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Here is a selection of practical, theoretical, and ground-breaking books written by Tuck faculty members.

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Paul A. Argenti
Kenneth R. Baker
Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell
Richard A. D'Aveni
Thomas R. Duncan
Sydney Finkelstein
Vijay Govindarajan
Leonard Greenhalgh
Constance Helfat
M. Eric Johnson
William F. Joyce
David C. Kang
Kevin Lane Keller
Thomas C. Lawton
Mary Munter
Stephen G. Powell
David F. Pyke
Matthew Slaughter
Clyde P. Stickney
Chris R. Trimble
Fred Wainwright

Paul A. Argenti
Corporate Communication (third edition)
Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2003
ISBN: 0071151362

This new paperback edition of the very first and most comprehensive corporate communication text on the market includes both text and cases, providing an excellent alternative to a full-blown text for the advanced business communication or MBA business communication course. Experienced and well-trained faculty who prefer a case method and would rather bring in their own materials will equally enjoy using this handbook.

Paul A. Argenti
The Fast Forward MBA Pocket Reference (second edition)
John Wiley & Sons, 2002
ISBN: 0471222828

An authoritative resource that covers all the corporate bases: communications, management, economics, strategy, accounting, finance, marketing, and more. This updated second edition offers concise coverage in a new, handy format. You'll find all the latest cutting-edge ideas, including new developments in technology, strategy, and branding, as well as key terms, tools, and topics.

Paul A. Argenti, Janis Forman
The Power of Corporate Communication: Crafting the Voice and Image of Your Business
McGraw-Hill Trade, 2002
ISBN: 0071379495

With strategies for clear communication in today's muddled corporate environment, Argenti's book shows how to communicate effectively with fellow employees at all levels, between organizations and across industries. Fully accessible, with workplace-tested approaches toward common challenges, the text analyzes real-world examples and case studies from leading organizations such as Sony, Coca-Cola, and GE.

Kenneth R. Baker
Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets
Duxbury Press, forthcoming

Kenneth R. Baker
Elements of Sequencing and Scheduling (revised edition 2003)
Kenneth R. Baker, 2003
ISBN: 0963974610

This is the classic textbook on scheduling theory, first published in 1973 and comprehensively updated in 1995. The book is aimed at graduate students and researchers investigating basic results in the field of scheduling. The coverage introduces the essential models and algorithms of modern scheduling theory and prepares the reader to explore the research literature.

Kenneth R. Baker, Stephen G. Powell
The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets; Management Science, Spreadsheet Engineering, and Modeling Craft
John Wiley & Sons, 2003
ISBN: 0471209376

Designed specifically to serve as an MBA-level text for users of spreadsheets, this book covers spreadsheet engineering: how to design, build, test and analyze business problems efficiently and effectively using spreadsheets; management science—the essentials of data analysis, statistics, optimization and simulation for business analysts; and craft skills of modeling—the non-technical but vital skills experts use to translate fuzzy problems into crisp managerial insights using modeling.

Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, Stella M. Nkomo
Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Personal Identity
Harvard Business School Press, 2001
ISBN: 1578512778

An unflinching look at the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and triumphs climbing the executive ladder, based on eight years of groundbreaking research, this book compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 female managers in U.S. business. In-depth histories bring to life women's journeys from childhood to professional success, highlighting roles played by gender, race, and class.

Richard A. D'Aveni
Strategic Supremacy: How Industry Leaders Create Growth, Wealth, and Power Through Spheres of Influence
Free Press, 2001
ISBN: 0684871807

Counter-revolutionary strategies and tactics that any industry leader or established company can use to defend itself against revolutionaries, disrupters, or hypercompetitors. D'Aveni presents a framework that will enable any resource-rich or clever defender to gain strategic supremacy by being first to define the playing field. Case analyses include Disney, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble.

Richard A. D'Aveni, Anne Y. Illinitch , Arie Y. Lewin (editors)
Managing in Times of Disorder
Sage Publications, 1998
ISBN: 0761910190

Fraught with uncertainty, diverse global players, rapid technological change, price wars, and seemingly endless reorganization, today's business environment has undergone a major shift in the nature of competition, resulting in a new organizational paradigm: hypercompetition. The authors' findings reveal new patterns of language, metaphor, structure, and strategy necessary for business survival in chaotic times.

