Introduction to Business: Innovation, Strategy, and the AI-Driven Economy A foundational overview of core business concepts through the lens of an AI-transformed economy. License: 180 days | Buy on VitalSource 

Introduction to Business: Innovation, Strategy, and the AI-Driven Economy is designed for students encountering the discipline of business for the first time - whether in a freshman undergraduate program or an advanced high school course. It covers every foundational topic you would expect: economics, ethics, management, marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship. But it does so through a distinctly modern lens, treating artificial intelligence not as a novelty chapter tacked onto the end, but as a force integrated into every functional area of business.Every chapter in this book follows a consistent, active-learning structure. You will encounter a unique fictional company scenario that grounds abstract concepts in realistic business situations. You will engage with three recurring feature boxes - AI in Practice, Strategy Spotlight, and Ethics and Governance - that connect theory to the decisions real leaders face. You will work through team activities, problem sets with detailed solutions, discussion questions, and integrative case challenges designed to develop both your analytical skills and your judgment. 

Entrepreneurship in Action: From Idea Discovery to Growth and Exit A practical walkthrough of the entrepreneurial journey, from validating an idea to scaling and exiting a venture. License: 150 days | Buy on VitalSource 

Entrepreneurship in Action: From Idea Discovery to Growth and Exit equips current and aspiring entrepreneurs with a complete, practice-oriented roadmap for launching and scaling new ventures in today's dynamic, data-rich economy. Grounded in real-world cases and current research, this text walks students step-by-step from creativity and opportunity recognition through business planning, funding, growth strategy, and exit design, while integrating topics such as digital transformation, analytics-enabled decision making, and ethical leadership. Designed for undergraduate and MBA courses, it emphasizes experiential learning, practical frameworks, and critical thinking so learners can evaluate markets, build sustainable business models, and navigate complex legal, financial, and organizational challenges. Clear chapter structure, applied assignments, and instructor-ready resources make this book an ideal choice for programs focused on innovation, startups, small business management, and corporate entrepreneurship.

Strategic Planning and Positioning: Excellent Leadership & High-Impact Decision-Making Frameworks for setting strategy and making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. License: 180 days | Buy on VitalSource 

About the Book Strategic Planning and Positioning: Excellent Leadership and High-Impact Decision-Making is a comprehensive MBA-level textbook written for the leader who must make consequential decisions under uncertainty — and for the student preparing to become that leader. Authored by Dr. Daniel Sloan, a U.S. Department of State Specialist and Georgetown University Alumni Fellow, this Evergreen Edition spans fifteen chapters organized across seven parts that follow the full strategic journey from purpose and vision through capstone integration. The text opens with the foundations of strategic thinking and leadership, then progresses through charting organizational direction, analyzing industries and macro-trends, evaluating internal resources, and crafting competitive strategy. Later chapters address corporate-level strategy, mergers and alliances, global and multi-market positioning, strategic governance, ethics and corporate responsibility, and leading organizational change. A culminating capstone chapter challenges readers to synthesize every framework into a unified strategic analysis. Each chapter is anchored by a composite fictional case scenario drawn from sectors including energy, electric vehicles, logistics, healthcare, technology, and global trade. Three feature boxes per chapter — AI in Practice, Strategy Spotlight, and Ethics and Governance — connect theory to contemporary leadership challenges. Bloom's Taxonomy-aligned learning objectives, applied exercises, discussion questions, and over four hundred APA-formatted references ensure academic rigor alongside real-world relevance. Full coverage of essential strategic frameworks — SWOT, VRIO, Porter's Five Forces, Blue Ocean Strategy, the BCG Matrix, and models of strategic change — equips readers with the analytical vocabulary of the boardroom. Throughout, the text treats artificial intelligence as one important dimension of modern strategy without losing sight of the human judgment, ethical reasoning, and leadership courage that distinguish great strategists from competent analysts. 

AI-Driven Strategic Management: Analysis, Formulation, and Implementation in the Agentic Era Strategic management fundamentals updated for an era of agentic AI systems. License: 150 days | Buy on VitalSource 

Strategy has been rewritten. In an era when autonomous AI agents make thousands of consequential decisions inside every serious firm, the pre-agentic canon — Porter, Mintzberg, Rumelt, Barney, Teece, Porter and Kramer, Kotter — remains necessary but no longer sufficient. This graduate MBA textbook updates the discipline for the operating reality of 2026 and beyond, installing the governance mechanisms that make classical frameworks work again when execution runs at machine speed. Across fifteen chapters, Sloan builds a continuous argument organized by the AAA framework — Analyze, Act, Audit — and reinforced by four original governance frameworks: the Expert-in-the-Loop (EITL) protocol, the DAVV verification cycle, AI-Induced Governance Stress theory, and Cognitive Wall Scaffolding. A single running case, Aurelia Cloud, Inc., carries the reader from external analysis to a full board-level S-1 presentation, while a NovaTech Manufacturing comparative track shows the same principles operating inside industrial FDI settings. The book culminates in an eighteen-section AI-Integrated Strategic Plan capstone, delivered with a Board Resolution and Risk Register — the working template today's MBA graduates need to lead in the agentic era. 

Strategy, Policy, and Ethics in an AI-Enabled World Explores how strategy and policy decisions intersect with ethical considerations as AI reshapes business. License: 150 days | Buy on VitalSource 

In today's world, leaders are asked to do far more than write plans-they must navigate AI, shifting geopolitics, economic shocks, social tensions, and relentless innovation all at once. Strategy can no longer ignore ethics and policy, and ethics can no longer ignore power, data, and technology. Strategy, Policy, and Ethics in an AI-Enabled World equips working adults and degree¿completion students to meet that complexity with courage and clarity. Built for Christ-centered business programs yet relevant to any advanced strategy, policy, or leadership course, this text connects core strategic ideas-value creation, competitive advantage, business models, and stakeholder management-to AI systems, drones, wearables, and other connected technologies that are reshaping operations, markets, and everyday life. Each chapter follows a clear, practical scaffold: stated purposes, quick objectives, realistic cases, applied tools, and guided reflections that help learners link concepts directly to their organizations and communities. Readers work with visual tools-stakeholder maps, risk matrices, policy templates, scenario sketches, and decision frameworks-to evaluate real initiatives and small technology pilots while asking what faithful, just stewardship of people, data, and creation requires. Along the way, they practice questioning AI-generated recommendations, weighing geopolitical and regulatory constraints, examining economic incentives, and designing strategies and policies that honor both performance and human dignity. The journey culminates in a capstone project in which students craft a responsible, future-ready strategy and policy package for a real organization in their own context.