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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 -
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 -
Seven Steps to a Rewarding Transitional Career: Getting Work in a Tough Economy
Author Richard J. Pinsker
This tough job market has evolved from the current global financial sector melt down and the resulting economic restructuring, and is likely to continue for a number of years. To thrive in it, one must first recognize that on-going career transitions will be more pr....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Agenda for a New Economy, 2nd Edition
Author David C. Korten
Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and our leaders in Washington lack the will to make desperately needed fundamental changes to the econom....
Release Date 2010/08 -
Author Lawrence E. Mitchell
American companies once focused exclusively on providing the best products and services. But today, most corporations are obsessed with maximizing their stock prices, resulting in short-term thinking and the kind of cook-the-books corruption seen in the Enron a....
Release Date 2008/11 -
Author Storm Cunningham
The Restoration Economy reveals the previously undocumented trillion-dollar global industries that are restoring our natural and manmade environments. Restorative development is rapidly overtaking new development because we are running out of things to develop. Most....
Release Date 2002/11 -
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 -
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 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 -
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 -
Market Economy and Urban Change
Author Roger Zetter , Mohamed Hamza
Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of 'market enablement' and stru....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Hermann Scheer
The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption, will run out within decades, causing huge industria....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Jayanta Sarkar
Since Independence, India has been pursuing economic policies and programmes which unwittingly or knowingly are turning out to be copies or adaptations of what is being followed elsewhere, sometimes without any effort to customise them to local conditions, ethos ....
Release Date 2006/10 -
The Indian Economy Since 1991, 2nd Edition
Author B. A. Prakash
The Indian Economy Since 1991: Economic Reforms and Performance is the outcome of a collaborative effort by 28 experts who have made significant contributions in research toward the Indian economy. Using a data-based, analytical approach to key economic issues and p....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Brajesh Kumar , Arshad Noor Siddiquee , Zahid A. Khan
Engineering Economy is meant as an introductory course for undergraduate students, and it explains and demonstrates the principles and techniques of engineering economic analysis as applied in different fields of engineering.
Release Date 2012/03