Business & Economics
Spring| Summer 2019
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Entrepreneurial Finance
Venture Capital, Deal Structure & Valuation, Second Edition Janet Kiholm Smith & Richard L. Smith July 2019 640pp 9781503603219 £74.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This text prepares readers for a wide variety of situations that stakeholders confront in an entrepreneurial venture, teaching them how to think from the investor and entrepreneur's perspective. The second edition is thoroughly revised to reflect new data, research, and changes in practice in this fast-moving field. It has an increased focus on venture capital, while maintaining its hallmark coverage of the financial aspects of entrepreneurship. Updates throughout address technological changes that have the potential to dramatically change the landscape for finance. These include: blockchain, cryptocurrency, crowdfunding, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and internet connectivity (loT). Lastly, the book offers a companion website with a useful suite of resources for students and instructors alike, including: spreadsheets, templates, simulation applications, and interactive cases and tutorials.
Reimagining Livelihoods
Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller
Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds March 2019 312pp 9781517904326 £20.99 PB 9781517904319 £89.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Reimagining Livelihoods argues that the “hegemonic trio” of economy, society, and environment not only fails to describe the actual world around us but poses a tremendous obstacle to enacting a truly sustainable future. In a rich blend of ethnography and theory, Reimagining Livelihoods engages with questions of development in the state of Maine to trace the dangerous effects of contemporary stories that simplify and domesticate conflict. Drawing in part on his own participation in the struggle over the Plum Creek Corporation’s “concept plan” for a major resort development on the shores of Moosehead Lake in northern Maine, Ethan Miller articulates a rich framework for engaging with the ethical and political challenges of building ecological livelihoods among diverse human and nonhuman communities. In seeking a pathway for transformative thought that is both critical and affirmative, Reimagining Livelihoods provides new frames of reference for living together on an increasingly volatile Earth.
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The Next Frontier of Restaurant Management
Harnessing Data to Improve Guest Service and Enhance the Employee Experience Edited by Alex M. Susskind & Mark Maynard
Cornell Hospitality Management: Best Practices June 2019 264pp 33 charts 9781501736513 £19.99 PB 9781501736506 £79.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Next Frontier of Restaurant Management brings together the latest research in hospitality studies to offer students, hospitality executives, and restaurant managers and trainers the best practices for restaurant success. Alex M. Susskind and Mark Maynard draw on their experiences as, respectively, a restaurant profession and a hospitality educator, to guide readers through cutting-edge articles that address specific aspects of restaurant management. Maynard and Susskind detail how to implement effective customer management and staff training, design elements such as seating and lighting, the innovative use of data to improve the guest experience, and both consumeroriented and operation-based technologies. They concluding with a discussion of the human factor that is the foundation of the hospitality industry and the importance of a healthy workplace culture. As Susskind and Maynard show, good restaurants don't happen by accident.
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Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps How to Thrive in Complexity Jennifer Garvey Berger March 2019 136pp 9781503609013 £10.99 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Author and consultant Jennifer Garvey Berger has worked with all types of leaders – from top executives at Google to nonprofit directors who are trying to make a dent in social change. She hears a version of the same plea from every client in nearly every sector around the world: "I know that complexity and uncertainty are testing my instincts, but I don't know which to trust. Is there some way to know what to do when I can't know what's next?" Her newest work is an answer to this plea. Using her background in adult development, complexity theories, and leadership consultancy, Garvey Berger discerns five pernicious and pervasive "mind traps" to frame the book. These are: the desire for simple stories, our sense that we are right, our desire to get along with others in our group, our fixation with control, and our constant quest to protect and defend our egos. In addition to understanding why these natural impulses steer us wrong in a fastmoving world, leaders will get powerful questions and approaches that help them escape these patterns.
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Beyond Technonationalism
China's Capitalism
Innovation and Technology in the World Economy April 2019 352pp 9781503605473 £58.00 HB
February 2019 368pp 3 illus. 9780812251098 £58.00 HB
Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia Kathryn C. Ibata-Arens
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Asia is currently on track to become the epicenter of growth in biopharmaceuticals and medical devices. This book accounts for the regional rise of these industries with a conceptual framework that considers how national governments have managed key factors, like innovative capacity, government policy, and the firm-level strategies in Asian countries.
