Aug
28
New Books
Posted by: Christina Sylka | August 28, 2009 | Comments Off on New Books
Looking beyond profit : small shareholders and the values imperative. Author Peggy Chiu argues that financial risk and return are not the only factors affecting the investment behaviour of small shareholders. She lays a theoretical and empirical framework which asserts that personal values strongly influence the decisions about the types of investments these shareholders make and in […]
Jul
31
New Books
Posted by: Jan Wallace | July 31, 2009 | Comments Off on New Books
Outliers: the story of success, by Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, is interested in people who are outliers— who are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us. In Outliers, he looks at corporate lawyers in New York, […]