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  • The Work of the Future

    Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

    by Elisabeth Reynolds, David H. Autor, David A. Mindell ...
    Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases steadily and new technology has ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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  • Social Entrepreneurship:What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David Bornstein, Susan Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and emergent force that remains our best hope for solutions that can keep pace with our problems and create a more peaceful world. David Bornstein's previous book on social entrepreneurship, How to Change the World, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Solution Revolution

    How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems

    by William D. Eggers, Paul Macmillan ...
    Government Alone Can’t Solve Society’s Biggest ProblemsWorld hunger. Climate change. Crumbling infrastructure. It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle these and other towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Completing Capitalism

    Heal Business to Heal the World

    by Bruno Roche, Jay Jakub, Lim Siong Guan ...
    Two leading economists present a new model for sustainable capitalism based on the economics of mutuality.For decades, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. While books like Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Need, Speed, and Greed

    How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems

    by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran ...
    World-renowned economist Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran provides a deeply insightful, brilliantly informed guide to the innovation revolution now transforming the world. With echoes of Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, Tim Brown’s Change by Design, and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, Vaitheeswaran’s Need, Speed, and Greed introduces readers to the go-getters, imagineers, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Dream Factories

    Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis

    by Bill Morrison, Ken S. Coates ...
    Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.”For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career success. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison argue that the over-promotion of higher education and university degrees is actually undermining the lives of young people, saddling them with enormous debts, and costing ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Entrepreneurial Imperative

    How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World (and Change Your Life)

    by Carl J. Schramm, PhD ...
    In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world's leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States to survive and continue to lead the world's economy, it is imperative we learn to understand and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Redefining Global Strategy, with a New Preface

    Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    New Tools for Succeeding GloballyWhy do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Because a one-size-fits-all strategy no longer stands a chance.When firms believe in the illusions of a "flat" world and the death of distance, they charge across borders as if the globe were one seamless marketplace. But cross-border differences are ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Global Road Map

    Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    What Globalization Now Means for Your BusinessExecutives can no longer base their strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance steadily. But how should they respond to the growing pressures against globalization? And what can businesses do to control their destinies in these times of uncertainty?In The New Global Road Map, Pankaj Ghemawat separates fact from fiction by ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Re-Imagining Capitalism

    Edited by Dominic Barton, Matthias Kipping, Dezsö Horváth ...
    Capitalism has been an unprecedented engine of wealth creation for many centuries, leading to sustained productivity gains and long-term growth and lifting an increasing proportion of humanity out of poverty. But its effects, and hence its future, have come increasingly under question: Is capitalism still improving wealth and well-being for the many? Or, is long-term value creation being ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Future of Work

    Robots, AI, and Automation

    by Darrell M. West ...
    Robots, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars are no longer things of the distant future. They are with us today and will become increasingly common in coming years, along with virtual reality and digital personal assistants.As these tools advance deeper into everyday use, they raise the question?how will they transform society, the economy, and politics? If companies need fewer workers due ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Standing on the Sun

    How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere

    by Christopher Meyer ...
    For half a century the US has sat at the center of the global economic system, and Western-style capitalism has dominated. Now, it's no secret that the center of gravity is shifting. The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75% of the world's output will, by 2050, consume just 32%. Meanwhile, the emerging economies of the world--Brazil, India, China, and others--will surge forward.As these ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus