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Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: Pergamon Flexible Learning; 4 edition (July 24, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 0750658800 With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization’s training needs. Whether studying for an ILM qualification or looking to enhance [...]
Hardcover: 655 pages Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (May 13, 2002) Language: English ISBN-10: 0471498661 This book provides an accessible and comprehensive one-volume introduction to capital markets. Based on the author’s many years experience as a trainer in this field, the book is ideal for those who are entering or planning to enter investment banking or asset management. Share This
Paperback: 369 pages Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (December 13, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 0750644540 ‘Use of interesting, topical and, above all, relevant examples and case studies bring this economics analysis to life. A rare gem - an economics textbook which is readable!’ Share This
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (April 13, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 075064706X ‘David has real life practical experience in helping hundreds of people successfully start up their businesses … using the proven formula of SFEDI standards. A very, very thorough piece of work’ Share This
Hardcover: 362 pages Publisher: Information Science Reference (October 26, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 159904675X Banking across the world has undergone extensive changes thanks to the profound influence of developments and trends in information communication technologies, business intelligence, and risk management strategies. While banking has become easier and more convenient for the consumer, the advances and intricacies of emerging technologies [...]
Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Economist Books (November 27, 2003) ISBN-10: 186197664X Written by 17 experts in the field, Brands and Branding sets out to provide a better understanding of the role and importance of brands, as well as a wealth of insights into how one builds and sustains a successful brand. Share This
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: FT Press (February 19, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0132343908 Declaring that “Japan is back,” Shipley focuses on the “once-in-a-lifetime” investment opportunities currently available there in this dry but informative guide. Drawing largely on interviews and conversations with experts and investors, the former economist at Lehman Brothers Japan addresses topics ranging from intellectual property to real [...]
Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: FT Press; Second edition (February 4, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0132254581 Your credit score. It’s just three numbers. But it dictates whether you’ll get credit, and what you’ll pay. Insurers use it to set premiums. Landlords use it to make renting decisions. You need to understand it. In Your Credit Score, Second Edition, MSN Money [...]
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Wharton School Publishing; 1 edition (February 10, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0131877305 Now in paperback. . . . What outstanding leaders do, and how they do it. Building corporate culture that can withstand anything. Reinventing your business: when it’s time, how to do it. Key attributes of lasting leadership. The greatest business leaders of our [...]
Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: FT Press (February 10, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0131856987 This new book is as useful for baby boomers as it is for marketers: it will guide boomers on their journeys and give marketers the tools to help them get there. — P. G. Kishel, Cypress College (Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American [...]
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (April 13, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 075064706X ‘David has real life practical experience in helping hundreds of people successfully start up their businesses … using the proven formula of SFEDI standards. A very, very thorough piece of work’ Share This
Paperback: 310 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (March 6, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0521679788 Negotiations between governments shape the world political economy and in turn the lives of people everywhere. Developing countries have become far more influential in talks in the World Trade Organization, including infamous stalemates in Seattle in 1999 and Cancún in 2003, as well [...]
Hardcover: 312 pages Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC (September 21, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 158488925X Featuring international contributors from both industry and academia, Numerical Methods for Finance explores new and relevant numerical methods for the solution of practical problems in finance. It is one of the few books entirely devoted to numerical methods as applied to the financial field. Presenting [...]
Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Kaplan Business (March 1, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 141959608X “Michael Panzner fluently describes the build-up of financial risk on a number of fronts—from credit derivatives through to the government’s long-term fiscal problems—and imagines how a future crisis might develop. A breathtaking and coherent vision of financial disaster.†Share This
Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (March 16, 2001) Language: English ISBN-10: 047132647X Lessons from the leading financial consulting firm What is good financial service? Being knowledgeable. Keeping in touch. Knowing your client’s needs. For the past twenty-five years, senior executives of professional financial services firms have relied on the experience of Greenwich Associates in establishing [...]
This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a tool in the world of organizations was initially counter-intuitive. But in their own words, John Seely Brown, Steve Denning, Katalina Groh, and Larry Prusak describe how they came to see the power of narrative and storytelling in their own experience working on knowledge management, change management, and innovation strategies in organizations such as Xerox, the World Bank, and IBM.
