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Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms
Author D. Quinn Mills
Global financial scandals didn't stop with Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco. In fact, they're still notover. In Wheel, Deal, and Steal, Harvard Business School professor Daniel Quinn Mills showsinvestors how imperial CEOs continue to steal from their investors - and how t....
Release Date 2003/04 -
Author Wendy Taylor , Chris Pirillo , John C. Dvorak
Online! The Book"If you go online, see how much more you can gain, without the pain. Fascinating, fun, and delightfully written. The invaluable tool for everyone that makes you laugh out loud to read." --Scott Cook, Founder and Chairman of Intuit Software"There is o....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results
Author Eli Schragenheim , David J. Anderson
"This book does a good job of describing the methods employed at Sprintpcs.com ... over 250 people practicing Feature Driven Development and reporting their progress to me at the monthly operations review." --Scott B. Relf, Chief Marketing Officer, Sprint PCS"A trem....
Release Date 2003/09 -
Managing Customers as Investments The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run
Author Donald R. Lehmann , Sunil Gupta
What's a customer really worth? Can you find out, without endlesslycomplex modeling? And once you know, what should you do with thatknowledge? Managing Your Customers as Investments has the answers.You'll learn simple ways to get reliable customer value informatio....
Release Date 2005/01 -
SCORE! A Better Way to Do Busine$$: Moving from Conflict to Collaboration
Author Thomas T. Stallkamp
To maximize long term profits, companies and their managers must focus more on win/win collaboration with business partners rather than using coercion and adversarial tactics to force compliance. Stallkamp pioneered new strategies for collaboration as President of C....
Release Date 2005/02 -
In Your Face: How American Marketing Excess Fuels Anti-Americanism
Author Johny K. Johansson
Globalization, commercialization and Americanization are changing the lives of almost everybody on the planet. The uniqueness of this book is that it tackles these trends together, and head-on. The balance of knowledge and feeling makes it an important book in a fie....
Release Date 2004/04 -
Author Jeffrey D. Wager , J. Donald deBethizy , Michael D. Lord
Innovation is more urgently necessary than it's ever been. Now, three leading experts on commercializing innovation systematically sort through the wreckage of yesterday's strategies, learning lessons and identifying ideas worth preserving and adapting. To prepare....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations
Author Ken Blanchard
“Leading at a Higher Level translates decades of research and 25 years of global experience into simple, practical, and powerful strategies to equip leaders at every level to build organizations that produce bottom-line results. At Nissan, we have made these princip....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long-Term Business Success and Failure
Author Alfred A. Marcus
What keeps great companies winning, year after year, even as yesterday's most hyped businesses fall by the wayside? It's not what you think -- or what you've read. To find the real answers, strategic management expert Alfred Marcus systematically reviewed detaile....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Who Stole My Customer??: Winning Strategies for Creating and Sustaining Customer Loyalty
Author Harvey Thompson
Who's stealing your customers? Why is it happening? How can you stop it? These are the toughest questions facing virtually every enterprise. Who Stole My Customer?? is your complete guide to planning and implementing customer loyalty processes that really work-beca....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus
Author Michael A. Roberto
Harvard Business School's Michael Roberto draws on powerful decision-making case studies from every walk of life, showing how to promote honest, constructive dissent and skepticism; use it to improve decisions; and align organizations behind those decisions. Learn....
Release Date 2005/06 -
Author Bernard Baumohl
Every day, stocks, bonds, and currencies bounce wildly in response to new economic indicators. Money managers obsess over those statistics, because they provide crucial clues about the future of the economy and the financial markets.Now you can use these indicators ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Author Jack B. Rochester , John Gantz
Digital piracy. It's a global war -- and it's just begun. Pirates of the Digital Millennium chronicles that war. All of it: media conglomerates vs. teenagers, tech companies vs. content providers, artists battling artists, nations vs. nations, law enforcement vs. ....
Release Date 2004/09 -
Credit Derivatives: A Primer on Credit Risk, Modeling, and Instruments
Author Vincent Dessain , Hideto Motohashi , Anders Sjöman , George Chacko
The credit risk market is the fastest growing financial market in the world, attracting everyone from hedge funds to banks and insurance companies. Increasingly, professionals in corporate finance need to understand the workings of the credit risk market in order to....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Author Oded Shenkar
By 2015, China may well have the world's largest economy. In The Chinese Century, Oded Shenkar shows how China is restoring its imperial glory by infusing modern technology and market economics into a non-democratic system controlled by the Communist party and bure....
