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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Managing Information Technology

• ISBN:
• 0275995453
• Authors:
• CJ Rhoads

Software. Hardware. Networks. Wireless. Entrepreneurs face a bewildering array of choices and decisions when it comes to incorporating technology into the fabric of their businesses. Yet nothing could be more important these days. Aligning information technology (IT) with business strategy is essential to meet and beat the competition. As business strategy and technology expert CJ Rhoads shows, managing information technology effectively is an...

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Project Managers

• ISBN:
• 0470047178
• Authors:
• Kim Heldman, William Heldman

Combine the power of Excel 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and sound project management tools to boost your skill set and maximize your productivity. You’ll walk through a project and learn how to use these powerful tools to schedule jobs, create budgets, manage processes, and share project information. Whether new to project management or a veteran, you’ll discover techniques, hints, and examples you can use immediately.

Office 2007: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks (Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks)

• ISBN:
• 0470118709
• Authors:
• Kate Shoup

You already know Office 2007 basics. Now you’re ready to move to the next level, and this book gives you clear, illustrated instructions for 125 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with Office 2007. With minimal text and maximum illustrations, a task-oriented, step-by-step approach, self-contained, two-page lessons for each task, and navigational aids that...

Excel 2007 PivotTables and PivotCharts (Mr. Spreadsheet's Bookshelf)

• ISBN:
• 0470104872
• Authors:
• Peter G. Aitken

Devoted entirely to PivotTables and PivotCharts, this book shows you how to take full advantage of these powerful tools, which enable you to pull meaningful information from masses of seemingly meaningless data. Loaded with illustrations and real-world examples, it takes you step by step through creating a PivotTable; formatting, filtering, and grouping data; creating PivotCharts from those data; and more. You’ll learn to work with...

Can't Take It With You: The Art of Making and Giving Money

• ISBN:
• 0471657638
• Authors:
• Lewis B. Cullman

An engaging chronicle of the remarkable life of Lewis Cullman, a figure George Soros refers to as a "pioneer in finance" Forty years ago, Lewis Cullman shocked Wall Street by introducing a financial model that went on to define modern business. With a $1,000 investment, Cullman engineered the $62.4 million purchase of Orkin Exterminating. We know the process today as a leveraged buyout—the famous or infamous LBO that would change the history...

IBM Workplace Services Express For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0471791318
• Authors:
• Stephen R. Londergan

Use WSE to work together, even when you're not! Discover the ideal way for small and medium businesses to work together IBM Workplace Services Express is an easy-to-use collaborative portal application that facilitates communication and teamwork with built-in team spaces, document management, and instant messaging -- all in a single portal. This handy guide helps you get started, navigate the workspace, get organized, use the built-in...

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

• ISBN:
• 0553805096
• Authors:
• Alice Schroeder

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known...

Integrating Excel and Access

• ISBN:
• 0596009739
• Authors:
• Michael Schmalz

In a corporate setting, the Microsoft Office Suite is an invaluable set of applications. One of Offices' biggest advantages is that its applications can work together to share information, produce reports, and so on. The problem is, there isn't much documentation on their cross-usage. Until now. Introducing "Integrating Excel and Access," the unique reference that shows you how to combine the strengths of Microsoft Excel with those of Microsoft...

Excel 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual

• ISBN:
• 0596101546
• Authors:
• Matthew MacDonald

The dominant spreadsheet program and one of the most widely used software applications in the world, Microsoft Excel is unbelievably powerful--and can be downright intimidating. If you're new to Excel or among the many existing Excel users who are dazed and confused by all that the program can do (and by how little it has actually done for you), "Excel for Starter: The Missing Manual" is your ideal resource. For everyone who wants to quickly get...

Sams Teach Yourself J2Ee in 21 Days: With Ejb, Jsp, Servlets, Jndi, Jdbc, and Xml (Sams Teach Yourself...in 21 Days)

• ISBN:
• 0672323842
• Authors:
• Peter Roxburgh, Martin Bond, Debbie Law, Andy Longshaw, Dan Haywood

J2EE has become required knowledge for any serious Java developer, but learning this large and complex specification requires a substantial investment of time and energy. Sams Teach Yourself J2EE in 21 Days presents the enterprise Java architecture in accessible, easy-to-comprehend lessons, describing how each J2EE tool solves the challenges of n-Tier development. Using the architecture as a roadmap, following chapters describe Enterprise...

Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out

• ISBN:
• 0735619859
• Authors:
• Curtis Frye, Wayne S. Freeze, Felicia K. Buckingham

Take your Microsoft Office experience to the next level by programming custom business solutions with Excel 2003. This supremely organized reference and tutorial packs hundreds of timesaving answers, tips, and workarounds for advanced Excel users.

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))

• ISBN:
• 073562304X
• Authors:
• Curtis Frye

Excel provides an easy-to-use, powerful spreadsheet environment that helps you handle calculations and data more effectively - with simple ways to enter and edit data, work with formulas and functions for complex calculations, format worksheets and work with colorful charts, and publish documents to the Web. With MICROSOFT EXCEL 2007 STEP BY STEP, you'll learn all the ins and outs of working with Excel features, including the exciting new...

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Inside Out

• ISBN:
• 073562321X
• Authors:
• Mark Dodge, Craig Stinson

Learn everything you need to know for working with Microsoft Office Excel 2007--from the inside out! This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using Office Excel 2007--all in concise, fast-answer format. Whether you are upgrading from Office 97 or Office 2003, you'll be able to dig in to the work-ready resources that help you take your Office Excel 2007 experience to the next level. This...

Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))

• ISBN:
• 0735623570
• Authors:
• Judy Lemke, Resources Online

The smart way to learn Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007--one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting tips to master the fundamentals of working with the latest version of Office Visio. You'll discover how to create and format shapes and diagrams, create project schedules with Gantt charts, create organization charts, and lay out office spaces. You'll also...

Excel VBA Programming For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0764574124
• Authors:
• John Walkenbach

* Shows ordinary users how to harness the power of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and create custom Excel applications * This book introduces people to a wide array of new Excel options, including creating new worksheet functions, automating tasks and operations, creating new toolbars and menus, designing custom dialog boxes and add-ins, and much more * Begins with the most important tools and operations for the Visual Basic Editor, then...

Special Edition Using WordPerfect Office X3

• ISBN:
• 0789734273
• Authors:
• Laura Acklen, Read Gilgen

Special Edition Using WordPerfect Office X3 is crammed full of tips, tricks, and practical examples that you won’t find anywhere else! Covering all of the applications within WordPerfect Office Standard including WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, and Presentations, this is an all-inclusive reference for every user. Whether you are just looking to learn the new features of the latest version or need to know how to use the entire feature set more...

Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2007

• ISBN:
• 0789735172
• Authors:
• Ed Bott, Woody Leonard

Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office 2007 THE ONLY OFFICE BOOK YOU NEED   We crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Office proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Office 2007, Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office 2007 is the only book you need.   If you own a copy of Office 2007, you deserve a copy of this book! Although this book is aimed...

Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

• ISBN:
• 0789736063
• Authors:
• Patricia DiGiacomo

Every business professional faces challenges in managing their time to be as efficient and productive as possible. Information management has become an important everyday task in helping manage these challenges successfully, and Microsoft Outlook is the gold standard to help users stay organized. Outlook not only helps manage contacts, appointments, and tasks, it also serves as the e-mail and fax client. Outlook 2007 has been redesigned and...

The New New Economy: Yet Another Clueless Manifesto for the Post-Digital Age

• ISBN:
• 0814471439
• Authors:
• Tim McEachern, Chris O'Brien

No matter how many paradigms, buzzwords, and empty slogans the average business book reader may have picked up now that his cheese has been moved, the only way he can truly survive is to keep his sense of humor . . . not to mention finding a new piece of cheese. And no one knows this better than Tim McEachern and Chris O'Brien. Now, in this hilarious parody of every business tome that hasn't already been "blown to bits", these two founders and...

Encyclopedia of American Business (Facts on File Library of American History)

• ISBN:
• 0816046433

Designed for the non-specialist, students and general readers, this encyclopedia will help any novice understand the complex and sometimes confusing concepts and terms that are used in the world of business. Five general areas of business are covered: accounting, banking, finance, marketing, and management. Encyclopedia of American Business contains entries on topics such as annual report, balanced budget, capital, deflation, exchange rate,...

Global Information Warfare: How Businesses, Governments, and Others Achieve Objectives and Attain Competitive Advantages

• ISBN:
• 0849311144
• Authors:
• Andy Jones, Gerald L. Kovacich, Perry G. Luzwick

Like no other book before it, Global Information Warfare illustrates the relationships and interdependencies of business and national objectives, of companies and countries, and of their dependence on advances in technology. This book sheds light on the "Achilles heel" that these dependencies on advanced computing and information technologies create. It underscores how hostile countries, business competitors, terrorists, hacktivists and others...

Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age

• ISBN:
• 0849312396
• Authors:
• Patrick McBride, Jody Patilla, Craig Robinson, Peter Thermos, Edward P. Moser

Touches all the bases you need to build a secure enterprise. Drawing on the experience of the world-class METASeS consulting team in building and advising on security programs, this guide shows you how to create a workable security program to protect your organization's internet risk. Softcover.

Customer Once, Client Forever: 12 Tools for Building Lifetime Business Relationships

• ISBN:
• 0938721828
• Authors:
• Richard A. Buckingham

(Kiplinger Books) A presentation of all of the necessary steps businesses should take in order to ensure that their clients keep coming back. A guide to being the best at customer service, with an emphasis on fostering repeat business and customer referrals. Twelve tools for maintaining and strengthening customer relationships. DLC: Customer services--United States.

An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund

• ISBN:
• 0979549701
• Authors:
• Timothy Sykes

$2 trillion is invested in the hedge fund industry, and yet, due to industry regulations, the general public knows little about them. This book will change everything. Timothy turned $12,000 of Bar Mitzvah gift money into $1.65 million trading thousands of stocks from 1999-2002, managed the #1 Short Bias Hedge Fund from 2003-2006, starred in the television documentary Wall Street Warriors , and appeared regularly on CNBC all before the age of...

Secrets of Power Negotiating

• ISBN:
• 1564144984
• Authors:
• Roger Dawson

Secrets of Power Negotiating covers every aspect of the negotiating process with practical, proven advice: from beginning steps to critical final moves, how to recognize unethical tactics, key principles to the Power Negotiating strategy, why money is not as important as everyone thinks, negotiating pressure points, understanding the other party and gaining the upper hand, and analyses of different negotiating styles. And Power Negotiating can...

Expert C# 2005 Business Objects, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 1590596323
• Authors:
• Rockford Lhotka

Rockford Lhotka started writing his Business Objects books in 1996, and over the years, hes become one of the worlds foremost authorities on building distributed object-oriented systems. His industry-standard VB .NET Business Objects book not only addresses changes in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, but also reflects substantial enhancements and improvements to the CSLA .NET Framework and how it can be used to create enterprise-level .NET...

Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity

• ISBN:
• 1591407567

"Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity" is designed to introduce a community health group to the potential of using a geographic information system (GIS) to improve birth outcomes. Chapters in this book provide an overview of why geography is important in the investigation of health, the importance of the four main components of a GIS (data input, manipulation, analysis and visualization), how...

Encyclopedia of Business & Finance 2 VOL SET(Encyclopedia of Business and Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0028660617

Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai

• ISBN:
• 0061252727
• Authors:
• Ben Mezrich

From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House , this is the startling rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange. After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylumlike oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A...

How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 (How to Do Everything)

• ISBN:
• 0072231270
• Authors:
• David McAmis, David McAmis

Tap into the power of the newest member of Microsoft's Office suite. Learn to use InfoPath's robust set of tools to capture information that's locked away in document-based forms. Quickly create forms and data-gathering applications that use XML to separate form and content. This raw information can then be integrated into back-end systems, providing an end-to-end solution for data capture in the enterprise.

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 QuickSteps

• ISBN:
• 0072232285
• Authors:
• John Cronan

Brace youself, because here comes QuickSteps: The fast, easy, accessible information on Excel 2003 in a full-color cookbook-style format. Provides answers to all of your How-do-I questions in a concise and meaningful way. Lengthwise page layout allows for easy page viewing. Useful tips and cautions are displayed in the margins so that they don't break the flow of the quick steps themselves.

The Business of Economics

• ISBN:
• 0198292228
• Authors:
• John Kay

Medicine and business management share certain similarities, writes John Kay. For centuries, the theories behind medical practice were mostly nonsense. Doctors simply applied fashionable nostrums, bleeding one patient, starving another, and sometimes the patient got better, sometimes not. The prestige of a doctor rested more on the social rank of his patients and the confidence of his assertions than on the evidence of his cures. Much the same...

Microsoft Office 2000: Visual Basic for Applications Fundamentals (Developer Learning Tools)

• ISBN:
• 0735605947
• Authors:
• David Boctor

Microsoft Visual Basic programming in Office provides an environment and language for you to build custom programs that extend Office's capabilities and integrate Office with other software applications and business processes. To help you develop custom programs with Office, this book provides information for the following types of developers: The beginning developer familiar with Office but not with Visual Basic programming; the experienced...

Microsoft® Excel Version 2002 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft))

• ISBN:
• 0735612811
• Authors:
• Mark Dodge, Craig Stinson

MICROSOFT EXCEL Version 2002 INSIDE OUT is the foremost reference to Excel version 2002 for PC "super users". Complete in one volume, this book provides a thorough overview of the most-used features and functions of Microsoft's popular spreadsheet program. The book provides the information advanced users really need. It delivers comprehensive information about each major Excel tool and task, including using worksheets, analyzing data,...

Business Research Projects: A Solution-Oriented Approach

• ISBN:
• 0750665734
• Authors:
• Jimme Keizer, Piet M Kempen

Almost all higher educational institutions have built some kind of fieldwork project into the advanced stages of their programmes and the research project should integrate theory, practice, knowledge and skills. Students should be able to apply their acquired knowledge and understanding in a manner that indicates a professional approach to their work or vocation, and have the ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and formulate...

GMAT For Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764596535
• Authors:
• Scott Hatch J.D., Lisa Hatch M.A.

If you’re planning to apply for an MBA program, you’re required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). And you thought your days of sharpening number 2 pencils were over! How do you prepare for such a comprehensive test? Never fear. GMAT For Dummies, Fifth Edition , puts at your fingertips everything you need to know to conquer the GMAT. This highly readable, friendly guide makes the study process as painless as possible,...

Learn Excel 97 Through Excel 2007 from Mr. Excel: 377 Excel Mysteries Solved!

• ISBN:
• 1932802274
• Authors:
• Bill Jelen

Updating the previous edition's tips to make them compatible with Excel 2007, and featuring new tips that are only available in Excel 2007, this new edition of Mr. Excel's popular software guide even incorporates suggestions sent in by readers. Each featured topic has a problem statement and description, followed by a broad strategy for solving the problem. Mr. Excel then walks readers through through the specific steps to solve the...

Real Optimization with SAP® APO

• ISBN:
• 3540225617
• Authors:
• Josef Kallrath, Thomas I. Maindl

This book describes and demonstrates how SAP® APO can be used to tackle real optimization problems arising in industry. In a unique combination it deals with the aspects of model-building as well as with the implementation in commercial supply chain management software, SAP APO being a typical example of an advanced planning system (APS). The authors address readers involved in optimization projects in which SAP and, particularly, SAP APO are...

Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain

• ISBN:
• 0300121091
• Authors:
• Hugh Thomas

A dramatic biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros Born in an impoverished region of Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919–1992) rose to become an immensely successful entrepreneur and one of Spain’s most prominent industrialists. In this engaging biography, the first on a Spanish entrepreneur in English, Hugh Thomas recounts Barreiros’s origins as an...

The IT Girl's Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva

• ISBN:
• 0470149167
• Authors:
• Ani Babaian

Apply Excel daily and smooth out life's wrinkles Who knew a spreadsheet could do as much for you as your favorite moisturizer? Become a Microsoft Excel Diva with this sassy guide and discover what hip IT Girls already know: smart is beautiful. Impress the heck out of everyone at work with your stylish reports. Do a budget and see exactly what you can spend on shoes. Get better organized. Who has time for dull technical manuals? Learn all of...

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)

• ISBN:
• 0060833459
• Authors:
• Peter F. Drucker

What makes an effective executive? The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. Drucker identifies five practices essential to business...

Outside Innovation: How Your Customers Will Co-Design Your Company's Future

• ISBN:
• 0061135909
• Authors:
• Patricia B. Seybold

How dynamic businesses of every size can unleash innovation by inviting customers to co–design what they do and make. Reading line: The 8 Roles Customers Play in Trend–Setting Companies The refrain is familiar for Patricia Seybold in her journeys as a top technology and management strategist: "I want our company to be acknowledged as the most admired and most customer–valued in our industry and to be recognized as the company that has...

Ace the Corporate Personality Test

• ISBN:
• 0071359125
• Authors:
• Edward Hoffman

Virtually everyone looking for corporate work today must submit to a personality test. Better plan ahead and prepare yourself with this quick and easy guide to out-foxing and out-psyching the dreaded test. Author Edward Hoffman delivers a jargon-free tutorial on what applicants can expect from the test. He explains what six dimensions of personality the test measures, how the test is evaluated, and most importantly, what employers can and can't...

Direct Access Execution: ECNs, SOES, SuperDOT, and Other Methods of Trading

• ISBN:
• 0071363912
• Authors:
• Simit Patel

Before direct access traders can truly control their trading destinies and maximize their profits, they must understand the key avenues of EDAT execution. Direct Access Execution describes how to use today's most popular trading networks--ECNs, SOES, SuperDOT, SelectNet, and others. It reveals their pluses and minuses, then describes when, why, and how to use each system for maximum profit and precision. In addition, it carefully diagrams for...

Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It

• ISBN:
• 0071417583
• Authors:
• D'Alessandro, David D'Alessandro

FROM THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BRAND WARFARE A genuine winner shows you how to stand out from the crowd As CEO of John Hancock Financial Services and the bestselling author of Brand Warfare , David D'Alessandro knows plenty about breaking away from the pack. In Career Warfare, this ultimate insider tells the true story of how he learned the unwritten rules of corporate ladder climbing. In his signature, outspoken style, D'Alessandro...

How to Make Money Online with eBay, Yahoo!, and Google

• ISBN:
• 0072262613
• Authors:
• Peter Kent, Jill Finlayson

Groundbreaking strategies for reaching millions of customers online and boosting traffic, sales, and profits This full-color, seminar-in-a-book presents a proven plan for maximizing your online profits by leveraging the top three services: eBay, Yahoo! and Google. You’ll learn to: expand an existing eBay business to reach millions of targeted buyers; Open a Yahoo! store to build a thriving direct-to-customer business; and send more customers...

Principles of Corporate Finance, 7th Edition

• ISBN:
• 0072467665
• Authors:
• Richard A. Brealey Stewart C. Myers

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Alternate Edition w/Student CD ROM+ PowerWeb + Standard & Poor's Educational Version of Market Insight

• ISBN:
• 0072553073
• Authors:
• Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Bradford D. Jordan, Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Bradford Jordan

The Alternate Edition includes all of the same features and benefits as the Standard Edition. Its only difference is that it includes four additional chapters on more advanced topics: Risk Management; An Introduction to Financial Engineering; Option Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions, and Leasing.

