{"product_id":"prosperity-better-business-makes-the-greater-good-9780198824008","title":"Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit.\u003c\/strong\u003e This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching about business around the world but it is fundamentally wrong, Colin Mayer argues. It has had disastrous and damaging consequences\u003cbr\u003efor our economies, environment, politics, and societies. \u003cbr\u003eIn this urgent call for reform, \u003cem\u003eProsperity\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the fundamentals of business thinking. It sets out a comprehensive new agenda for establishing the corporation as a unique and powerful force for promoting economic and social wellbeing in its fullest sense - for customers and communities, today\u003cbr\u003eand in the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst Professor and former Dean of the Säid Business School in Oxford, Mayer is a leading figure in the global discussion about the purpose and role of the corporation. In \u003cem\u003eProsperity\u003c\/em\u003e, he presents a radical and carefully considered prescription for corporations, their ownership, governance, finance, \u003cbr\u003eand regulation. Drawing together insights from business, law, economics, science, philosophy, and history, he shows how the corporation can realize its full potential to contribute to economic and social wellbeing of the many, not just the few. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eProsperity\u003c\/em\u003e tells us not only how to create and run successful businesses but also how policy can get us there and fix our broken system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Mayer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198824008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColin Mayer, \u003cem\u003ePeter Moores Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColin Mayer is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and St Anne's College, Oxford. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the\u003cbr\u003eBritish Empire (CBE) for services to business education and the administration of justice in the economic sphere in the 2017 New Years Honours. Colin Mayer was the first professor at the Saïd Business School, and the first Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre. He was also previously the\u003cbr\u003ePeter Moores Dean of the Business School. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, Université de Bruxelles, and has had visiting positions at\u003cbr\u003eColumbia, MIT, and Stanford universities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40455047086195,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4e7479f8-628f-4397-a2ab-18bca3ebcf6f.jpg?v=1663679528","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/prosperity-better-business-makes-the-greater-good-9780198824008","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}