Is your company spending too much time on strategy development--with too little to show for it? If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to: * Distinguish your company from rivals * Clarify what...
The decision to engage in corporate social action (CSA), and the debates regarding its costs, benefits and implications to corporate performance represent a demanding issue for scholars and managers. Research is inconclusive regarding the causal relations between CSA, corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP), despite numerous empirical and theoretical studies devoted to the issue. This book presents an in-depth study of corporate social action and the factors...
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by J Woodhouse, A Williams, M. Dixon, S. Male, R. Davies, M. Mustafa, N. BRYAN, P. Jay, and A. Thomson
Based on interviews with leading chairmen and senior executives, All Above Board examines the key functions of the ideal 21st century board, how and why badly led boards fail, and what changes can be made to improve board behaviour and efficiency for best practice. The role of the company board, the CEO and the Chairman are critical to establishing a positive leadership culture in any organization. At a time when leadership failure at board level has been headline news and when in a period of e...
The Globally Responsible Leader
Cyberattacks are more destructive than ever, but your c-suite can stop them. This book tells you how.Cyberattacks are worse now than ever before. To defeat cybercriminals, companies must focus on the low-hanging fruits of cybersecurity. It's all about the basics. Companies laid low by ransomware failed to practice good cyber hygiene by recklessly allowing weak or reused passwords, not turning on multi-factor authentication, or neglecting to install patches to known software vulnerabilities....
Domestic Violence Spills Over into the Workplace is a video presentation. Length: 22 minutes. Domestic Violence Spills Over into the Workplace presents ways to assess the danger of and address issues associated with domestic violence in the workplace. This 22-minute video presentation of narrated slides provides valuable information on recognizing signs of abuse, the cost to companies, and what actions to take to mitigate the negative impact of domestic violence in your workplace. It also add...
International Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley (Wiley Finance)
by Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tc Beirne School of Law Paul Ali and Greg N Gregoriou, Professor
Der Aufsichtsrat Der Aktiengesellschaften, Seine Wirtschaftliche Funktion Und Die Frage Seiner Reform ...
by Eduard Heydt
Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information. Risk Science: An Introduction explores the theory and practice of risk science, providing concepts and tools for understanding and acting under conditions of uncertainty. The chapters in this work cover the fundamental concepts, principles, approaches, methods and models for how to understand, ass...
Artificial Intelligence in the Gulf
This book presents the first broad reflection on the challenges, opportunities, and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Unique results and insights are derived through case studies from diverse disciplines, including engineering, economics, data science, policy-making, governance, and humanscience. Particularly related to these ‘softer’ disciplines, we make some unexplored yet topical contributions to the literature, with a focus on the GCC (but by...
This volume reviews current debates on the role of business in politics and it assesses emerging methodological approaches to its study. The book brings together leading scholars to assess various qualitative and quantitative methods, network analysis, historical context and positive rational choice modeling, and detailed research case studies in the study of Business- Government relations.