The book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence—an ability to understand and act and react agilely in the quicksilver world of interacting narratives. It shows why this is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it. The book's lucid explanations, vivid examples and practical tips are essential reading for CEOs, managers, change agents, marketers, salespersons, brand managers, politicians, teachers, parents—anyone who is setting out to the change the world.
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With a population in the millions and a monthly growth rate of 20 percent, Second LifeВ® is a virtual 3-D world bursting with opportunities in areas like real estate, legal practice, and marketing, corporate connections, and people just like you. This all-in-one guide will show you, step by step, how to use Second Life as an alternative marketplace. Learn how to:
* Create a cool avatar and connect with residents
* Adapt your business for the virtual environment
* Play for profit--and bring your dreams to life
About the Author
Robert Freedman is president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors, a national association for advancing the professionalism of business and trade, and is also senior editor of REALTORВ® Magazine.
Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
Put Your Website in the Spotlight
Influence search engine results and bring targeted traffic to your Web site with an hour a day of search engine optimization (SEO). Drawing on years of experience as successful SEO consultants, Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin provide detailed, practical, and often surprisingly simple techniques for improving results. Their simple strategies include setting SEO goals, site optimization, developing and implementing a strategy that might include both free and paid efforts, and tools for monitoring trends, measuring the competition, and tracking results.
"Survive Office Politics "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-05-31) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Manage Meetings Positively "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-05-15) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Manage Your Time "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-10-27) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Manage Projects Successfully "
A & C Black Publishers (2007-02-20) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Deal with Stress "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-09-27) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Assert Yourself "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-10-27) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
Once Upon A Time: Using Story-Based Activities to Develop Breakthrough Communication Skills by Terrence L. Gargiulo
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Terence Gargiulo's 'breakthrough' communications and storytelling are amply demonstrated with dozens of corporate examples. And the best part? Gargiulo shows us, step by step, how to create this storytelling communication magic in our own organizations. The competencies assessed by the instrument represent the nine essential communication behaviors that need to be developed and cultivated in all of today’s leaders and managers: Modeling, Telling, Selecting, Indexing, Synthesizing, Reflecting, Eliciting, Listening and Observing.
Once Upon a Time will show you how to develop exceptional communication skills, and it will serve as an invaluable resource for helping others do the same. Stories are a natural part of how we communicate. Yet many of us are unaware of the different ways we use stories. This book will take the intuitive aspects of communicating through stories and break it down into repeatable practices and essential competencies. The story-based activities in the second half of the book will give you powerful, easy to lead, structured, experiential exercises that can be used in a variety of settings and for lots of different purposes that go beyond training.
Once Upon A Time: Using Story-Based Activities to Develop Breakthrough Communication Skills by Terrence L. Gargiulo
Product Description
Terence Gargiulo's 'breakthrough' communications and storytelling are amply demonstrated with dozens of corporate examples. And the best part? Gargiulo shows us, step by step, how to create this storytelling communication magic in our own organizations. The competencies assessed by the instrument represent the nine essential communication behaviors that need to be developed and cultivated in all of today’s leaders and managers: Modeling, Telling, Selecting, Indexing, Synthesizing, Reflecting, Eliciting, Listening and Observing.
Once Upon a Time will show you how to develop exceptional communication skills, and it will serve as an invaluable resource for helping others do the same. Stories are a natural part of how we communicate. Yet many of us are unaware of the different ways we use stories. This book will take the intuitive aspects of communicating through stories and break it down into repeatable practices and essential competencies. The story-based activities in the second half of the book will give you powerful, easy to lead, structured, experiential exercises that can be used in a variety of settings and for lots of different purposes that go beyond training.
The LEADER’S GUIDE to STORYTELLING • STEPHEN DENNING
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In his best-selling book, Squirrel Inc., former World Bank executive and master storyteller Stephen Denning used a tale to show why storytelling is a critical skill for leaders. Now, in this hands-on guide, Denning explains how you can learn to tell the right story at the right time. Whoever you are in the organization CEO, middle management, or someone on the front lines you can lead by using stories to effect change. Filled with myriad examples, A Leader’s Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few available ways to handle the principal and most difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. The right kind of story at the right time, can make an organization “stunningly vulnerable” to a new idea.
