All Summaries
All Summaries
In Customer-Driven Operations Management, Christopher K. Ahoy proposes that an organization can have an advantage over its competition if it strives to become the best by moving from survival mode to...
In the investment world, the term “alpha” refers to returns in excess of expected risk, earned by fund managers who succeed in accurately forecasting the behavior of financial markets and other “beta” macroeconomic...
Identity Economics by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton discusses a new way to understand people’s decisions—at work, at school, and at home. The book brings identity and related norms to economics....
Animal Spirits dissects standard economic theories and demonstrates their failure to account for human emotion, even though emotions have a large impact on the economy. George A. Akerlof and Robert J....
Having pondered why some people with very high IQ scores fail miserably in their personal lives, Harvard professor Howard Gardner, concluded that the concept of “intelligence,” as a singular measure of competence,...
Determining that IQ, as a singular measure of competence, could no longer be supported, Harvard professor, Howard Gardner, proposed (in Frames of Mind, 1985) a range of key competencies, which he calls multiple...
Until about 25 years ago, almost no one in China had ever eaten a piece of chocolate. For the world's leading chocolate makers, this was both a great challenge and a great opportunity. In Chocolate Fortunes, Lawrence L...
The millennial generation – comprised of individuals born between 1980 and 2001 – is shaking up the workplace. A polarizing generation that is both admired and critiqued, millennials are serious about changing work...
In Managing the Telecommuting Employee, authors Michael Amigoni and Sandra Gurvis explain that while managers are often supervising employees that are physically distant from them, the experience can...
Since star-struck Hollywood’s heyday, our consumer culture has been based primarily on a popularity contest. A relatively small number of “hits” in the market landscape gobble up the largest share of buyers’...
