Manufacturing Morals

Manufacturing Morals
Author: Michel Anteby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022609250X

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world’s most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Relying on his first-hand experience as a Harvard Business School faculty member, Michel Anteby takes readers inside HBS in order to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. In an era when many organizations are focused on principles of responsibility, Harvard Business School has long tried to promote better business standards. Anteby’s rich account reveals the surprising role of silence and ambiguity in HBS’s process of codifying morals and business values. As Anteby describes, at HBS specifics are often left unspoken; for example, teaching notes given to faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision-making on the part of those involved, with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model—which tolerates moral complexity—is perhaps one of the few that can adapt and endure over time. Manufacturing Morals is a perceptive must-read for anyone looking for insight into the moral decision-making of today’s business leaders and those influenced by and working for them.

Discovery-driven Growth

Discovery-driven Growth
Author: Rita Gunther McGrath
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591396859

Based on extensive research and the authors' combined thirty years of experience, Discovery-Driven Growth provides a breakthrough system for managing strategic growth. You will learn how to identify and prioritize your company's full portfolio of opportunities - from new product lines to entirely new businesses. The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. Tools for dealing with each challenge are backed by examples from companies, from small firms to global giants, that have successfully put these methods into practice.

Civic Agriculture

Civic Agriculture
Author: Thomas A. Lyson
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1611683033

A engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.

Intl Biblio Pol SC 1966

Intl Biblio Pol SC 1966
Author: Blpes
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1968-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780422802604

First published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Agriculture and Development

Agriculture and Development
Author: Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821371282

The book highlights proceedings from the Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development conference held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008.