As a concept, storytelling has won a decisive foothold in the debate on how brands of the future will be shaped. Yet, companies are still confused as to how and why storytelling can make a difference to their business. What is the point of telling stories anyway? What makes a good story? And how do you go about telling it so that it supports the company brand? This book is written for practitioners by practitioners. Through real life examples, simple guidelines and practical tools, the book aims to inspire companies to use storytelling as a means of building their brand - internally as well as externally.
For Dummies (February 6, 2006)
PDF | 384 pages | English | 10.2mb(rar)
Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing For Dummies/by Peter Kent (Author)
Description
Plan and launch your PPC campaign and keep track of its progress
If you want potential customers to form a traffic jam at your Web site, Pay Per Click just might do the trick. This book will help you decide! It tells you all about Google AdWords and Yahoo! Sponsored Search, targeting your customers, watching out for fraud, assessing the pros and cons of Pay Per Click, and making Pay Per Click work for you.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2009
Time | 2008-11-04 | ISBN: 1603207937 | 961 pages | PDF | 25.3 MB|English|Rar
Cheng-Few Lee “Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, Vol. 5 "
"Survive Office Politics "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-05-31) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Manage Meetings Positively "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-05-15) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Manage Your Time "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-10-27) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Manage Projects Successfully "
A & C Black Publishers (2007-02-20) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Deal with Stress "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-09-27) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
"Assert Yourself "
A & C Black Publishers (2006-10-27) | 96 Pages | PDF | 1 Mb
Real Estate Investment in Asia Pacific: Migrating Capital
KPMG | 2008 | English | PDF | 70 pages | 4 MB
Property investment has emerged as an asset class, but it remains difficult to access and is often beset by complex structures and regulation. The factors governing investment decisions differ greatly from one market to another.
Developed jurisdictions such as Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore all have well defined and strictly governed real estate markets, often competing to attract investment from institutional investors with an Asian property mandate. The other end of the spectrum sees frontier markets such as Vietnam, China and India closely studying regulatory frameworks in the rest of the region as a guide to establish their own viable marketplace for international real estate investors.
The Economist May 24 2008
Issue of May 24 2008 of Ec0n0m1st
Many would–be software entrepreneurs with expertise in many fields attempt to turn a homegrown application—one developed for use in their own business or profession—into a commercial product. Lack of knowledge, experience, or skills often prevents the idea from ever taking shape, let alone achieving its potential. Entering a new field to start a business leaves many developers unprepared and not even fully aware it’s something they know so little about. They will also often have a job that conflicts with the time commitment required to market the program well enough for it to become a complete success.
PDF | English | 3MB
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of 2006, its average circulation topped one million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America.Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as opposed to solely British) news source.
Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good
Stanford University Press |2008|ISBN 978-0-8047-5963-2 | English | 28 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Sustainable Value is divided into three parts. Part I is a management fable about Deena, a young CEO, and the challenges she faces to profitably address her company’s impacts on society and the environment. Her story is one of personal empowerment, of finding balance and connection to what is important in life. It’s also a tale of corporate profit and growth.
What makes Deena’s story unique is that her eventual success—personal, financial, and corporate—is the result of “doing good.” She is a talented but ordinary human being who demonstrates leadership in a time of heightened global problems ranging from poverty to the energy crisis and climate change.
