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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: