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The Conscience Economy: How a Mass Movement for Good Is Great for Business
Author Steven Overman
A generation of people around the world, from Boston to Bangkok, from New York to New Delhi, are making everyday choices in ways that defy traditional logic. They are judging where and how their clothes were made, not just how they fit. They are thinking global but ....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Author Robbie Kellman Baxter
In today’s business world, it takes more than a website to stay competitive. The smartest, most successful companies are using radically new membership models, subscription-based formats, and freemium pricing structures to grow their customer base—a....
Release Date 2015/03 -
The Next Revolution in our Credit-Driven Economy
Author Paul Schulte
Go inside the research to see the global consequences of unethical bankingThe Next Revolution in our Credit-Driven Economy: The Advent of Financial Technology integrates market theory and practice to help investors identify growth opportunities, and to help regulat....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Serving Workers in the Gig Economy
Author Elizabeth Woyke , Nick Grossman
It’s difficult to ignore the effects of the "great unbundling" today. The digital revolution has already changed the nature of media, personal health, finance, and other economic and industrial sectors in recent years. As this O’Reilly report reveals, the modern wo....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Communication Networks Economy
Author Daniel Battu
In an increasingly interconnected world, "Communication Networks Economy" provides the rational understanding necessary to provide universal access to communication means in an efficient way. This book presents the principal elements of the economics of a network a....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Diane Mulcahy
From Uber to the presidential debates, the gig economy has been dominating the headlines…and for good reason. Today, more than a third of Americans are working in the gig economy—mixing together short-term jobs, contract work, and freelance assignments. For those w....
Release Date 2016/11 -
How the Information Revolution Remade Business and the Economy
Author Apek Mulay
Tremendous technological progress in the last half century has exponentially grown productivity as well as increased automation to reduce the costs of operation for businesses. On one hand, ever-growing productivity has reduced requirements for manual labor through....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Author Xiaodong Lee , Dominic Barton , Winston Ma
Explore the world-changing digital transformation in ChinaChina's Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom is a cutting-edge text that spotlights the digital transformation in China. Organised into three major areas of ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Marion McGovern
In the last five years, the world of work has changed dramatically. Thanks to technology companies like Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, and Instacart, the new "gig economy; seems to constantly be in the news. But most of the media focus is on the low end of the skill spe....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Author Stian Westlake , Jonathan Haskel
The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&a....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Manufacturers Can Also Win in the Sharing Economy
Author Frieda Klotz
The sharing economy isn’t all bad news for manufacturers of big-ticket items such as cars. Research suggests that in some circumstances, manufacturers can charge higher prices to customers who are planning to rent out those goods. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Thriving in the Gig Economy: Freelancing Online for Tech Professionals and Entrepreneurs
Author Adam Sinicki
Take an in-depth look into the gig economy to see how tech professionals and entrepreneurs can earn a living as freelancers and contractors. Build your own business. The pros and cons of the lifestyle and what to expect from it are discussed.In this book, author Ad....
Release Date 2018/11 -
Crushing the IT Gender Bias: Thriving as a Woman in Technology
Author Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
Conscious and unconscious bias, societal pressures, and discomfort with women’s ambition are issues that women are confronted with in any male-dominated setting, and tech is no exception. Statistically, women are a disproportionately small percentage of the technol....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Red Yellow Green: What Color is Your Money? The survival manual for gig workers and consultants
Author Noah Gift
This is the book your boss does NOT want you to read!Learn to escape corporate America. We live in a new era of disruption. It is possible to start a business with a laptop and an internet connection. As a long time consultant and entrepreneur, I have come up with a frame....
Release Date 2020/07