The Real Life Guide to Accounting Research: A Behind-the-Scenes View of Using Qualitative Research Methods

• ISBN:
• 0080439721

A book that goes behind the more official presentations and accounts of research methods to explore the lived experiences, joys and mistakes of a wide range of international researchers principally working in the fields of accounting and finance, but also in management, economics and other social sciences. The authors of the articles in this book address a wide range of issues and obstacles that they have confronted at various stages in their...

New Frontiers in Marine Tourism: Diving Experiences, Sustainability, Management (Advances in Tourism Research)

• ISBN:
• 0080453570

Diving tourism has seen such growth in the past decade that the World Tourism Organization suggests it will soon become as important as ski tourism. According to a WTO estimate, there are now 5-7 million active certified divers in the world. Despite its development as a mass tourism activity, its dynamic growth and great economic importance, particularly for island destinations in the tropics, surprisingly few scientific publications address...

Private Real Estate Investment: Data Analysis and Decision Making (Academic Press Advanced Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0121377512
• Authors:
• Roger J. Brown

Fiduciary responsibilities and related court-imposed liabilities have forced investors to assess market conditions beyond gut level, resulting in the development of sophisticated decision-making tools. Roger Brown's use of historical real estate data enables him to develop tools for gauging the impact of circumstances on relative risk. His application of higher level statistical modeling to various aspects of real estate makes this book an...

Intangible Management: Tools for Solving the Accounting and Management Crisis

• ISBN:
• 0126633517
• Authors:
• Ken Standfield

For the recorded history of management, the world has managed value creation according to what can be seen, touched and proven. In today's knowledge-based economy, value creation is derived primarily from how well firms manage intangibles (knowledge, service, expectations, response time, innovation, change management, etc). The large capital outlays that signified the manufacturing economy are no longer required. In fact, such 'tangibles' now...

Profits You Can Trust: Spotting and Surviving Accounting Landmines

• ISBN:
• 0131001965
• Authors:
• David Sherman, David Young, Harris Collingwood

Profits You Can Trust gives managers, directors, lenders, audit partners and analysts a clear framework to demystify global financial reporting in a market fraught with danger. Filled with provocative and enlightening examples, it offers a fresh perspective and clear guidance for everyone involved with financial reporting strategy and communication, as well as specific and easily understood questions that must be asked to avoid accounting...

Gates of Injustice: The Crisis in America's Prisons

• ISBN:
• 0131881795
• Authors:
• Alan Elsner

Gates of Injustice is an extraordinarily compelling expose of the American prison system now completely updated in this new paperback editon: how more than 2,000,000 Americans came to be incarcerated; what it's really like on the inside; what it's like for the families left on the outside; and how an enormous "prison-industrial complex" has grown to support and promote imprisonment in place of virtually every other alternative. Reuters...

Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval

• ISBN:
• 0139696946
• Authors:
• Jonathan Cagan, Craig M. Vogel

Transforms innovation from serendipity to science, giving you the tools for creating products that change the rules of the game and achieve significant competitive advantage.

Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect

• ISBN:
• 0195074238
• Authors:
• Herbert A. Davidson

A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers. Davidson examines the cosmologies and theories of human and active intellect in the three philosophers and covers such subjects as: the emanation of the supernal realm from the First...

Dragon Multinational: A New Model of Global Growth

• ISBN:
• 0195121465
• Authors:
• John A. Mathews

Describes the extraordinary success of a handful of multinationals from the 'Periphery' in globalizing their operations extremely rapidly. Offers unprecedented opportunities for firms that know how to enmesh themselves in global networks.

Beware the Winner's Curse: Victories that Can Sink You and Your Company

• ISBN:
• 0195177401
• Authors:
• G. Anandalingam, Henry C. Lucas Jr.

In the roaring 1990s, many companies seemed to claim great victories-acquiring another company, obtaining state-of-the art technology, or hiring a potential CEO savior-only to find that they had made a great mistake. The term "Winner's Curse" was coined by economists to explain an effect commonly observed in auctions. In such situations, since the winning bidder is usually the most optimistic about the value of the item being auctioned, there is...

India: The Emerging Giant

• ISBN:
• 0195315030
• Authors:
• Arvind Panagariya

India is not only the world's largest and fiercely independent democracy, but also an emerging economic giant. But to date there has been no comprehensive account of India's remarkable growth or the role policy has played in fueling this expansion. India: The Emerging Giant fills this gap, shedding light on one of the most successful experiments in economic development in modern history. Why did the early promise of the Indian economy not...

Computational Methods for the Study of Dynamic Economies

• ISBN:
• 0198294972

Macroeconomics increasingly uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models to understand theoretical and policy issues. Unless very strong assumptions are made, understanding the properties of particular models requires solving the model using a computer. This volume brings together leading contributors in the field who explain in detail how to implement the computational techniques needed to solve dynamic economics models. A broad spread of...

Computable Economics (Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0198295278
• Authors:
• Kumaraswamy Velupillai

In the field of economic analysis, computability in the formation of economic hypotheses is seen as the way forward. In this book, Professor Velupillai implements a theoretical research program along these lines. Choice theory, learning rational expectations equlibria, the persistence of adaptive behavior, arithmetical games, aspects of production theory, and economic dynamics are given recursion theoretic (i.e. computable) interpretations.

Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies

• ISBN:
• 0198742010
• Authors:
• Gosta Esping-Andersen

Gosta Esping-Andersen, Europe's leading analyst of the welfare state, presents a provocative examination of postindustrial economies at the end of the twentieth century. This book takes a second look at the driving forces of economic transformation in a more sociological and institutional way. As a result, what stands out is postindustrial diversity, not convergence.

Introduction to Human Resource Management

• ISBN:
• 0198775431
• Authors:
• Ashly Pinnington, Tony Edwards

This text presents the fundamental concepts and issues of this core business studies course. The book is primarily intended for second and third year undergraduate business students studying HRM, and for MBA students. Pinnington and Edwards provide a concise and lively introduction to the topic, maintaining dialogue between HRM and Industrial Relations perspectives throughout. The book contains five major case studies based on real organizations...

Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook

• ISBN:
• 0199228493

Thomas Hardy's "Poetical Matter" notebook, the last to be published from among the small group of notebooks not destroyed by Hardy himself or by his executors, has now been meticulously edited with full scholarly annotation. Through its inclusion of so many notes copied by Hardy from old pocket-books subsequently destroyed, "Poetical Matter" reaches back to all periods of his life, and is especially valuable from a biographical standpoint for...

Knowledge Governance: Processes and Perspectives

• ISBN:
• 0199235929

While there are many books on knowledge management, knowledge governance is a concept that has not been so well explored, and is much less understood. Knowledge governance refers to choosing structures and mechanisms that can influence the processes of sharing and creating knowledge. The book argues that knowledge governance is a distinct issue in management and organization because knowledge processes differ on several dimensions from routine...

Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities

• ISBN:
• 0199253323
• Authors:
• Ash Amin, Patrick Cohendet

In Architectures of Knowledge, Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet argue that the time is right for research to explore the relationship between two other dimensions of knowledge in order to explain the innovative performance of firms: between knowledge that is 'possessed' and knowledge that is 'practiced' generally within communities of like-minded employees in a firm. The impetus behind this argument is both conceptual and empirical. Conceptually,...

Between Enterprise and Ethics: Business and Management in a Bimoral Society

• ISBN:
• 0199267553
• Authors:
• John Hendry

We live in a 'bimoral' society, in which people govern their lives by two contrasting sets of principles. On the one hand there are the principles associated with traditional morality. Although these allow a modicum of self-interest, their emphasis is on our duties and obligations to others: to treat people honestly and with respect, to treat them fairly and without prejudice, to help and are for them when needed, and ultimately, to put their...

Corporate Governance and Firm Organization: Microfoundations and Structural Forms

• ISBN:
• 0199269769

Recent scandals involving large firms, in the US and elsewhere, have intensified discussion regarding the role and conduct of the corporation. The contributors to this book argue that much of this debate has taken too narrow a view of the issue of corporate governance, and question some of the key assumptions of economic models. Drawing on insights from a variety of fields, including management studies, organization studies, economics and...

HRM and Performance: Achieving Long-Term Viability

• ISBN:
• 019927391X
• Authors:
• Jaap Paauwe

HRM policies and practices need to cope with the dual responsibilities of providing a firm with the best employees to deliver improved financial performance, and a moral duty to these employees to provide a working environment that is equitable and encourages personal development. Many writers have emphasized the connection between sophisticated HRM techniques and business performance, but has this been at the expense of concepts such as...

Marketing Communication: New Approaches, Technologies, and Styles

• ISBN:
• 0199276951

Marketing Communication: New Approaches, Technologies and Styles brings together leading authorities from both academia and the marketing industry to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of the rapidly changing world of marketing communication in the 21st Century. Containing a broad tableau of perspectives, the book reflects the insights and experiences of academics and practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic. With its timely and...

Reasons and Rationalizations: The Limits to Organizational Knowledge

• ISBN:
• 0199286825
• Authors:
• Chris Argyris

What is the purpose of social science and management research? Do scholars/researchers have a responsibility to generate insights and knowledge that are of practical (implementable) value and validity? We are told we live in turbulent and changing times, should this not provide an important opportunity for management researchers to provide understanding and guidance? Yet there is widespread concern about the efficacy of much research. These are...

Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series C)

• ISBN:
• 0199290903
• Authors:
• Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Charlton

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper. In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today--how can the...

Reason's Neglect: Rationality and Organizing

• ISBN:
• 019929836X
• Authors:
• Barbara Townley

Reason, and the need to Be Rational, are essential dimensions of society and the organizations we live and work in. Yet the "rationalization" of working and administrative processes, or the "rationality" studied in social sciences, is all too often, used, understood, and interpreted in an extremely narrow sense. Reason's Neglect does three things. Firstly, it argues that rationality is a leitmotif of organization studies, but one that has often...

Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation (National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph)

• ISBN:
• 0226240851
• Authors:
• Martin Feldstein

The Effects of Taxation on Capital Accumulation (National Bureau of Economic Research Monographs)

• ISBN:
• 0226240886

Inflation: Causes and Effects

• ISBN:
• 0226313239

Asymmetric Information, Corporate Finance, and Investment (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report)

• ISBN:
• 0226355853

The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison (National Bureau of Economic Research Comparative Labor Markets Series)

• ISBN:
• 0226470504

The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain a mystery to economists. The first effort to examine linked employer-employee data across countries, The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison analyzes labor trends and their...

Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis (Historical Studies of Urban America)

• ISBN:
• 0226477010
• Authors:
• Robert Lewis

From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake Calumet at the turn of the twentieth century, manufacturing districts shaped Chicago’s character and laid the groundwork for its transformation into a sprawling metropolis. Approaching Chicago’s story as a reflection of America’s industrial history between the Civil War and World War II, Chicago Made explores not only the...

The Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor: Transmission Mechanisms (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)

• ISBN:
• 0230004792

While the economic opportunities offered by globalization can be large, a question is often raised as to whether the actual distribution of gains is fair, in particular, whether the poor benefit less than proportionately from globalization and could under some circumstances be hurt by it. This book examines the various channels and transmission mechanisms, such as greater openness to trade and foreign investment, economic growth, effects on...

Bridging the Equity Gap for Innovative SMEs (Studies in Banking and Financial Instituitions)

• ISBN:
• 0230205054

This book explores the idea that Europe's growth problems may be caused by weaknesses in capital markets and in the access to risk capital. It addresses the evaluation of the financial needs and constraints of start-up firms and how these might be bridged. The role of public sector intervention is analyzed, focusing on international best practices.

Gaming in the New Market Environment

• ISBN:
• 0230500501
• Authors:
• Matti Viren

This book provides an overview of the current state of the gambling industry and evaluates the changes which will come with the new market environment. It examines the pros and cons of increased competition from the perspective of consumer welfare, problem gambling and government revenues.

Powerful Finance and Innovation Trends in a High-Risk Economy

• ISBN:
• 0230553591

In the 1970s, the large size of enterprises was one of the symbols of the mass production system's rigidity. The second symbol was state interventionism--blamed for the economic difficulties of the period: growing unemployment and upsurge of inflation. Globalisation is characterised by the predominance of deregulated finance ("big finance") over economic activities. Between free enterprise capitalism and monopoly capitalism stands finance-based...

Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph E. Stiglitz

• ISBN:
• 0262012057

Throughout Joseph Stiglitz's long and distinguished career in economics, the focus has been on the real world, with all of its imperfections. His 2001 Nobel Prize recognized his pioneering research in imperfect information; his work in other areas, including macroeconomics, public economics, and development economics, has been just as influential. This volume, a collection of essays written to mark Stiglitz's sixtieth birthday, reflects the...

Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan

• ISBN:
• 0262032856
• Authors:
• Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, Takatoshi Ito

Japan's financial institutions and policy underwent remarkable change in the past decade. The country began the 1990s with a heavily regulated financial system managed by an unchallenged Ministry of Finance and ended the decade with a Big Bang financial market reform, a complete restructuring of its regulatory financial institutions, and an independent central bank. These reforms have taken place amid recession and rising unemployment,...

Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?

• ISBN:
• 0262033348
• Authors:
• Guillermo A. Calvo

Since the mid-1990s, emerging market economies have been hit by dramatic highs and lows: lifted by large capital inflows, then plunged into chaos by constrained credit and out-of-control exchange rates. The conventional wisdom about such crises is strongly influenced by the experience of advanced economies. In Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil , Guillermo Calvo examines these issues instead from the perspective of emerging market economies...

Bond Pricing and Portfolio Analysis

• ISBN:
• 0262041855
• Authors:
• Olivier de La Grandville

This text makes accessible the most important methodological advances in bond evaluation from the past twenty years. With uncommon precision and a strong emphasis on the underlying economic fundamentals, Olivier de La Grandville presents a unified framework for understanding the basic tools of bond evaluation, including duration, convexity, and immunization. Among the book's most valuable contributions is a general immunization theorem that can...

Exchange Rate Economics: Where Do We Stand? (CESifo Seminar Series)

• ISBN:
• 0262042223

Recent theoretical developments in exchange rate economics have led to important new insights into the functioning of the foreign exchange market. The simple models of the 1970s, which could not withstand empirical evaluation, have been succeeded by more complex models that draw on theoretical work in such areas as the microstructure of financial markets and open economy macroeconomics. Additionally, new and powerful econometric techniques allow...

Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests (Lionel Robbins Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0262072092
• Authors:
• Ralph E. Gomory, William J. Baumol

In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in which the classical theories originated. Gomory and Baumol show that the new and significant conflicts resulting from international trade are inherent in...

Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications (CESifo Seminar Series)

• ISBN:
• 0262090376

In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and substantial regulatory change. Because of their spectacular but often puzzling outcomes, these spectrum auctions...

Econometrics, Vol. 3: Economic Growth in the Information Age

• ISBN:
• 0262100940
• Authors:
• Dale W. Jorgenson

The relentless decline in the prices of information technology (IT) has steadily enhanced the role of IT investment as a source of economic growth in the United States. Productivity growth in IT-producing industries has gradually risen in importance, and a productivity revival has taken place in the rest of the economy. In this book Dale Jorgenson shows that IT provides the foundation for the resurgence of American economic growth. Information...

A Guide to Econometrics - 4th Edition

• ISBN:
• 0262112353
• Authors:
• Peter Kennedy

A Guide to Econometrics has established itself as a preferred text for teachers and students throughout the world. It provides an overview of the subject and an intuitive feel for its concepts and techniques without the notation and technical detail that characterize most econometrics textbooks. The fifth edition has two major additions, a chapter on panel data and an innovative chapter on applied econometrics. Existing chapters have been...

Generational Policy (Cairoli Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0262112833
• Authors:
• Laurence J. Kotlikoff

In these eight 2002 Cairoli Lectures, presented at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laurence Kotlikoff shows how generational policy works, how it is measured, and how much it matters. Kotlikoff discusses the incidence and measurement of generational policy, the relationship of generational policy to monetary policy, and the vacuity of deficits, taxes, and transfer payments as economic measures of fiscal policy....

Contracts in Trade and Transition: The Resurgence of Barter

• ISBN:
• 0262133997
• Authors:
• Dalia Marin, Monika Schnitzer

Difficulties in contract enforcement impede international transactions in the world economy and domestic transactions in transition economies. In Contracts in Trade and Transition , Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer explain how barter as an economic institution can facilitate contract enforcement across national borders in international trade and within borders in transition countries. The authors show that international countertrade--tying an...

Applied Computational Economics and Finance

• ISBN:
• 0262134209
• Authors:
• Mario J. Miranda, Paul L. Fackler

This book presents a variety of computational methods used to solve dynamic problems in economics and finance. It emphasizes practical numerical methods rather than mathematical proofs and focuses on techniques that apply directly to economic analyses. The examples are drawn from a wide range of subspecialties of economics and finance, with particular emphasis on problems in agricultural and resource economics, macroeconomics, and finance. The...

Digital Crossroads: American Telecommunications Policy in the Internet Age

• ISBN:
• 0262140918
• Authors:
• Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, Philip J. Weiser

Telecommunications policy profoundly affects the economy and our everyday lives. Yet accounts of important telecommunications issues tend to be either superficial (and inaccurate) or mired in jargon and technical esoterica. In Digital Crossroads, Jonathan Nuechterlein and Philip Weiser offer a clear, balanced, and accessible analysis of competition policy issues in the telecommunications industry. After giving a big picture overview of the...

Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen (Munich Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0262195178
• Authors:
• Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, F. Halsey Rogers

Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In Growth and Empowerment , Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and F. Halsey Rogers propose a new strategy for development. Drawing...

Taxing Ourselves, 4th Edition: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes

• ISBN:
• 0262195739
• Authors:
• Joel Slemrod, Jon Bakija

As Albert Einstein may or may not have said, "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." Indeed, to follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is forced to choose between misleading sound bites and academic treatises. Taxing Ourselves bridges the gap between the two by discussing the key issues clearly and without a political agenda: Should the federal income tax be replaced with a flat tax or sales tax?...

Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion

• ISBN:
• 0262201402
• Authors:
• Nancy J. Troy

In Couture Culture , Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early twentieth century. Focusing on a leader of the French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a logic of fashion based on the tension between originality and reproduction that bears directly on art historical issues of the period. This tension lies at the heart of haute couture, which, although designed for the wealthy, was also intended to be...

The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies

• ISBN:
• 026257246X
• Authors:
• Vincenzo Galasso

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007. Doubts about the ability of industrialized countries to continue to provide a sufficient level of retirement benefits to a growing number of retirees has fueled much recent debate and inspired a variety of recommendations for reform. Few major reforms, however, have actually been implemented. In The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies , Vincenzo Galasso argues that the success of any...

Applied Computational Economics and Finance

• ISBN:
• 0262633094
• Authors:
• Mario J. Miranda, Paul L. Fackler

This book presents a variety of computational methods used to solve dynamic problems in economics and finance. It emphasizes practical numerical methods rather than mathematical proofs and focuses on techniques that apply directly to economic analyses. The examples are drawn from a wide range of subspecialties of economics and finance, with particular emphasis on problems in agricultural and resource economics, macroeconomics, and finance. The...

How to Manage Your Boss: Developing the Perfect Working Relationship

• ISBN:
• 0273659316
• Authors:
• Ros Jay

Bosses are human - some good, some bad. They have a huge impact on your job satisfaction, your day-to-day happiness, your workload - and yes - your paypacket. If you're lucky they will be understanding, supportive, encouraging and inspiring. Then again they might be lazy, unmotivated, weak, over-emotional, sarcastic, rude, or just downright - well - bossy. But you're no powerless victim.When it comes to your boss, then you're more in control...

