Daniels Book Authors

The faculty at Daniels are well known for being experts in their fields. Driven by pride in their subject matter expertise and passion for sharing their knowledge with others, several are published book authors, as well. Below is a list of faculty members’ published books, along with excerpts of the books’ descriptions.

Educated REIT Investing

Co-authored by Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management Professor Glenn R. Mueller

“Educated REIT Investing is the ultimate resource for investors, financial advisors and students interested in learning how to invest in real estate investment trusts (REITs)—one of the only asset classes to significantly outperform the S&P 500 Index over the last 25 years.” Find it on Amazon.

Business Driven Information Systems

Co-authored by Teaching Professor of Business Information and Analytics Amy Phillips

“Business Driven Information Systems provides the foundation that will enable students to achieve business excellence, whether they major in operations management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, human resources, accounting or other business disciplines.”

Juxtapositions: Comparing Mild to Wild Success—Irreverently

By Professor of the Practice, Executive and Professional MBA Programs, Kerry Plemmons

“Juxtapositions offers a model for building wild success throughout the entire organization by examining the components of thriving systems and the mild success of unhealthy organizations. Juxtapositions aims to transform frustrated leaders into gentle revolutionaries and provides a blueprint that will guide them on a journey to wild success.” Find it on Amazon.

International Marketing

Co-authored by Associate Professor of Marketing Dan Baack

Baack’s book “presents an innovative, integrated approach to the course, in which marketing concepts are explored in depth within the international context. The authors identify five key factors that impact any international marketing venture—culture, language, political/legal systems, economic systems, and technological/operational differences—and discuss them in relation to the core marketing concepts of markets, products, pricing, distribution (place), and promotion.” Find it on Amazon.

Marketing

Co-authored by Co-chair and Professor of Marketing Steven Hartley

This textbook “focuses on decision making through extended examples, cases, and videos involving real people making real marketing decisions. The author team’s decades of combined experience in the higher education classroom continue to inform the title’s innovative pedagogical approach.” Find it on Amazon.

Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy

By Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, Associate Professor of Business Ethics & Legal Studies and Marcus Faculty Fellow Tricia Olsen

Olsen’s book is “the first project of its kind to compare multiple mechanisms and combinations of mechanisms across regions, countries, and time. [The book] systematically analyzes the claims made in the literature using a vast array of data, which the authors have assembled in the Transitional Justice Data Base.” Find it on Amazon.

Daniels Faculty Authors with Multiple Books

Bud Bilanich, teaching assistant professor of management, has authored over 18 books on leadership and career success, including Fixing Performance Problems, Success Tweets and Straight Talk for Success. You can find his books on Amazon.

Jack Buffington, assistant professor of the practice in supply chain management, has authored many books on the practice of supply chain management. Titles include The Recycling Myth, Peak Plastic and Frictionless Markets. You can find his books on Amazon.

Barbara Jackson, Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management director, wrote Construction Management JumpStart: The Best First Step Toward a Career in Construction Management. She also wrote Design-Build Essentials. Both are available on Amazon.

Mark Levine, Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management professor and endowed chair, and his daughter, Libbi Levine Segev, associate teaching professor of business ethics and legal studies, have both authored many books on real estate—some together! Their most recent publication, which they update annually, is Real Estate Transactions: Tax Planning and Consequences—available from the publisher. Some of Mark Levine’s books include the Exchanging Real Estate series, Appraisers’ Liability, Real Estate Transactions and Real Estate Securities and Syndications. You can find Libbi’s books here and Mark’s books on his Amazon author page.

Don Mayer, professor of the practice in business ethics and legal studies, co-edited Good Business: Exercising Effective and Ethical Leadership. Many chapters were written by Daniels faculty members. Mayer also wrote Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment, and International Business Law, which are available on his Amazon author page.

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