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New Additions

You may view a listing of newly added books, videos, and working papers to the Jackson Library Collection for up to four previous months. Simply click on the New Additions tab in the Jackson Library Catalog, or click on the link below.

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Featured Reading: Popular Business Books

The breakthrough company : how everyday companies become extraordinary performers.
By Keith R. McFarland. New York : Crown Business, c2008.
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About the Author: Keith R. McFarland, founder of McFarland Strategy Partners, was named as associate dean of the Pepperdine University Business School at the age of twenty-six.

McFarland, consultant and columnist, sets out to explore the characteristics that enable small companies to break through the entrepreneurial stage and become big; he quotes Charles DuBois: "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." McFarland's tips for building breakthrough... more review

Creating a world without poverty : social business and the future of capitalism.
By Muhammad Yunus With Karl Weber. New York : PublicAffairs, 2007.
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About the Author: Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

Economics professor Yunus claims he originally became involved in the poverty issue not as a policy-maker, scholar, or researcher, but because poverty was all around me. With these words he stopped teaching elegant theories and began lending small amounts of money, $40 or less, without collateral, to the poorest... more review

Getting unstuck : how dead ends become new paths.
By Timothy Butler. Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.
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About the Author: Dr. Timothy Butler is a Senior Fellow, MBA program administrator, and Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard University.

Butler, a psychotherapist and director of Career Development at Harvard Business School, says it's the ruts and dead ends in life that can provide motivation for the greatest change-provided you're willing to dig deep and confront unresolved issues from the past. Though it... more review

Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions.
By Dan Ariely. New York : HarperCollins, 2008.
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About the Author: Dan Ariely, faculty at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, is considered to be a leading behavioral economist.

Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex... more review

Innovation in Medical Technology: Ethical Issues and Challenges.
By Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
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About the Authors: Margaret Eaton is a lecturer in Management in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Donald Kennedy is emeritus Bing Professor of Environmental Science and President Emeritus of Stanford University. more...

This thought-provoking study examines the ethical, legal, and social problems that arise with cutting-edge medical technology. Using as examples four powerful and largely unregulated technologies-off-label use of drugs, innovative surgery, assisted reproduction, and neuroimaging... more review

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath. New York: Random House, 2007.
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About the Authors: Chip Heath is a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dan Heath is a Consultant at Duke Corporate Education. more...

Based on a class at Stanford taught by one of the authors, this book profiles how some ideas "stick" in our minds while the majority fall by the wayside. Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and compelling advertising make up much of the intrinsically interesting examples that the Heaths profile that qualify for "stickiness."... more review

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