Design for Six Sigma (Financial Times Series)

• ISBN:
• 0273662694
• Authors:
• Subir Chowdhury

Six Sigma -- the management strategy Jack Welch attributes GE's phenomenal success to -- is being implemented by many leading organizations looking for dramatic profit increases and improved customer satisfaction. But Six Sigma in production is less than half the story -- Six Sigma in design is where the money is. If you change a product after it is launched it will cost you 1,000 times more than if you made those changes during the design...

Real Coaching & Feedback: How to Help People Improve Their Performance

• ISBN:
• 0273663283
• Authors:
• J. K. Smart

Overworked managers know that management is about doing the best you can with what you've got, in the real world of organizations that are demanding more and more, for less and less. This book is for every manager who knows that if doing that was as easy as most books and trainers make out, they'd be doing it already. The books you've read all seem to have been written by people who don't know what it's like in the real world of work, and...

Business Continuity Management: How To Protect Your Company From Danger (Management Briefings Executive Series)

• ISBN:
• 0273663518
• Authors:
• Michael Gallagher

Business continuity management (BCM) has become a hot topic in recent years and more significantly, in recent months (September 11, foot and mouth and flooding). However, BCM is not just about recovery from a disaster such one caused by fire or flood or the failure of IT systems. It can also be about the collapse of a key supplier or customer, about fraud, unethical operations and about reputation management. Recent surveys have shown that most...

Economics

• ISBN:
• 0273681079
• Authors:
• Stephen Ison, Stuart Wall

Economics 4th edition is a concise introduction to the core principles of economics, aimed at students taking their first, and probably only, one semester course in Economics. These students may be taking a business related degree, or may be from other degree schemes in the university taking a service course in Introductory Economics. There is a balanced split between the micro and macro economics section and the use of case studies and numerous...

Human Resource Management

• ISBN:
• 0273687131
• Authors:
• Derek Torrington; Laura Hall; Stephen Taylor

Drawing on the latest research, this classic text provides a thorough coverage of all the main areas of human resource management practice. The book is written from a practical management perspective in a clear and engaging style. It includes full coverage of operational issues and introduces the major academic debates of relevance to the field. Suitable for modules on HRM and students following the CIPD syllabus

Management and Organisational Behaviour

• ISBN:
• 0273688766
• Authors:
• Laurie J. Mullins

This book helps students of today become effective managers of tomorrow by truly understanding organizational behavior. This book is for undergraduate and graduate courses in Organizational Behavior and Management. Taking a managerial approach and demonstrating the application of behavioral science within the workplace, this text emphasizes the role of management as a core integrating activity. This long established market leader has set...

People Resourcing: Contemporary Hrm in Practice

• ISBN:
• 027370379X
• Authors:
• Stephen Pilbeam, Marjorie Corbridge

This book focuses on the resourcing of organisations with people, achieving a balance between academic rigour and practitioner relevance, which together with the breadth and versatility of the content, enables the book to be used effectively for modules based on the CIPD Professional Standards and HRM modules on upper Undergraduate and Masters programmes. Crucially, this third edition also goes beyond this remit by integrating coverage of the...

The Matrix Organization Reloaded: Adventures in Team and Project Management (Creating Corporate Cultures)

• ISBN:
• 0275991334
• Authors:
• Marvin R. Gottlieb

Matrix management was introduced in the 1970s in the context of competition from Japanese manufacturers, computerization of many technical and administrative tasks, and a recognition among business leaders that cross-functional teams (comprised of people from different departments and specialties) were necessary to create and produce complex products rapidly. Ideally, this approach, in which people are assigned to projects, rather than...

Direct Marketing in Action: Cutting-Edge Strategies for Finding and Keeping the Best Customers

• ISBN:
• 0275992233

In many ways, mass marketing--broadcasting one's message to a large and anonymous population of potential customers--no longer works. In a marketplace increasingly defined by customer categories with high expectations for service, quality, and responsiveness, companies are discovering that they must invest more heavily in reaching and communicating with their customers directly in order to stay competitive. But to many consumers, direct...

Chaotic Markets: Thriving in a World of Unpredictability

• ISBN:
• 027599371X
• Authors:
• A. Coskun Samli

Drawing from decades of research, teaching, and consulting in the fields of marketing and strategy, the author demystifies the forces of market chaos, including technological change, globalization, and consumer behavior, showing readers how to identify those forces that can be turned to their competitive advantage. Featuring dozens of illustrative examples, of both winners and losers, and concluding each chapter with a series of questions...

How Healthy Is Your Organization?: The Leader's Guide to Curing Corporate Diseases and Promoting Joyful Cultures (Creating Corporate Cultures)

• ISBN:
• 0275997766
• Authors:
• Imre Lövey, Eszter Erdélyi, Manohar Nadkarni

In today's stressful work environment, organizations can be crippled not only by product failures or dramatic market shifts but by internal demons. Typical symptoms of corporate dis-ease include distrust, lack of communication, territoriality, and other negative qualities that fester below the surface and ultimately sap the organization's vitality. But according to these experts in organizational dynamics, it doesn't have to be that way. In...

Globalization (Greenwood Guides to Business and Economics)

• ISBN:
• 031334213X
• Authors:
• Donald J. Boudreaux

The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined. This volume defines and makes sense of the workings of the global economy—and how it influences businesses and individuals. Each chapter identifies common questions and issues that have gained exposure in the popular media—such as outsourcing, the high cost of international travel, and the impact of a...

Biological Warfare Against Crops (Global Issues)

• ISBN:
• 0333920856
• Authors:
• Simon M. Whitby

Until now little attention has been paid to the development of military capabilities designed to target food crops with biological warfare agents. This book represents the first substantive study of state-run activities in this field. It shows that all biological warfare programs have included a component concerned with the development of anti-crop agents and munitions. Current concern over the proliferation of biological weapons is placed in...

Timeless Management

• ISBN:
• 0333980808
• Authors:
• Alan Coppin, John Barratt

Today’s managers are bombarded with a constant stream of management fads and fashions, each claiming to be the key to business success. In this book, Coppin and Barratt draw on their experience of managing change in the Historic Royal Palaces to show that successful management techniques are timeless, simple, and based on common sense. Looking back at great leaders and organizations, they identify concepts, ideas, and applications that have...

The 10 Second Internet Manager

• ISBN:
• 0375416382
• Authors:
• Mark Breier

5 CDs / 5 hours Today, every manager is an Internet manager. And it doesn't matter whether you're an Internet pioneer, a panicked manufacturer, or a retailer trying to cope--every manager needs help. In The 10-Second Internet Manager , Mark Breier, an online expert, offers the tools and tricks that have made him an Internet success. A noted Internet management consultant, Mark Breier was previously president and CEO of Beyond.com and...

Pathology of Asbestos-Associated Diseases

• ISBN:
• 0387200908

Pathology of Asbestos-Associated Disease integrates the newest research and advances in its discussion of asbestos induced diseases. Organized in 13 chapters, the book begins with background information on the mineralogy of asbestos, occupation and environmental exposure to asbestos, and asbestosis. A detailed discussion on mesothelioma includes a historical background, addresses etiologic considerations and epidemiology, pathologic features,...

Pollination Ecology and the Rain Forest: Sarawak Studies (Ecological Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0387213090

The groundbreaking canopy-access and rain forest research at Lambir Hills National Park in Sarawak, Malaysia, has contributed an immense body of knowledge. Its major studies over more than a decade are synthesized here for the first time. The focus of this unique volume is on plant-animal interactions and some of the foundations that create and maintain tropical diversity, especially pollination and the phenomenon of the General Flowering. The...

Reliable Distributed Systems: Technologies, Web Services, and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0387215093
• Authors:
• Kenneth P. Birman

An understanding of the techniques used to make distributed computing systems and networks reliable, fault-tolerant and secure will be crucial to those who design and deploy the next generation of mission-critical applications and Web Services. Reliable Distributed Systems reviews and describes the key concepts, principles and applications of modern distributed computing systems and architectures. This self-contained book consists of five...

Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis: Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide

• ISBN:
• 0387288287

"Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis" aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines and policy fields.The work further develops methods for systematic comparative cases analysis in...

Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and applications (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series)

• ISBN:
• 0387848118

"Schedule-Based Modeling of Transportation Networks: Theory and Applications" follows the book "Schedule-Based Dynamic Transit Modeling", published in this series in 2004, recognizing the critical role that schedules play in transportation systems. Conceived for the simulation of transit systems, in the last few years the schedule-based approach has been expanded and applied to operational planning of other transportation schedule services...

Hollywood Economics: How extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry (Contemporary Politicaleconomy)

• ISBN:
• 0415312604
• Authors:
• Arthur De Vany

Movies expected to perform well can flop, whilst independent movies with low budgets can be wildly successful. In this superb new book, De Vany casts his expert eye over all aspects of the business and presents some intriguing conclusions.

Economics: The Basics (Basics (Routledge (Firm)).)

• ISBN:
• 0415314127
• Authors:
• Tony Cleaver

Economics: The Basics provides a fascinating introduction to the key issues in contemporary economics. With case studies ranging from the coffee plantations of El Salvador to the economic slowdown in Japan, it addresses questions such as whether increasing wealth for some always means increasing poverty for others, and whether producing more food for humankind means we drive other species to extinction. Comprehensive and easy to read, it is...

The New Economy and Macroeconomics (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

• ISBN:
• 041533876X
• Authors:
• Dario Togati

The past decade has seen many leading economies, especially the US, undergo profound structural transformations. Departing from the standard theories employed to explain this phenomenon, here author Togati provides the first broad analysis of the New Economy. In this book, the first to look at the new economy from a post-Keynesian / post-modern perspective, he focuses on its macroeconomic implications, presenting a more balanced view than that...

Human Resource Management: A Critical Introduction

• ISBN:
• 0415462479

Effective management of human resources is essential to the success of any organization. In this authoritative, sophisticated and engaging new text on Human Resource Management, an international team of leading analysts guides the advanced student through this fundamental discipline of management in all its complexity. The book explores all the central themes and concepts of HRM theory and practice, and introduces the most important issues...

Hayek Versus Marx (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

• ISBN:
• 0415464889
• Authors:
• Eric Aarons

The aim of the book is to stimulate the realignment of political, theoretical and philosophical thinking that is now beginning in response to global warming. The author provides an examination of the theories of the most prominent social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries – Karl Marx and Friedrich Hayek. He does so in the belief that the work of these two thinkers, in their commonalities and differences, successes and failures,...

Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore (Routledge Malaysian Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0415482259

This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices – have developed over time. Going beyond existing studies – which concentrate on the politics and public aspects of multiculturalism –...

International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

• ISBN:
• 0415770270
• Authors:
• D.m.p Mccarthy

International economic integration is perceived as one of the paramount forces shaping the modern world. Many organizations, both public and private, are trying to combine economic activities across international borders. The European Union and the North American Free Trade Area are two examples of government-managed international economic integration. Private organizations include various criminal groups as well as international churches....

Interpretation in Social Relationships, Social Science and Marketing (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research)

• ISBN:
• 0415777585
• Authors:
• John O'shaughnessy

'Interpretation' is used as an umbrella for bringing together a wide range of concepts and developments in the philosophy of social science that provide the foundation for clear thinking about social phenomena. In his new book, John O’Shaughnessy familiarises the reader with the nature of interpretation and its importance in social life, decision making in social science enquiries and consumer marketing, thus offering a multidisciplinary...

An Economic History of the American Steel Industry (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

• ISBN:
• 0415777607
• Authors:
• Robert P. Rogers

This book provides a basic outline of the history of the American steel industry, a sector of the economy that has been an important part of the industrial system. The book starts with the 1830's, when the American iron and steel industry resembled the traditional iron producing sector that had existed in the old world for centuries, and it ends in 2001. The product of this industry, steel, is an alloy of iron and carbon that has become the most...

International Business: Strategy and the Multinational Enterprise

• ISBN:
• 0415800579
• Authors:
• John B. Cullen, K. Praveen Parboteeah

This book covers the same material and more when compared with other international business texts, yet it is priced for the student’s pocketbook. A new international business text for a new and ever changing global environment. With a unique chapter covering International E-Commerce, Cullen is written in a unique way. Issues link the chapters. The logic is that to choose and implement strategies in international business, you need to...

Researching Operations Management

• ISBN:
• 0415990556

Researching Operations Management fills the growing need for a comprehensive textbook and reference on doing quality research in the field of Operations Management (OM). It addresses the particular problem—especially for advanced students and beginning researchers—that many academic departments specialize in just one or a few approaches to research. As a result many students and researchers are not exposed to the breadth of possible research...

Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2: Agent-Based Computational Economics (Handbooks in Economics)

• ISBN:
• 0444512535

The explosive growth in computational power over the past several decades offers new tools and opportunities for economists. This handbook volume surveys recent research on Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE), the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. Empirical referents for "agents" in ACE models can range from individuals or social groups with learning capabilities to physical world...

Topics in Validated Computations: Proceedings of Imacs-Gamm International Workshop on Validated Computations, Oldenburg, Germany, 30 August - 3 Sept (Studies in Computational Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 0444816852

This text provides the interval analysis community with surveys of important recent developments in the creation of validated numerical algorithms. In addition, the publication informs the numerical analysts and appliers of numerical software about the enormous variety of problem-solving algorithms now available, even for sophisticated problems which were beyond reach at the beginning of research some two decades ago. Contributions are sourced...

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

• ISBN:
• 0465029167
• Authors:
• Michael Heller

A startling and definitive account of the "tragedy of the anticommons," a hidden economic phenomenon that costs trillions in lost productivity and affects every field. Garrett Hardin's famous "tragedy of the commons" states that when no one has a significant stake in some common resource--such as a grazing meadow, a stream, or clean air--the resource is inevitably overused and eventually degraded. But what about the reverse situation--when...

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

• ISBN:
• 0470008741
• Authors:
• David R Aronson

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis examines how you can apply the scientific method, and recently developed statistical tests, to determine the true effectiveness of technical trading signals. Throughout the book, expert David Aronson provides you with comprehensive coverage of this new methodology, which is specifically designed for evaluating the performance of rules/signals that are discovered by data mining.

Handbook of Hedge Funds (The Wiley Finance Series)

• ISBN:
• 0470026634
• Authors:
• François-Serge Lhabitant

A comprehensive guide to the burgeoning hedge fund industry Intended as a comprehensive reference for investors and fund and portfolio managers, Handbook of Hedge Funds combines new material with updated information from Francois-Serge L’habitant’s two other successful hedge fund books. This book features up-to-date regulatory and historical information, new case studies and trade examples, detailed analyses of investment strategies,...

How to Select Investment Managers & Evaluate Performance: A Guide for Pension Funds, Endowments, Foundations, and Trusts (Frank J. Fabozzi Series)

• ISBN:
• 0470042559
• Authors:
• G. Timothy Haight, Glenn Ross, Stephen O. Morrell

An informative guide to selecting and evaluating external investment professionals This book-one of the very few of its kind-is an invaluable aid to trustees of pension plans, endowments, and trusts who seek to chart and navigate courses for governing and overseeing the investment of the trillions of dollars under their care. It covers many aspects of this essential endeavor, including return measures, fixed income and duration, manager...

Salesforce.com For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 047004893X
• Authors:
• Tom Wong, Liz Kao

So you have something to sell or you work for a business using salesforce.com, but you’re not quite sure how to maximize your profits with it? Never fear! Salesforce.com for Dummies shows you the quick-and-easy way to start selling your product or service online without the confusion or fuss. With an emphasis on customer relationship management, this hands-on guide helps you manage accounts, market your products, and improve service. Whether...

Active Credit Portfolio Management in Practice (Wiley Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0470080183
• Authors:
• Jeffrey R. Bohn, Roger M. Stein

State-of-the-art techniques and tools needed to facilitate effective credit portfolio management and robust quantitative credit analysis Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Active Credit Portfolio Management in Practice serves as a comprehensive introduction to both the theory and real-world practice of credit portfolio management. The authors have written a text that is technical enough both in terms of background and...

Keep Your Donors: The Guide to Better Communications & Stronger Relationships (The AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series)

• ISBN:
• 0470080396
• Authors:
• Tom Ahern, Simone Joyaux

Written by fundraising experts Tom Ahern and Simone Joyaux, Keep Your Donors is a new, winning guide to making disappointing donor retention rates a thing of the past. This practical and provocative book will show you how to master the strategies and tactics that make fundraising communications profitable. Filled with case studies and based in part on the CFRE and AFP job analyses, Keep Your Donors is your definitive guide to getting new...

The Economics of Banking

• ISBN:
• 0470090081
• Authors:
• Kent Matthews, John Thompson

The Economics of Banking describes and explains trends and operations in banking within an accessible microeconomic framework. It incorporates theory with the practical aspects of banking so as to set banking within the economics paradigm. A primary section on trends within banking leads on to chapters on the microeconomics of banking, market structure and regulation. The overall objective is to provide a mathematically accessible microeconomic...

Restaurant Service Basics

• ISBN:
• 0470107855
• Authors:
• Sondra J. Dahmer, Kurt W. Kahl

An excellent training tool for both hospitality programs and working restaurant managers, Restaurant Service Basics, 2nd Edition considers the entire dining experience in situations ranging from formal to casual. Step-by-step instructions guide readers through service functions. Different types of service French, American, English, Russia, Family-style, and Banquet are explained in detail, along with universally important safety, sanitation, and...

Painless Project Management: A Step-by-Step Guide for Planning, Executing, and Managing Projects

• ISBN:
• 0470117214
• Authors:
• Pamela McGhee, Peter McAliney

A detailed guide to successful, efficient project management, written by two pros with a combined 55 years "in the trenches!" Project management is a vital and growing component of many organizations and can literally make or break a company. In this step-by-step guide, two project management consultants present a comprehensive guide to effective project management, complete with real stories and case studies from actual project managers. This...

AdWords For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

• ISBN:
• 0470152524
• Authors:
• Howie Jacobson

AdWords lets every business-from eBay PowerSellers to Fortune 500 companies-create targeted, cost-efficient advertising campaigns on the Web, and accounts for the bulk of Google's $6 billion in annual revenues This all-new guide helps advertisers get a handle on AdWords complexities and nuances, adopt AdWords best practices, and turn clicks into ka-ching! Topics covered include conducting quick and cheap market research, crafting a message that...

The Vest Pocket CPA

• ISBN:
• 0470168137
• Authors:
• Joel G. Siegel, Nick A. Dauber, Jae K. Shim

The newly updated fast-reference problem solver The Vest Pocket CPA-the convenient, comprehensive reference professionals have relied on for nearly fifteen years-is now updated in a new Fourth Edition to give today's busy executives and accountants the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format. Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips because...

Managing for Sales Results: A Fast-Action Guide for Finding, Coaching, and Leading Salespeople

• ISBN:
• 0470173270
• Authors:
• Ron Marks

This book looks at various methods for recruiting salespeople, from the traditional to the radical, and shows you how to make the smartest, most profitable hiring decisions for your team. It argues that sales managers should put more emphases on coaching and recruiting, making it a priority for your sales organization. With the right recruiting and training strategies, you can find a constant stream of qualified candidates and beat your...

