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The Center that launched a new MBA concentration built on the Return Driven Strategy framework. Regularly holds seminars and workshops on business strategy, execution, and valuation topics.

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Ansoff, H. Igor. Corporate Strategy: An Analytic Approach to Business Policy for Growth and Expansion. New York: McGraw Hill. 1965
Beasley, Mark S. and Mark L. Frigo, “Strategic Risk Management: Creating and Protecting Value” Strategic Finance, 2007
Bell, C. Gordon and John E. McNamara. High-Tech Ventures: The Guide for Entrepreneurial Success. Reading: Perseus Books, 1991
Bossidy, Larry and Ram Charan, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. New York: Crown Business, 2002
Bruce, Brian R. and Mark T. Bradshaw Analysts, Lies and Statistics. New York: Institutional Investor Books, 2004
Cialdini, Robert B. Influence: Science and Practice. Needham Heights: Allyn and Bacon, 2001
Christensen, Clayton M. and Michael E. Raynor. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Davenport, Thomas H. and Jeanne G. Harris, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Downes, Larry and Chunka Mui. Unleashing the Killer App. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998
Drucker, Peter F. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles. London: William Heinemann. 1985
Drucker, Peter F. Managing for the Future: The 1990s and Beyond. New York: Truman Talley Books, Dutton, 1992
Drucker, Peter F. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles. London: William Heinemann, 1985
Epstein, Barry J., Ralph Nach and Steven M. Bragg. Wiley GAAP 2006.Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2005
Epstein, Marc J. Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate, Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2008
Foster, Richard and Sarah Kaplan. Creative Distruction. New York: Doubleday, 2001
Friedman, Milton Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962
Friedman, Milton and Rose Friedman Free To Choose. New York: Harvest, Harcourt Inc., 1990
Frigo, Mark L and Joel Litman “Give My Regrets to Wall Street” Harvard Business Review, 2004
Frigo, Mark L. “What is Mission Driven Strategy?” Strategic Finance, 2003
Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York: Little Brown & Company, 2000
Goldratt, Eliyahu M. Theory of Constraints. Great Barrington: North River Press, 1990
Goldratt, Eliyahu M. and Jeff Cox The Goal. A Process of Ongoing Improvement. Great Barrington: The North River Press, 1992
Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books, 1997
Goleman, Daniel. Working with Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books, 2000
Humes, James C. Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln. Roseville: Prima Publishing, 2002
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. “The Balanced Scorecard – Measures that Drive Performance.” Harvard Business Review, 1992
Kirby, Julia, “Toward a Theory of High Performance” Harvard Business Review, 2005
Kotter, John P. and James L. Heskett. Corporate Culture and Performance. New York: Free Press, 1992
Levitt, Theodore. “Marketing Myopia.” Harvard Business Review, 1975
Litman, Joel and Mark L. Frigo “When Strategy and Valuation Meet: Five Lessons from Return Driven Strategy” Strategic Finance, 2004
Lowe, Janet. Warren Buffet Speaks – Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997
Madden, Bartley J. CFROI Valuation A Total System Approach to Valuing the Firm. Woburn: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999
Madden, Bartley J. Maximizing Shareholder Value And The Greater Good. Naperville: LearningWhatWorks, 2005
Mitchell, Jack, Hug Your Customers: The Proven Way to Personalize Sales and Achieve Astounding Results, New York: Hyperion, 2003
Peters, Thomas J. and Robert H. Waterman. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. New York: Harper & Row, 1982
Porter, Michael E. "The Importance of Being Strategic" Balanced Scorecard Report, Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Porter, Michael E. “What is Strategy?” Harvard Business Review, 1996
Porter, Michael E. Competitive Advantage-Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. New York: The Free Press, 1985
Porter, Michael E. Competitive Strategy Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. New York: The Free Press, 1980
Reichheld, Fred. The Ultimate Question Driving Good Profits and True Growth. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Reid, Peter C. Well Made in America: Lessons from Harley-Davidson on Being the Best. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1990
Ries, Al and Laura Ries. The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1998
Salovey, Peter, Marc A. Brackett and John D. Mayer. Emotional Intelligence: Key Readings on the Mayer and Salovey Model Port Chester: Dude Publishing, 2004
Schumpeter, Joseph A. The Theory of Economic Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934
Schumpeter, Joseph A. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1975 (originally published 1942)
Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds. New York: Doubleday, 2004
Slywotzky, Adrian J. The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats Into Growth Breakthroughs. New York: Crown Business, 2007
Ulrich, Dave and Norm Smallwood, Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Walton, Mary. The Deming Management Method. New York: Perigee Books, 1986
Welch, Jack. Jack: Straight from the Gut. New York: Warner 2001
Zook, Chris and James Allen, Profit from the Core: Growth Strategies in an Era of Turbulence. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001
Zyman, Sergio. The End of Advertising As We Know It. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2002
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