by Aseem Gupta | Dec 21, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Frank T. Rothaermel’s Strategic Management is not built around one revelation that can be compressed into a handful of lessons. It is an attempt to organize an entire field: why some organizations outperform others, how leaders diagnose the sources of those...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 14, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Managerial Accounting by Ray H. Garrison, Eric W. Noreen, and Peter C. Brewer is not the kind of business book that can be reduced to a handful of memorable principles. The eighteenth edition is a full university textbook—an 833-page learning system that moves from...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 7, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Marketing is easy to misunderstand because its most visible activities—advertising, branding, social media, sales promotions—are only the surface of a much larger system. In Principles and Practice of Marketing, David Jobber and Fiona Ellis-Chadwick treat marketing as...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 30, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham is most closely associated with courtroom thrillers, legal conspiracies, and protagonists trapped inside institutions powerful enough to ruin them. Ford County: Stories uses many of the same materials—lawyers, lawsuits, prisoners, insurance companies,...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 23, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Tumor: A Non-Legal Thriller is one of the strangest books in his bibliography. It contains no courtroom intrigue, criminal conspiracy, or conventional villain. Instead, Grisham uses the fictional death of a young father to argue for the potential of...