Richard A. D'Aveni, Kathryn R. Harrigan, Robert Gunther
Hypercompetitive Rivalries: Competing in Highly Dynamic Environments
Free Press, 1995
ISBN: 0028741129

Showing how competitive moves and countermoves escalate with such ferocity today that the traditional sources of competitive advantage can no longer be sustained, D'Aveni argues that a company must fundamentally shift its strategic focus. Using detailed examples from hypercompetitive industries such as computers, automobiles, and pharmaceuticals, he demonstrates how hypercompetitive firms succeed by disrupting the status quo and creating a continuous series of temporary advantages.

Richard A. D'Aveni, Robert Gunther
Hypercompetition: Managing the Dynamics of Strategic Maneuvering
Free Press, 1994
ISBN: 0029069386

An operating manual of strategy and tactics for a new era, this text reveals a brilliant operational model that shows how firms move up "escalation ladders" as advantage is continually created, eroded, destroyed, and recreated through strategic maneuvering in four arenas of competition. Using this "four-arena" analysis, D'Aveni explains how competitors engage in a struggle for control by seeking leadership in the arenas of "price and quality," "timing and know-how," "stronghold creation/invasion," and "deep pockets."

Thomas R. Duncan
Principles of Advertising and IMC (second edition)
McGraw-Hill, 2004
ISBN: 0072956151

Sydney Finkelstein, Gary L. Cooper, Cary L. Cooper (editors)
Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume 3 (Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions Series)
Portfolio, June 2003
ISBN: 1591840104

This textbook brings together work by academics from various disciplines, integrating the disparate but growing body of literature on mergers and acquisitions. The series is published to explain and discuss the unsatisfactory outcomes that result from many poorly conceived mergers. Topics include: creating value through merger and acquisition integration, integrating acquisitions, organizational change processes in international acquisitions, and value creation in large European mergers and acquisitions.

Sydney Finkelstein, Charles Harvey, and Thomas Lawton
Breakout Strategy: Meeting the Challenge of Double-Digit Growth
McGraw-Hill (2006)

Companies that purposefully set out to excel are remarkably few and far between. The number of those who have a strong, well-thought out strategy for success are even fewer. Based on five years of research and field-testing, Breakout Strategy gives a "fast track" strategic vision that can push companies to incredible new rates of growth and expansion. The authors show how to craft a strategy that fits any business--from small start-ups to established national or international companies.

Sydney Finkelstein
Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
Penguin Putnam, 2003
ISBN: 0762311010

Discover just why executives and their companies falter when engaging in such perilous tasks as creating successful new ventures, managing mergers and acquisitions, coping with innovations and change, and developing winning strategies in the face of new competitive pressures. Finkelstein presents fascinating, detailed case histories of dozens of companies to uncover not just what goes wrong, but how to avoid failure.

Sydney Finkelstein, Donald C. Hambrick
Strategic Leadership: Top Executives and Their Effects on Organizations (West's Strategic Management Series)
South-Western College Publishing, 1996
ISBN: 0314046054

Nominated for the George P. Terry Award for Management Book of the Year, Strategic Leadership focuses on synthesis and knowledge creation to suggest a research agenda for the future. It illustrates how the decisions and actions of CEO's and top management teams have important effects on a firm's performance.

Leonard Greenhalgh
Managing Strategic Relationships: The Key to Business Success
Free Press, 2001
ISBN: 0684867699

Contrary to the gospel of a century of management thinkers, the primary job of the manager is no longer to plan, organize, direct, or control. Instead, today's successful managers are primarily negotiators. Greenhalgh shows how to foster, coach, protect, and support collaborative relationships and manage conflict with peers, workers, bosses, suppliers, customers, regulators, competitors, and stakeholders.

Vijay Govindarajan, Chris R. Trimble
Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
ISBN: 1591397588

Vijay Govindarajan, Anil K. Gupta
Global Strategy and Organization
John Wiley & Sons, 2003
ISBN: 0471250295

Marshall Goldsmith, Vijay Govindarajan, Beverley Kaye, Albert A. Vicere (editors)
The Many Facets of Leadership
Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002
ISBN: 0131005332

The Many Facets of Leadership brings together new essays by world-renowned contributors on leading change, on dealing with complexity and ambiguity, on building learning organizations, and promoting innovation. In addition, it illustrates the new constellation of skills required to manage knowledge workers in today's global organizations.

