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The Purpose of Banking

Transforming Banking for Stability and Economic Growth

By: Anjan V. Thakor

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The Purpose of Banking

Transforming Banking for Stability and Economic Growth

By: Anjan V. Thakor

Banks and other financial institutions play a fundamental and yet divisive role in the health of any economy. As lenders they are important to everyone seeking a mortgage or a car loan. As investors they are essential gears of economic progress. And yet when crises hit and the economy tumbles, they are vilified. Is it possible for the banking and financial sectors to both be crisis-free and sustain economic growth that benefits everyone? This is the central question that Anjan Thakor, one of the leading analysts of banking and financial institutions, takes up in this insightful overview of the purpose of banking. He starts with the foundations of banks as safe-keepers of assets and providers of liquidity crucial to a dynamic economy. They manage risk, monitor borrowers, create trust, are providers of information, and facilitate innovation. And yet notwithstanding these essential purposes, the reputation of banks has suffered tremendously in the wake of crises that have harmed the financial sector, the real economy, and many people. The reason, Thakor argues, is that banks have lost sight of their higher purpose, which is tied to their role as safe-keepers of assets and creators of value. These essential economic functions should drive banks' culture, capital structure, and customer relationships. Credit ratings cannot replace relationships, leverage is no substitute for judgment, and the pursuit of profit should not come at the expense of prudence. Thakor shows that while governments can play an important role in creating the environment of banks, including through microprudential and macroprudential regulation, ultimately it is up to banks to improve their culture and align it with their purpose in society.

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Oxford University Press

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0190919558

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Contemporary Financial Intermediation

By: Stuart I. Greenbaum,Anjan V. Thakor,Arnoud W. A. Boot

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Contemporary Financial Intermediation

By: Stuart I. Greenbaum,Anjan V. Thakor,Arnoud W. A. Boot

Contemporary Financial Intermediation, 4th Edition by Greenbaum, Thakor, and Boot continues to offer a distinctive approach to the study of financial markets and institutions by presenting an integrated portrait that puts information and economic reasoning at the core. Instead of primarily naming and describing markets, regulations, and institutions as is common, Contemporary Financial Intermediation explores the subtlety, plasticity and fragility of financial institutions and credit markets. In this new edition every chapter has been updated and pedagogical supplements have been enhanced. For the financial sector, the best preprofessional training explains the reasons why markets, institutions, and regulators evolve they do, why we suffer recurring financial crises occur and how we typically react to them. Our textbook demands more in terms of quantitative skills and analysis, but its ability to teach about the forces shaping the financial world is unmatched. - Updates and expands a legacy title in a valuable field - Holds a prominent position in a growing portfolio of finance textbooks - Teaches tactics on how to recognize and forecast fluctuations in financial markets

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Academic Press

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0124059341

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Competing Values Leadership

Second Edition

By: Kim S. Cameron,Robert E. Quinn,Jeff Degraff,Anjan V. Thakor

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Competing Values Leadership

Second Edition

By: Kim S. Cameron,Robert E. Quinn,Jeff Degraff,Anjan V. Thakor

øIt would be unusual for a framework as powerful and predictive as the Competing Values Framework to remain unchallenged and absent of criticism. In addition to updating the examples and references, this second edition provides a new chapter motivated

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1783477113

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9781783477111

Competing Values Leadership

By: Cameron, Kim S.,Quinn, Robert E.,DeGraff, Jeff,Thakor, Anjan V.

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Competing Values Leadership

By: Cameron, Kim S.,Quinn, Robert E.,DeGraff, Jeff,Thakor, Anjan V.

