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Author:

Laird, Pamela Walker, 1947-

Title:

Pull : networking and success since Benjamin Franklin / Pamela Walker Laird.

Edition:

1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiv, 439 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Business networks--United States--History.
Success in business--United States--History.
Businesspeople--United States--History.
Social networks--United States--History.
Social capital (Sociology)--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally published: 2006.

Contents:

Introduction: Connections at work -- Social capital and the mechanisms of success -- Organizing and synthesizing social capital -- Social rungs on corporate ladders -- Contacts and buffers -- The business of integration -- Strangers on the ladder -- Uncovering the power of pull -- Social tools for self-help.

Series:

Harvard studies in business history ; 48

ISBN:

0674025539 (pbk.)
9780674025530 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)165408251

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)