Books
by Alumni: Business and economics
Jack
Clark Francis, Joyce
A. Frost, MBA'89, and J. Gregg Whittaker, editors,
The Handbook of Credit Derivatives (McGraw--Hill). This
guide to credit derivatives covers such topics as synthetic investments,
portfolio management, and accounting, tax, and legal analysis.
Carl
G. Thor,
MBA'64, Gainsharing: Creating and Sharing Success (Crisp Publications).
Thor describes "gainsharing," a group incentive system that rewards
employees for improving their output based on predetermined goals
and that emphasizes teamwork and employee self--management.
Ichigen
Watanabe, AM'57, World--Class Management Practices (Crisp Publications).
Offering a brief history and context for the strategies of Japanese
management, this book explains how Japanese and American ideas
merged into a dominant style of management.