The 'Goldstone Report' of September 2009 started a critical debate at the international level. The Report raised serious allegations of grave violations of international law with regard to the Israeli attack on Gaza of 27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009, amounting to possible war crimes and crimes against humanity. The UN General Assembly and…
From inside Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at thousands of companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more. Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life?…
Culture, Leadership, and Organizations reports the results of a ten-year research program, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program. GLOBE is a long-term program designed to conceptualize, operationalize, test, and validate a cross-level integrated theory of the relationship between culture and societal, organizational, and leadership effectiveness. A team of 160 scholars worked…
In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded political scientist to examine the long, formative academic phase of Wilson's career and its connection to his relatively brief tenure in politics. Together, the essays provide a greatly revised picture of Wilson's whole career and…
Vive tu Liderazgo esideal para aquellos que ven el éxito como algo inalcanzable, que creen que el liderazgo es para personas famosas con puestos importantes, un libro para el crecimiento personal. Esta obra ofrece al lector valiosas enseñanzas que cambiarán esa limitante manera de pensar, guiándose a través de la lectura a reconocer su potencial…
Rethink, rebuild, and re-energize your relationship with every customer for ultimate success in today’s Metail economy Armed with computers, tablets, smartphones, and social media, today’s consumers have revolted against the marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice, and sometimes a hand, in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers―"Me's"―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of…
A partir de las teorías de Schumpeter, los economistas han argumentado que invertir en tecnología e innovación se traduce en un gran aumento de la productividad. Sin embargo, como lo muestra La paradoja de la innovación, las empresas y los gobiernos de los países en vías de desarrollo invierten muy poco para alcanzar este potencial,…
A timely investigation of the potential economic effects, both realized and unrealized, of artificial intelligence within the United States healthcare system. In sweeping conversations about the impact of artificial intelligence on many sectors of the economy, healthcare has received relatively little attention. Yet it seems unlikely that an industry that represents nearly one-fifth of the…
El presente libro es una compilación de artículos que surgieron como resultado de los trabajos del equipo de investigación denominado La innovación como concepto y como práctica en la Educación Superior. Se trata entonces de una aproximación a las visiones que sustentan la vinculación y la transferencia de conocimiento orientadas a la innovación. Esta propuesta…
At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to achieve this. Topics include the political causes of the famine, the…