Harvard Business Review - Steve Jobs Leadership Lessons

One of the more popular books in the library has been the recent book by Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs.  However, as we move toward the end of the spring semester assignments and the dreaded final exams most of you may not feel you have time to read the book.

If so, take a break from your studies and come review the latest Harvard Business Review in the library as Mr. Isaacson recaps the fourteen leadership lessons we can all learn from Steve Jobs.  We all have heard the 'stay hungry, stay foolish' but one that caught my attention was 'when behind, leapfrog' and how he transformed the music industry with an integrated system of iTunes and the iPod when he felt he had missed the music downloading phenomena.  He didn't rest on his laurels once he launched this integrated solution, however, as he realized that soon the mobile phone manufacturers would start adding music players to their handsets.  So, he cannibalized the iPod sales and created the iPhone.

His lesson to us is 'if you don't cannibalized yourselves, someone else will'.  Indeed, Mr. Jobs.

The World Bank and IMF - Global Economy Research Resources

The World Bank (IBRD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) offer excellent research resources on the global economy for everyone but particularly our students since we subscribe to the publications offered by the World Bank. The World Bank and the IMF are twin intergovernmental pillars supporting the structure of the world's economic and financial order.

The main difference between these two organizations is The World Bank is primarily a development institution while the IMF is a cooperative institution that seeks to maintain an orderly system of payments and receipts between nations.

Once you sign on the USA Libraries website, select the "Journals List" and key in World Bank and all the various resources will be shown via our subscriptions.

Also, this external link will guide you to the recommended reading list from the IMF:

http://www.elibrary.imf.org/page/list/recommended-reading-list

If you are required to do any research on the global economy, these links should be among those you utilize first:

http://www.worldbank.org/
http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

Financial Spreadsheets, Data and Research

For those students in finance, you might find many useful resources on this website:

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/

The site includes data, formatted spreadsheets as well as research.  The site is maintained by Dr. Aswath Damodaran who is a professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University.  His research interests are in valuation, portfolio management and applied corporate finance.