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Curated by our editorial team, you will find reviews of books that focus on strategic business issues confronting leadership teams & business executives around the world.  These books offer expert insight, guidance & topical analysis on a broad range of topics of interest & relevance to directors, investors, advisors, academics & corporate governance professionals.

Stewards of the Future: A Guide for Competent Boards
Author: Helle Bank Jorgensen Climate- and ESG-competent boards are in high demand by investors and other stakeholders. In fact, climate change and other environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have become some of the biggest challenges faced by 21st-century board directors.
The Auditor: Quo Vadis
Authors: Mervyn King, Linda De Beer The audit profession is at a tipping point. Without significant innovation in its business model, staff recruitment strategies and audit execution processes, the audit profession may not remain relevant in the 21st century.
Corporate Governance and Value Creation in Japan
Author: Ryohei Yanagi This is the first book to furnish a root cause of the low valuation of Japanese listed companies by using, as qualitative evidence, unique global investor surveys, which are rarely available for Japanese companies.
Billion Dollar Whale
  Authors: Tom Wright, Bradley Hope The epic story of how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history.
Bad Blood
  Author: John Carreyrou The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.
Damaged Goods: The Inside Story of Sir Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Death of the High Street
  Author: Oliver Shah A story of corruption, ego, greed and one terrible misjudgment. In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following Sir Philip Green's journey to the big time, the wild excesses of his heyday and his dramatic demise.
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance
Authors: Jeffrey N. Gordon, Wolf-Georg Ringe Corporate law and corporate governance have been at the forefront of regulatory activities across the world for several decades now, and are subject to increasing public attention following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.
The Governance Revolution: What Every Board Member Needs to Know, NOW!
Author: Deborah Hicks Midanek (The Alexandra Lajoux Corporate Governance Series) Boards of directors are sitting ducks. Shareholders complain and even attack, management manipulates, and individual board members have little power, able to act only as part of the board as a whole.
Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: It Can't Happen to Us--Avoiding Corporate Disaster While Driving Success
  Author: Richard M. Steinberg An expert's insider secrets to how successful CEOs and directors shape, lead, and oversee their organizations to achieve corporate goals
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance
  Authors: Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey, Igor Filatotchev
Corporate Governance: Law, Regulation and Theory (Corporate and Financial Law)
Authors: Marc Moore & Martin Petrin This textbook on corporate governance is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate law students, as well as scholars working in the field.
Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies, and Practices
Author – Bob Tricker From the ‘father of corporate governance’ comes the new edition of this bestselling text, designed to...
The Empathy Edge: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success
Author – Maria Ross When my team members come to me with issues, I try to get under the surface...



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