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New Podcast on Cusp of Strategy and Ethics

1. New Podcast on Cusp of Strategy and Ethics

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Alfred Marcus
Posted 05-14-2025 08:49
I am starting a new series on the New Books Network

The first one is on a book called Fatal Abstraction by Darryl Campbell
https://newbooksnetwork.com/fatal-abstraction

This book deals with issues at companies like Boeing and Facebook and questions the dominance of MBAs in top corporate leadership. It revives the argument that Thorsten Veblen made of competing logics, an industrial one of engineers and production experts who work to meet society's needs, versus a business logic of owners, managers, and financiers whose primary goal is short term profits no matter what the consequences.

I think you will enjoy the interview (even if the interviewer is a bit rusty).

I have more important books of this nature lined up and will keep you abreast of future episodes, hoping you will join me.

Alfred Marcus is Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technological Leadership at the Carlson School of Mana

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Alfred Marcus
Professor and Spencer Chair in Strategy and Technological Leadership
Carlson School of Management
Minneapolis, MN. 55416
612 224 4533

https://www.amazon.com/Strategies-Managing-Uncertainty-Organizations-Environment-dp-1316641686/dp/1316641686/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
https://www.amazon.com/Demography-Global-Business-Environment-Alfred/dp/1788112822/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UTJ86DEPG1JY&keywords=demography+and+the+global+business+environment&qid=1636643290&sprefix=demography+and+the+%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-1
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https://www.amazon.com/Innovations-Sustainability-Organizations-Natural-Environment/dp/110742111X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=alfred+marcus+innovations+in+sustainability&qid=1636643526&sr=8-

Organization and Management Theory OMT

New Podcast on Cusp of Strategy and Ethics

1. New Podcast on Cusp of Strategy and Ethics

I am starting a new series on the New Books Network

The first one is on a book called Fatal Abstraction by Darryl Campbell

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