Education, work, finance & impact
What is This Management?: Essays on Corporate Governance and Management Education
By William F. Pounds, professor emeritus of management
Self-published · 2023
In this collection of short essays on management and corporate governance, Pounds shares practical, down-to-Earth wisdom and insight on topics rarely touched on in the typical MBA curriculum, gleaned from his decades of experience across a wide variety of boards. CEOs, corporate directors, and anyone interested in how organizations function and perform in the mysterious realm beyond the executive suite will find these timeless ideas a thought-provoking and sometimes irreverent complement to more traditional academic and legal treatments of these important subjects.
From Summer 2023 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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