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Sustainable Strategic Management: Strategic Management
by W. Edward Stead, Jean Garner Stead, and Mark Starik
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers
The Age of Missing Information
by Bill Mckibben
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
by Herman E. Daly
The End of Nature
by Bill Mckibben
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M. Benyus
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Designing Across Cultures
by Ronnie Lipton
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward Tufte
Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud
Experiences in Visual Thinking
by Robert H. McKim
The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
by B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Peter Drucker
Utopian Entrepreneur
by Brenda Laurel
Developing Business Strategies
Sixth edition
by David Aaker
Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy
11th Edition
by Anne Lawrence, James Webber, and James Post
Launching New Ventures: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Third edition
by Kathleen R. Allen
The Art of the Long View
by Peter Schwartz
Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation
by Kees van der Heijden
Corporate Renaissance: Business as an Adventure in Human Development
by Ralf Österberg
The Art of Innovation
by Tom Kelley
The Innovator’s Solution
by Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovator’s Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity
by Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Building Corporate AccountAbility: Emerging practices in social and ethical accounting, auditing and reporting
by Simon Zadek, Peter Pruzan, and Richard Evans
Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics
by Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend
Macroeconomics
by David Colander
Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business
by John Elkington
How to Think Like a CEO
by D.A. Benton
Accounting: What the Numbers Mean
by David Marshall, Wayne William McManus, and Daniel Viele
The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time
by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries and Jack Trout
Design Research: Applied Exploration of People, Culture, Context, and Form
Edited by Brenda Laurel
Marketing Management
12th Edition
by Philip Kotler and Kevin Lane Keller
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening and Creating New Realities
by Adam Kahane and Peter M Senge
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment
by George Leonard
Service Management: Strategy And Leadership In Service Businesses
by Richard Norman
Growing a Business
by Paul Hawken
Moments of Truth
by Jan Carlzon
Managing the Design Factory: A Product Developer’s Toolkit
by Donald G. Reinertsen
X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed
by Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market
by Gerald Zaltman
Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences
by Steve Diller, Nathan Shedroff, and Darrel Rhea
You Are What You Say: The Proven Program that Uses the Power of Language to Combat Stress, Anger, and Depression
by Matthew Budd and Larry Rothstein
Presence – Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
by Peter M. Senge, Joseph Jaworski, C. Otto Scharmer, and Betty Sue Flowers
Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right
by Joseph L., Jr. Badaracco
Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business
by David C Thomas and Kerr Inkson
The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places
by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass
A Primer of Visual Literacy
by Donis A. Dondis
A Natural History of the Senses
by Diane Ackerman
Emotion: The Science of Sentiment
by Dylan Evans
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
Design for Society
by Nigel Whiteley
Design Yourself
by Larry Belliston
Envisioning Information
by Edward Tufte
Design in Business: Strategic Innovation Through Design
by Margaret Bruce and J. R. Bessant
Participatory Design: Principles and Practices
by Douglas Schuler and Aki Namioka
Dictionary of Brand
by Marty Neumeier
Built For Use: Driving Profits Through User Experience
by Karen Donoghue and Michael D Schrage
Experience Design 1: A Manifesto for the Creation of Experiences
by Nathan Shedroff
Design + Environment
by Helen Lewis, John Gertakis, Tim Grant, Nicola Morelli, and Andrew Sweatman
Design for the Real World
by Victor Papanek
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
by Victor Papanek
The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products
by Edwin Datschefski
Sustainable Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future
Edited by Ursula Tischner and Martin Charter
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability
by Dunphy & Griffith
Cradle to Cradle
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
by Steve Portigal
www.portigal.com/blog/
by Ralf Beuker
www.design-management.de
by Alex Osterwalder
business-model-design.blogspot.com
by Mark Vanderbeeken
www.experientia.com/blog
by Karl Long
blog.experiencecurve.com
www.sustainabilitydictionary.com
The Dictionary of Sustainable Management is an open dictionary for business leaders and students of sustainability and business-related terms. It is a project of the Presidio School of Management. The purpose of this effort is to help people better understand how sustainability concepts are creating new understandings in the worlds of business, government, and society.
by Jim Cornwall
forum.belmont.edu/cornwall
by Austin Govella
thinkingandmaking.com
by Diego Rodriguez
metacool.typepad.com
by Nick Aster
www.triplepundit.com
OpEd By Muhammad Yunus
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,487073,00.html
Garage.com Startup Resource
www.garage.com/resources/index.shtml
Green Biz Blog
written by Joel Makower
www.greenbiz.com
IDSA Business Ecodesign Tools
www.idsa.org/whatsnew/sections/ecosection/tools/tools_0.htm
by Gong Szeto
gongszeto.squarespace.com
Be sure to explore all of the articles in this Special Report.
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_31/b3945418.htm
by Kevin McCullagh, Design Management Review, Fall 2006
http://www.plan.bz/views/?p=54
A Whole New Mind
by Dan Pink
Design Intervention
At Philips, a place long known for big ideas and small numbers, can there be too much of a good thing?
by Jennifer Reingold
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/109/open_design-intervention.html
Tough Love
Business wants to love design, but it's often an awkward romance.
by Roger Martin
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/109/open_design-tough-love.html
All About Yves
by Linda Tischler
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/119/all-about-yves.html
Streamlining HP
by Bill Breen
Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com/magazine/119/streamlining-hp.html
Designs on a New Market Niche (Wall Street Journal)
4 October 2007
by Ann Zimmerman
online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119145487497048330.html
An indexed video, with slides, of one of Guy Kawasaki's famous talks on innovation.
An insightful description of the strategic design process with case studies on eleven companies.
This is a great explanation of why sustainability is important. In 15 short minutes, it gives a great overview of the materials stream and the people, political, and health issues around it. It covers consumerism, the environment, toxic materials, politics, and labor, all in the context of economics without being strident or full or jargon.
The Creative Priority
by Jerry Hirshberg
The Which MBA? blog is a great resource about traditional MBA programs worldwide, from The Economist.
mba.eiu.com
Design: A Very Short Introduction
by John Heskett
Don't let this book's title fool you. Though it's short, it's incredibly concise and thorough. It describes design across disciplines and in strategic terms.
Free lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
by David Cay Johnson
This is probably the most important book written in the last 30 years on the American economy. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the health of the economy, the free market, or the relation of business to government, regardless of political perspective.
by Katherine Bell
Article at Harvard's Conversation Starter
conversationstarter.hbsp.com/2008/04/the_mfa_is_the_new_mba_1.html
The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction
by Tibor Scitovsky
Oxford University Press
Interest and Inflation Free Money
by Margrit Kennedy
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move through Life's Transitions
by Richard Strozzi-Hecker
Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation
A Brookings Institute report describing the US's innovation challenge. Be sure to download the full PDF report.
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
By Paco Underhill
Collaborative Innovation Program
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
collaboritorium.net
This is an innovation center that supplements the business and engineering programs with courses in design thinking.
Strategy for Sustainability:A Business Manifesto
by Adam Werbach
Harvard Business Press