Vijay Govindarajan, Anil K. Gupta, C.K. Prahalad
The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage
Jossey-Bass, 2001
ISBN: 0787957216

With illustrated conceptual frameworks for understanding the realities of today's global industry and knowledge businesses, Global Dominance provides executives with skills in identifying world market opportunities, converting global presence into competitive advantage, and in rethinking answers to classic business questions. It is a cutting-edge, thoughtful work that will inspire entrepreneurs, students, politicians, and decision makers.

Constance Helfat
The SMS Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Capabilities: Emergence, Development, and Change
Blackwell Publishing, July 2003
ISBN: 1405103043

How do the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time? This new handbook brings together scholars of strategic management, economics, history, organizational theory, international business, and technology management in order to address this question.

M. Eric Johnson, David F. Pyke (editors)
Supply Chain Management: Innovations for Education
Production & Operations Management Society, 2000
ISBN: 0966372514

Few topics in production and operations management have had the impact, both on industry and academia, of supply chain management. Top business and engineering schools now include more integrated supply chain topics into core curricula. This book explores some of the leading-edge thinking around supply chain education, clearly presenting the key elements of these courses and examining the impact of the web on supply chains. Experiential-learning games and exercises included.

William F. Joyce
Mega Change: How Today's Leading Companies Have Transformed Their Workforces
Free Press, 1999
ISBN: 0684856255

Attempts to restructure many U.S. corporations have often proved unsuccessful, as productivity and efficiency have either remained the same of worsened. Joyce shows how archaic management methods and practices stifle employees' needs for satisfying work. His "New Logic for Change," composed of four critical steps, emphasizes not just human value, but human values, and is based on the importance of meaningful work.

William F. Joyce, Nitin Nohria, Bruce Robertson
What Really Works
HarperBusiness, May 2003
ISBN: 060512784

A result of the world's first large-scale, statistically rigorous study of the most reliable indicators of enduring business success, What Really Works presents the clear correlation between sustainable performance and eight areas of management practice. The 4+2 formula reveals that if a company succeeds in the four primary practices presented and any two of the four secondary ones, it has a 90 percent chance of becoming a winner.

David C. Kang
Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines
Cambridge University Press, 2002
ISBN: 052100408X

How can we reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999? Politics is central to the answer. In this book, Kang discusses bureaucratic corruption throughout post-independence and political—not economic—considerations dominating policy making in both the Philippines and South Korea.

David C. Kang, V.D. Cha
Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies
Columbia University Press, 2003
ISBN: 0231131283

Professors Kang and Cha present a thoughtful and analytical treatment of practical strategies for dealing with North Korea. They distance themselves from the hysterical tone of recent media coverage and offer a reasoned, rational, and logical debate on the nature of the North Korean regime. Cha and Kang contend that however provocative, even deplorable, the North's behavior may at times be, it is not incomprehensible or incoherent. This book uncovers the logic that inheres in the politics of the Korean peninsula, presenting an indispensable context for a new policy of engagement.

Kevin Lane Keller, Philip Kotler
Marketing Management (12th edition)
Prentice Hall, 2005
ISBN: 0131457578

Kevin Lane Keller
Strategic Brand Management: Building, Measuring, and Managing Brand Equity (second edition)
Prentice Hall, 2003
ISBN: 0130411507

Written by today's leading authority on brand management, incorporating the latest thinking and developments from both academia and industry, this text is finely focused on "how-to" and "why" throughout. It provides specific tactical guidelines for planning, building, measuring, and managing brand equity and includes numerous examples on virtually every topic, with over 100 Branding Briefs that identify successful and unsuccessful brands and explain why they have been so.

Kevin Lane Keller
Best Practice Cases in Branding
Prentice Hall, 2003
ISBN: 0131411330

A perfect accompaniment to Strategic Brand Management, by the same author, Best Practice Cases in Branding is a casebook that focuses on brands such as Accenture, Intel, Levi-Strauss, Nike, MTV, Red Bull, Snapple, and Starbucks. It is an invaluable resource for business professors developing brand-building skills.

Thomas C. Lawton
Cleared for Take-Off: Structure and Strategy in the Low Fare Airline Business, Ashgate Studies in Aviation Economics and Management
Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002
ISBN: 0754612694

Mary Munter
Guide to PowerPoint
Prentice Hall, forthcoming

Mary Munter
Guide to Managerial Communication (seventh edition)
Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Business Communication
Prentice Hall, 2005
ISBN: 0131467042

Written by a leader in the management communication field and an experienced consultant, this guide summarizes and reviews communication, writing, and speaking strategies—arming students with the know-how, techniques, and skills to deal successfully with managerial communication issues they will face as future business professionals.

