Columbia Business School Publishing

The Innovation Mindset : A book review by Bob Morris

September 1, 2022

The Innovation Mindset: Eight Essential Steps to Transform Any Industry Lorraine H. Marchand with john Hanc Columbia Business School Publishing (July 2022) Innovative thinking can be much more than a process: it should be a way of life in the…

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Tap Dancing to Work: A book review by Bob Morris

February 4, 2022

Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett Note: I…

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Flywheels: A book review by Bob Morris

November 18, 2021

Flywheels: How Cities Are Creating Their Own Futures Tom Alberg Columbia Business School Publishing (November 2021) How to build flywheels that promote economic development and solve urban social problems in all cities Jim Collins introduced his concept of “The Flywheel…

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The Flywheel Effect

November 4, 2021

Jim Collins introduced his concept of “The Flywheel Effect” in his book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t (2001). No matter how dramatic the end result, good-to-great transformations never happen in one fell swoop. In…

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Quality Shareholders: A book review by Bob Morris

August 23, 2021

Quality Sharedholders: How the Best Managers Attract and Keep Them Lawrence A. Cunningham Columbia Business School Publishing (November 2020) Why managers in public companies usually get the shareholders they deserve, for better or worse Years ago, Jackie Huba and Ben…

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Tap Dancing to Work: A book review by Bob Morris

August 20, 2021

Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett Note: I…

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The Essays of Warren Buffett: A book review by Bob Morris

August 15, 2021

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Fifth Edition) Warren Buffett Selected, Arranged, and Introduced by Lawrence A. Cunningham Carolina Academic Press (2019) “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair…

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Margin of Trust: A book review by Bob Morris

August 9, 2021

Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model Lawrence Cunningham and Stephanie Cuba Columbia Business School Publishing (January 2020) Value investing depends on “margin of safety”; organizational health depends on “margin of trust” I have just re-read this book and, if…

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“What’s the big deal about design thinking?”

June 19, 2020

“What’s the big deal about design thinking?” You’ve probably asked that question, one to which Jeanne Liedtka responds in a brilliant article she wrote for Harvard Business Review. * * * Because design thinking is a social technology, it has…

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Startup Myths and Models: A book review by Bob Morris

June 2, 2020

Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School Rizwan Virk Columbia Business School Publishing (June 2010) Here’s a GPS for “Startup Land” At the moment, no one is learning anything in business schools. However, when classes resume,…

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