Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

By: Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston

Companies are facing an unavoidable new array of environmentally driven issues. Like any revolution, this new “Green Wave” presents an unprecedented challenge to business as usual. Organizations that do not add environmental thinking to their strategy arsenal risk missing upside opportunities in markets that are increasingly shaped by environmental factors.
In Green to Gold, Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston identify three main reasons for adding the environmental lens to core strategy: the potential for upside benefits, the management of downside risks, and a values-based concern for environmental stewardship. Green to Gold highlights the key strategies, tactics, and tools that are needed to establish an environmentally based competitive advantage.

Transnational Leadership Development: Preparing the Next Generation for the Borderless Business World

By: Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Ph.D and Kathy D. Geller

Advances in technology have broken down borders, bridged oceans, and created relationships between people and cultures where none had existed before. Because of these changes, cultural differences need to be acknowledged, respected, and embraced. 
In their book Transnational Leadership Development, Beth Fisher-Yoshida and Kathy D. Geller explain the importance of letting go of a desire for sameness, and the need to both honor and welcome the differences between cultures. They also discuss the differences between “I”-Centric cultures such as the United States and Western Europe and “We”-Centric cultures, which include many Asian and Middle Eastern nations. By understanding the five paradoxes of transnational leadership identified by the authors, organizations can greatly enhance their effectiveness in the global marketplace.

Computer Fraud Casebook: The Bytes that Bite

By: Joseph T. Wells

Fraud has been a longstanding threat for business owners. Rapid advances in technology; however, have propelled the issue of computer fraud into the forefront at the cost of billions of dollars to companies and consumers alike.  In Computer Fraud Casebook, Joseph T. Wells compiles and presents 42 actual computer fraud case studies written by the certified fraud examiners who participated in the investigations. Following each case study, the authors present the lessons learned from their experiences as well as recommendations to prevent future instances of fraud. By understanding the types of potential computer fraud threats, as well as the effective ways for preventing and addressing them, readers will be able to minimize their likelihood of falling victim to such crimes.