Candlestick Charting For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

• ISBN:
• 0470178086
• Authors:
• Russell Rhoads

Want to gain a trading edge with candlestick charts? Find them a little confusing? No worries! Candlestick Charting For Dummies sheds light on this time-tested method for finding the perfect moment to buy or sell. It demystifies technical and chart analysis and gives you the tools you need to identify trading patterns — and pounce! This friendly, practical, guide explains candlestick charting and technical analysis in plain English. In no...

Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations (Wiley Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0470178469
• Authors:
• Harry Cendrowski, James P. Martin, Louis W. Petro, Adam A. Wadecki

Praise for Private Equity "Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations is an invaluable guide to understanding the world of private equity investing. Harry Cendrowski and his colleagues have drawn on their extensive experience and expertise to produce a book that is remarkably comprehensive and authoritative." -Robert Larson, Chairman, Lazard Real Estate Partners LLC and Larson Realty Group Managing Director, Lazard Alternative...

Microsoft® Office Project Server 2007: The Complete Reference

• ISBN:
• 0071485996
• Authors:
• Dave Gochberg, Rob Stewart

"Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is an extremely advanced and dynamic toolset requiring fundamental organizational inspection. Rob and Dave provide an equally deep and unique perspective of this powerful solution." --Daniel T. Renier, Principal Consultant, Milestone Consulting Group, Inc.

Leadership When The Heat Is On (Mighty Managers)

• ISBN:
• 0071486534
• Authors:
• Danny Cox, John Hoover

TURN EVEN THE MOST STRESSFUL SITUATION INTO AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHINE FOR YOU AND YOUR TEAM People aren't born to be high-performing leaders; instead, they need to learn to develop the time-proven characteristics of great leadership. Leadership When the Heat's On shows you how to acquire these characteristics, motivate your people, and achieve remarkable results across your organization-particularly during times of change and stress. This...

Business Intelligence with Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

• ISBN:
• 0071493700
• Authors:
• Craig Utley

Deliver BI Solutions with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Maximize the powerful BI tools available in PerformancePoint 2007 with help from this practical guide. You will learn how to collect and store data, monitor progress, analyze performance, distribute dynamic reports, and create maintainable projects and forecasts. Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides full details on creating...

Information Assurance: Dependability and Security in Networked Systems (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

• ISBN:
• 0123735661
• Authors:
• Yi Qian, David Tipper, Prashant Krishnamurthy, James Joshi

In today's fast paced, infocentric environment, professionals increasingly rely on networked information technology to do business. Unfortunately, with the advent of such technology came new and complex problems that continue to threaten the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of our electronic information. It is therefore absolutely imperative to take measures to protect and defend information systems by ensuring their security and...

Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0131345974
• Authors:
• Michael N. Kahn

Technical analysis is a hot topic for investors right now and offers powerful, objective tools for picking stocks and making money--but most explanations of the subject simply confuse investors instead of enlightening them. In this clear, practical book, Barron's columnist Michael Kahn introduces technical analysis in simple English. Kahn explains exactly how technical analysis works, then teaches you how to read charts and translate what they...

Knowledge Creation and Management: New Challenges for Managers

• ISBN:
• 0195159624
• Authors:
• Kazuo Ichijo, Ikujiro Nonaka

This book presents the latest management ideas in knowledge creation and management in readable and non-technical chapters. Leading experts have contributed chapters in their fields of expertise. Each distils his or her subject in a chapter that is accessible to managers who want to learn what can be applied to their organizations without the distracting details of research methodology. Each chapter, however, is based on careful research. The...

Stochastic Dynamic Macroeconomics: Theory and Empirical Evidence

• ISBN:
• 0195301625
• Authors:
• Gang Gong, Willi Semmler

This is a book on stochastic dynamic macroeconomics from a Keynesian perspective. It shows that including Keynesian features in intertemporal models considerably contributes to resolve major puzzles arising in the context of the Dynamic General Equilibrium (DGE) model. It also demonstrates that including microeconomic intertemporal behavior of economic agents in macroeconomics is not inconsistent with Keynesian economics.

India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty

• ISBN:
• 0195668308
• Authors:
• The World Bank

This World Bank report is an assessment of the policy reforms undertaken in India at various levels. It looks, in particular, at the impact the economic reforms, the country embarked upon in 1991, have had on the levels of poverty in India. Beginning with an overview of macroeconomics scenario in India, the report approaches the poverty outcome and the economic performance of the country in the aftermath of the reform process.

Keeping Better Company: Corporate Governance Ten Years On

• ISBN:
• 0199243190
• Authors:
• Jonathan Charkham

How should companies be organized? To whom should boards of directors be responsible--shareholders, or a wider group of stakeholders? In this fiercely competitive world we cannot judge our own system of corporate governance in isolation; it must bear comparison with the best. The second edition of this acclaimed and well-established book aims to do just that. Since publication of the first edition interest in corporate governance has greatly...

Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development

• ISBN:
• 0199276811

In Great Minds in Management, Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories. The result is not only an ambitious and original panorama of the...

The Advanced Dictionary of Marketing: Putting Theory to Use

• ISBN:
• 0199285993
• Authors:
• Scott Dacko

This dictionary of marketing terms focuses on key concepts, grouped into four categories: concepts, laws, theories, and effects. Containing over 500 entries, ranging in length and depth, the book will be the ideal reference guide for practitioners, MBA students, and those taking professional marketing qualifications. Example entries include: Balanced Scorecard; Sagacity Segmentation; Value-based Marketing; Law of Comparative Advantage; Law of...

Concentrated Corporate Ownership (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

• ISBN:
• 0226536785

Standard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large U.S. firms, but wealthy individuals or families generally hold controlling blocks in smaller U.S. firms and in all firms in most other countries. Given this, the lack of theoretical and empirical work on tightly held firms is surprising. What corporate governance problems arise in tightly held firms? How do these differ from corporate governance...

Lectures on Macroeconomics

• ISBN:
• 0262022834
• Authors:
• Olivier Jean Blanchard, Stanley Fischer

Lectures on Macroeconomics provides the first comprehensive description and evaluation of macroeconomic theory in many years. While the authors' perspective is broad, they clearly state their assessment of what is important and what is not as they present the essence of macroeconomic theory today. The main purpose of Lectures on Macroeconomics is to characterize and explain fluctuations in output, unemployment and movement in prices. The most...

Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship

• ISBN:
• 0262083299

Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief that it invigorates the economy -- producing greater productivity, more jobs, and higher economic growth. President George W. Bush promoted his economic plan by pointing to its encouragement of entrepreneurship. Yet, despite its importance, the topic of entrepreneurship is underrepresented in the economics literature. The...

Global Finance at Risk: On Real Stagnation and Instability

• ISBN:
• 0333800400
• Authors:
• Sunanda Sen

Sunanda Sen offers an analysis of the ongoing malaise in the world economy, which include the financial and real instability as well as economic recession and lack of development. Rejecting the explanations advanced by the orthodoxy, she deplores the retrograde steps in the interest of high finance. This calls for a change in policies, away from the contractionary monetarist devices and in the direction of demand expansion which will prove...

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games: Applications in Finance, Management Science and Economics (Advances in Computational Management Science)

• ISBN:
• 0387258043

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games has been edited to honor the outstanding contributions of Professor Suresh Sethi in the fields of Applied Optimal Control. Professor Sethi is internationally one of the foremost experts in this field. He is, among others, co-author of the popular textbook "Sethi and Thompson: Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Economics". The book consists of a collection of essays by some of the best...

Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics

• ISBN:
• 0387778624

Maize is one of the world’s highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture. The great adaptability and high yields available for maize as a food, feed and forage crop have led to its current production on over 140 million hectares worldwide, with acreage continuing to grow at the expense of other crops. In terms of tons of cereal grain produced worldwide, maize has been number one for many years. Moreover,...

Fifty Major Economists (Routledge Key Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0415366496
• Authors:
• Steven Pressman

Fully updated to include the most recent developments in economic thought, this new edition explores the work of fifty major economists, from seventeenth century philosophers such as John Lock to contemporary practitioners like Joseph Stiglitz. Other entries include: DT Thomas Munn DT Joan Robinson DT Amartya Sen DT Daniel Kahneman DT Robert E. Lucas Fifty Major Economists contains brief biographical information on each featured economist, as...

Marketing: The Basics (Basics (Routledge Hardcover))

• ISBN:
• 0415380804
• Authors:
• Moore/Pareek

Marketing: The Basics is a clear, concise resource for students or practitioners looking to improve their understanding of marketing fundamentals in a global context. Covering the basic functions of marketing, its role in corporate decision-making and the importance of competitive strategies, this accessible text provides international perspectives on the areas discussed through examples of practice from North America, Asia, Europe and the...

Project Management Accounting: Budgeting, Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability

• ISBN:
• 0470044691
• Authors:
• Kevin R. Callahan, Gary S. Stetz, Lynn M. Brooks

Praise for Project Management Accounting: Budgeting, Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability "You don't need to be a Six Sigma Black Belt or a CPA to understand the principles and the practical tools presented by Callahan, Stetz, and Brooks in Project Management Accounting . Their approach focuses on sound financial practices that will improve the ROI of your project whether it is your first or your hundred-and-first experience."...

Corporate Finance: Theory & Practice

• ISBN:
• 0470092254
• Authors:
• Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Yann Le Fur, Maurizio Dallochio, Antonio Salvi

Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice covers the theory and practice of Corporate Finance from a truly European perspective.  It shows how to use financial theory to solve practical problems and is written for students of corporate finance and financial analysis and practising corporate financiers.  Corporate Finance is split into four sections and covers the basics of financial analysis; the basic theoretical knowledge that you will need to...

Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More

• ISBN:
• 0470101474
• Authors:
• Joe Vitale, Ihaleakala Hew Len Ph.D

Praise For Zero Limits "This riveting book can awaken humanity. It reveals the simple power of four phrases to transform your life. It's all based in love by an author spreading love. You should get ten copies of it----one for you and nine to give away. It's that good." ---- Debbie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Side of the Light Chasers "I love this book! I feel it will be the definitive personal-change/self-help book for...

Selling Sucks: How to Stop Selling and Start Getting Prospects to Buy!

• ISBN:
• 0470116250
• Authors:
• Frank J. Rumbauskas Jr.

Praise for Selling Sucks "Whew! A terrific new book that blows the lid off the old-school methods of selling-which don't work anymore-and shows you how to make sales almost like magic! I love this book!" -Joe Vitale, author of The Attractor Factor and many other books "I love to buy, so I'm going to give every salesperson I know a copy of this book. Maybe they'll finally stop the old-school, hard-sell shtick that compels me (and everyone else)...

Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts (Wiley Trading)

• ISBN:
• 0470182016
• Authors:
• Thomas N. Bulkowski

Following in the footsteps of author Thomas Bulkowski’s bestselling Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns —and structured in the same way—this easy-to-read and -use resource takes an in-depth look at 103 candlestick formations, from identification guidelines and statistical analysis of their behavior to detailed trading tactics. Encyclopedia of Candlestick Charts also includes chapters that contain important discoveries and statistical summaries,...

The Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing

• ISBN:
• 047018342X
• Authors:
• Gary W. Eldred

Start making money today ---with the ultimate guide for first-time investors No matter what the market does, real estate stilloffers plenty of moneymaking opportunities. In thisnew edition of The Beginner's Guide to RealEstate Investing, Gary W. Eldred presents the toolsand knowledge new investors need to get started profitably. Packed with smart moneymakingstrategies and real-life stories from successfulinvestors, this edition also covers the...

The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It

• ISBN:
• 047018387X
• Authors:
• John Gerzema, Edward Lebar

How to use brands to gain and sustain competitive advantage Companies today face a dilemma in marketing. The tried-and-true formulas to create sales and market share behind brands are becoming irrelevant and losing traction with consumers. In this book, Gerzema and LeBar offer credible evidence--drawn from a detailed analysis of a decade's worth of brand and financial data using Y&R's Brand Asset Valuator (BAV), the largest database of brands in...

The ART of Trading: Combining the Science of Technical Analysis with the Art of Reality-Based Trading (Wiley Trading)

• ISBN:
• 0470187727
• Authors:
• Bennett A. McDowell

An expert in the field of finance reveals his proven trading system As a trading coach and financial advisor, Bennett McDowell has used his own proprietary trading system--Applied Reality Trading or ART to enhance the performance of his clients' portfolios. Now McDowell outlines the unique benefits of his system and makes the case for trading the reality--not the fantasy--of financial markets. Readers will discover the importance of simplicity...

Investing in Income Properties: The Big Six Formula for Achieving Wealth in Real Estate

• ISBN:
• 0470190833
• Authors:
• Kenneth D. Rosen

Praise for INVESTING IN INCOME PROPERTIES "Investing in Income Properties is a cogent and well organized presentation of the principles of real estate analysis, financing, and investment. With his 'Big Six Formula,' Ken Rosen shares his knowledge and experiences on how to analyze and take advantage of commercial real estate investment opportunities. This book should be required reading in all real estate investment courses." --John S. Zdanowicz,...

Who Said So The Questions Revolutionary Businesses Ask That Make Them Successful

• ISBN:
• 0470212802
• Authors:
• Michael E. Parker

In Who Said So?, Michael Parker introduces you to the unique leadership philosophy known as Value-Centered Management. Using the exciting, creative format of a business narrative, the book contrasts the familiar pains of traditional business management with Value-Centered Management by contrasting the opposing style of father and son managers. Following this enlightening business tale, you’ll learn how to focus your business on what your...

Getting a Job in Hedge Funds: An Inside Look at How Funds Hire (Glocap Guide)

• ISBN:
• 047022648X
• Authors:
• Adam Zoia, Aaron Finkel

Getting a Job in Hedge Funds offers targeted advice for those looking to break into the hedge fund business. With this book, you’ll learn where hedge funds traditionally look for new candidates, what sort of experience is needed to set yourself up for a position, and what can be done to improve your chances of getting into a hedge fund. If you’re seriously considering a career in hedge funds, this book can help you secure a position in this...

The Wiley Guide to Project Technology, Supply Chain, and Procurement Management (The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects)

• ISBN:
• 047022682X

A complete guide to managing technical issues and procuring third-party resources The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects address critical, need-to-know information that will help professionals successfully manage projects in most businesses and help students learn the best practices of the industry. They contain not only well-known and widely used basic project management practices but also the newest and most cutting-edge concepts in...

Rules to Break and Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism (Microsoft Executive Leadership Series)

• ISBN:
• 0470227540
• Authors:
• Don Peppers, Martha Rogers

Praise for Rules to Break & Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism "A fascinating, highly readable synthesis of business principles, technology, sociology and common sense, Rules to Break and Laws to Follow persuasively shows the connection between customer trust and business profits, and then explains how to make it happen. As a bonus, you'll learn how to make your company more innovative, how to ensure your...

Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y

• ISBN:
• 0470256265
• Authors:
• Bruce Tulgan

This book will frame Generation Y (children born between 1978-1991) for corporate leaders and managers at time when the corporate world is desperate to recruit and retain worked in this age group. It will debunk dozens of myths, including that young employees have no sense of loyalty, won't do grunt work, won't take direction, want to interact only with computers, and are only about money. This book will make a unique contribution in four key...

The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth

• ISBN:
• 0470257466
• Authors:
• Steven S. Little

Growth is the central focus of every business, yet many businesses continually find ways to shoot themselves in the foot. In Milkshake Moment , Steven Little shows you how to identify and overcome the stifling behaviors built into your organization and get you back on track to substantive change and real growth. Read Milkshake Moment and find out how to ditch the pointless policies and stupid rules so you can give your customers what they really...

Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail

• ISBN:
• 0470283858
• Authors:
• Peter Marber

Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In Seeing the Elephant , author and emerging markets expert Peter Marber describes how increasing economic integration and the rise of new actors is drastically altering the geopolitical landscape, and offers insights on how the US can maintain a leading role in the 21st century...

Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World's Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage

• ISBN:
• 0470284242
• Authors:
• Anil K. Gupta, Haiyan Wang

This book is the first strategic guide for multi-national corporations (MNCs)who are contemplating expanding into both China and India. Gupta and Wang explain how many MNCs view China and India solely from the lens of off-shoring and cost-reduction, and focusing their marketing strategies on only the top 5-10% of the population. This is a missed opportunity. China and India are the only two countries that constitute four realities that are...

Keynes and the Market: How the Worlds Greatest Economist Overturned Conventional Wisdom and Made a Fortune on the Stock Market

• ISBN:
• 047028496X
• Authors:
• Justyn Walsh

Keynes and the Market is an entertaining guide to John Maynard Keynes– amazing stock market success. It weaves the economist's value investing tenets around key events in his richly lived life. This timely book identifies what modern masters of the market have taken from Keynes and used in their own investing styles–and what you too can learn from one of the greatest economic thinkers of the twentieth century. If you want to profit in...

A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold (Peter L. Bernstein's Finance Classics)

• ISBN:
• 0470287586
• Authors:
• Peter L. Bernstein

One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity —which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the author—you can enjoy some of the best of...

Guerrilla Marketing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

• ISBN:
• 0470289678
• Authors:
• Jonathan Margolis, Patrick Garrigan

Want to reach consumers in innovative ways? Guerilla Marketing For Dummies is packed with guerilla tactics and trade secrets for marketing your products or services like never before. From re-imagining existing marketing platforms to mastering trailblazing methods, you’ll create a cost-effective game plan for getting your customers’ attention and keeping it! This savvy, hands-on guide explains what guerilla marketing is, who does it, and...

Swing Trading For Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0470293683
• Authors:
• Omar Bassal

Take advantage of price swings in strongly trending securities and pump up your portfolio! Want to know the strategies of successful swing trading? This friendly guide covers the ins and outs of this risky but profitable investing approach, explaining all the basics in plain English. You'll see how to use the two investment approaches - technical and fundamental analysis - to indentify promising securities in strongly trending markets. In...

Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Strategic Approach (Jossey Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 0470331852
• Authors:
• Joan E. Pynes

Public and nonprofit organizations face difficult challenges today that make the strategic management of human resources crucial. This book shows how to integrate HR practices with the mission of their organization. An accessible tool complete with an instructor s manual, this book provides an integrated approach to current HR concerns and is unique in its focus on both public and nonprofit agencies. Offering guidance and techniques for...

Reading Financial Reports For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

• ISBN:
• 0470376287
• Authors:
• Lita Epstein

The second edition includes over 25 percent new and updated information including: New information on the separate accounting and financial reporting standards for private/small businesses versus public/large businesses Updated information that reflects the 2007 law on international financial reporting standards New content to match SEC and other governmental regulatory changes over the past three years New information about how the...

Prove It before You Promote It: How to Take the Guesswork Out of Marketing

• ISBN:
• 0470381183
• Authors:
• Steve Cuno

Combining hard science and marketing practice, Prove It Before You Promote It draws on marketing case studies and scientific evidence to help marketers eliminate bias, emotion, and common cognitive errors in order to make better, evidence-based marketing decisions. This book explodes the most common and costly marketing myths and draws on real, proven science to reveal how people actually behave in the marketplace—and how you can use that to...

Smart Green: How to Implement Sustainable Business Practices in Any Industry - and Make Money

• ISBN:
• 0470387793
• Authors:
• Jonathan Estes

"Do you think going green will give you a competitive advantage, even save you money? Do you think your customers are more likely to buy if you are green? Do you want to do better by the environment and your community? If so, you are not alone. Many feel the need to go green. Jonathan Estes in Smart Green turns this need into value and lays out the steps for going green.?Read it and get ahead of your competition and the green tsunami sweeping...

