Media Roundup: Books in Business and Leadership Authored by Women
In celebration of Women’s History Month, today we are featuring books about business and leadership and planning for retirement, authored by women.
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Business and Leadership
Reset traces the global decline of trust in business at the same time that the public’s expectations for business’s role in society are rising.
In the News
- Barie Carmichael discusses how to break through cultural blindspots in Under Armour, strip club expenses and the #MeToo perils of star cultures, Washington Post.
- In a CNBC op-ed Barie Carmichael examines the fine line corporations walk between business and social risk
- Business and Society in a New Social Landscape
- Business Books to Watch.
- Social Accountability: The Business World’s New Role in Social Change
- How a Company Proves its Character
From the CUP Archive
In Retirement and Its Discontents, Michelle Pannor Silver considers how we confront the mismatch between idealized and actual retirement. She follows doctors, CEOs, elite athletes, professors, and homemakers during their transition to retirement as they struggle to recalibrate their sense of purpose and self-worth.
In the News
From the CUP Archive
Rescuing Retirement
A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans
Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James
Foreword by Timothy Geithner.
In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone.
In the News
The Conversational Firm offers multiple lessons for anyone curious about the effect of social media on the corporate environment and adds depth to debates over the new generation of employees reared on social media: Millennials who carry their technological habits and expectations into the workplace.
In the News
Moral Hazard in Health Insurance
Amy Finkelstein With Kenneth J. Arrow, Jonathan Gruber, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Drawing on research from both the original RAND Health Insurance Experiment and her own research, including a 2008 Health Insurance Experiment in Oregon, Finkelstein presents compelling evidence that health insurance does indeed affect medical spending and encourages policy solutions that acknowledge and account for this.
In the News
Morals and Markets
The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer
Foreword by Kieran Healy
First published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a pathbreaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the United States. Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic history and a sociological perspective to advance a novel interpretation of the life insurance industry. The book pioneered a cultural approach to the analysis of morally controversial markets.
In the News
Appetite for Innovation is an organizational analysis of elBulli and the nature of innovation. Pilar Opazo joined elBulli’s inner circle as the restaurant transitioned from a for-profit business to its new organizational model.
In the News
From the CUP Archive
The Designing for Growth Field Book
A Step-by-Step Project Guide, second edition
Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie, and Rachel Brozenske
In Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers(D4G), Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie showed how design can boost innovation and drive growth. In this companion guide, also suitable as a stand-alone project workbook, the authors provide a step-by-step framework for applying the D4G toolkit and process to a particular project, systematically explaining how to address the four key questions of their design thinking approach.
From the CUP Archive
Capital and the Common Good
How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World’s Most Urgent Problems
Georgia Levenson Keohane
Capital and the Common Good shows how market failure in one context can be solved with market solutions from another: an expert in securitization bundles future development aid into bonds to pay for vaccines today; an entrepreneur turns a mobile phone into an array of financial services for the unbanked; and policy makers adapt pay-for-success models from the world of infrastructure to human services like early childhood education, maternal health, and job training.