Mary Munter, Michael Netzley
Guide to Meetings
Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Business Communication
Prentice Hall, 2001
ISBN: 0130338567

Tips to assure that your meetings will be: necessary, not a waste of time; marked by healthy discussion, not hostile confrontation; interesting and well organized; based on new technology when appropriate; a place for people to share, rather than show off, their ideas; constructive and creative; inclusive; a forum for decisions that get acted upon; and efficient.

Mary Munter, Lynn Russell
Guide to Presentations
Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Business Communication
Prentice Hall, 2001
ISBN: 0130929956

A concise, practical book for those who give professional presentations. It shows you how you can: relax and enhance your credibility before, during, and after your presentation; design slides to highlight key data and hold your audience's interest; improve your nonverbal image (gestures, voice, stance); make sure your audience remembers the main points of your presentation; and become a more persuasive presenter.

Stephen G. Powell, Kenneth R. Baker
The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets; Management Science, Spreadsheet Engineering, and Modeling Craft
John Wiley & Sons, 2003
ISBN: 0471209376

Designed to serve as an MBA-level text for users of spreadsheets, this book covers spreadsheet engineering: how to design, build, test and analyze business problems efficiently and effectively using spreadsheets; management science—the essentials of data analysis, statistics, optimization and simulation for business analysts; and craft skills of modeling—the non-technical but vital skills experts use to translate fuzzy problems into crisp managerial insights using modeling.

David F. Pyke, M. Eric Johnson (editors)
Supply Chain Management: Innovations for Education
Production & Operations Management Society, 2000
ISBN: 0966372514

David F. Pyke, Edward A. Silver, Rein Peterson
Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling (third edition)
John Wiley & Sons, 1998
ISBN: 0471119474

A revision of this classic text which integrates managerial issues with practical applications, providing a broad foundation for decision-making. Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling incorporates recent developments in inventory management, including Just-in-Time Management, Materials Requirement Planning, and Total Quality Management.

Matthew Slaughter, Kenneth F. Scheve
Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers
Institute for International Economics, 2001
ISBN: 088132295

While concerns about the impact of globalization on the environment, human rights, and other issues are an important part of the politics of globalization, the authors of this book argue that it is the link between policy liberalization, worker interests, and individual opinions that forms the foundation for the backlash against liberalization in the United States.

Clyde P. Stickney, Roman L. Weil
Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods, and Uses (eleventh edition)
South-Western Publishers, 2005
ISBN: 0324222971

This widely respected financial accounting text focuses on presenting clearly both the basic concepts underlying financial statements and the terminology and methods that allow students to interpret, analyze, and evaluate actual corporate financial statements. This edition contains many new features, such as greater emphasis on analysis of statement data by users, cash-flow coverage, self-study and extra cases online.

Clyde P. Stickney, Paul R. Brown, James Wahlen
Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis: A Strategic Perspective (fifth edition)
South-Western Publishers, 2003
ISBN: 032418638X

The book's premise is that students learn financial statement analysis most effectively by performing the analysis on actual companies. Students learn to integrate concepts from economics, business strategy, accounting, and other business disciplines. Text is designed for courses on financial reporting found in accounting, finance, and economics departments. Suitable for both capstone and MBA courses.

Clyde P. Stickney, Michael Maher, Roman L. Weil
Managerial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses (eighth edition)
South-Western Publishers, 2003
ISBN: 0324185634

The updated eighth edition of this classic text for MBA programs offers balanced coverage of concepts, methods, and uses of managerial accounting with an increasingly strong emphasis on strategic management issues. This approach helps to focus on concepts and managerial uses of financial information rather than techniques of cost accounting.

Chris R. Trimble, Vijay Govindarajan
Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
ISBN: 1591397588

Fred Wainwright, Albert Thumann
Financing Energy Projects Deskbook
Fairmont Press, 1997
ISBN: 0881732729

Written expressly to provide guidance on what options are available to fund energy projects, how to assess project payback in advance, how to anticipate and avoid potential risks and/or hidden costs, and how to assure that your project is an economic success, this text fully examines the scope of current energy project financing practices. Includes helpful tips on working effectively with lenders, and case histories detailing financing success stories.