Laurie J. Bassi Books

A powerful story of perseverance and strength throughout one woman's fight for justice after an horrific campus assault.

In The Leader's Checklist, 10th Anniversary Edition: 16 Mission-Critical Principles, world-renowned leadership expert and Wharton professor Michael Useem shows you how to lead through any challenge-for those moments when leadership really matters.

In a prescient new book, The Future of the Office: The Hard Choices We All Face on Working from Home and Remote Work, Wharton professor Peter Cappelli lays out the facts in an effort to provide both employees and employers with a vision of their futures. Cappelli unveils the surprising tradeoffs both may have to accept to get what they want.

Exploding growth. Soaring investment. Incoming talent waves. India's top companies are scoring remarkable successes on these fronts. This book unveils these companies secrets. It explains how these innovations work within Indian companies, identifying those likely to remain indigenous and those that can be adapted to the Western context.

This is the first biography of Ron Greenwood, West Ham United's most successful trophy-winning manager - a man who was instrumental in the development of 1966 World Cup heroes Moore, Hurst and Peters. Greenwood became England manager in 1977 and led them to the 1982 World Cup. An impeccable sportsman, he was a noble servant to football.

Why have jobs gotten so much worse? In Our Least Important Asset, Peter Cappelli argues that as financial accounting has become the guide for determining the success of companies, its inability to assess the reality of employment creates distortions and a short-sighted approach to management. In the process, employers undercut decades of evidence about what works to improve the quality, productivity, and creativity of workers. Drawing on decades of experience and research, Cappelli provides a comprehensive and insightful critique of the modern workplace, where the gaps in financial accounting make things worse for everyone, from employees to investors.

Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.