MIT Sloan is now offering free case studies through their new web site called MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources. The case studies cover the following management areas: industry evolution, sustainability, and global entrepreneurship.
Then you may want to attend the Off-Campus Job Hunters Workshop at the Ford Library which will allow you to:
Classes will be held 1/28 through 2/25 in the Ford Library Data Resources Room.
Some of the databases covered will include ABI-Inform, Factiva, MarketLine and Onesource, plus a look at Vault, Wetfeet, and others. This class is designed for students who have not taken the basic library database class.
Register soon since space in the Data Resources Room is limited.
Please feel free to send any questions about the class to: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.
Where did the Jupiter Research content go?
Last Saturday, Jupiter Research ceased to exist as a separate web site and its content was integrated into Forrester research.
As a consequence of the merger, all Jupiter branding was removed from their research; but you can still browse the research products that were created for the Jupiter site.
If you have difficulty locating what you need, please feel free to send any questions or concerns to: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.
How to negotiate anything with anyone anywhere around the world by Frank L. Acuff, Amacom, 3rd ed., 2008.
After a brief discussion of the basics of negotiation, this book discusses how to greet, communicate and negotiate with people in 62 countries worldwide. This book also includes a brief summary of the business climate in 7 regions of the world.
Global negotiation : the new rules by William Hernandez Requejo and John L. Graham, Palgrave, 2008.
In this practical book, Requejo and Graham lay the groundwork for sustainable business relationships worldwide. The first part of this book discusses the multiple ways cultural differences in values and communication styles can cause misunderstandings between otherwise positively disposed business partners. The authors then discuss their model of global negotiation that includes intelligence gathering, communication and creativity. The last part of the book focuses on Indian, Chinese and Mexican negotiation styles.
© Reviewer: Meg Trauner & Ford Library – Fuqua School of Business. All rights reserved.
Part of Duke’s special collections library, the Hartman Center’s historical print archives and multimedia resources promote the study of sales, advertising and marketing in society.
They provided the material for a recent Perkins Library exhibit looking at advertising in the 1960s titled, “Not Just Mad Men: Real Advertising Careers in the 1960s”. You can see an audio slide show on the Duke Today site.
Take a look at their advertising image databases which range from Ad Access (newspaper and magazine ads from 1911 to 1955) to Medicine and Madison Avenue (health-related ads from 1911 to 1958).
The white tiger: a novel by Aravind Adiga. Free Press, 2008.
Aravind Adiga’s first novel was requested by several students, who said it was a story about an entrepreneur in India. It turns out that White Tiger is not about business. It is a ruthless portrait of contemporary India.
The main character begins life in poverty and deprivation in a village in northern India. He dreams of leaving his town and finds a job as a driver/servant for wealthy landowners who move to Delhi. Eventually, he commits a brutal murder to free himself from bondage and to obtain the capital to begin a business.
Behind the story of the Indian economic miracle, with glass office towers, luxury apartments and gigantic malls, is another story of those whom the economic miracle is leaving behind. This is the story of social injustice for the poor and uneducated, and about corruption and cruelty in all levels of society.
Some people find this book to be darkly humorous — this reviewer did not. Nevertheless, the novel is a fascinating read. White Tiger won the 2008 Man Booker prize.
© Reviewer: Meg Trauner & Ford Library – Fuqua School of Business. All rights reserved.
On Saturday, January 17, 2009, Jupiter Research will no longer be available as a separate web database site.
What Happened: On July 31st, 2008, Forrester Research acquired Jupiter Research. In the intervening months, Forrester has chosen to fully absorb Jupiter’s content into its own web site, and as a result, Jupiter will no longer maintain a separate web presence and brand.
In order to ensure that Fuqua and Duke University users continue their access to our currently subscribed Jupiter content, we have worked with both companies to create a single login point for both Jupiter and Forrester content.
What Will Change:
What Won’t Change: Fuqua and Duke University users will continue to enjoy access to Jupiter Research content on Forrester, as well as more straightforward, NetID-based access to Forrester Research.
Please feel free to use the comments link below for feedback, or send any questions or concerns about this transition via email to: reference-librarians@fuqua.duke.edu.
Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins by Tom Perkins. Gotham Book, 2007.
Tom Perkins was a self described electrical engineering nerd at MIT. He later found his calling at Harvard B-School when he discovered his instinct for business and also spent more time with wine glasses than transistors. Although Perkins became an extremely successful venture capitalist, don’t look to Perkins for a formula, rules, and secrets to success.
Rather, he takes you on a personal journey to his success through chapters of his life. Although Perkins has a passion for toys owning a submarine, the largest privately owned sailboat, and fast and vintage cars, it’s his passions for life and learning that he credits to his outside the box success.
In this selective autobiography, he shares his experiences as a biotech executive, a board member of Hewlett-Packard and the ousting of Carly Fiorina, his trial for manslaughter in France, and forming the Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner & Perkins that pioneered genetically engineered drugs and ultimately the biotech industry.
Perhaps his most surprising teacher was Danielle Steel with whom he had a brief marriage. Subsequently, he also wrote a novel based on his life. For the real story, he could have easily chosen a more businessy title such as “What I didn’t Learn at Harvard B-School.” She has also influenced Valley Boy, as his style for sharing life’s lessons and creating your own opportunities makes this book read more like an entertaining novel than an autobiography.
Guest reviewer Randy Mayes is a Duke Alumni, author, science writer, and science policy analyst.
© Randall Mayes and Ford Library – Fuqua School of Business. All rights reserved.