* Paperback: 548 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press (June 20, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0521612802
* ISBN-13: 978-0521612807
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable [ Audio Book ]
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets [ Audio Book ]
The Economics and Politics of Race [ Audio Book ]
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy [ Audio Book ]
The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market (Wiley Audio) [ Audio Book ]
Wirtschaftswoche Magazine ~ December 1st, 2008 [GERMAN]
Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective
Informal Employment in Advanced Economies: Implications for Work and Welfare
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Fusion for Profit: How Marketing and Finance Can Work Together to Create Value
Fuzzy Sets in Management, Economy & Marketing
Strategies for the Green Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in the New World of Business
Design for Six Sigma
SmartMoney Magazine - November 2008
Talk to the Hand Making the Cat Laugh : the utter bloody rudeness of everyday life, or, six good reasons to stay at home and bolt the door [ Audio Book ]
Helge Toutenburg, Philipp Knöfel “Six Sigma: Methoden und Statistik für die Praxis"
Springer | 2007-11-01 | ISBN: 3540742107 | 326 pages | PDF | 4,92 MB
Christian Marxt, Fredrik Hacklin “Business Excellence in technologieorientierten Unternehmen"
Springer | 2008-01 | ISBN: 3540738800 | 183 pages | PDF | 3,74 MB
Saving Adam Smith
Financial Press | 2001-11-08 | ISBN: 0130659045 | 322 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
Adam Smith ... Father of Modern Economics ... Died in 1790 ... but 200 years later, his spirit is tortured by the caricatures we remember in his name. In Saving Adam Smith, he is tortured enough to return to Earth ... and so begins a journey of discovery that cuts across two centuries, as doctoral student Richard Burns puts his life on the line to rediscover Smith's most profound insight: Selfishness is not enough.
Ilona M. Bray, Carl Falstrom "U.S. Immigration Made Easy"
NOLO | 2007-08-15 | ISBN: 1413306527 | 592 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB
Jill Walker "Is Your Boss Mad?: The Definitive Guide to Coping With Your Boss"
Crown House Publishing | 2007-05-30 | ISBN: 1845900391 | 252 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB
Going the Distance
FT Press | 2003-04-06 | ISBN: 0130461202 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
Going the Distance identifies eight key obstacles to the long-term success of great businesses--and shows exactly how to overcome them. Former Cisco SVP Kevin Kennedy and leading consultant Mary Moore show how to assess corporate health and correct weaknesses in leadership, strategy, product, marketplace alignment, governance, and more--before it's too late. Going the Distance provides a total framework for maintaining market leadership into the next generation!
ACER Press "More Practise Now: How to Prepare for Recruitment and Selection Tests"
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) | 2007-02-01 | ISBN: 0864317816 | 80 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Customer Culture
Pearson Education | 2002-06-15 | ISBN: 0130353310 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
A detailed, start to finish plan for building a customer-centric culture-and systems that let good people deliver outstanding service. Author shows how to inculcate customer-focused cultures with the vision, values, goals, relevance, feedback, and actions needed to succeed.
Consumer Gadgets
Financial Times Prentice Hall | 2003-03-19 | ISBN: 0131827847 | 272 pages | PDF | 3,6 MB
In this book, one of the world's leading experts in emerging technology shows how you can make the most of 50 of today's hottest consumer-oriented innovations-and tomorrow's.
The Innovation Game
Springer | 2004-12-01 | ISBN: 0387237941 | 205 pages | PDF | 15,5 MB
RandD is the single most important investment for any company or any society. Its ultimate product is an innovation. Innovations are on the other side the major propeller for the respective (socio-) economic development of the very company or society.
David Bartram, Patricia Lindley "Psychological Testing: BPS Occupational Test Administration Open Learning Programme"
Wiley-Blackwell | 2006-12-18 | ISBN: 1405131071 | 112 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB
Martin Christopher, Helen Peck "Marketing Logistics "Second Edition"
Butterworth-Heinemann | June 26, 2003 | ISBN: 0750652241 | Pages 169 | 5.5 MB | PDF
Anthony Mancuso " Form Your Own Limited Liability Company"
NOLO | 2007-11 | ISBN: 1413307086 | 283 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB
Prep Publishing, Anne McKinney "Resumes and Cover Letters That Have Worked:
For Professionals, for College Graduates, for People Changing Careers"
Prep Publishing | 1997-03 | ISBN: 1885288042 | 272 pages | PDF | 2,1 MB
Paul Elkin "Mastering Business Planning and Strategy: The Power and Application of Strategic Thinking"
Thorogood | 2007-08 | ISBN: 185418329X | 184 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB
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Glencoe Accounting: First Year Course is for the first year Accounting course in high schools. It is the only program with Peachtree fully integrated throughout. Over 500,000 businesses use Peachtree accounting. Real world accounting combined with academic reinforcement helps students succeed.