A Paradoxical Route to Economic Prosperity Tobias ten Brink Translated by Carla Welch UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
China's Capitalism considers the frameworks that have led to China's distinctive form of capitalism. Presenting a coherent and historically nuanced portrait, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the socioeconomic order of the People's Republic and the significant challenges facing its continuing development.
From Main Street to Mall
The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store Vicki Howard
American Business, Politics, and Society March 2019 304pp 30 illus. 9780812224399 £19.99 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The first national study of the department store industry, this book traces the changing economic and political contexts that transformed the American shopping experience in the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with archival photographs of beloved downtown business centers, Howard shows that department stores were more than just places to shop.
Measuring Social Change
Performance and Accountability in a Complex World Alnoor Ebrahim July 2019 280pp 9781503601406 £23.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing industry, and an unprecedented intergenerational transfer of wealth. Alnoor Ebrahim addresses one of the fundamental dilemmas facing leaders as they navigate this uncertain terrain: performance measurement.
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Quantum Leadership
New Consciousness in Business Frederick Chavalit Tsao & Chris Laszlo
July 2019 280pp 9781503600331 £23.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that current approaches to leadership fail to produce positive outcomes for either businesses or the communities they serve. Drawing on extensive research, the authors show how changing a person's consciousness is the most powerful lever for unlocking his or her leadership potential to create wealth and serve humankind.
Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality Daniel Souleles
Anthropology of Contemporary North America June 2019 270pp 4 illus., 6 tables, 1 glossary 9781496214782 £27.99 PB 9781496214560 £54.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss documents how and why investors buy, manage, and sell the companies that they do; presents the ins and outs of private equity deals, management, and valuation; and explains the historical context that gave rise to private equity and other forms of investor-led capitalism.
Strategic Execution
Driving Breakthrough Performance in Business Kenneth J. Carrig & Scott A. Snell August 2019 224pp 9781503603592 £27.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CEOs regularly identify strategic execution as their biggest challenge, and the top priority facing today's business leaders. This book addresses the challenges of execution, why it matters, and why the approach remains elusive. It introduces an integrated framework for understanding four priorities underlying execution excellence.
The Future of Risk Management
Edited by Howard Kunreuther, Robert J. Meyer & Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster May 2019 448pp 28 illus. 9780812251326 £66.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Highlighting past research, recent discoveries, and open questions, The Future of Risk Management provides scholars, businesses, civil servants, and the concerned public tools for making more informed decisions and developing long- term strategies for reducing future losses from potentially catastrophic events and natural disasters.
Capital Gains
Business and Politics in TwentiethCentury America Edited by Richard R. John & Kim Phillips-Fein
Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture March 2019 312pp 9780812224481 £21.99 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Recent events have driven a tremendous surge of interest in the political power of business. Capital Gains collects some of the most innovative new work in the field, with each chapter explore the influence of business on American politics in the twentieth century at the federal, state, and municipal levels.
Recent Highlights Are Markets Moral?
Edited by Arthur Melzer & Steven Kautz
September 2018 264pp 9780812250527 £41.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Within these original essays lies the question: does morality demand that we adopt a primarily supportive or critical stance toward capitalism? Some contributors suggest that the principles of the capitalist system may be at odds with the requirements of morality, while others wonder whether the workings of markets erode moral character.
Remaking the Rust Belt
The Postindustrial Transformation of North America Tracy Neumann
American Business, Politics, and Society April 2019 280pp 22 illus. 9780812224382 £19.99 NIP UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book recounts how postindustrialism came with high costs. Neumann provides a fresh narrative on the decline of basic industry, instead arguing one in which local political and business elites pursued postindustrial urban vision and, in the process, abandoned their social democratic goals and created further inequality for urban residents.
At a Crossroads
Russia in the Global Economy Sergey Kulik, Nikita Maslennikov & Igor Yurgens
November 2018 224pp 9781928096771 £24.99 PB 9781928096764 £91.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Though Russia actively participates in the globalization process, it is confronting greater economic, technological, structural and institutional provlems than other countries. The nation now stands at the crossroads of either overcoming or exacerbating these current challenges. The book explores the possibilities for Russian economic development given current global circumstances.