Socially Responsible Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

• ISBN:
• 0470394714
• Authors:
• Ann C. Logue

Socially Responsible Investing For Dummies helps the reader understand how SRI works, how to do research, what kind of companies and causes you can invest in, and the best way for the reader to invest their money responsibly.

Cover Letters For Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0470402210
• Authors:
• Joyce Lain Kennedy

Cover letters are alive and sell! When they’re written right, that is. To stand out in today’s sea of qualified job seekers, learn to craft riveting new breeds of cover letters, create vibrant images online, and discover sensational self-marketing documents you never imagined. This completely revised and updated 3rd Edition of Cover Letters For Dummies brings you all this — plus over 200 great new samples by 62 successful professional...

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results

• ISBN:
• 0470407034
• Authors:
• George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, Jorge E. Pedraza

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, and the included downloadable forms, has proven itself to be a valuable resource for new leaders in any organization. This revision includes 40% new material and updates -- including new and updated downloadable forms -- with new chapters on: * A new chapter on POSITIONING yourself for a leadership role * A new chapter on what to do AFTER THE FIRST 100 DAYS * A new chapter on getting PROMOTED FROM WITHIN and...

Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules: The Lost Writings

• ISBN:
• 0470411562
• Authors:
• Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules: The Lost Writings consists of a series of magazine articles Napoleon Hill wrote between 1919 and1923 for Success Magazine, of which he eventually become an editor. Hill's obsession with achieving material success had led him from poverty stricken Appalachian Mountains with the desire to study successful people. These articles focus on Hill's philosophy of success, drawing on the thoughts and experience of a...

Yahoo! Web Analytics: Tracking, Reporting, and Analyzing for Data-Driven Insights

• ISBN:
• 0470424249
• Authors:
• Dennis R. Mortensen

Yahoo! Web Analytics teaches readers how to collect data, report on that data, and derive useful insights using Yahoo!’s free Web analytics tool . This detailed resource from Yahoo!’s Director of Data Insights discusses the why of Web analytics as well as the how while revealing secrets and tricks not documented elsewhere. The thorough book also offers step-by-step instructions and advanced techniques on everything from using data collection...

Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar: The Technical Analysis of Price Action for the Serious Trader (Wiley Trading)

• ISBN:
• 0470443952
• Authors:
• Al Brooks

While new technology and complicated theories promise to take your trading to "the next level," the truth is that long-term success in this field is rooted in simplicity. That's why Al Brooks has created Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar . With this book, Brooks—a technical analyst for Futures magazine and an independent trader—demonstrates how applying price action analysis to chart patterns can help enhance returns and minimize downside...

PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide, Includes Audio CD

• ISBN:
• 0470455586
• Authors:
• Kim Heldman

The much-anticipated update to the highly acclaimed PMP study guide! The Project Management Profressional (PMP) certification is the most desired skill in today's IT marketplace and candidates are required to have thousands of hours of PM experience even before taking the PMP exam. This fifth edition is completely updated for the newest exam and is the most comprehensive review guide on the shelf. You'll benefit from the detailed discussions on...

Technology Scorecards: Aligning IT Investments with Business Performance

• ISBN:
• 0470464569
• Authors:
• Sam Bansal

Plan, execute, and sustain a successful IT campaign with Sam Bansal's perfect scorecard approach First came the dot.com bust, then the IT squeeze. Despite software being the tail that wags the dog in most corporations, the cham-pions of IT, the CIOs, are constantly under fire to justify and maximize their IT investments—past, present, and future. Learn how to establish Key Performance Indicators and Value Scorecards for IT to ensure maximum...

Beat the Forex Dealer: An insider's look into trading today's foreign exchange market (Wiley Trading)

• ISBN:
• 0470722088
• Authors:
• Agustin Silvani

The foreign-exchange market is often referred to as the Slaughterhouse where novice traders go to get 'chopped up'. It is one of egos and money, where millions of dollars are won and lost every day and phones are routinely thrown across hectic trading desks. This palpable excitement has led to the explosion of the retail FX market, which has unfortunately spawned a new breed of authors and gurus more than happy to provide misleading and often...

The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing

• ISBN:
• 0470724269
• Authors:
• John Katz, Frank Holmes

Why did the price of gold hit record highs in 2008? Take a look at the headlines - government bailouts of failed banks, mortgage and credit crises, rising inflation, slowing growth and global insecurity. In order to protect themselves from treacherous financial markets and depreciated paper currencies investors worldwide are turning to gold. Gold has long been used as money and as a store of wealth, but what's the source of its value? Why does...

Stop, Ask, and Listen: Proven Sales Techniques to Turn Browsers Into Buyers

• ISBN:
• 047083367X
• Authors:
• Kelley Robertson

This unique sales guide presents customer-focused selling strategies utilizing the GUEST approach to selling. Training expert Kelley Robertson provides a blueprint for success, by outlining a step-by-step process that shows readers exactly how to apply the concepts he presents. Written in easy-to-understand language, this book is a guide for people who are serious about increasing their sales, while improving their customer service.

Talent Management Systems: Best Practices in Technology Solutions for Recruitment, Retention and Workforce Planning

• ISBN:
• 0470833866
• Authors:
• Allan Schweyer

Talent Management Systems addresses the transformation Web-based technologies have brought to workforce acquisition and management. This book examines proven and leading-edge best practices, as well as what tactics and strategies organizations should employ to remain competitive in this area.

The Secrets of Power Selling: 101 Tips to Help You Improve Your Sales Results

• ISBN:
• 0470839422
• Authors:
• Kelley Robertson

Praise for The Secrets of Power Selling "Finally a book that really does Keep It Simple. The Secrets of Power Selling  is for anyone just starting their sales career as well as for seasoned sales professionals who are always looking to improve their skills. This is the reference guide for what it takes to have a successful sales career. With the changes happening in the workforce, our ability to sell ourselves becomes more and more...

Financial Risk Taking: An Introduction to the Psychology of Trading and Behavioral Finance

• ISBN:
• 0470850264
• Authors:
• Mike Elvin

In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day...

Global and Transnational Business: Strategy and Management

• ISBN:
• 0470851260
• Authors:
• George Stonehouse, David Campbell, Jim Hamill, Tony Purdie

In this new edition of a successful textbook the authors assess the turbulent environment in which international businesses operate and the approaches to strategy formulation and implementation which can be adopted. They also examine the functional and operational management of companies and fuse together the theoretical and empirical aspects of international management. New material includes coverage of leadership in transnational companies,...

Active Investment Management: Finding and Harnessing Investment Skill (The Wiley Finance Series)

• ISBN:
• 0470858869
• Authors:
• Charles Jackson

The investment management industry faces a number of well-publicised problems and difficulties. Charles Jackson shows how these all relate to the same underlying problem: that investors find investment skill very hard both to find and to put to work in a way that profits them. Active Investment Management starts with the fundamentals of what active management is and why investors find it desirable. It goes on to show how these fundamentals have...

The Selling Fox: A Field Guide for Dynamic Sales Performance

• ISBN:
• 0471061808
• Authors:
• Jim Holden

Advanced Praise for THE SELLING FOX "A terrific book for the advanced sales professional. Jim Holden helps you create an easy-to-follow and battle-tested system that will lead to higher sales, more competitive victories, and stronger relationships at the executive level. It is a must-read for those who are serious about developing more business." –– Gerhard Gschwandtner, founder and Publisher, Selling Power "Many books have been written...

Reinventing Strategy: Using Strategic Learning to Create and Sustain Breakthrough Performance

• ISBN:
• 0471061905
• Authors:
• Willie Pietersen

Advance Praise for Willie Pietersens Reinventing Strategy "With today's uncertainties, a sound strategy is not enough for business success. Effective, dynamic leadership is more important than ever in piloting an organization through a constantly shifting environment. In this timely book, Willie Pietersen reveals the profound connections between strategy and leadership, and offers a proven method for strengthening both." –Jim Copeland, Chief...

Event Sponsorship (The Wiley Event Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 0471126012
• Authors:
• Bruce E. Skinner, Vladimir Rukavina

State-of-the-art methods for finding, securing, and retaining the best corporate sponsors The authoritative guide to creating and closing deals with irresistible ROIs Event Sponsorship provides step-by-step guidelines for attracting, signing, and keeping sponsorship for any event, including festivals, conventions, expositions, sporting events, arts and entertainment spectaculars, charity benefits, and much more. This hands-on resource presents...

Essentials of Corporate Performance Measurement

• ISBN:
• 0471203750
• Authors:
• George T. Friedlob, Lydia L. F. Schleifer, Franklin J. Plewa Jr.

ESSENTIALS OF CORPORATE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in corporate performance measurement. "Surprisingly, many important decisions (capex, operational performance evaluations, etc.) in the ‘real world’ are based on whims,...

Forbes To The Limits: Pushing Yourself to the Edge In Adventure and in Business

• ISBN:
• 0471210935
• Authors:
• James M. Clash, James Clash

Praise for TO THE LIMITS "Jim Clash not only has the guts to drive an Indy race car at 200 m.p.h., but the skills as a writer to let us know what it feels like." –Mario Andretti, Indy 500 winner and Formula One World Driving Champion "If Jim Clash wrote fiction, he would be the modern-day equivalent of Ernest Hemingway. In To the Limits, he combines a powerful, understated style with the soul of a risk-taker to show, not tell, us what it’s...

Specialty Shop Retailing: How to Run Your Own Store Revised

• ISBN:
• 0471212644
• Authors:
• Carol L. Schroeder

Innovative Ideas for Retail Success "A well-written book that covers all aspects of specialty retailing. A wonderful resource for anyone in retail or thinking about opening a shop." –Kim Mack, Vice President, Crabtree & Evelyn "Specialty Shop Retailing is a bonanza of savvy ideas and an excellent road map to success in specialty retailing.... Schroeder apparently has done it all, or most–and, thankfully, shes willing to share it with the...

The Strategy Gap: Leveraging Technology to Execute Winning Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0471214507
• Authors:
• Michael Coveney, Brian Hartlen, Dennis Ganster, Dave King

Praise for The Strategy Gap "With a better handle on the financial pulse of the business, enterprises will be better able to meet the Street’s expectations of financial transparency and corporate accountability. The writers do a masterful job of getting readers to this point of awareness, and further display their insight by explaining how corporate performance management (CPM) and finance are essentially ‘joined at the hip’ in concept and...

The Logical Trader

• ISBN:
• 0471215511
• Authors:
• Mark B. Fisher

Praise for The Logical Trader Applying a Method to the Madness "Fisher’s messianic willingness to share with the public the successful system he has developed is an opportunity to be exploited." –from the Foreword by Paul Tudor Jones Chairman and CEO, Tudor Investment Corp. "Mark takes the same mental approach to trading that professional athletes and coaches use to succeed on the court. He has taken several college and pro athletes and...

Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation

• ISBN:
• 0471215694
• Authors:
• George Pruitt, John R. Hill

Praise for BUILDING WINNING TRADING SYSTEMS with TradeStation ™ "This book will prove vital to all systematic traders. Pruitt and Hill share a wealth of innovative timing patterns and fully disclosed trading strategies. For TradeStation™ users, there are powerful tutorials on indicator design and system building. The authors’ vast expertise will benefit even practiced TradeStation™ veterans." –Nelson Freeburg Editor, Formula Research...

Six Sigma Team Dynamics: The Elusive Key to Project Success

• ISBN:
• 0471222771
• Authors:
• George Eckes, Sandra Derickson

"Any Six Sigma effort without Facilitative Leadership is a swing-and-a-miss. Six Sigma Team Dynamics is a thorough discussion of the roles, responsibilities, and pitfalls to avoid as a project team traverses through the DMAIC process. Touch ’em all George, you’ve hit an upper deck shot here!" –Mike Kaupa Senior VP, Process Management Park Nicollet Health Services "George makes Six Sigma simple. His solutions from real life about how to...

Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading

• ISBN:
• 0471225347
• Authors:
• Dr. Alexander Elder, Alexander Elder

Come Into My Trading Room A Complete Guide to Trading You can become a successful trader. It has been done before, and it is being done right now, today, by people around the world. If you enjoy learning, if you are not scared of risk, if the rewards appeal to you, and if you are prepared to put in the work, you have a great project ahead of you. In Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading, Dr. Alexander Elder takes you far beyond...

Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling

• ISBN:
• 0471225770
• Authors:
• Harold Kerzner

* Completely revised and streamlined for course use including expanded problems and exercises. * Content has been refocused on the critical aspects of project management. * Supplemented by instructors packages for both academic use and corporate trainers, includes online PowerPoint(r) presentations, student workbook, instructor's manual, and a new book of case studies.

Managing Scientists: Leadership Strategies in Scientific Research

• ISBN:
• 0471226149
• Authors:
• Alice M. Sapienza

As any scientist working in today’s research environment will tell you, poor management is more than a nuisance at the edges of laboratory work. Scientists are human beings first, and ineffective leadership will wreak havoc. Labs will get thrown into turmoil, personality conflicts will undermine teamwork, discrimination will isolate group members, and the creativity so essential to truly great work will vanish. To say that leadership quality...

Individually Managed Accounts: An Investor's Guide

• ISBN:
• 0471238635
• Authors:
• Robert B. Jorgensen, Robert Jorgensen

Praise for Individually Managed Accounts "Individually Managed Accounts: An Investor’s Guide is a great step-by-step, how-to guide not only for high net worth investors but the professional advisors who serve them." –Leonard Reinhart, CEO and Founder, Lockwood Financial "Robert Jorgensen is really a leader in the area of individually managed accounts. This book is a great contribution to the rapidly growing body of knowledge on IMAs and the...

Rattiner's Review for the CFP Certification Examination, Fast Track Study Guide

• ISBN:
• 0471272655
• Authors:
• Jeffrey H. Rattiner

A CFP® Study Guide that delivers what you need to succeed! This quick study guide for candidates preparing to take the CFP® Certification Examination covers the bare-bones essentials needed to pass this challenging exam in a logical and easy-to-absorb manner. Covering some of the most important disciplines of financial planning–– insurance, employee benefit, investment, income tax, retirement, estate, and general planning–– this text...

Managing the Risks of Payments Systems

• ISBN:
• 0471328480
• Authors:
• Paul S. Turner, Diane B. Wunnicke

Identify and manage payment risk The risks of payment systems have dramatically evolved…new laws, new technologies, new threats combined with the chronic problems of error, fraud, and security. Treasury and banking executives and their counsel ignore these risks at their peril. "We didn’t know" is no excuse. Managing the Risks of Payment Systems is the up-to-date, practical, authoritatively complete guide to managing the risks of payment...

The Fast Forward MBA in Business Planning for Growth (Fast Forward MBA Series)

• ISBN:
• 0471345482
• Authors:
• Philip Walcoff

The Fast Forward MBA in Business Planning for Growth gives you a strategy for success! Is your company at a standstill, or is it growing but without the focus and strategy it needs for sustained and continued growth? Do you have an idea for a business but no idea where to start? Business planning is vital to the growth and survival of any company, but only an action-oriented plan can give your business the steady growth it needs to survive and...

The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty

• ISBN:
• 0471381977
• Authors:
• Sam L. Savage

A must-read for anyone who makes business decisions that have a major financial impact. As the recent collapse on Wall Street shows, we are often ill-equipped to deal with uncertainty and risk. Yet every day we base our personal and business plans on uncertainties, whether they be next month’s sales, next year’s costs, or tomorrow’s stock price. In The Flaw of Averages , Sam Savage­known for his creative exposition of difficult subjects­...

Valuation: Setting Sound Business Goals

• ISBN:
• 0471386545
• Authors:
• George M. Norton III

A professional’s guide to assessing value, developing strategy, and achieving goals "George Norton has made the complex subject of business valuation and value creation understandable. The book is a straightforward, ‘how-to’ guide for business owners, CEO’s and other senior executives that links strategy and tactics to long-term stakeholder satisfaction. For a business book it is not only a ‘good read,’ it is a ‘must read. ’ "...

Investment Guarantees: The New Science of Modeling and Risk Management for Equity-Linked Life Insurance

• ISBN:
• 0471392901
• Authors:
• Mary Hardy

Praise for InvestmentGuarantees "In addition to being a valuable and innovative addition to the literature on risk management of equity-linked insurance, this book provides a uniquely clear demonstration of using different measures in a very practical context. A great way of showing actuaries how to ‘mind their Ps and Qs’!" —Boris Brizeli Principal and Chief Operations Officer GE Insource Limited "This is an extremely well written and...

The MsSpent Money Guide: Get More of What You Want with What You Earn

• ISBN:
• 0471396346
• Authors:
• Deborah Knuckey

Praise For The MsSpent Money Guide "An inspiring, sensible money guide that helps people learn how to spend without feeling guilty, deprived, or unhappy, and feel good about saving for their future. A wonderful book for anyone wanting to take charge and make the most of their financial life."– John Gray, author, How to Get What You Want and Want What You Have and Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus "Deborah Knuckey shows us that spending...

Special Events: Twenty-First Century Global Event Management (The Wiley Event Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 0471396877
• Authors:
• Joe Goldblatt

THE WILEY EVENT MANAGEMENT SERIES From the foremost authority on event management The only comprehensive guide to the research, design, coordination, evaluation, and marketing of all types of special events The future is bright for event managers equipped with the essential training and skills required to research, plan, schedule, organize, and market special events anywhere in the world. In this Third Edition of his definitive guide to the...

J.K. Lasser's Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett

• ISBN:
• 0471397741
• Authors:
• Warren Boroson

A PROVEN INVESTMENT STRATEGY FROM A PROVEN WINNER "Buffett is much praised, but seldom replicated. Now with Warren Boroson’s J.K. Lasser’s Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett investors have a template for both identifying fund managers who pick stocks like the master and for improving their own techniques for identifying great stock market values."–Don Phillips, Managing Director, Morningstar, Inc. Warren Buffett’s investment strategy of...

The Rules of Risk: A Guide for Investors

• ISBN:
• 0471401633
• Authors:
• Ron S. Dembo, Andrew Freeman

A Dynamic Framework for Forward-Looking Risk Management Praise "A powerhouse in the understanding of risk. With their ingenious blend of psychology and rigorous quantitative analysis, the authors have created an authoritative and innovative handbook of risk management that is essential for both practitioners and theoreticians."——Peter L. Bernstein, Author, Against the Gods, Capital Ideas, and The Power of Gold "This excellent and readable...

The EVA Challenge: Implementing Value Added Change in an Organization

• ISBN:
• 0471405558
• Authors:
• Joel M. Stern, John S. Shiely, Irwin Ross

Praise for The EVA Challenge "The EVA Challenge provides helpful insights for both the beginner and the advanced EVA practitioner. Its real-life examples illustrate how the practical application of shareholder value orientation can align the goals of all organizational levels, motivate management by linking compensation to EVA performance, and bring additional value to shareholders."–Dr. Karl-Hermann Baumann, Chairman of the Supervisory Board...

The Handbook of Alternative Investments

• ISBN:
• 0471418609

Praise for The Handbook of alternative investments "Finally, one book explains the ins and outs of alternative investments and what investors should expect from this asset class." –Daniel A. Strachman author of Getting Started in Hedge Funds "Many forward-thinking fund managers have recognized the benefits of treating alternative investments as a comprehensive asset class, including both marketable and nonmarketable assets, rather than setting...