Release Date 2004/10 -
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Author C. K. Prahalad , Harvey C. Fruehauf
The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market? It's where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. You can learn how to serve them and ....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Author Steve Weisman
Everything You Need to Know About Identity Theft, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, and Credit Reports"The author substitutes straight talk for legal mumbo-jumbo in 50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit. Reading this book is like getting a black belt in consum....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Understanding Arbitrage: An Intuitive Approach to Financial Analysis
Author Randall Billingsley
Arbitrage is central both to corporate risk management and to a wide range of investment strategies. Thousands of financial executives, managers, and sophisticated investors want to understand it, but most books on arbitrage are far too abstract and technical to ser....
Release Date 2005/10 -
No Substitute for Victory: Lessons in Strategy and Leadership from General Douglas Macarthur
Author Donna Kinni , Theodore Kinni
General Douglas A. MacArthur's extraordinary life of leadership spanned three wars and more than six decades inside and outside the military. He defined principles of leadership that were decades ahead of their time: principles reflecting extraordinary wisdom about....
Release Date 2005/01 -
The Rise of the Rogue Executive: How Good Companies Go Bad and How to Stop the Destruction
Author Cynthia J. Smith , Leonard R. Sayles
"Sayles and Smith have covered all the bases with a comprehensive, yet fascinating, analysis of what has been ailing our capital market system. A system that has given us such high standards of living. A recommended read for those who not only want to understand wha....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Technical Analysis: Power Tools for Active Investors
Author Gerald Appel
Unlike most technical analysis books, Gerald Appel's Practical Power Tools! offers step-by-step instructions virtually any investor can use to achieve breakthrough success in the market. Appel illuminates a wide range of strategies and timing models, demystifying e....
Release Date 2005/03 -
The Next Global Stage Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World
Author Kenichi Ohmae
Globalization is a fact. You can't stop it; it has already happened; it is here to stay. And we are moving into a new global stage.A radically new world is taking shape from the ashes of yesterday's nation-based economic world. To succeed, you must act on the glob....
Release Date 2005/03 -
Let Go To Grow: Escaping the Commodity Trap
Author Dave Taylor , Linda S. Sanford
Praise for Let Go To Grow"Over the next ten years large companies will be hit with a wide array of harrowing new business challenges—commoditization being at the top of that list.Let Go To Grow elegantly outlines the critical new innovation, standardization, and glo....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Forex Revolution: An Insider's Guide to the Real World of Foreign Exchange Trading
Author Peter Rosenstreich
"For many investors, an intense, 24-hour-a-day, $1.5 trillion roller-coaster of a market spells "danger"; for readers of Forex Revolution, the word is "opportunity." –Michael J. Panzner, vice president, Rabo Securities USA, Inc., and author of The New Laws of the St....
Release Date 2005/06 -
The 86 Percent Solution: How to Succeed in the Biggest Market Opportunity of the Next 50 Years
Author Robert Gunther , Kamini Banga , Vijay Mahajan
Most global businesses focus nearly all their efforts on selling to the wealthiest 14% of the world's population. It's getting harder and harder to make a profit that way: these markets are oversaturated, overcompetitive, and declining. The Invisible Market shows ....
Release Date 2005/09 -
The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass
Author Lonnie Pacelli
This is your complete, hands-on guide to saving projects in trouble.Drawing on 20 years of frontline project management experience, Lonnie Pacelli identifies the 18 most pervasive causes of project failure: their causes, early warning signs, and how to fix them b....
Release Date 2004/08 -
Moral Intelligence Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success
Author Fred Kiel , Doug Lennick
Through a combination of research, and original thought leadership, the authors demonstrate how the best performing companies have leaders who actively apply moral values to achieve enduring personal and organizational success. These individuals exhibit moral intell....
Release Date 2005/05 -
The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage
Author Peter Navarro
Most companies ignore one of their best opportunities for honing competitive advantage: the opportunity to proactively manage business cycles and macroeconomic turbulence. Despite the profound impact that the business cycle has on the fortunes and fate of so many bu....
Release Date 2006/01 -
From Ice Cream to the Internet: Using Franchising to Drive the Growth and Profits of Your Company
Author Scott A. Shane
In this book, Dr. Scott A. Shane systematically helps businesses assess the pros and cons of the decision to franchise. This book focuses squarely on the issues and challenges faced by franchisors. Shane answers key questions such as: What do successful franchisors....
Release Date 2005/01 -
Options Trading for the Conservative Investor: Increasing Profits Without Increasing Your Risk
Author Michael C. Thomsett
Other copy "Every open-minded conservative investor should read this book." –Lawrence G. McMillan, author of Options as a Strategic Investment"The author's option trading guidelines include important issues often overlooked by investors. Attention conservative inve....
Release Date 2005/05