Category: Academy of Management

July 30, 2021

Can Design Thinking Contribute to Fostering Equity and Inclusion?

By Jeanne Liedtka

The quest for a way to actually live and teach the principles of inclusion and equality, at schools, at work, and at home, has taken on a new urgency today. Debates on the relative merits of various approaches have ensued,...

July 30, 2021

Are “Best” Practices Really Best for Your Organization?

Four Guidelines for Critical Evaluation

By T. Brad Harris and Andrew Bartlow

We’ve dedicated our professional lives to helping HR/people leaders grow and become more successful. If our experience as educators, consultants, and coaches has taught us anything, it’s that HR in a high-growth start-up is a different—and very wild—animal relative to...

July 30, 2021

Regulating Family Offices Is Not the Answer

By Bill Woodson

The recent financial collapse of Archegos Capital Management and the corresponding multi-billion-dollar losses incurred by financial services firms that extended them credit, coupled with the market disruption caused by the panic selling needed to meet margin calls, has resurfaced a...

July 30, 2021

Browse Our AoM 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Myles Thompson

Socially distanced greetings, I’m Myles Thompson, the publisher for Columbia Business School Publishing. Because we are meeting virtually this year, I want to invite you to our Academy of Management virtual book exhibit on the Columbia University Press Blog. I...

July 28, 2021

Announcing Our 2021-2022 Business and Economics Catalog

Letter from the editor: As the founding publisher of the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, I am honored to present our recent and forthcoming authors and titles. We seek to bridge leading academic thought and professional practice in order to...

August 11, 2020

Video: Larry Cunningham on Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Model

“To truly understand Warren Buffett’s conglomerate, one needs to look beyond the extraordinary numbers and absorb the unique culture of Berkshire Hathaway. Every Berkshire shareholder—or investor of any other company, for that matter—should read Margin of Trust to better understand what makes...

August 10, 2020

Big Tech Sucks at Gaming

By Joost van Dreunen

“Joost van Dreunen’s One Up reflects his many years of experience and makes interesting observations about the games business, offering his unique perspective as a consultant and an academic. His positioning at the intersection between creators, manufacturers, business executives, investors,...

August 9, 2020

Five Examples of China’s Fintech Strength

By Sara Hsu and Jianjun Li

“China has emerged as a leader in the global fintech industry, but there has been limited insight into this development. This book provides a wonderful summary of China’s fintech development, covering topics such as digital payment systems, peer-to-peer lending, and...

August 8, 2020

Q&A: R. Edward Freeman, Kirsten E. Martin, and Bidhan L. Parmar on The Power of And

  “The Power of And shows the way forward, illustrating how businesses can embed powerful purpose in their strategy, intertwining ethics and responsibility with value creation. Freeman, Martin, and Parmar weave a compelling narrative, acknowledging the complexities of organizations and...

August 7, 2020

Join Myles Thompson on a Tour of Our AOM 2020 Virtual Booth

Socially Distanced greetings, I’m Myles Thompson, the publisher for Columbia Business School Publishing, and because we won’t be together in Vancouver, I want to invite you to our Academy of Management virtual book exhibit on the Columbia University Blog. I...