This invaluable how-to guide empowers leaders to integrate sustainability into their business strategy by mobilizing their organization's human capital and technical capabilities. Drawing on extensive executive experience across industries, author Susan Graff uses data-driven storytelling to deliver proven frameworks, case examples, and actionable strategies for embedding sustainability as a driver of growth and value creation. Readers will learn to build a circular economy, engage customers and key stakeholders, anticipate sustainability risks, and develop products and services that deliver lasting positive impact on business performance, environmental quality, and societal well-being.????????????????

Sustainability Leaders: A Guide to Transforming Organizations offers thought-provoking questions to align boardroom or classroom discussions into actionable plans. The book is essential reading for business leaders looking to inspire their teams and build resilient networks to collectively tackle sustainability challenges and make the appropriate investments. It is also a practical resource for academics teaching students to employ life cycle management thinking, innovate sustainable products and services, and develop systems to improve performance via transparent measurement and reporting.

• Provides insights on the business case for sustainability and questions for discussion in the boardroom and classroom;
• Offers expert individual and collaborative action plans to achieve the benefits of local circular economies;
• Includes practical case studies that illustrate key sustainability principles applicable across various industries.

This book explores how a late-industrialising nation can navigate the transformative shift of Industry 4.0. Drawing on rigorous empirical research and original analysis, it examines Bangladesh's current technological landscape in manufacturing, the drivers and barriers to technology adoption, and the critical policy imperatives needed to boost productivity, innovation, and sustainable industrial growth.

Despite being a major apparel exporter and an emerging player in pharmaceuticals, Bangladesh remains trapped in low-tech manufacturing. This book investigates how the country can escape the low-productivity spiral by embracing digitalisation and advanced technologies. Employing firm-level data from the World Bank and the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the authors use quasi-experimental techniques, including Propensity Score Matching and Regression Discontinuity Design, to evaluate the relationships among technology use, firm performance, labour productivity, and export outcomes.

This book addresses pressing issues, including environmental sustainability, gender disparities in digital access, and foreign direct investment as a vehicle for technology transfer. It also delivers concrete, actionable recommendations aligned with Bangladesh's national development priorities.

It is a vital resource for policymakers, researchers, development practitioners, and industry leaders shaping the future of industrialisation in the Global South.

Optimize your brand visibility for AI-powered search engines and large language models

In The New Rules of AI Search: SEO for visibility in ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Generative Search, Crystal Carter delivers a practical guide to optimizing brand visibility across AI-powered platforms. As large language models transform how consumers discover products and services, traditional SEO strategies require fundamental updates to remain effective in this new search paradigm.

The New Rules of AI Search explores the technical and strategic dimensions of generative engine optimization. Crystal Carter examines how AI search platforms aggregate and present information differently than traditional search engines, providing actionable frameworks for ensuring your brand appears prominently when users query ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and similar platforms for recommendations and information.

Readers will also discover:

• Specific techniques for structuring content that AI systems can easily understand, cite, and recommend to users seeking information
• Strategies for building brand authority signals that large language models recognize and prioritize in their generated responses
• Methods for monitoring and measuring your brand's visibility across multiple AI search platforms and generative interfaces
• Practical approaches for adapting existing SEO infrastructure to meet the unique requirements of AI-powered discovery channels
• Frameworks for anticipating future developments in generative search and positioning your brand ahead of algorithmic changes

Essential for digital marketers, SEO professionals, brand managers, and business owners seeking to maintain competitive visibility, this guide provides the strategic foundation for succeeding as AI fundamentally transforms how consumers search for and discover information online.

Queer Mother Memoir: Experiments in Life/Narrative curates an archive of memoirs, published 1997 to the present, in order to define and complicate "queer mother memoir" as an emergent literary genre. Through careful readings of life narratives, including her own, Silbergleid offers these radical autotheoretical texts as a challenge to scholarship that has yet to critically examine, much less embrace, queer motherhood.

How Asia's top owner-CEOs fueled the region's rise, and what every leader around the world can learn

Shapers and Founders: The Untold Stories of Asia's Extraordinary Owner-CEOs, written by a team of McKinsey partners, reveals the leadership strategies behind Asia's highest-performing entrepreneur-led companies. Drawing on rigorous empirical research, hundreds of hours of interviews, and deep personal relationships built over decades of advisory work, the authors distill the distinctive leadership playbook that has powered Asia's rise.

Shapers and Founders explores how, in boardrooms and backstreets alike, these founders have built national champions and global contenders, often from modest beginnings and in unforgiving markets. Through candid, in-depth conversations with founders across Mumbai, Shanghai, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, Taipei and Sydney, the book articulates the six core behaviors and eighteen governing mindsets that truly sets these founders and CEOs apart.

Readers will also discover:

• Insights into Asia's emergence as one of the world's most dynamic regions, now accounting for the majority of global population and trade, with founder-led companies driving disproportionate value creation in the region
• One-on-one interviews with founders/CEOs of Asia's most successful businesses, revealing their own unique personal journeys and how they have shaped Asia into what it is today
• The six core behaviors of Asia's most extraordinary owner-CEOs, offering a fresh blueprint for building enduring institutions and leading with bold ambition, resilience, and purpose in any market
• Practical leadership mindsets that professional CEOs, aspiring and existing founders, family business executives, and next generation leaders can apply within their own organizations

Written for global entrepreneurs, professional CEOs, investors, and board members who are seeking what great stewardship looks like amidst tremendous growth and change, Shapers and Founders delivers research-backed insights into the leadership behaviors and mindsets driving Asia's most value-creating companies.

An original framework for leadership in uncertainty and crises

Against the Storm: How Leaders Prevail When the World Shakes delivers exclusive insights on leading during extreme uncertainty, the threat of chaos where life or livelihood hangs in the balance. Written by retired Brigadier General, accomplished social psychologist, and strategic leader, Tom Kolditz, and highly professional Ukrainian leader developer, Mariana Khomitska, this book draws upon a wealth of real-world experiences to show readers how to lead throughmarket collapses, prioritize employee wellbeing while making necessary strategic pivots, and communicate transparently to maintain stakeholder confidence, such as during a company's response to a sudden and unexpected supply chain disruption.

Using a practical framework that can be applied across industries and roles, this book discusses how to:

• Lead in uncertain times, when followers are driven solely by trust
• Adeptly control dialogue in meetings when the pressures of crisis are apparent
• See ahead and prevent unanticipated catastrophic failures
• Prevent the adoption of flawed plans
• Empower others while maintaining the necessary control over outcomes
• Navigate the nature of guilt and shame in crisis leadership
• Leading through medical uncertainty that emerges in family lifeWork through tragedies in crisis, such as bankruptcies, collapsing relationships, and deaths

Revealing a completely original approach to crisis leadership that other, less-experienced authors simply do not have the experience to formulate, Against the Storm is an eye-opening book for all executives and business leaders seeking true wisdom on how to handle the hardest challenges that will come their way.

Strategic financial decisions such as mergers and acquisitions are among the most consequential actions firms undertake. Yet, the role of individual executives in shaping these decisions remains insufficiently understood. This book explores how characteristics and personality traits of top management team members are reflected in corporate behavior.

Grounded in Upper Echelons Theory, the book comprises three empirical studies that examine how top executive characteristics shape mergers and acquisitions and corporate communication, with a particular focus on CFO power and CEO narcissism.

By integrating behavioral theory with empirical corporate finance, this book contributes to the growing field of behavioral corporate finance and offers novel insights into the individual-level mechanisms underlying strategic financial decision-making.

Capitalism, Socialism, and Political Economy, is a three-volume examination of the ideological, historical, and economic forces shaping global politics in the early twenty-first century. Throughout the volumes, Kui-Wai Li argues that many political dynamics commonly associated with the alt-right have roots in the geopolitical and institutional arrangements formed at the end of World War II. Integrating political trends into economic analysis, these books provide an analytical framework for understanding how competing ideological systems continue to influence global development, institutional behavior, and public sentiment.

Volume I presents the conceptual groundwork, clarifying the distinctions between capitalism and socialism/communism. It provides particular attention to the historical contexts that shaped these ideologies after 1945. The volume explores their respective strengths, weaknesses, and core principles while emphasizing the need to differentiate "difference" from "inequality" and to draw clear boundaries between economic and political claims.

Building on this foundation, Volume II applies the framework to contemporary global trends across advanced economies, socialist states, emerging economies, Middle Eastern regions, and newer blocs such as BRICS. Through these cases, the volume analyzes phenomena including Brexit, Trumponomics, cancel culture, and the strategic development models adopted by authoritarian or socialist governments.

Volume III extends the analysis to the politics of fear and sympathy-two themes the author identifies as shaping current debates around climate change, COVID-19, welfare systems, and unauthorized immigration. It further examines how concepts such as freedom, choice, privacy, trade, and investment function within different political-economic systems, including the growing influence of AI on perceptions of autonomy and national strategy. The concluding chapters synthesize insights across the series, offering a comprehensive account of how ideological tensions and institutional constraints continue to structure global political economy.

A lively, accessible introduction to the asymmetrical relationship between the United States and Mexico, one of the most formative international relationships in geopolitics today.

The border between the US and Mexico is the world's longest between a wealthy industrialized nation and a part of the Global South. The economy, society, culture, and politics of the two nations have become inextricably linked.

As the United States continues to assert its considerable geopolitical power, this book reminds us that this trend runs deep in the country's history, starting with its closest neighbors. Buchenau explores US territorial expansion, the Mexican Revolution of 1910, disputes over agricultural and mineral wealth, and the migration of Mexican laborers. Despite that massive power imbalance, Buchenau shows us that Mexico's influence on the United States is just as significant as the inverse.

A timely examination of the president's Article II powers and duties at a moment in history when an autocratic presidency is a very real possibility.

Today we confront a potential constitutional crisis, with the presidency dominating the other branches of government. A basic question is how has the presidency become so powerful and does the Constitution present any limits on presidential power? While the Constitution's words have not changed since they were written in 1787, today's presidents, based on the Unitary Executive Theory, find a vast degree of power in clauses that originally provided limits on presidential authority. In Through the Constitution's Eyes Richard W. Waterman examines the historical transition of each of the president's powers and duties to demonstrate how each has been transformed across American history. Making reference to a range of writings from the Constitutional Convention to the present day, much of it unseen by scholars for more than a century, Waterman uncovers insights relevant to our own turbulent times and provides us with a new way of thinking about presidential power. Specifically he presents chapters on the oath of office, the executive vesting, take care, commander-in-chief, appointment, and treaty and receive ambassadors clauses. In each case presidential power has expanded far beyond the Framers' intent, creating the potential for the very tyranny the Framers sought to prevent.

This second edition, following the successful English and German editions, provides a comprehensive and practical framework for mining project finance, capital structuring, and mine development strategy. Written by an experienced mining engineer and finance practitioner, the book delivers a clear approach for structuring mining projects for investment, making it an essential resource for developers, investors, lenders, and policymakers.

Readers will learn how capital is sourced, evaluated, and deployed across the commodity cycle and throughout the mine development lifecycle. Through real world case studies and actionable insights, the book explains how investors assess risk, project structure, sequencing, management capability, and timing-from early stage business case development to due diligence and capital commitment.

Covering global examples of mining project financing, investment strategies, and capital market expectations, this edition equips industry participants with the frameworks to navigate increasingly selective capital markets. Whether you are developing a new mining project, evaluating investment opportunities, or seeking to understand how capital flows into the mining sector, this book offers a practical blueprint for aligning mining projects with the requirements of institutional, sovereign, and strategic investors.

The book offers an overview of the main financial and operational risks in cryptocurrency markets and Decentralized Finance. It outlines the role of stablecoins, crypto-investment products, and multi-function ecosystems, highlighting vulnerabilities linked to reserves, leverage, and protocol interdependencies. The book distinguishes traditional risks from those rooted in smart-contract logic, oracle manipulation, governance failures, and cross-chain bridges. An empirical section analyzes attack frequency, stolen amounts, and evolving exploit techniques, showing a shift toward complex schemes using flash loans and oracle distortions. The book also examines mixers and presents the Ronin case. The final chapters discuss technical and governance measures to mitigate risks and provide regulatory recommendations.

This volume explores the evolving global landscape of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), offering deep insights into how SEL is understood, implemented, and adapted across diverse cultural and educational contexts. Drawing on empirical research, policy analysis, and classroom practices from countries including Hungary, Romania, Finland, Turkey, Chile, and more, the book highlights SEL's transformative role in fostering emotional intelligence, resilience, and inclusive education. With chapters on digital learning environments, culturally responsive interventions, and cross-national assessment tools, the volume bridges theory and practice. It emphasizes the importance of culturally grounded, evidence-based approaches to SEL that promote universal competencies for global citizenship. Ideal for educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, this book contributes to the global discourse on SEL by showcasing innovative strategies, regional perspectives, and practical frameworks for implementation. It is an essential resource for advancing emotional well-being, equity, and holistic development in education worldwide.