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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and HappinessRichard Thaler and Cass Sunstein Debit or credit? Paper or plastic? Lease or buy? Public or private school? Have you made the right choices? Probably not, according to the important new research on the science of choice. In clear and entertaining style, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness provides a crash course on how and why humans are prone to make bad choices, and what we can do about it. |
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Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and PurposeRajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, Jagdish N. Sheth Through a series of real-life vignettes from well-known companies, the 11 brief, well-written chapters compellingly argue that many of today's successful businesses foster intrinsic cultures that embrace values for the stakeholders as well as the shareholders; for them, it is more then just politically correct, it is the only way. This is a book that every undergraduate and every business leader should be required to read. -- S. R. Kahn, University of Cincinnati |
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Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? (Alvin Hansen Symposium Series on Public Policy)by James J. Heckman, Alan B. Krueger From Amazon.com: The surge of inequality in income and wealth in the United States over the past twenty-five years has reversed the steady progress toward greater equality that had been underway throughout most of the twentieth century. This economic development has defied historical patterns and surprised many economists, producing vigorous debate. Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? examines the ways in which human capital policies can address this important problem. |
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Be BoldCheryl L. Dorsey and Lara Galinsky Developed by Echoing Green, a twenty year-old global social venture fund that seeds innovative social change organizations, Be Bold reaches out to the next generation of world-changers and equips them with the inspiration and qualities needed for developing meaningful careers that deliver the change they seek. |
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Banker to the PoorMuhammad Yunus Banker to the Poor is an inspiring memoir of the birth of microcredit, written in a conversational tone that makes it both moving and enjoyable to read. |
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Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to GreatJim Collins This monograph is a response to questions raised by Good to Great's readers in the social sector. It is based on interviews and workshops with over 100 social sector leaders. |
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Payback: Reaping the Rewards of InnovationJames P. Andrew, Harold L. Sirkin, John Butman The authors, consultants with extensive experience assisting corporations, report that innovation problems are not due to lack of ideas but rather to how corporations turn those ideas into cash or payback. |
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To Heal a Fractured WorldJonathan Sacks Although written by a rabbi, this powerful, biblically based plea for ethical behavior will appeal to non-Jews as well as to Jews. The erudite author, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, contends that all people have to be both ethically and socially responsible, and supports this through examples of people he's met or read about as well as through biblical and Hasidic tales. |
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes EverythingDon Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams The word "wiki" means "quick" in Hawaiian, and here author and think tank CEO Tapscott (The Naked Corporation), along with research director Williams, paint in vibrant colors the quickly changing world of Internet togetherness, also known as mass or global collaboration, and what those changes mean for business and technology. |