About the Author
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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* Hardcover: 846 pages
* Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 3, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0078688299
* ISBN-13: 978-0078688294 Read more...
Recently, the emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the admission of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce, defined as the exchange or buying and selling of commodities, services, or information on the Internet through the use of mobile handheld devices. In just a few years, mobile commerce has emerged from nowhere to become the hottest new trend in business transactions. However, the prosperity and popularity of mobile commerce will be brought to a higher level only if information is securely and safely exchanged among end systems (mobile users and content providers). Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce includes high-quality research papers and industrial and practice articles in the areas of mobile commerce security and payment from academics and industrialists. It covers research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of mobile commerce security and payment. Read more...
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'New finance studies will like this book. It's clear and easy to follow and the RATs code is integrated with the algebra and provides value added ... the material is very applied and 'hands on' and it should have wide usage in the myriad of finance courses around.' International Journal of Finance and Economics
'This is an excellent textbook of econometrics for students of finance at the undergraduate as well as postgraduate levels. ... I consider this to be an excellent textbook of econometrics for the students as well as the practitioners in the area of finance.' Indian Journal of Statistics --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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* Hardcover: 674 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (May 26, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0521873061
* ISBN-13: 978-0521873062 Read more...
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Global Development Finance 2008 (Complete Print Edition) (Global Development Finance) (Global Development Finance)
By World Bank
* Publisher: World Bank Publications
* Number Of Pages: 696
* Publication Date: 2008-06-19
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0821373900
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780821373903
* Binding: Paperback
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Global Development Finance the World Bank's annual report on the external financing of developing countries provides monitoring and analysis of development finance, identifying key emerging trends and policy challenges in international financial flows that are likely to affect the growth prospects of developing countries. As major financial institutions currently recognize losses from the U.S. subprime mortgage market crisis and rebuild their balance sheets through a more conservative approach to lending and risk management, the central theme of this year's report will be the market for international bank credit to developing countries. It is an indispensable resource for governments, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, bankers, and the entire development community. Volume I: Analysis and Outlook reviews recent trends in financial flows of developing countries. Volume II: Summary and Country Tables includes comprehensive data for 138 countries, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. Also available on CD-ROM, with more than 200 historical time series indicators from Read more...
How did a secretary, a firefighter, a retired naval officer, a housewife, a construction worker, a schoolteacher, and a pharmacist become wealthy? Bestselling author Ric Edelman has studied the wealth-making habits of these and 5,000 other ordinary Americans.What he found is revealed for the first time in this book: the eight great secrets to attaining wealth.
This extraordinary book is filled with the advice of everyday people—people like your own friends and neighbors—who entered the world of personal finance, often with no real plan at the start, but who found ways to accumulate astonishing amounts of money.
A rich, irreplaceable lifetime of wealthbuilding experience is now at your fingertips.Here you will learn to arrange your finances and make your investment decisions so you can reach your goals and achieve financial security. Including:
* How to turn your mortgage
into a wealth-enhancing tool;
* Why small investments work better than big ones;
* How to max out on your employer-sponsored retirement plan;
* Your investments: when to hold them and when to fold them;
* Financial news: when to pay attention and when to turn it off;
* Plus, of course, much, much more.
Let your neighbors lend you a hand and let Ric Edelman guide you through their lessons. So come along for an eye-opening journey with thousands of ordinary folks who found their way to extraordinary wealth.
Five thousand of your neighbors found hard-won financ Read more...
Markets are changing fast. New markets are emerging, trading blocks are
extending and communications channels about products and selling them are
changing at a revolutionary pace. The signs of this change are everywhere in this
text. Many people will use Principles of Marketing alongside its associated CDROM,
Interactive Marketing. An increasing number of references are now Website
addresses that anyone can access from their PC. Yet amid this turmoil some
issues remain the same. Products change continuously, but the great brands shine
through like storm-swept lighthouses: Coca-Cola, Nokia, Sony, BMW, Saab and
Shell, to name but a few.
Marketing is changing to meet the changing world. Marketing remains the
business activity that identifies an organization's customer needs and wants,
determines which target markets it can serve best and designs appropriate products,
services and programmes to serve these markets. However, marketing is
much more than an isolated business function - it is a philosophy that guides the
entire organization. The goal of marketing is to create customer satisfaction profitably
by building valued relationships with customers. The marketing people
cannot accomplish this goal by themselves. They must work cJosely with other
people in their company and with other organizations in their value chain, to
provide superior value to customers. Thus, marketing calls upon everyone in the
organization to 'think customer' and to do all that they c Read more...
Leadership lessons from the best--Gates, Welch, Dell, Gerstner, Kelleher, Grove, and Walton
What are the traits, tactics, and strategies of the business world's most transformative leaders . . . and what can the rest of us learn from them? In What the Best CEOs Know, leadership authority Jeffrey Krames examines the careers of seven of history's most accomplished CEOs--including in-depth interviews with Michael Dell, Lou Gerstner, and Herb Kelleher--to get candid answers to many of today's most compelling business questions.
The result is a blueprint-like framework that instructs as well as it informs, and provides managers with the firsthand secrets of leadership giants. Proven learning tools--from cases and lesson summaries to selfassessment exercises--reinforce the book's methods and key ideas. Each chapter of What the Best CEOs Know provides innovative features including:
* Assess Your CEO Quotient
* Leadership Lessons of the CEO
* What would Jack Welch et al. do?
A host of well-known and bestselling books have detailed the success formulas of specific CEOs. But until now, no single book has compiled the strategies of several CEOs--let alone the world's most well-known business leaders--into a handbook for achieving breakthrough corporate stewardship. What the Best CEOs Know does exactly that, combining the wisdom, strategies, and tactics of today's most accomplished CEOs into one powerful and one-of-a-kind business resource. Read more...
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (FCF) Alternate Edition provides the same great features and content in the standard edition, but also includes an additional four chapters for instructors who want additional content in more advanced topics. The additional chapters include: Ch. 22: Risk Management--An Introduction to Financial Engineering; Ch. 23: Options and Corporate Securities; Ch. 24: Mergers and Acquisitions; and Ch. 25: Leasing.
About the Author
Stephen Ross is presently the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics, Professor Ross is recognized for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he currently serves as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He is a trustee of CalTech, a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation.
Randoloph W. Westerfield is Dean of the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California and holder of the Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair of Business Administration. From 1988 Read more...
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance.
Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor?
Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans. Read more...
What time of year do teenage girls search for prom dresses online? How does the quick adoption of technology affect business success (and how is that related to corn farmers in Iowa)? How do time and money affect the gender of visitors to online dating sites? And how is the Internet itself affecting the way we experience the world? In Click, Bill Tancer takes us behind the scenes into the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth about how we use the Web, navigate to sites, and search for information--and what all of that says about who we are.
As online directories replace the yellow pages, search engines replace traditional research, and news sites replace newsprint, we are in an age in which we've come to rely tremendously on the Internet--leaving behind a trail of information about ourselves as a culture and the direction in which we are headed. With surprising and practical insight, Tancer demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way we absorb information and how understanding that change can be used to our advantage in business and in life. Click analyzes the new generation of consumerism in a way no other book has before, showing how we use the Internet, and how those trends provide a wealth of market research nearly as vast as the Internet itself. Understanding how we change is integral to our success. After all, we are what we click. Read more...
Review
'New finance studies will like this book. It's clear and easy to follow and the RATs code is integrated with the algebra and provides value added ... the material is very applied and 'hands on' and it should have wide usage in the myriad of finance courses around.' International Journal of Finance and Economics
'This is an excellent textbook of econometrics for students of finance at the undergraduate as well as postgraduate levels. ... I consider this to be an excellent textbook of econometrics for the students as well as the practitioners in the area of finance.' Indian Journal of Statistics --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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* Hardcover: 674 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (May 26, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0521873061
* ISBN-13: 978-0521873062 Read more...