This third edition of Competing Values Leadership serves as the key source for understanding and using the Competing Values Framework, one of the most widely used and highly cited frameworks in the world for understanding human behavior, leadership, and organizations. The authors of the framework, who have been at the foundation of developing, applying, and studying this framework for more than four decades, explain how it helps foster successful leadership, innovation, culture change, financial performance, organizational effectiveness, and value creation.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800888953

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The Four Colors of Business Growth

By: Anjan V. Thakor

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The Four Colors of Business Growth

By: Anjan V. Thakor

Defining an organization by its growth strategy enables business leaders to make better decisions about the ways their companies compete. Anjan Thakor's four categories of growth, which he arranges into the Competing Values Framework, delivers methods for developing strategies grounded in internal cultures and industry goals. Written for professionals, this book provides easy access to concepts in fields as diverse as corporate strategy, finance, organizational behavior, change management, and leadership. - Teaches ways to formulate a growth strategy and implement it through simple organizational interventions - Provides an intuitive framework and common language about growth strategies - Teaches readers how an effective growth strategy can boost stock price - Readers learn what kind of growth strategy will maximize the value of an organization - Readers with varied functional backgrounds can understand these concepts

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Academic Press

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0123852404

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Innovation and Growth

What Do We Know?

By: Anjan V. Thakor

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Innovation and Growth

What Do We Know?

By: Anjan V. Thakor

This book, written entirely by faculty at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, provides a variety of practical and implementable perspectives on innovation for managers. In addition, the book contains chapters that provide reviews of the academic research on innovation in the faculty members'' specific areas of expertise. In taking this multifunctional approach to innovation, the focus of the book is not just on what is currently considered to be OC best practiceOCO. Rather, it is on bringing to managers the cutting-edge knowledge that is being generated by academic research that goes beyond current best practice.

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World Scientific

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9814343552

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9789814343558

The Economics of Higher Purpose

Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization

By: Robert E. Quinn,Anjan V. Thakor

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The Economics of Higher Purpose

Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization

By: Robert E. Quinn,Anjan V. Thakor

Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose—something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line. What does a lofty notion like purpose have to do with business basics like the bottom line? Robert E. Quinn and Anjan J. Thakor say pretty much everything. Leaders and managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant, so they create systems of control to combat these expectations. Workers resent these systems, and performance suffers. To address the performance issues, managers double down on the coercion, creating a vicious cycle and a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there is a better way. Quinn and Thakor show that when an authentic higher purpose permeates business strategy and decision-making, the cycle is broken. Employers and employees see themselves as working together toward an inspiring goal, not just trying to hit quarterly targets. They fully engage, become proactive contributors, and, ironically, easily exceed those quarterly targets. Based on their widely acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, Quinn and Thakor offer eight sometimes surprising steps for shifting from a transaction-oriented mind-set focused on constraints to a purpose-oriented mind-set focused on possibility. This iconoclastic book will help any organization discover its authentic purpose and weave it into the fabric of everything it does, leading to unprecedented levels of personal satisfaction, service and product innovation, and economic growth.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523086416

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9781523086412

Value Sphere, The: The Corporate Executives' Handbook For Creating And Retaining Shareholder Wealth (4th Edition)

By: Anjan Thakor,Todd Milbourn,John A Boquist

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Value Sphere, The: The Corporate Executives' Handbook For Creating And Retaining Shareholder Wealth (4th Edition)

By: Anjan Thakor,Todd Milbourn,John A Boquist

This book, written in story narrative form, traces the development of a company from a start-up to a global enterprise. It develops the key concepts related to this evolution — corporate strategy, raising external finance, capital budgeting, dividend policy, mergers and acquisition, globalization, marketing and human resource management. The focus is on topics in corporate strategy and corporate finance, and each topic is developed in depth with problem sets and reflection questions within the context of the organization's evolution.The Power Point slides, practice problems and solutions, as well as intervention exercises for executive education teaching is available upon request for all instructors who adopt this book as a course text. Please send your request to sales@wspc.com.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9814365246

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The Purpose of Banking

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Competing Values Leadership

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Competing Values Leadership

Competing Values Leadership

The Four Colors of Business Growth

The Four Colors of Business Growth

Innovation and Growth

Innovation and Growth

The Economics of Higher Purpose

The Economics of Higher Purpose

Value Sphere, The: The Corporate Executives' Handbook For Creating And Retaining Shareholder Wealth (4th Edition)

Value Sphere, The: The Corporate Executives' Handbook For Creating And Retaining Shareholder Wealth (4th Edition)

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