living in the future. Legacy companies can succeed by developing new business models around digital technology, and by developing strategic relationships with entrepreneurs and digital giants. The Digital Matrix explains how to do it successfully. An easy to follow rulebook for every business leader whose sights are set on survival today, and success in years to come.

Like the proverbial ostrich with its head in the sand, people often avoid confronting small issues at work, but, if avoided, these issues will escalate and inevitably wreak havoc. This book examines the micro-processes that underlie the way in which these problems develop and flourish. By identifying this "ostrich effect", the reader is empowered to re-frame and neutralize its impact.

'Reimagining Business Education' discusses the rationale for, and design of, the first Business Education Jam. The Jam was the first open platform for dialogue of its kind for business education and continues to make an impact - this book takes this collaborative effort a step further to break down traditional models and structures as we seek to reimagine the future of business education in a more open and connected world.

A New Era in U.S. Health Care demystifies the Affordable Care Act for unfamiliar readers, setting an agenda for lawmakers and the health industry alike. It focuses on four key issues that will determine the success of this 2010 legislation: the use of state-run Medicaid programs to expand access to insurance; the implementation process; the creation of health insurance exchanges; and the introduction of a new organizational form, accountable care organizations.

Although human lives towards the second half of the twentieth century became increasingly mediated by objects and artifacts and have depended heavily on the functioning of technical systems, materiality in a broad sense became relatively marginalized as a topic of research interest. This volume contributes to redressing the balance by drawing together the work of scholars involved in exploring the sociomaterial dimensions of organizational life.

Marketers have long maintained a keen interest in customer relationships: what they are, why they are formed, what effects they have on consumers and the marketplace, how they can be measured and when and how they evolve and decline. With contributions from an impressive array of scholars from around the world, this volume will provide students and researchers with a useful launch pad for further research in this blossoming area.

How can application of a positive lens to understanding social change and organizations enrich and elaborate theory and practice? This is the core question that inspired this book. Students and researchers in organizational behavior, management, positive psychology, leadership and corporate responsibility will find this book of interest.

Since 1976, game theory has been applied to a growing number of practical problems: from antitrust analysis to monetary policy; from the design of auction institutions to the structuring of incentives within firms; from patent races to dispute resolution. The purpose of this text is to expand these applications of game theory into a broad and meaningful view of the way business decisions can be modelled and analyzed.