Think Like a Dog
How Dogs Teach Us to Be Happy in Life and Successful at Work Scott MacDonald April 2019 pp 9780253040039 £15.99 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dogs have much more to offer than just love and friendship. With whimsy and insight, CEO Scott MacDonald and rescue dog Sadie reveal how you can have a more rewarding life and a more successful career with important lessons in loyalty, persistence, leaving your mark, and always being a great sniffer.
Beggar Thy Neighbor
A History of Usury and Debt Charles R. Geisst
October 2018 400pp 6 illus. 9780812224269 £23.99 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit.
The Political Economy of Resource Regulation
An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015 Edited by Andreas R. Dugstad Sanders, Pål R. Sandvik & Espen Storli April 2019 360pp 9780774860604 £79.00 HB UBC PRESS
This volume examine how the intersection of ideas, international institutions, and political systems gave birth to distinctive regulatory regimes at various times in the modern world. The contributors offer unique insights into why some resource-rich countries have flourished while others have been mired in poverty and corruption.
Best Practice
Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China Kimberly Chong November 2018 272pp 9781478000884 £20.99 PB 9781478000693 £83.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process.
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Bubbles and Crashes
The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation Brent Goldfarb & David A. Kirsch February 2019 256pp 9780804793834 £27.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in China, Canada, Singapore, and the China-Myanmar border from 20082015, this book brings together various migration experiences and national contexts under the same analytical framework to create a rich portrait of the diversity of contemporary Chinese migration processes.
Strong Governments, Precarious Workers
Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization Philip Rathgeb
December 2018 234pp 15 charts 9781501730580 £45.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Calls into question the electoral responsiveness of national governments—and thus political parties—to the social needs of an increasingly numerous group of precarious workers. Rathgeb concludes that the weaker the government, the stronger the capacity of organized labor to enhance the social protection of precarious workers.
Counterproductive
Time Management in the Knowledge Economy Melissa Gregg
November 2018 208pp 16 illus. 9781478000907 £18.99 PB 9781478000716 £74.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examining historical and archival material alongside popular self-help genres, Gregg shows how a focus on productivity isolates workers from each other and erases their collective efforts to define work limits. Gregg's novel analysis conveys the futility, pointlessness, and danger of seeking time management as a salve for the always-on workplace.
The Gift of Global Talent
How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society William Kerr
October 2018 248pp 9781503605022 £21.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores why talented migration drives the knowledge economy, how institutions govern skilled admissions, explains the controversies of the H-1B visa, and discusses the economic inequalities and superstar firms that global talent flow produce.
Investing in Financial Research
A Decision-Making System for Better Results Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
AREA Method Publications January 2019 186pp 2 b&w halftones, 13 b&w line drawings, 4 charts 9781501732751 £23.99 PB 9781501730948 £79.00 HB
Leading Matters
Lessons from My Journey John L. Hennessy Foreword by Walter Isaacson September 2018 184pp 9781503608016 £18.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The book lays out the AREA Method — a research and decision-making system that controls for bias, focuses on the incentives of others and expands knowledge while improving judgement — and applies it to all sorts of financial sleuthing from investment analysis to investigative journalism.
Current Chairman of Alphabet (Google's parent company), former President of Stanford University, and "Godfather of Silicon Valley," Hennessy shares the core elements of leadership that helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur, esteemed academic, and venerated administrator, applying them to instructive stories, such as his encounters with other high-profile leaders.
The Venture Capital State
Workers without Borders
Cornell Studies in Political Economy September 2018 210pp 5 charts 9781501723377 £41.00 HB
November 2018 176pp 9781501729157 £41.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia Robyn Klingler-Vidra
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Silicon Valley has become shorthand for a globally acclaimed way to unleash the creative potential of venture capital, supporting innovation and creating jobs. Robyn Klingler-Vidra traces how and why different states have adopted distinct versions of the Silicon Valley model.
Posted Work and Precarity in the EU Ines Wagner CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Wagner examines the particularities of posted worker dynamics at the workplace level, in German meatpacking facilities and on construction sites, to reveal the problems and promises of European Union governance as regulating social justice.