Breakthrough: How Great Companies Set Outrageous Objectives and Achieve Them

• ISBN:
• 0471454400
• Authors:
• Bill Davidson

"Teams that embrace bold goals and breakthrough strategies can accomplish remarkable results. This book will be invaluable to anyone embarking on that path." – Bart Butzer Executive Vice President, Target Corporation "Yellow’s continued industry leadership will result in large part from embracing Bill Davidson’s philosophy and approach." – Bill Zollars CEO, Yellow Corporation "Strategic change is a high-risk, high-return proposition....

Goldmining in Foreclosure Properties

• ISBN:
• 0471464856
• Authors:
• George Achenbach

Start Building Wealth Today by Investing in Distressed Properties! Combining proven strategies with nearly thirty years’ experience in real estate, author George Achenbach takes you step by step through the entire foreclosure process–from the first notice of default to the foreclosure sale or auction to the final disposition of the property. Everything you need to know to purchase and profit from distress properties is here, including sample...

Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2004: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for Not-for-Profit Organizations (Wiley Not for Profit Gaap)

• ISBN:
• 0471473073
• Authors:
• Richard F. Larkin, Marie DiTommaso

The most practical, authoritative guide to not-for-profit GAAP Wiley Not-for-Profit GAAP 2004 is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the accounting and financial reporting principles used by not-for-profit organizations. It is written with the needs of the financial statement preparer, user, and attestor in mind. It provides a complete review of the authoritative accounting literature that impacts all types of not-for-profit organizations. At...

The Perfect Cover Letter

• ISBN:
• 047147374X
• Authors:
• Richard H. Beatty

Write the perfect cover letter every time! With fewer job opportunities and more applicants, just being qualified isn’t enough to get the job you want. So how can you separate yourself from the pack? With the perfect cover letter, of course! With so much riding on it, a cover letter that attracts–and holds–the attention of your prospective employer is essential. This practical how-to manual shows you step by step how to create highly...

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

• ISBN:
• 0471478679
• Authors:
• John A. Tracy CPA

Hidden somewhere among all the numbers in a financial report is vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going. This is especially relevant in light of the recent corporate scandals. The sixth edition of the bestselling How to Read a Financial Report is designed to help anyone who works with financial reports—but has neither the time nor the need for an in-depth knowledge of accounting—cut through the maze...

Marketing Unwrapped

• ISBN:
• 0471486949
• Authors:
• Ray Perry

Nobody in business can have escaped the shift towards customer focus. Today's marketer must be the people's champion. Yet to be taken seriously at board level marketing must also be accountable. Alongside inspiration and ideas must come rigour and results. Combining these elements requires integration with, and understanding of, other departments, as well as the development of new skills and enhanced competences. This book 'unwraps' the various...

The Audit Committee Handbook (IIA (Institute of Internal Auditors) Series)

• ISBN:
• 0471488844
• Authors:
• Louis Braiotta Jr.

"The Audit Committee Handbook, Fourth Edition serves as an excellent and functional road map for audit committee members, corporate board members, and practitioners operating within today's vastly changing regulatory environment . . . providing the tools for better adherence to the newly enacted, higher standards of corporate responsibility."—Jo Ann Golden, CPA, Past president, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, Partner,...

The Day Trader's Manual: Theory, Art, and Science of Profitable Short-Term Investing

• ISBN:
• 0471514063
• Authors:
• William F. Eng

Presents day traders with a systematic and rational framework for decision-making in the futures, options and equities markets. Offers complete coverage of day-trading methods including price, time and volume analysis techniques, money and position management strategies, trading systems, computerized trading tactics and much more.

Money Management Strategies for Futures Traders (Wiley Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0471522155
• Authors:
• Nauzer J. Balsara

Distills complex theories for the benefit of the average trader with little or no background in finance or mathematics by offering a wide range of valuable, practical strategies for limiting risk, avoiding catastrophic losses and managing the futures portfolio to maximize profits. Numerous topics are explored including: why most traders lose at the futures game most of the time; why most mechanical trading systems are apt to fail; the...

Do's and Taboos of Public Speaking: How to Get Those Butterflies Flying in Formation

• ISBN:
• 0471536709
• Authors:
• Roger E. Axtell

Develop your powers of public persuasion with the ultimate guide to great speeches and business presentations… Do you get tongue-tied at the mere thought of speaking in public? Would you rather swim with sharks or undergo a tax audit than face an audience? Well, you’re not alone. According to the Book of Lists’ list of humans’ greatest fears, the fear of death is our fourth greatest fear, while fear of public speaking commands a solid...

Restaurant Basics: Why Guests Don't Come Back...and What You Can Do About It

• ISBN:
• 0471551740
• Authors:
• Bill Marvin

An easy-to-read, comprehensive, commonsense look at restaurant service from the guest's point of view. Helps teach the details of good service, develop meaningful middle management training and establish definitive operating guidelines that enhance service. Explores the particular process by which customers form their opinions of restaurant service. Provides a competitive advantage for restaurant operators.

Investment Psychology Explained: Classic Strategies to Beat the Markets

• ISBN:
• 0471557218
• Authors:
• Martin J. Pring

Expert advice in a back-to-basics handbook on how to beat the market.--the classic way. In Investment Psychology Explained Martin J. Pring, one of the most respected independent investment advisors in the world, argues that in the revisionist '90s there are no quick, magical paths to market success. Rather, he emphasizes the timeless values of hard work, patience, and self-discipline--and much more. Drawing on the wisdom of creative investors...

A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics: How to Profit Using Pivot Points, Candlesticks & Other Indicators (Wiley Trading)

• ISBN:
• 047158455X
• Authors:
• John L. Person

A thorough trading guide from a professional trader The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics can help the new individual investor understand the mechanics of the markets. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, this book details what it takes to trade and shows readers how they can broaden their horizons by investing in the futures and options markets. The Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics outlines a variety of...

Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality

• ISBN:
• 0471602450
• Authors:
• Terry Burnham

Everyone from journalists to market pros are turning to behavioral finance to explain, analyze, and predict market direction. In contrast to old-school assumptions of cool-headed rationality, the new behavioral school embraces hot-blooded human irrationality as a core feature of both individuals and financial markets. The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to scholars of this new scientific approach to irrationality. In Mean Markets and...

Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value

• ISBN:
• 0471648558
• Authors:
• Michael J. Mard, Robert R. Dunne, Edi Osborne, James S. Rigby Jr.

Driving Your Company's Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value is a step-by-step book presenting a valuation-oriented methodology that helps companies maximize shareholder value. It offers clear, concise, and concrete methods for management to create and preserve value, complete with case study applications. In an easy-to-read format, it brings together the aspects of the Financial Accounting Standards Boards' new performance measurements, the...

Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual

• ISBN:
• 0471660930
• Authors:
• Aswath Damodaran

Convert theory into solutions Applied Corporate Finance, Second Edition converts the theory and models in corporate finance into tools that can be used to analyze, understand, and help any business. With this hands-on guide, you can find real solutions to real corporate finance problems, using real-time data. Offering a user perspective to corporate finance, this text poses three major questions that every business has to answer, and provides...

Real Estate Millions in Any Market

• ISBN:
• 0471667617
• Authors:
• Terry Eilers

Real Estate Millions in Any Market will teach you the most innovative techniques you can use--in any market condition or geographic area--to create a fortune buying or selling real estate with little or no money down. Real Estate Millions in Any Market will show you how to: Find bargain properties in any market Develop instant equity with no cash out of pocket Create instant cash flow with no-down purchases Uncover the fallacies of low-down...

Incorporate Your Business: When To Do It And How

• ISBN:
• 0471669520
• Authors:
• Robert A. Cooke

The small business owner’s comprehensive guide to incorporation Many small business owners struggle with the idea of incorporation; they want the benefits, but without all the hassles and paperwork. But incorporation for small businesses isn’t as complicated as it might seem. Depending on your type of business, its location, and other variables, incorporation is often both good for your business and easy to set up. This book answers all your...

Quick Cash in Foreclosures

• ISBN:
• 0471679550
• Authors:
• Bill Carey, Chantal Howell Carey

Earn fast profits on foreclosures--with little or no money down! Foreclosure properties are one of today’s hottest investments--and one of the quickest, easiest ways to turn a profit in real estate. But with so many investors in the game, competition is driving auction prices through the roof. This book introduces both novice and experienced real estate investors to a better way to invest in foreclosures. This step-by-step guide shows you how...

Valuation for Financial Reporting : Fair Value Measurements and Reporting, Intangible Assets, Goodwill and Impairment

• ISBN:
• 0471680419
• Authors:
• Michael J. Mard, James R. Hitchner, Steven D. Hyden

Essential procedures for the measurement and reporting of fair value in Financial statements Trusted specialists Michael Mard, James Hitchner, and Steven Hyden present reliable and thorough guidelines, case studies, implementation aids, and sample reports for managers, auditors, and valuators who must comply with the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Nos. 141, Business Combinations; 142, Goodwill...

The Art of Selling to the Affluent: How to Attract, Service, and Retain Wealthy Customers & Clients for Life

• ISBN:
• 0471703230
• Authors:
• Matt Oechsli

This insightful book shows salespeople how to meet the needs of affluent clients—from the initial contact, to the sales presentation, to providing the level of service and quality they expect, to securing them as long-term customers. Based on extensive research of the buying patterns and expectations of the wealthy, this step-by-step sales guide reveals the secrets of attracting and keeping wealthy clients for life, boosting sales and repeat...

Pursuit of Passionate Purpose: Success Strategies for a Rewarding Personal and Business Life

• ISBN:
• 0471703249
• Authors:
• Theresa M. Szczurek

In Pursuit of Passionate Purpose, self-help guru Theresa Szczurek reveals that the real key to a successful and happy life is in knowing what it is that you truly desire and pursuing it with determination. Based on the everyday wisdom of eighty successful people from all walks of life, along with the practical strategies she used to pursue her own passion, Szczurek presents a proven, step-by-step plan for effectively pursuing whatever your...

Financial Risk Manager Handbook (Wiley Finance)

• ISBN:
• 0471706299
• Authors:
• Philippe Jorion, GARP

An essential guide to financial risk management and the best way to ace the GARP FRM(r) Exam The Financial Risk Management Exam (FRM Exam) is given by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) annually in November for risk professionals who want to earn FRM certification. Written with the full support of GARP and providing questions and solutions from previous exams, this is the definitive guide for those preparing to take the FRM Exam...

Budgeting Basics and Beyond

• ISBN:
• 0471725021
• Authors:
• Jae K. Shim, Joel G. Siegel

Budgeting Basics and Beyond , Second Edition provides managers with a hassle-free resource that’s guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective. This updated edition features new information on service and nonprofit applications, types of financial models, Web-based budgeting and planning solutions, and much more. From preparing and presenting budgets to monitoring results against budget figures and...

Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Effective Enterprise Risk Management

• ISBN:
• 0471726265
• Authors:
• Anne M. Marchetti

Designed to lead financial managers from initial compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, through ongoing maintenance and monitoring, Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance helps readers seize this opportunity to revitalize their business practice, drive greater performance, and transform their finance organization into a key contributor to the business. Focusing on the present and future financial road ahead, Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance explores...

Purchasing: Selection and Procurement for the Hospitality Industry

• ISBN:
• 0471730084
• Authors:
• Andrew H. Feinstein, John M. Stefanelli

Essential information from a manager's perspective-revised for today's industry Within any hospitality business, the purchasing function underlies every aspect of the operation. Even if they are not purchasing agents, hospitality managers must have a firm grasp of purchasing principles in order to run a successful operation. Purchasing: Selection and Procurement for the Hospitality Industry, Seventh Edition offers a revised and updated edition...

Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now

• ISBN:
• 0471745200
• Authors:
• Vickie L. Milazzo

A self-made millionaire entrepreneur shows women how to get ahead using the inner strengths all women possess. Inside Every Woman shares the guiding principles of successful entrepreneur Vickie Milazzo, and inspires women everywhere to achieve their boldest visions for life and career. Rather than suggesting that women subvert their inherently feminine qualities to succeed, Vickie encourages women to employ their feminine forces such as...

The Index Trading Course (Wiley Trading)

• ISBN:
• 0471745979
• Authors:
• George A. Fontanills, Tom Gentile

Praise for The Index Trading Course "George and Tom apply their considerable options trading and teaching expertise to the arena of broad-based and sector indices. Index options traders will find the techniques, systems, and strategies invaluable-and so will those who aren't yet index traders, but want to learn to be." —Larry McMillan, President, McMillan Analysis Corporation author, Profit with Options "I've known both George and Tom for many...

Resorts: Management and Operation

• ISBN:
• 047174722X
• Authors:
• Robert Christie Mill

Effectively Develop and Manage a Resort Property-Revised and Updated In recent years, the definition of "resort" has expanded to include any facility that provides recreation and entertainment in combination with lodging. Revised and updated for these changes, Resorts: Management and Operation, Second Edition covers both new trends, like the increasing popularity of timeshares and cruise ships, and tried-and-true businesses like ski areas, golf...

Essentials of Supply Chain Management, 2nd Edition

• ISBN:
• 0471776343
• Authors:
• Michael H. Hugos

Fully revised and expanded, the Second Edition contains valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices. This handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in supply chain management. "Michael Hugos presents the core concepts and techniques of supply chain management in a clear, concise, and easily readable style for those...

Robust Portfolio Optimization and Management (Frank J Fabozzi Series)

• ISBN:
• 047192122X
• Authors:
• Frank J. Fabozzi, Petter N. Kolm, Dessislava Pachamanova, Sergio M. Focardi

Praise for Robust Portfolio Optimization and Management "In the half century since Harry Markowitz introduced his elegant theory for selecting portfolios, investors and scholars have extended and refined its application to a wide range of real-world problems, culminating in the contents of this masterful book. Fabozzi, Kolm, Pachamanova, and Focardi deserve high praise for producing a technically rigorous yet remarkably accessible guide to the...

Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers + CD-ROM: Setups for Stock, Forex, and Futures Markets

• ISBN:
• 0471980226
• Authors:
• John L. Person

In his first book, A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics , John Person introduced traders to the concept of integrating candlestick charting with pivot point analysis. Now, in Candlestick and Pivot Point Trading Triggers, he goes a step further and shows you how to devise your own setups and triggers—in the stock, forex, and futures markets—based on a moving average approach.

Strategic Flexibility: Managing in a Turbulent Environment

• ISBN:
• 0471984736

Moving towards the zenith of the technological age brings with it an ever-increasing amount of uncertainty, change and flux. Academic, business and consultative commentators around the world have for years been speculating on the divergent courses we may take through the information maze, and on the different possibilities we may attain when we get there. What is needed now is not another set of possibilities, but an entirely new way of looking,...

Post Keynesian Price Theory (Modern Cambridge Economics Series)

• ISBN:
• 0521328705
• Authors:
• Frederic S. Lee

This book sets out the foundations of Post Keynesian price theory. Frederic Lee examines the administered, normal cost and mark up price doctrines associated with Post Keynesian economics; he then draws upon those doctrines and previous empirical studies to develop the pricing and production foundations of the theory. This is the only book that is solely concerned with Post Keynesian price theory and its foundations, and represents a major...

Global Crises, Global Solutions

• ISBN:
• 0521606144

This volume provides a uniquely rich set of arguments and data for prioritizing our responses to some of the most serious problems facing the world today, such as climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, education, financial instability, corruption, migration, malnutrition and hunger, trade barriers, and water access. Leading economists evaluate the evidence for costs and benefits of various programs to help gauge how we can achieve the...

Business Performance Measurement

• ISBN:
• 052180342X

The field of performance measurement has evolved rapidly in the last few years with the development of new measurement frameworks and methodologies, such as the balanced scorecard, the performance prism, economic value added, economic profit, activity based costing and self-assessment techniques. This multidisciplinary, international book draws together the key themes to provide an up-to-date summary of the leading ideas in business performance...

Rethinking Performance Measurement

• ISBN:
• 0521812437
• Authors:
• Marshall W. Meyer

Performance measurement remains a vexing problem for business firms and other kinds of organizations. The "balanced scorecard", widely touted as a solution to problems of performance measurement and strategic planning, has no strong basis in theory. Moreover, implementation of the "balanced scorecard" may create many more problems than it solves. This text returns to the fundamentals by asking what is the performance of the firm, can this...

Emotions in Finance: Distrust and Uncertainty in Global Markets

• ISBN:
• 052182785X
• Authors:
• Jocelyn Pixley

Fear and greed are terms that make light of the uncertainty in the finance world. Huge global financial institutions rely on emotional relations of trust and distrust to suppress the uncertainties. Many financial firms develop policies towards risk, rather than accepting the reality of an uncertain future. They amass data in the futile hope of gaining certainty and to claim their options are more risk-freea than competitors. Emotions in Finance...

New Frontiers in Economics

• ISBN:
• 0521836867

Analyzing the new directions that subdisciplines of economics have taken in the face of modern economic challenges, these essays represent invention and discovery in the areas of information, macroeconomics and public policies, international trade and development, finance, business, contracts, law, gaming, and government. They offer not only a wealth of factual information on the current state of the economy, but also theoretical and empirical...

Managing Economic Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner's Guide

• ISBN:
• 0521855241

Over the past ten years, economic volatility has come into its own after being treated for decades as a secondary phenomenon in business cycle literature. This evolution has been driven by the recognition of the permanent negative effects of volatility on long-run growth and inequality, especially in poor countries. After presenting basic features of volatility, this volume investigates commodity price volatility as an absorber and amplifier of...

An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization

• ISBN:
• 0521856663
• Authors:
• Ivan T. Berend

A major new history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in responding to the challenges of this crisis-ridden and troubled but highly successful age. The book surveys the European economy's chronological development, the main factors of economic growth, and the...

Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

• ISBN:
• 0521867592
• Authors:
• Filippo Cesarano

Over the twentieth century monetary theory played a crucial role in the evolution of the international monetary system. The severe shocks and monetary gyrations of the interwar years interacted with theoretical developments that superseded the rigid rules of commodity standards and led to the full-fledged conception of monetary policy. The definitive demise of the gold standard then paved the way for monetary reconstruction. Monetary theory was...

Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century

• ISBN:
• 0521870224

Most countries levy taxes on corporations, but the impact - and therefore the wisdom - of such taxes is highly controversial among economists. Does the burden of these taxes fall on wealthy shareowners, or is it passed along to those who work for, or buy the products of, corporations? Can a country with high corporate taxes remain competitive in the global economy? This book features state-of-the-art research by leading economists and...

Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms

• ISBN:
• 0521871352
• Authors:
• Vernon L. Smith

The principal findings of experimental economics are that impersonal exchange in markets converges in repeated interaction to the equilibrium states implied by economic theory, under information conditions far weaker than specified in the theory. In personal, social, and economic exchange, as studied in two-person games, cooperation exceeds the prediction of traditional game theory. This book relates these two findings to field studies and...

The Economics of Contracts: Theories and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0521893135

This is a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the economic analysis of contracts written by a specially commissioned team of leading international scholars. The book offers a well structured analysis of theoretical developments, the diverse fields of applications, the methodologies in use, and the policy implications at both firm and state level. It offers a unique combination of theoretical and applied economics along with insights from...

Eight Steps to Seven Figures: The Investment Strategies of Everyday Millionaires and How You Can Become Wealthy Too

• ISBN:
• 0553456725
• Authors:
• Charles Carlson

Focuses squarely on the investing strategies and principles that ordinary people have used to achieve the million-dollar mark. CD-ROM. DLC: Portfolio management.

