Tag: Business

January 6, 2020

Book Giveaway! If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth, by Leonard Sherman

“A wonderfully comprehensive view of competition and competitive strategy and illustrating it well with contemporary examples and citing of the scholarly literature and linking that to action oriented techniques.” ~John Czepiel, New York University Stern School of Business This month,...

January 30, 2019

Four Steps to Strategic Leadership

“The Wise Advocate is a key book for aspiring leaders aiming to make the best—and hardest—choices. The authors provide a practical guide to decision making through a combination of neuroscience concepts, a process of self-reflection, and consideration of the greatest good...

January 25, 2019

“Tough Love” Tips from The CEO’s Boss

“The CEO’s Boss serves up a wealth of practical, hands-on recommendations to build a productive partnership and a plan of action for a variety of businesses and settings…. For anyone who wants to take board evaluation, leadership structure, and dynamics to...

January 24, 2019

Practicing Tough Love: An Excerpt from The CEO’s Boss

“The CEO’s Boss is a must-read for anyone who looks to be taking the highest position in a company.” ~ Midwest Book Review Tuesday you learned about Tesla $40 Million lesson in the need to show “tough love” in the boardroom....

January 23, 2019

The CEO’s Boss (preface)

“Too many researchers forget that we have as much—or more—to learn from failure as we do from success. By examining transitions that have worked and ones that haven’t, William M. Klepper has given us new perspective on how boards can...

January 22, 2019

William M. Klepper on How “Tough Love” Could Have Saved Tesla $40 Million

“Everybody needs a superior, even the company CEO, and governing boards have increasingly answered the call. In doing so, they have added plenty “tough love” to the executive suite, as William M. Klepper has so well chronicled in The CEO’s Boss,...

January 18, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Activist Director (conclusion)

“For more than six decades, Ira Millstein has had an important seat in the boardrooms at some of our world’s most iconic corporations. The Activist Director is a fascinating and must-read book for anyone associated with a for-profit or not-for-profit...

January 17, 2019

4 Steps to Becoming an “Activist Director”

“Far too many corporate directors have failed to honor their responsibility to manage the corporations they serve for the benefit of the firm’s shareholders. In this powerful and articulate book, attorney and board consultant Ira M. Millstein aims to drive...

January 16, 2019

Ira Millstein on The Activist Director – Why It’s Needed Now More Than Ever!

“No one has more experience with corporate boards, and insights into what makes them work, than Ira Millstein. The Activist Director reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly from some of the biggest management failures—and successes—in recent history.” ~ Michael Bloomberg,...

January 14, 2019

A Decade of Columbia Business School Publishing

The end of 2018 marked the completion of the ten-year anniversary of our Columbia Business School Publishing imprint. In celebration of this landmark event, we will be highlighting guest blog posts and excerpts from our authors and books that are part of...

August 16, 2018

Celebrating More Than a Decade of Publishing in Business

Founded in 2007, Columbia Business School Publishing extends Columbia Business School’s commitment to bridging academic research and business practice and to developing entrepreneurs who create value for their stakeholders and their community. The imprint’s first books, More Than You Know by Michael...

April 10, 2015

The Greening of Asia: Businesses’ Role in the World’s Biggest-Ever Environmental Clean-Up

Read an article by Mark Clifford, author of THE GREENING OF ASIA, excerpted from The World Financial Review, in which he discusses how the challenge of improving Asia’s environment has been translated into business opportunities.