Reviews
- BBC HARDtalk, January 16, 2008: Stephen Sackur interviews William Hopper:
- video of edited version of interview
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- video of full interview
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- brief description of broadcast (pdf)
- edited transcription of broadcast (pdf) - According to Stephen Evans, of the BBC World Service’s Business Daily Program, THE PURITAN GIFT is a ‘must read of the year 2007’. (January 1, 2008)
- The BBC’s Stephen Evans declares that THE PURITAN GIFT ‘foretold’ the current global credit crisis. Listen to his interview with Will Hopper on the Business Daily Program, September 19, 2007. (mp3, 1 MB)
- Manchester Business School blog discusses THE PURITAN GIFT >>
- The Financial Times selected THE PURITAN GIFT as one of the ten best business books of 2007. The book is characterised as follows: ‘The Hopper brothers, long-time admirers of the American business model of old, voice their concerns about the developments of the past 30 years in this ambitious and stimulating story covering more than four centuries of history.’ (December 8, 2007) - (jpg, 580 KB)
- In a 1,200-word Financial Times review, Richard Donkin declares that THE PURITAN GIFT is ‘a real book, full of fascinating insights, intellectual rigour and challenging authoritative arguments’. (September 20, 2007) - (pdf, 78 KB)
The CEO is an American invention. There is no real counterpart ... in the management of any country.
Peter F. Drucker, author of the bestseller, The Practice of Management, who encouraged the authors to write THE PURITAN GIFT
- ‘India's Unending Journey/Finding Balance in a Time of Change’ by Sir Mark Tully (May 2007) - (pdf, 550 KB)
- TOP EXECUTIVES NO LONGER PAID TO PLAY AS PART OF THE TEAM, Stefan Stern, Financial Times, May 8, 2007 (pdf, 33 KB)
- Manchester Business School Professor Peter Kawalek insists that all his students read THE PURITAN GIFT, April 12, 2007 (pdf, 41 KB)
- BARCLAYS EXECUTIVE EARNS 1,000 TIMES AVERAGE WAGE, William Rees-Mogg (formerly Editor-in Chief of The Times, London), The Daily Reckoning Australia, March 29, 2007. Lord Rees-Mogg has been credited with accurately forecasting glasnost, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1987 stock market crash. He refers to THE PURITAN GIFT as an ‘excellent new book’. (pdf, 15 KB)
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