Hacking the Human

• ISBN:
• 0566087731
• Authors:
• Ian Mann

Information security is about people, yet in most organizations protection remains focused on technical countermeasures. The human element is crucial in the majority of successful attacks on systems and attackers are rarely required to find technical vulnerabilities, hacking the human is usually sufficient.Ian Mann turns the black art of social engineering into an information security risk that can be understood, measured and managed...

Time Management for System Administrators

• ISBN:
• 0596007833
• Authors:
• Thomas A Limoncelli

Time is a precious commodity, especially if you're a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you from getting anything done. Your managers want you to get long-term projects done but flood you with requests for quick-fixes that prevent you from ever getting to those long-term projects. But the pressure is on you to produce and it only increases with...

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought (Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics)

• ISBN:
• 0631225730

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought. Provides sophisticated introductions to a vast array of topics. Focuses on a unique range of topics, including the history of economic...

Architectures: Modernism and After (New Interventions in Art History)

• ISBN:
• 0631229434

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. The collection of essays brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment from 1851 to the present time, showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded...

Accelerated Learning Techniques

• ISBN:
• 0671536842
• Authors:
• Brian Tracy

Access Your Genius Potential The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs now gives you the inside look at techniques to improve the way you learn. Science has suggested that the human mind has an almost infinite potential for learning and processing information. The problem has always been in accessing this incredible power. Accelerated Learning Techniques tells you how. Based on Nobel Prize-winning...

STRAIGHT FROM THE CEO: WORLD'S TOP BUS LEADERS REV: The World's Top Business Leaders Reveal Ideas That Every Manager Can Use

• ISBN:
• 0671872273

Working closely with the Price Waterhouse management team, CEOs who are successfully managing today's rapid pace of economic change present their ideas about motivating people, unleashing innovation and creativity and revitalizing the corporation. These are insights of leaders who every day must find ways to test and validate new ideas, implement change to improve the bottom line, and ultimately focus on the core ideas that will truly reshape...

Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 Unleashed

• ISBN:
• 0672327430
• Authors:
• QuantumPM LLC

This go-to-resource is a must-have for anyone using Project Server 2003!  Written by a widely recognized authority on project management, QuantumPM, this in-depth approach to planning and implementing Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 is derived from the team's technical and practical client experiences.  Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 Unleashed provides an in-depth look at Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 and the possibilities of...

Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management

• ISBN:
• 0684847434
• Authors:
• Henry Mintzberg, Joseph Lampel, Bruce Ahlstrand

Strategy making is considered the high point of managerial activity. But bombarded by fads and fixes, most managers have been groping blindly to get their arms around the proverbial elephant. Now Henry Mintzberg, author of the award-winning The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, has teamed up with Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel to create a powerful antidote: a comprehensive and illuminating -- as well as colorful -- tour through the fields...

Game Theory for Applied Economists

• ISBN:
• 0691003955
• Authors:
• Robert Gibbons

This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have found other works overly abstract. Gibbons emphasizes the economic applications of the theory at least as much as the pure theory itself; formal...

Anticipating Correlations: A New Paradigm for Risk Management (The Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0691116415
• Authors:
• Robert Engle

Financial markets respond to information virtually instantaneously. Each new piece of information influences the prices of assets and their correlations with each other, and as the system rapidly changes, so too do correlation forecasts. This fast-evolving environment presents econometricians with the challenge of forecasting dynamic correlations, which are essential inputs to risk measurement, portfolio allocation, derivative pricing, and many...

Macroeconomics

• ISBN:
• 0716752379
• Authors:
• N. Gregory Mankiw

The fifth edition of the #1 bestselling intermediate macroeconomics text, with coverage based on the most recent data available, plus new student media resources.

Trend Trading: A Seven-step Approach to Success (Guppy Trading)

• ISBN:
• 0731400852
• Authors:
• Daryl Guppy

If you have no time to follow the market closely, then Trend Trading is the book for you. Trend trading is one of the most effective and easy-to-use methods for making money in the market. Success depends on identifying the trend with confidence and catching the trend after it has started, and on getting out as soon as possible after the uptrend turns into a downtrend. The book examines in detail the steps in finding, assessing, selecting,...

Networking with Millionaires... and Their Advisors

• ISBN:
• 0743507932
• Authors:
• Thomas Stanley

In The Millionaire Next Door, Tom Stanely identified the millionaires around you. In the Millionaire Mind, he told you how they think. Now, he tells you how to get their business. NETWORKING WITH MILLIONAIRES The affluent market segment is growing seven times faster than the household population in this country. Dollar for dollar the most productive way to penitrate the affluent market is to network with its members, their advisors, and the...

Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People

• ISBN:
• 0743551915
• Authors:
• Jane Bryant Quinn

Are you too busy to pay much attention to your money? Do you worry that maybe you haven't been doing the right things? This book is for you, from Jane Bryant Quinn, the most trusted voice in personal finance today. Her classic bestseller, Making the Most of Your Money, guided a generation toward smart and sensible financial choices. Here she strips away the extras, choosing the best financial ideas and products available today. They're all you...

Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0745319599
• Authors:
• Brewster Kneen

* No hold's barred exposé of the world's largest food company * Uncovers predatory activities and unfettered monopoly that effect every American consumer Transnational corporations straddle the globe, largely unseen by the public. Cargill, with its headquarters in the US, is the largest private corporation in North America, and possibly in the world. Cargill trades in food commodities and produces a great many of them: grains, flour, malt,...

Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist a

• ISBN:
• 0745323901
• Authors:
• Derek Wall

Babylon and Beyond  provides the first clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism. Anti-capitalism is a diverse movement: critics accuse it of knowing what it is against, but not knowing what it is for. Anti-capitalists want radical change, but what shape should that change take? The truth is that different sections of the movement advocate distinct---sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory---programmes for change....

A Century of Spin: How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power

• ISBN:
• 0745326897
• Authors:
• William Dinan, David Miller

--Uncovers the secret history of the PR industry-- This book charts the relentless rise of the public relations industry and how it has transformed our society. Revealing the roots of the PR movement in the years leading up to the First World War, it sh

Change Management Action Kit, 2e

• ISBN:
• 0749433809
• Authors:
• Colin Rye

Designed as a toolkit, this practical guide is packed with techniques and hints to help managers bring about change that will have long-term effects. Illustrations offer details of the purpose and method of operation of many of the most popular change management tools currently being used by top organizations.The CD-Rom will aid quick, efficient use of the information within the book. Contents include: Principles of Change Management, change...

Designing Organizations: The Foundation for Excellence

• ISBN:
• 0749434570
• Authors:
• Philip Sadler

This is virtually the only book on organizational theory and design that distills the essence of the latest research and analysis for the benefit of practicing managers. Previously titled Designing Organizations, this fourth edition is a valuable reference tool for anyone in a strategic or decision-making role. Includes information on: The customer-driven company, developing organizational competence, building the seamless organization,...

Training with the Midas Touch: Developing Your Organization's Greatest Asset

• ISBN:
• 0749437391
• Authors:
• Richard Palmer

This thought provoking yet practical book provides a structured route to making the most of the 'human capital' in an organization by taking a holistic approach to both staff development and organizational success. Provides a sound theoretical framework for staff development and includes a detailed academic reading list. Softcover.

Consultants & Advisers: A Best Practice Guide to Choosing, Using and Getting Good Value

• ISBN:
• 0749441364
• Authors:
• Harold Lewis

* Valuable guidance on hiring experts for both new businesses and established firms

Project Disasters and How to Survive Them

• ISBN:
• 0749443081
• Authors:
• David Nickson Sir, Suzy Siddons

* Takes a real-world view of project management

How to Grow Leaders: The Seven Key Principles of Effective Leadership Development

• ISBN:
• 0749443634
• Authors:
• John Eric Adair

"Authoritative & wise" -- Warren Bennis "John Adair is without doubt one of the foremost thinkers on leadership in the world" -- Sir John Harvey-Jones There is a revolution underway. We are moving -- rapidly in some areas, slower in others -- from management to business leadership. As the market for good leaders who can achieve results increases, so-called leadership development programs have proliferated. Many of these are old management...

How to Pass Selection Tests (TimesTesting Series)

• ISBN:
• 074944374X
• Authors:
• Mike Bryon, Sanjay Modha

* A proven best-seller: over 100,000 copies sold!

Global Account Management: A Complete Action Kit of Tools and Techniques for Managing Big Customers in a Shrinking World

• ISBN:
• 0749445386
• Authors:
• Peter Cheverton

A realistic and pracitical guide to success with the truly "global" customer

Project Management Disasters & How to Survive Them

• ISBN:
• 074944780X
• Authors:
• David Nickson Sir

Examines the causes of project failures and what can be learned from them. Focuses on risk management--how to support and lead project teams when things go wrong; how to turn a disaster into something positive; and, importantly, guidance on what NOT to do. Uses a wide variety of real-world examples.

Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others

• ISBN:
• 0749447982
• Authors:
• John Adair

What motivates people is an important consideration for captains of industry, commerce, and the public sector -- in fact anyone in a position of leadership. Leadership and Motivation explores the subject in depth. Leadership guru John Adair reassesses the theories of Herzberg and Maslow -- still the major contributors to our understanding of motivation -- in the context of Action-Centered Leadership, the concept pioneered and developed by the...

Leadership for Innovation: How to Organize Team Creativity and Harvest Ideas

• ISBN:
• 0749448008
• Authors:
• John Adair

Innovate or stagnate: that is the stark challenge facing all businesses today. Creating an innovative climate is essential for positive organizational change, and this demands leaders who can bring about this change. John Adair looks at the links between leadership, creativity, and change. He explores every aspect of this vital business topic in his classic style. This new book will help leaders of all types meet the challenges of innovation and...

Successful Time Management (Creating Success)

• ISBN:
• 0749448342
• Authors:
• Patrick Forsyth

In this day of increased pressure to achieve results, time management has become a vital skill. With time-saving solutions, checklists, tips and techniques, "Successful Time Management" helps review and assess time management techniques and shows how to adopt new work practices to make effective use of time. It includes great advice on controlling paperwork, getting and staying organized, delegating and working with others, prioritizing to focus...

Develop Your Leadership Skills (Creating Success)

• ISBN:
• 0749449195
• Authors:
• John Adair

Best-selling author and leadership expert John Adair brings his stimulating insights into leadership into his most accessible book to date. Full of exercises and checklists, "Develop Your Leadership Skills" provides the tools to recognize and develop leadership qualities, acquire personal authority and master core leadership functions, including planning, communicating and motivating. Suitable for anyone who wishes to improve their leadership...

Advanced Project Management: A Complete Guide to the Key Processes, Models and Techniques

• ISBN:
• 0749449837
• Authors:
• Alan D Orr, Alan D. Orr

Project management has become one of the most valued skills in business. It is especially valuable when a company undertakes a major project where they need project managers with advanced skills. To move from intermediate to advanced project management, a project manager must understand not only the project itself, but also the overall needs of the company. They must know how to build and manage teams, handle large budgets, and appreciate the...

The The Equal Opportunities Handbook: How to Recognise Diversity, Encourage Fairness and Promote Anti-Discriminatory Practice

• ISBN:
• 0749452978
• Authors:
• Phillip Edward Clements, Tony Spinks, Phil Clements

The Equal Opportunities Handbook is a guide to identifying and eradicating workplace discrimination through training and guidance.  Though founded on British legislation, this guide sets out straightforward procedures, relevant to all types of situation, and demonstrates how simple it is to behave with fairness, courtesy and sensitivity to all.  The revised edition of this text has been updated to reflect changes in British legislation and...

Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara

• ISBN:
• 0749453052
• Authors:
• Mark Tungate

Once a luxury that only the elite could afford, fashion is now widely accessible.  While brands such as Zara and H&M have made fashion an affordable choice for the mass market, sports brands such as Nike and Adidas have transformed the image of their products from merely practical to fashionable.  How has this transformation occurred?  Fashion Brands explores the popularization of fashion and explains how marketers and branding experts have...

Project Governance: A Practical Guide to Effective Project Decision Making

• ISBN:
• 0749453060
• Authors:
• Ross Garland

Effective decision making is a key feature of successful projects. Ineffective decision making leads to project delay and failure. Project Governance takes the reader through the logical steps required to establish a project governance framework for a project or organization. Starting with problems typical of ineffective project governance, it develops a set of principles designed to overcome these problems and builds a framework based on these...

Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change

• ISBN:
• 0749453109
• Authors:
• Esther Cameron, Mike Green

Written for students and professionals alike, Making Sense of Change Management is a classic text in the field of change management. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome rather than a dreaded concept. It offers considered insights into the many frameworks, models and ways of approaching change and helps the reader apply the right approach to each...

The The Professional Recruiter's Handbook: Delivering Excellence in Recruitment Practice

• ISBN:
• 0749453966
• Authors:
• Ann Swain, Jane Newell-Brown, Jane Newell Brown

The Professional Recruiter’s Handbook is a thorough guide to achieving success as a recruiting consultant. The authors explore the techniques used by the most successful recruiters, both agency and client-side, to understand what creates excellence in executive search.  Containing practical advice on attracting the right candidates and finding and retaining new clients, it explains how to develop a recruitment strategy to ensure the...

Bids, Tenders and Proposals: Winning Business Through Best Practice (Bids, Tenders & Proposals: Winning Business Through Best)

• ISBN:
• 0749454202
• Authors:
• Harold Lewis

A practical guide to winning contracts and funding through competitive bids, tenders and proposals, this title gives the reader the benefit of powerful, best-practice techniques.  Written in a crisp, accessible style using examples and checklists, it explains how to create bids that are outstanding in both technical quality and value for money. Including the sound advice of previous editions, this update offers information especially useful to...

Emotional Intelligence Coaching: Improving Performance for Leaders, Coaches and the Individual

• ISBN:
• 074945458X
• Authors:
• Stephen Neale, Lisa Spencer-Arnell, Liz Wilson

Emotional Intelligence Coaching examines how emotions and habits can impact performance. Emotional intelligence can help coaches recognize how attitudes -- both their own and their clients' -- prevent people from reaching their potential and how to replace them with more useful attitudes, feelings and thoughts. The authors present the various models and tools that coaches can use to help them become more emotionally intelligent when...

Strategic Alliances and Marketing Partnerships: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Collaboration and Partnering

• ISBN:
• 0749454849
• Authors:
• Richard Gibbs, Andrew Humphries

Strategic Alliances and Marketing Partnerships will help readers understand how partnerships function and how they can manage them more effectively and efficiently.  Dealing with key topics such as supply chain management, marketing channels and relationship management, it identifies the key factors that determine partnering excellence. Whatever the nature of the relationship - whether outsourcing, strategic alliances or co-manufacturing...

Retailing Logistics and Fresh Food Packaging: Managing Change in the Supply Chain

• ISBN:
• 0749455179
• Authors:
• Kerstin Gustafsson, Gunilla Jonson, David Smith, Leigh Sparks

The supply of fresh food is being transformed: retailers are gaining increasing power and control from manufacturers, and the location and nature of production is evolving. In Retailing Logistics and Fresh Food Packaging , an international team of practitioners and academics analyze state of the art packaging logistics for fresh food retailing.  Drawing on primary research from the UK, Europe and the USA, their study demonstrates the benefits...

Lubrication and Reliability Handbook

• ISBN:
• 0750651547
• Authors:
• M J NEALE

This handbook helps engineers in industry with the operation and maintenance of machinery. It provides the information that these engineers need in a form that is instantly accessible and easy to read. The manufacturers of machinery give guidelines on the operation, lubrication and maintenance required for their particular equipment. There are however many different machines in an industrial plant or service organisation, often supplied by many...

Creating Value, Second Edition: Successful Business Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0750653639
• Authors:
• Shiv S Mathur, Alfred Kenyon

'Creating Value through Business Strategy' is the new edition of 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business', winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997. This new edition provides constructive guidelines to readers to open their minds to the challenges of creating value. It extends and updates the reasons for the choice of the individual offering as the strategy unit and intensifies and extends the challenges to standard approaches...

Marketing Research for Managers, Third Edition (Chartered Institute of Marketing)

• ISBN:
• 0750654538
• Authors:
• Sunny Crouch, Matthew Housden

The purpose of Marketing Research for Managers is to enable managers to become more informed research users and buyers. The more managers know about how marketing research works, the more effective they can be in using it as a management tool. This new edition of the text includes: * The development of the "knowledge economy" * Analysis of customer relationship management * Comprehensive discussion of electronic techniques * New and updated case...

Supply Chain Strategies: Customer Driven and Customer Focused

• ISBN:
• 0750655518
• Authors:
• Tony Hines

Supply Chain Strategies: Customer Driven and Customer Focused highlights the main challenges facing organizations wanting to select, design and implement successful supply chain strategies in an increasingly global and competitive environment. The text features discussion questions at the end of each chapter to promote learning, and numerous industry examples to ilustrate key concepts within chapters. Each chapter discusses the issues in...

Quality Beyond Six Sigma

• ISBN:
• 0750655615

Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect performance that is a statistical target of operating with no more that 3.4 defects per one million chances. Six sigma has both created avid interest and raised concerns among executives and its practioners. This is all very well for multinationals like Motorola or General Electric but how can it help small and medium-sized enterprises or the service industry? How do you ensure that...

Strategic Information Management, Third Edition: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information Systems

• ISBN:
• 0750656190

'Strategic Information Management' has been completely up-dated to reflect the rapid changes in IT and the business environment since the publication of the second edition. Half of the readings in the book have been replaced to address current issues and the latest thinking in Information Management. It goes without saying that Information technology has had a major impact on individuals, organizations and society over the past 50 years or so....

Introduction to Project Finance (Essential Capital Markets)

• ISBN:
• 075065905X
• Authors:
• Andrew Fight

The term "project finance" is now being used in almost every language in every part of the world. It is the solution to infrastructure, public and private venture capital needs. It has been successfully used in the past to raise trillions of dollars of capital and promises to continue to be one of the major financing techniques for capital projects in both developed and developing countries. Project Finance aims to provide: *Overview of project...

The Management Task, Third Edition (CMI Open Learning Programme)

• ISBN:
• 0750659858
• Authors:
• ROB DIXON

This is a third edition of the Management Task, a diploma level book in the Chartered Management of Institute series. This book addresses the task of management in terms of the different processes involved , for example, planning, decision-making, organizing, communication, and the more specific management functions such as personnel, marketing and the environment of management and business. It covers the knowledge and understanding required as...

International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management

• ISBN:
• 0750659963

The International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management covers all of the relevant issues in the field of hospitality management from both a sectoral level: * Lodging * Restaurants * Clubs * Time-share * Conventions As well as a functional one: * Accounting & finance * Marketing * Human resources * Information technology * Facilities management Its unique user-friendly structure enables readers to find exactly the information they require at a...

Handbook of CRM: Achieving Excellence through Customer Management

• ISBN:
• 0750664371
• Authors:
• Adrian Payne

Customer Relationship Management is a holistic strategic approach to managing customer relationships to increase shareholder value, and this major Handbook of CRM gives complete coverage of the key concepts in this vital field. It is about achieving a total understanding of the concepts that underlie successful CRM rather than the plethora of systems that can be used to implement it. Based on recent knowledge, it is underpinned by: * Clear and...

