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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Resilient Systems

    Evidence-Based Management of Pervasive Failures

    by William B. Rouse ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book adopts a case-based or story-based approach to addressing questions such as what happens when we cannot fix failures in the sense of returning the system to “normal” operations in less than many years or maybe decades, or perhaps never, or how do we recognize that we are facing pervasive failures? Can we develop evidence-based resilience to mitigate the consequences of pervasive failures ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018

    The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article “Customer Loyalty Is Overrated”) (HBR’s 10 Must Reads)

    by Harvard Business Review, Robert S. Kaplan, Michael E. Porter, Roger L. Martin, Daniel Kahneman ...
    Series series HBR's 10 Must Reads
    A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Michael E. Porter to Daniel Kahneman and company examples from P&G to Adobe, this volume brings the most current and important ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Strategy Paradox

    Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)

    by Michael E. Raynor ...
    A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies have left their futures almost entirely to chance, and don’t even realize it. The reason? ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Economic Approaches to Organization

    by Sytse Douma, Hein Schreuder ...
    This text explains in a non-technical way different economic approaches (including game theory, agency theory, transaction costs economics, economics of strategy and evolutionary approaches) using practical real-world examples to aid understanding of how the concepts relate to economic and organisational problems in the world today.This book is unique in the market in its attempt to make the link ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Character of Harms

    Operational Challenges in Control

    by Malcolm K. Sparrow ...
    How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? The Character of Harms argues that control or mitigation of 'bad' things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors, and which need to be better understood. Malcolm Sparrow demonstrates that an explicit focus on the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Architecture of Innovation

    The Economics of Creative Organizations

    by Joshua Lerner ...
    Find the right innovation modelInnovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot?In The Architecture of Innovation, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner-one of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mathematical Corporation

    Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

    by Angela Zutavern, Josh Sullivan ...
    The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the internet age in the 1990s: leaders must transform ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Standing on the Sun

    How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere

    by Christopher Meyer ...
    For half a century the US has sat at the center of the global economic system, and Western-style capitalism has dominated. Now, it's no secret that the center of gravity is shifting. The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75% of the world's output will, by 2050, consume just 32%. Meanwhile, the emerging economies of the world--Brazil, India, China, and others--will surge forward.As these ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creative Destruction

    Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them

    by Richard Foster, Sarah Kaplan ...
    Turning conventional wisdom on its head, a Senior Partner and an Innovation Specialist from McKinsey & Company debunk the myth that high-octane, built-to-last companies can continue to excel year after year and reveal the dynamic strategies of discontinuity and creative destruction these corporations must adopt in order to maintain excellence and remain competitive.In striking contrast to such ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Work of the Future

    Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

    by Elisabeth Reynolds, David H. Autor, David A. Mindell ...
    Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases steadily and new technology has ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Profit Paradox

    How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work

    by Jan Eeckhout ...
    A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power—and how it stifles workers around the worldIn an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world’s working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are rising, so that everything from a bottle of beer to a prosthetic hip costs more. Economist Jan ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Part III: My Startup

    by Patri K. Venuvinod ...
    Three insights concerning economic growth have become clear in recent times. Firstly, the key to economic growth is technology (T). Secondly, innovation (I) is the driver of technology growth. Finally, entrepreneurship (E) is a highly powerful but extremely underappreciated contributor to innovation. Yet there persists a paucity of academic books covering the large variety of issues impinging on ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus