Books
Bennis, Warren G., and Patricia Ward Biederman. Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration. New York: Perseus Books, 1997.
Bhat, Harish. Tata Log: Eight Modern Stories from a Timeless Institution. New York: Random House Penguin, 2012.
Carnegie, Andrew. The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie. New York: Signet Classics, 2006.
Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.
Collins, James C., and Jerry I. Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: HarperBusiness, 1997.
Cord, David J. The Decline and Fall of Nokia. Helsinki: Schildts & Söderströms, 2014.
Dell, Michael, with Catherine Fredman. Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry. New York: HarperBusiness, 1999.
DeRose, Chris, and Noel Tichy. Judgment at the Front Line. New York: Portfolio Penguin, 2012.
Fischer, Bill, Umberto Lago, and Fang Liu. Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013.
Gallo, Carmine. The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
Goodheart, Adam. 1861: The Civil War Awakening. New York: Vintage Books, 2011.
Greenberg, Maurice R., and Lawrence A. Cunningham. The AIG Story. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
Grove, Andy. Only the Paranoid Survive. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1996.
Guaracy, Thales. O Sonho Brasileiro: Como Rolim Adolfo Amaro Construiu a TAM e Sua Filosofia de Negocios Portuguese ed. editoracopacabana, 2003.
Horowitz, Ben. The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.
Hsieh, Tony. Delivering on Happiness. New York: Business Plus-Hachette Group, 2010.
Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Janis, Irving L. Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1982.
Kador, John. Charles Schwab: How One Company Beat Wall Street and Reinvented the Brokerage Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Kaku, Michio. The Future of the Mind. New York: Random House, 2014.
Karkara, Bachi J. Dare to Dream: A Life of M.S. Oberoi. New Delhi, India: Portfolio Penguin, 1993.
Kiechel, Walter. The Lords of Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010.
Lala, R. M. For the Love of India: The Life and Times of Jamsetji Tata. New Delhi, India: Portfolio Penguin, 2004.
Larish, John J. Out of Focus: The Story of How Kodak Lost Direction. Privately published, 2012.
Lashinsky, Adam. Inside Apple. New York: Business Plus, 2013.
Levy, Steven. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Lumet, Sidney. Making Movies. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.
McDonald, Hamish. Mahabharata in Polyester. New South Wales: New South Wales Press, 2010.
Marcus, Bernie, and Arthur Blank. Built from Scratch. New York: Crown Business, 1999.
Mondavi, Robert. Harvests of Joy. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 1998.
Olson, Matthew S., and Derek van Bever. Stall Points. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
Packard, David. The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
Pink, Daniel H. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us. Edinburgh, Scotland: Rivergate Books, 2009.
Reichheld, Fred. The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2011.
Ries, Eric. The Lean Start-Up: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. New York: Crown Business, 2011.
Robertson, David, and Bill Green. Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry. New York: Crown Business, 2013.
Rottenberg, Linda. Crazy Is a Complement: The Power of Zigging over Zagging. New York: Portfolio Penguin, 2014.
Schelling, Thomas C. Micromotives and Macrobehavior. New York: WW Norton, 1978.
Schmidt, Eric, and Jonathan Rosenbert. How Google Works. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2013.
Schultz, Howard. Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul. New York: Rodale Press, 2010.
Sheehy, Gail. New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time. New York: Random House, 1995.
Shelp, Ron. Fallen Giant: The Amazing Story of Hank Greenberg and the History of AIG. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Simon, Hermann. Hidden Champions of the 21st Century: Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders. New York: Springer, 2009.
Snyder, Paul. Is This Something George Eastman Would Have Done? Rochester, NY: Privately published, 2013.
Stadler, Christian. Enduring Success: What We Can Learn from the History of Outstanding Corporations. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2011.
Stiles, T. J. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2009.
Stone, Brad. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. London: Bantam Press, 2013.
Syed, Matthew. Bounce: How Champions Are Made. London: Fourth Estate, 2010.
Thiel, Peter, and Blake Masters. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. New York: Crown Publishing, 2014.
Wallace, James, and James Erikson. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
Wolcott, Robert C., and Michael Lippitz. Grow from Within. New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
Zook, Chris. Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.
_________. Profit from the Core: A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times. With James Allen. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010.
_________. Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
Zook, Chris, and James Allen. Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
Articles
Allen, James, Dunigan O’Keeffe, and Chris Zook. “Founder’s Mentality: The Paths to Great Repeatable Models.” Bain & Company, Boston, May 3, 2013.
Blenko, Marcia, Eric Garton, Ludovica Mottura, and Oliver Wright. “Winning Operating Models That Convert Strategy to Results.” Bain & Company, Boston, 2014.
Bloch, Nicolas, James Hadley, Ouriel Lancry, and Jenny Lundqvist. “Strategy beyond Scale.” Bain & Company, Boston, 2015.
Cassano, Erik. “Medicine Man: How Kent Thiry Cured DaVita Inc. of Its Ills and Turned It into an Industry Leader.” SmartBusiness, January 2007.
“Charles Schwab: Return of the King.” The Economist, July 22, 2004.
Dyer, Jeffrey H., Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen. “The Innovator’s DNA.” Harvard Business Review, December 2009.
Fahlenbrach, Rudiger. “Founder-CEOs, Investment Decisions, and Stock Market Performance.” Working paper, Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business, August 8, 2007.
“Founder Returns Charles Schwab to Its Maverick Roots.” MarketWatch, December 6, 2005.
Groom, Nichola. “Schultz Back as Starbucks CEO; US Expansion Slowed.” Reuters News, January 7, 2008.
Hansen, Morten T., Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer. “The Best-Performing CEOs in the World.” Harvard Business Review, January-February 2013.
Hewlett, Walter. “Letter to Hewlett Packard Shareholders.” Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2002.
Hjelmgaard, Kim. “Back from the Brick: How LEGO Was Transformed.” MarketWatch, December 23, 2009.
Iansiti, Marco, and Roy Levien. “Strategy as Ecology.” Harvard Business Review, March 2004.
Ignatius, Adi. “The HBR Interview: ‘We Had to Own the Mistakes.’” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2010.
Jones, Del, and Matt Krantz. “Firms, Investors Tend to Prosper with Founders at Helm.” USA Today, August 22, 2007.
Kedrosky, Paul. “The Constant: Companies That Matter.” Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, May 2013.
Laurie, Donald L., and J. Bruce Harreld. “Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative.” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2013.
Mankins, Michael C., and Richard Steele. “Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance.” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2005.
Martens, Martin L. “Hang On to Those Founders.” Harvard Business Review, October 1, 2005.
Morris, Betsy. “Steve Jobs Speaks Out.” Fortune, March 7, 2008.
Nakamura, Noriko, and Mayumi Negishi. “Sharp’s New Boss Says It Suffers From ‘Big Company Disease.’” Wall Street Journal blog, blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/06/25.
O’Brien, Kevin J. “Nokia’s Success Bred Its Weakness; Stifling Bureaucracy Led to Lack of Action on Early Smartphone Innovation.” International Herald Tribune, September 27, 2010.
Olson, Matthew S., Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry. “When Growth Stalls.” Harvard Business Review, March 2008.
Porter, Michael E. “What Is Strategy?” Harvard Business Review, November-December 1996.
Schein, Edgar H. “The Role of the Founder in Creating Organizational Culture.” Organizational Dynamics, Summer 1983.
Strangler, Dane, and Robert E. Litan. “Where Will the Jobs Come From?” Firm Formation and Economic Growth. Kauffman Foundation Research Series, November 2009.
Taylor, Bill. “How Hewlett-Packard Lost the HP Way.” Harvard Business Review, September 23, 2011.
Wasserman, Noam. “The Founder’s Dilemma.” Harvard Business Review, February 2008.
Wats, Robert. “The Good Brick Who Rebuilt LEGO.” Telegraph, December 17, 2006.
Zook, Chris, and James Allen. “The Great Repeatable Business Model.” Harvard Business Review, November 2011.