Transforming HR: Creating value through people (The HR Series)

• ISBN:
• 0750664479
• Authors:
• Martin Reddington, Mark Williamson, Mark Withers

HR Functions are under pressure to transform and deliver greater value to their organisations. The HR transformation agenda involves the effective use of technology, outsourcing where appropriate and developing HR capability to provide high quality internal support. Whilst some of the broad-brush thinking has been well laid out around the shape of HR transformation, there is considerable demand in the HR and business communities for robust...

Introduction to e-Business: Management and Strategy

• ISBN:
• 0750667311
• Authors:
• Colin Combe

An Introduction to e-Business provides the contemporary knowledge of the key issues affecting the modern e-business environment and links theory and practice of management strategies relating to e-business. This book brings together the most cogent themes for an introduction to e-business and constitutes a valuable contribution to formalising common themes for teaching the subject in higher education. It brings together theoretical perspectives...

Marketing Plans for Service Businesses, Second Edition: A Complete Guide

• ISBN:
• 075066746X
• Authors:
• Malcolm McDonald, Adrian Payne

Marketing Plans for Service Businesses is based on the successful Marketing Planning for Services , which has been completely overhauled, updated and revised to give a new and authoritative guide to the challenge of creating marketing plans that produce significantly improved bottom-line results. It is written in a pragmatic, action-orientated style and each chapter has examples of marketing planning in practice. The authors highlight key...

Essentials of Human Resource Management, Fifth Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750667958
• Authors:
• Shaun Tyson

Essentials of HRM combines a commentary on organizational behaviour with an explanation of human resource management techniques, and also acts as an introduction to industrial relations. It will prove an invaluable aid to those studying for professional qualifications, such as Membership of the Institute of Personnel Management or the Diploma in Management Studies, and for students on general business or social service courses. Equally, the...

Enterprise: Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Concepts, Contexts and Commercialization

• ISBN:
• 0750669209
• Authors:
• Robin Lowe, Sue Marriott

Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Concepts, Contexts and Commercialisation provides readers with an accessible and readable introduction to the various dimensions of entrepreneurship and market innovation. It has a clear structure that is easy for the reader to follow and it focuses on enterprising behaviour. The text contains: * case studies and 'pause and reflect' situations for the entrepreneur to deliberate on the information they...

Coaching that Counts: Harnessing the Power of Leadership Coaching to Deliver Strategic Value (Improving Human Performance)

• ISBN:
• 0750675802
• Authors:
• Dianna Anderson, Merrill Anderson

As the field of business coaching has expanded and evolved over the last decade, many different approaches to business coaching have been created. The authors of Coaching that Counts have written a practical, readable guide for developing, delivering and measuring high value business coaching. Coaching that Counts, combines insights and practical experience about how to achieve transformational change through the strategic application and...

The Conductive Organization: Building Beyond Sustainability

• ISBN:
• 075067735X
• Authors:
• Hubert Saint-Onge, Charles Armstrong

An organization's culture lies at the heart of its ability to perform. In the knowledge economy, new rules are emerging and organizations must rethink how they will compete by leveraging their tacit knowledge - their intangible assets - in order to create and sustain a strategic advantage. In this book, Hubert Saint-Onge and Charles Armstrong, two corporate leaders who have been in the forefront of using knowledge management to gain strategic...

FileNet: A Consultant's Guide to Enterprise Content Management

• ISBN:
• 075067816X
• Authors:
• Todd R. Groff, Thomas P. Jones

FileNet is the world's leading enterprise content management system. Established in 1982, FileNet practically invented the field of Enterprise Office Document Imaging Systems. FileNet's Image Services is the industry's leading provider of high-volume systems for storing, retrieving, and managing document images, transactional content, workflows, web contents, and other business objects. More than 3,700 organizations worldwide have implemented...

Making Common Sense Common Practice, Third Edition: Models for Manufacturing Excellence

• ISBN:
• 0750678216
• Authors:
• Ron Moore

Presenting the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a case study of a fictional company called Beta International, Moore illustrates how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, maximize asset utilization, apply benchmarks and best practices, and improve many other aspects that ultimately raise your company's performance to...

A Leader's Guide to Leveraging Diversity: Strategic Learning Capabilities for Breakthrough Performance (New Frontiers in Learning)

• ISBN:
• 0750678925
• Authors:
• Terrence Maltbia, Anne Power

Leveraging Diversity: Strategic Learning Capabilities for Breakthrough Performance is designed to help business leaders and diversity practitioners alike conquer the complexity and take advantage of the opportunities associated with working productively with diversity. The book presents a clear direction for building the strategic learning capabilities needed to create and sustain adaptive organizations that effectively respond to today's...

Timeshare Resort Operations: A Guide to Management Practice (Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism)

• ISBN:
• 0750679042
• Authors:
• Randall Upchurch, Conrad Lashley

This book provides a complete overview of timeshare development and operation models. The authors take a comprehensive look at the present and future of this growing segment of the hospitality industry, including specialized approaches to marketing, human resources, service quality, finance, legal considerations and professional ethics. Timeshare, or vacation ownership, is a relatively recent leisure phenomenon. It emerged in the late 1950s as a...

Operations Management in Context, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750681985
• Authors:
• Frank Rowbotham, Masoud Azhashemi, Les Galloway

Operations Management in Context is a straightforward and accessible text which provides students with a good grounding in the theory and practise of operations management and its role within organizations. The structure is clear and logical, leading newcomers to this subject through the topics in a way to maximize comprehension, highlighting key issues and using case studies and examples from business to contextualize learning. Chapters are...

International Accounting Standards: from UK standards to IAS, an accelerated route to understanding the key principles of international accounting rules

• ISBN:
• 0750682035
• Authors:
• Paul Rodgers

This handbook is aquick reference to International Accounting Standards and is designed for all those who interact with financial information, and need an accelerated route to understanding the key principles of international accounting rules. It is essential reading for all members of the management team. Members of any finance and accounting team will find it a practical summary of all the big concerns allowing relevant questions to be raised...

ROI for Technology Projects: Measuring and Delivering Value

• ISBN:
• 0750685883
• Authors:
• Brian Roulstone, Jack J. Phillips PhD in Human Resource Management.

This is the first book focusing on the ROI for technology investments written by a technology executive for technology decision makers with the support and guidance of the foremost authority in the discipline of Return on Investment. This book leverages the talents of both authors to provide a framework and methodology that can ensure greater success in mobilizing technology initiatives. There is no other book on the market that specifically...

Consumer Behaviour in Sport and Events: Marketing Action (Sports Marketing)

• ISBN:
• 0750686669
• Authors:
• Daniel C. Funk

Consumer Behaviour in Sport and Events emphasises the role of consumer behaviour in sport marketing. Given the social, economic, and environmental benefits of sport events, the challenge for marketers is to understand the complexity of sport and event participation. Through a heightened understanding of consumer behaviour, marketers are able to develop communication strategies to enhance the experience, while identifying key elements of the...

Management by Process: A practical road-map to sustainable Business Process Management

• ISBN:
• 0750687614
• Authors:
• John Jeston, Johan Nelis

Business Processes are one of the critical drivers for any organisation in realizing their organizational strategic objectives. This means that management must constantly review and realign organizational processes to reflect the massively unfixed nature of business demands, such as changing market circumstances; the changing demands of new customer and existing customers; new products and pricing; changes in strategy; and linking processes to...

eMarketing eXcellence, Third Edition: Planning and optimising your digital marketing (Emarketing Essentials)

• ISBN:
• 0750689455
• Authors:
• Dave Chaffey, PR Smith

eMarketing eXcellence third edition has been completely revised and updated to help you create effective and up-to-date customer-centric e-marketing plans. A hugely successful practical guide to creating and executing e-marketing plans, it combines established approaches to marketing planning with the creative use of new e-models and e-tools. It is designed to support both marketers who are integrating e-marketing into their existing marketing...

The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Petrochemicals (Strategic Planning Series)

• ISBN:
• 0757655246
• Authors:
• Research Group, The Petrochemicals Research Group

The liberalization of markets has lead to record levels of international investments. Icon Group Ltd.'s primary mission is to assist international managers to better plan and implement strategies in a global economy. It does so by providing various specialized industry reports, data bases, publications and services to its clients. This report is one of many published by Icon Group Ltd. to assist executives and planners in monitoring and...

Corporate Communications: Theory and Practice

• ISBN:
• 0761944354
• Authors:
• Dr Joep P Cornelissen

Instructors: Please click here to request a review copy of this title for adoption consideration. Desk copies are available by calling 1-800-818-7243. `A welcome and important addition to the limited writing already available on corporate communication. The book focuses correctly on the strategic management perspective necessary for an understanding of this area. It will be of enormous help to practitioners and academics in their quest to...

Studying Management Critically

• ISBN:
• 0761967362

Text presents a series of critical reflections upon key themes, topics, and emergent issues in management studies. Written by specialists in their respective fields. Hardcover, softcover available.

What You Need to Know Before You Invest: An Introduction to the Stock Market and Other Investments

• ISBN:
• 0764110020
• Authors:
• Rod Davis

Updated to help readers cope with the unusual number of uncertainties that characterize today?s financial markets, this book is a financial primer that will be of special value to first-time investors, but also enlightening to everybody who currently has a personal investment portfolio. The author provides sound fundamental information in clear language that non-experts can understand. Separate chapters give practical advice on how to select a...

Consulting for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764550349
• Authors:
• Bob Nelson, Peter Economy

Men and women from all walks of life with all manner of experience and expectations have reasons for becoming independent consultants. Some are leveraging their knowledge to help their clients, and others are simply tired of working for someone else. Still others are looking for a way to make some extra money. The new model for modern-day business calls for skilled workers who can be brought into an organization on short notice, fix a problem,...

Value Investing for Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764554107
• Authors:
• Peter J. Sander, Peter Sander

Value Investing For Dummies guides anyone from rookie to savvy investor through the often confusingmaze of value investments and value investing techniques. Turn here for clear explanations and solid advice on: Types of value investments -- from mutual funds and real estate to precious metals and commoditiesHow to become a value investor -- from making your picks to developing your investment styleInvesting for the long term vs. the short...

Reverse Mortgages For Dummies

• ISBN:
• 0764584464
• Authors:
• Sarah Glendon Lyons, John E. Lucas

For seniors who live on a fixed income, owning a home—and keeping it—can be financially challenging. Rather than face the choice of selling your home and moving or becoming a home-owning pauper, reverse mortgage products let seniors convert part of their equity into tax-free income that can be used for anything—even mortgage payments, living expenses, or medical costs. Reverse Mortgages For Dummies covers all the basics of reverse mortgage...

India And South Asia: Economic Developments in the Age of Globalization

• ISBN:
• 0765614529

South Asia has become a major center of attention on the world stage with the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan since 9/11, the ongoing concern over Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan, and India's emergence as a regional economic power. In addition, the age-old problems of South Asia - mass poverty, poor infrastructure, misgovernance, rampant corruption, political uncertainty, and regional wars - add to the increased interest in the...

The Purchasing and Supply Manager's Guide To The C.P.M. Exam

• ISBN:
• 0782143652
• Authors:
• Fred Sollish, John Semanik

Sybex, the leader in certification, is offering C.P.M. (Certified Purchasing Manager) candidates a unique and economical resource: comprehensive coverage of all four certification exams in one book, at a very low price. Sponsored by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), the C.P.M. (Certified Purchasing Manager) Certification is a globally recognized designation that validates the knowledge and skills required of today's purchasing...

The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team

• ISBN:
• 0785265767
• Authors:
• John C. Maxwell

The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork has quickly become one of John Maxwell's bestselling books on leadership. Now, in this companion workbook, Dr. Maxwell provides a tool every person can use to adapt the 17 Laws to leadership at home, work, and church.

Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series)

• ISBN:
• 0786863218
• Authors:
• Richard Carlson

From the bestselling coauthor of Handbook for the Soul and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff comes a collection of 100 short essays that feature brilliant strategies for achieving financial success by giving up stress, worry, anger, and fear.

Career Choice and Development

• ISBN:
• 0787957410

The fourth edition of Career Choice and Developmen t brings together the most current ideas of the recognized authorities in the field of career development. This classic best-seller has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include the most influential theories of career choice and development, and it contains up-to-date information regarding the application of these theories to counseling practice. This edition contains a wide range of...

The 2R Manager: When to Relate, When to Require, and How to Do Both Effectively (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 078795893X
• Authors:
• Peter E. Friedes

The 2R Manager will make you a better manager---immediately. It offers specific advice tailored to each individual's current management style. You will take some self-surveys, see the results, and learn the impact you now have on those you manage. Youll learn what changes you must make and how to make them. Managers have naturally either a Relating or a Requiring style. Those who naturally require are weaker at relating---sometimes much...

Personality and Work: Reconsidering the Role of Personality in Organizations

• ISBN:
• 0787960373

The subject of personality has received increasing attention from industrial/organizational psychologists in both research and practice settings over the past decade. But while there is an overabundance of information related to the narrow area of personality testing and employee selection, there has been no definitive source offering a broader perspective on the overall topic of personality in the workplace. Personality and Work at last...

Leading Out Loud: Inspiring Change Through Authentic Communications, New and Revised

• ISBN:
• 0787963976
• Authors:
• Terry Pearce

As the cycle of change increases its speed, leadership communication is becoming more important than ever. Since the original publication of Leading Out Loud in 1995, the development of a leader's message has become as critical to success as the delivery of that message. In this new and revised edition of his highly praised work, Terry Pearce explains how the events of recent years, including the information revolution, worldwide focus on...

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

• ISBN:
• 0787964271
• Authors:
• Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal

In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples: The Structural Frame : how to organize and structure groups and teams to get...

Revolution in the Mailbox: Your Guide to Successful Direct Mail Fundraising (The Mal Warwick Fundraising Series)

• ISBN:
• 0787964298
• Authors:
• Mal Warwick

This updated edition of Mal Warwick's landmark book Revolution in the Mailbox has been thoroughly revised to provide your nonprofit organization with the most current and comprehensive survey of direct mail fundraising available anywhere. If you follow Warwick’s practical, down-to-earth advice, direct mail will help your organization grow, gain visibility, involve your donors, increase its efficiency, and achieve financial stability. Written...

To the Desert and Back: The Story of the Most Dramatic Business Transformation on Record

• ISBN:
• 0787966770
• Authors:
• Philip H. Mirvis, Karen Ayas, George Roth

Dove, Lipton, Knorr, Ben & Jerry's, and Slim*Fast are a few of the brands that are part of the $66 billion global empire known as Unilever. When the story opens, one of its divisions is in deep trouble— declining volume, eroding margins, critical quality problems— and is close to being sold off. Then Tex Gunning, its visionary new division chairman, takes the stage, an expanding circle of young leaders takes charge, and once-skeptical...

Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership)

• ISBN:
• 0787971545
• Authors:
• Constantinos C. Markides, Paul A. Geroski

Discover why being a "fast second" is often more financially rewarding than being at the cutting edge. If you get there first, you'll lead the pack, right? Not necessarily! The skill-sets of most established companies, say strategy experts Constantinos Markides and Paul Geroski, are far better suited to scaling up newly created markets pioneered by others (in other words, being "fast seconds") than to creating these markets from scratch. In Fast...

Leading Organizational Learning

• ISBN:
• 0787972185
• Authors:
• Howard Morgan, Marc J. Rosenberg, Marcia Conner

Leading Organizational Learning brings together today’s top thinkers in organizational learning--including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, Dave Ulrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought and industry leaders. This handbook helps business, government, and nonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and knowledge sharing within their organizations.  This one-of-a-kind volume is filled with chapters that directly...

101 Ways to Make Training Active (Active Training Series)

• ISBN:
• 0787976121
• Authors:
• Mel Silberman

When it was first published in 1995, Mel Silberman's 101 Ways to Make Training Active became an instant bestseller. Now this revised and updated second edition offers the same dynamic approach and several completely new case examples. The examples support each exercise and highlight real-time uses of the highly successful Active Training method. In addition, the book includes 200 training tips that form the nuts-and-bolts of successful active...

Emotional Intelligence In Action: Training and Coaching Activities for Leaders and Managers

• ISBN:
• 0787978434
• Authors:
• Marcia Hughes, L. Bonita Patterson, James Bradford Terrell

Emotional Intelligence in Action shows how to tap the power of EI through forty-six exercises that can be used to build effective emotional skills and create real change. The workouts are designed to align with the four leading emotional intelligence measures—EQ-I® or EQ-360™, ECI 360, MSCEIT™, and EQ Map®, —or can be used independently or as part of a wider leadership and management development program. All of the book’s forty-six...

Never Bet the Farm: How Entrepreneurs Take Risks, Make Decisions - and How You Can, Too

• ISBN:
• 0787983667
• Authors:
• Anthony Iaquinto, Stephen Spinelli Jr.

In Never Bet the Farm two leading entrepreneurs, Anthony Iaquinto and Stephen Spinelli, turn much of the so-called expert advice for entrepreneurs on its head. They show that by preparing for setbacks and using a framework that can help reduce risks and simplify decision making, entrepreneurs can increase their probability for success. They refute the idea that there is an ideal entrepreneurial “type,” and show that luck can be as important...

The Masterful Coaching Fieldbook: Grow Your Business, Multiply Your Profits, Win the Talent War! (Essential Knowledge Resource)

• ISBN:
• 078798602X
• Authors:
• Robert Hargrove

Robert Hargrove shares his secrets as a masterful coach with leaders of all levels: Coaching is about realizing an impossible dream and winning at the great game of business, not just about changing attitudes and behaviors . This book describes: How to find the best talent on earth How to create an impossible future and WIN in your business How to create a winning game plan How business can be the ultimate self-development and growth experience

Leadership the Hard Way: Why Leadership Can't Be Taught - And How You Can Learn It Anyway (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership)

• ISBN:
• 0787994375
• Authors:
• Dov Frohman

Leadership the Hard Way presents a method of living and working that can truly facilitate the learning of leadership. Their method shows how to go against the current, fight conventional wisdom, and embrace the unexpected. It is about trusting oneself and valuing intuition, principles, and imagination as much as hard skills and analysis. Frohman combines his counterintuitive ideas with experiences from his own backgroundfrom escaping the Nazis...

Manage Your Money and Investments with Microsoft Excel

• ISBN:
• 0789734281
• Authors:
• Peter Aitken

Sure you want to save money. We all do. But saving money is sometimes easier said than done. Did you know that there is a program probably already installed on your computer that can help you manage your money better? It's Microsoft Excel, part of the Microsoft Office suite. Manage Your Money and Investments with Excel can help you take control of your finances with Excel. Learn how to: Perform basic financial calculations. Track and analyze...

Launching Your Yahoo! Business

• ISBN:
• 0789735334
• Authors:
• Frank F. Fiore, Linh Tang

  You’ve made the decision to take your business online, but where do you go from here?  Launching Your Yahoo! Business helps you do everything from creating a business plan to using basic marketing strategies to promote your business to managing a Yahoo! store. It also includes tips and warnings on how to avoid common pitfalls, as well as terms and directions to web resources for additional information. This book will show you how to put...

JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party

• ISBN:
• 0791461696
• Authors:
• Sean J. Savage

JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party is a richly detailed, comprehensive, and provocative account of presidential party leadership in the turbulent 1960s. Using many primary sources, including resources from presidential libraries, state and national archival material, public opinion polls, and numerous interviews, Sean J. Savage reveals for the first time the influence of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson on the chairmanship,...

The Tao of Trading: Discovering a Simpler Path to Success