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  • The Foreclosure of America

    The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall of Countrywide Home Loans, the Mortgage Crisis, and the Default of the American Dream

    by Adam Michaelson ...
    Now in paperback-an inside look at Countrywide Home Loans and the mortgage crisis, from a former mortgage lender executive.In July 2004, Adam Michaelson attended a high-level meeting at Countrywide Financial headquarters about a new loan product that would allow borrowers to pay less than their minimum monthly payment. The "finance jocks" believed that the booming housing market would only get ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Tribes

    We Need You to Lead Us

    by Seth Godin ...
    The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller that redefined what it means to be a leader.Since it was first published almost a decade ago, Seth Godin's visionary book has helped tens of thousands of leaders turn a scattering of followers into a loyal tribe. If you need to rally fellow employees, customers, investors, believers, hobbyists, or readers around an idea, this ... Read more

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  • Wheelmen

    Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever

    by Reed Albergotti, Vanessa O'Connell ...
    The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built on the back of fraud, and the greatest conspiracy in the history of sportsLance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process became an international symbol of resilience and courage. In a sport constantly dogged by blood-doping scandals, he ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Smartest Guys in the Room

    The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

    by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind ...
    In this tenth-anniversary edition, acclaimed investigative journalists Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind deliver the definitive account of the fall of Enron, one of the biggest scandals in corporate America history.Meticulously researched and character driven, The Smartest Guys in the Room takes the reader deep into Enron's past—and behind the closed doors of private meetings. Drawing on a wide ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Crisis of Responsibility

    Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It

    by David L. Bahnsen, David French ...
    Across the globe a “revolt” of sorts is taking place against elitism. No more will big government, big media, big banks, big bureaucracy, and big institutions hold the secret nuggets of truth and dictate our lives and fortunes. Financial markets, political punditry, and cultural leaders are all scrambling to react to the rise of the often disenfranchised.But what happens after all the bogeymen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Power Living Through Science

    by Dr. Brian Keen CGE ...
    Most ethical categories are based upon philosophical concepts rather than scientific laws. The truth can be known with theanthropic ethics,which understands theology as a scientific discipline.By using this approach, author Brian Keen,president of the Ethics Institute, describes a method for applying professional ethical standards using scientific methodologies.Individuals can use this approach to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Corporate Impact

    Measuring and Managing Your Social Footprint

    Edited by Adrian Henriques ...
    It is widely accepted that sustainability has an inescapable social component, but companies find it very hard to understand and measure their social impacts. Why is this? This book, by noted CSR practitioner, consultant and educator Adrian Henriques, provides the first coherent approach to identifying, understanding, measuring and accounting for corporate social impact.Beginning with an analysis ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Pathways to Systemic Change

    Inspiring Stories and a New Set of Variables for Understanding Social Innovation

    by Heloise Buckland, David Murillo ...
    The world’s social, ecological and economic 
problems are so complex and diverse that there
will never be a “one-size-fits-all” model for 
social innovation. The very nature of social 
innovation as a new, better way of solving 
social problems means that it is not even in the 
interest of social innovation advocates to create 
tidy definitions, but rather to create environments 
that allow for ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Conscious Business in Germany

    Assessing the Current Situation and Creating an Outlook for a New Paradigm

    by Nicolas Josef Stahlhofer, Christian Schmidkonz, Patricia Kraft ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents conscious business as a constantly expanding and powerful approach to reinvent and shape organizations in a human and beneficial manner. In particular it examines the core characteristics, main drivers and challenges of conscious businesses in Germany. The book offers a structured overview of the current situation of the concept and outlines important issues that need to be ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Globalisation of Corporate Social Responsibility and its Impact on Corporate Governance

    Edited by Jean J. du Plessis, Umakanth Varottil, Jeroen Veldman ...
    This book addresses the increasing overlap between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and law with a particular focus on company law and corporate governance. What is the impact of CSR on company law and corporate governance and, vice versa? How do these systems impact on CSR? Do they enable, require or prevent the socially responsible conduct of companies, for example, through corporate theory ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Managing Corporate Responsibility in the Real World

    Lessons from the frontline of CSR

    by Jouko Kuisma ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is a comprehensive, road-tested framework for managing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) based on years of award winning performance in senior management roles in a multinational business.The author shows why non-financial performance indicators are just as important as financial ones when it comes to delivering performance and securing long term shareholder value.CSR is not window ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Difference Makers

    How Social and Institutional Entrepreneurs Created the Corporate Responsibility Movement

    by Sandra Waddock ...
    It is not often that we have the opportunity to hear from the early pioneers of a social movement about how it grew and evolved, but that is exactly what this book sets out to do. The Difference Makers tells the stories of 23 entrepreneurs who have been instrumental in developing corporate responsibility; offers an analysis of how CSR has emerged as a key business issue, why it has evolved so ... Read more

    $48.99 USD