Archive for April, 2009

The angst mothers and children feel over business travel often goes unspoken, yet is a common issue young families struggle with – sometimes weekly! Now there’s a special book to help both kids and moms feel better about their time apart.

Title: My Mommy’s on a Business Trip
Author: Phaedra Cucina, a 1999 Thunderbird graduate, is a marketing specialist and mother of two young children who has worked in corporate America since the early 1990s. This is Phaedra’s first book, and the first in a series designed to explain the world of work to small children. Phaedra grew up near Detroit, Michigan, and now lives in Austin, Texas.
Publisher: DolceVita Media (October 2008)
Price: $18.99
Description: Hardcover, 24 pages
ISBN: 978-9818807-0-9
Information: www.dolcevitawoman.com

Companies are gaining competitive advantage through networked business models, tapping into talent across the globe to defend themselves against commoditization and disruptive innovation. Rather than rigid “built-to-last” systems and processes, the new era instead calls for fluid, “built-to-adapt” networks in which each company focuses on its differentiation and relies increasingly on its partners, suppliers,and customers to supply the rest.

Title: Business Network Transformation: Strategies to Reconfigure Your Business Relationships for Competitive Advantage
Author: Jeffrey Word is a 1999 Thunderbird graduate. Contributors include: Philip Lay, Geoffrey Moore, Marco Iansiti, Ross Sullivan, Mohanbir Sawhney, Ranjay Gulati, David Kletter, N. Venkatraman, John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Gautam Kasthurirangan, Randall H. Russell, Henry Chesbrough, Jeffrey H. Dyer and Andrew McAfee.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (August 17, 2009)
Price: $40
ISBN: 978-0470528341
Description: 304 pages, hardcover
Information: www.amazon.com

“Industrialization and Political Affinity” looks at the issue of political affinity as a way of explaining industrial policies in Newly Industrializing Countries (NIC’s). Focusing on Brazil as one of the most technologically and economically advanced of the NIC’s, Roy C. Nelson explores how policy affinity can help or hinder industrial policies that promote the development of indigenous technological capabilities.

Title: Industrialization and Political Affinity: Industrial policy in Brazil
Author: Thunderbird Professor Roy C. Nelson, Ph.D., is also the author of “Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America” (Pennsylvania State University Press (July 2009). His knowledge of Latin American business practices and his field research in nearly a dozen Latin American countries have made him a foremost expert on Latin American business strategy. He speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (September 28, 1995)
Price: $107.03
ISBN: 978-0415125284
Description: Hardcover, 224 pages
Information: www.amazon.com