B-Schoolers Catch Up on Reading

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Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies by Jagdish N. Sheth

Why do so many good companies engage in self-destructive behavior? This book identifies seven dangerous habits even well-run companies fall victim to and helps you diagnose and break these habits before they destroy you. Through case studies from some of yesterday's most widely praised corporate icons, you'll learn how companies slip into "addiction" and slide off the rails, and how to avoid the same through specific, detailed techniques for curing every one of these self-destructive habits.

Change to Strange by Daniel M. Cable

To achieve sustained competitive advantage, you must create and deliver something that's valuable, rare, and hard to imitate—and you can't do that with a run-of-the-mill workforce. Your workforce needs to be strikingly different, obsessively focused on delivering your unique value proposition—your people need to be downright strange! This book is about understanding exactly how your workforce needs to be different, creating an end-to-end Strange Workforce Value Chain, implementing workforce systems that support your unique goals, and establishing detailed metrics based on what makes you unique in order to use those metrics to drive clarity throughout your entire organization and steer it toward success.

Capitalism at the Crossroads by Stuart L. Hart

Global capitalism stands at a crossroads, facing terrorism, environmental destruction, and an antiglobalization backlash. Today's global companies are at a crossroads, too, searching desperately for new sources of profitable growth. Capitalism at the Crossroads, Second Edition is about solving both of those problems at the same time. With a new foreword by Al Gore, new and updated case studies, and the latest corporate responses to climate change, this book points the way toward a capitalism that's more inclusive, more welcome, and far more successful for both companies and communities worldwide.

Wealth by Stuart E. Lucas

More of us have created more wealth today than ever before. Managing our retirement assets is increasingly our own responsibility, and America is bracing for the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history. Written by experienced investment professional Stuart Lucas, Carnation heir and now manager of his family's fortune, Wealth provides the tools and information you need to take charge of your money, so that it and your advisers are working toward achieving your goals. The lessons of this book apply whether you have $100,000 or $100 million, and whether your goal is to safeguard assets to last your lifetime or to create a financial legacy that will continue for generations.

Peter Rodriguez

Professor
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Capital Ideas Evolving by Peter L. Bernstein

Few authors capture the attention of the academic set as readily at Peter Bernstein. Like previous works, his latest take on the application of the best ideas—from academic economics and finance to the practices of trading and banking—is a must-read. Books like Bernstein's not only tell us where the rubber meets the road with regard to financial theory-building, but also give us an exhilarating look into the haphazard process by which theory becomes practice. This latest book targets the newer theories of behavioral finance that have been around for a while in some form, but have really hit their stride as of late. With Bernstein, one always has the sense that they're getting an insider's look at the future.