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Firm Ambitions

Author : Michael A. Kahn
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1464204438
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Firm Ambitions written by Michael A. Kahn and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rachel remains one of the more engaging sleuths on the mystery scene." —Publishers Weekly After the death of her father, attorney Rachel Gold has returned to her hometown of St. Louis to spend more time with her mother. The savvy and beautiful Rachel, who made a name for herself in complex corporate litigation in Chicago, finds herself enmeshed in Landau v. Landau, a high-stakes divorce case far nastier than any of her former lawsuits. And, as she will soon find out, far deadlier. Rachel's client is Eileen Landau, the best friend of her sister Ann. Eileen and Ann are just two of many wealthy, bored housewives who get their kicks three days a week in an aerobics classes conducted by the handsome fitness guru, Andros, at an upscale gym. Eileen, however, gets some additional kicks once or twice a week with Andros at an upscale hotel. Shortly after his last tryst with Eileen, Andros is found dead. The coroner determines the cause of death as cyanide poisoning. The trail of clues leads not to Eileen but to Ann, Rachel's sister, who was having her own affair with Andros. Suddenly, Rachel has a personal stake in the case. But as she works her way through the list of angry wives seduced and scorned by Andros, she realizes that sex may not have been the motive behind his seductions. Indeed, Andros may have been doing the bidding of a puppet master far more dangerous—someone with few qualms about eliminating a semi-incompetent accomplice, and none about eliminating a competent lawyer whose investigation threatens a multi-million-dollar criminal enterprise.

Higher Ambition

Author : Michael Beer
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1422142329
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Higher Ambition written by Michael Beer and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting the new standard for leadership. Higher Ambition is required reading for every leader who refuses to compromise between people and performance. Choosing one or the other may have worked in the past, but it won’t work now. As global competition stiffens and businesses face increased public scrutiny and renewed government regulation, leaders must win on all fronts—with their people, their customers, their communities, and their shareholders. In short, they must deliver superior economic and social value. Brimming with powerful stories and thoughtful advice from CEOs themselves, Higher Ambition equips leaders with the practical insights they need to meet this new and higher standard. The authors, an international team of experts from leading business schools and consultancies, offer a unique view into the minds of some of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time: CEOs from vanguard companies around the world that have demonstrated the distinctive ability to do good while also doing well. These organizations are as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Volvo, Cummins, IKEA, the Tata Group, and Campbell’s Soup. Readers will learn the principles and practices these pioneering leaders are using to: • Build enduring enterprises that simultaneously solve for people and profits • Forge winning strategies that leverage their companies’ unique cultural and human capabilities • Dramatically raise the aspirations and ambitions of their people • Energize and align their diverse global firms • Relentlessly upgrade leadership capabilities throughout their organizations Drawing on the author team’s extensive research and in-depth interviews with successful leaders from around the globe, this provocative new book is poised to become a management classic in the tradition of In Search of Excellence and Built to Last.

Open for Business

Author : Richard Feinberg
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815727690
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Open for Business written by Richard Feinberg and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert guide to Cuba’s economic opening to the outside world. Ninety miles across the Straits of Florida, an exciting new revolution is afoot. This time, instead of guerillas marching down the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will upend Cuba. Now opening to the world, what new forms is this nascent economy likely to take? Open for Business: The New Cuban Economy, Richard E. Feinberg’s new book, examines the Cuban economy as it makes its early steps into developing a more dynamic market economy. He examines key issues like the role foreign investors will play, how Cubans will forge a path to entrepreneurship, and the roadmaps suggested by other emerging economies. As Cuba’s economy awakens from the post-Castro dream, it will do so with a flavor that is uniquely Cuban. Feinberg’s book—enriched by interviews and in-depth field research conducted over the last five years—speaks both to Cuba’s legacy and to its new horizons on the world stage.

Firm Ambitions

Author : Michael A. Kahn
Publisher : Onyx Books
ISBN 13 : 9780451179616
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Firm Ambitions written by Michael A. Kahn and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the sexy owner of a hot St. Louis exercise studio is murdered, Rachel Gold investigates. But finding the right "woman scorned" turns far more complex and deadly, with Rachel herself becoming a target. Part of the "Books That Take You Anywhere You Want To Go" Summer Reading Promotion.

The Company

Author : Stephen Bown
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385694083
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Company written by Stephen Bown and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America. When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world. Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.

Surrogate Suburbs

Author : Todd M. Michney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469631954
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Surrogate Suburbs written by Todd M. Michney and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed Black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's Black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outside the overcrowded, inner-city neighborhoods to which most African Americans were consigned. In asserting their right to these outer-city spaces, African Americans appealed to city officials, allied with politically progressive whites (notably Jewish activists), and relied upon both Black and white developers and real estate agents to expand these "surrogate suburbs" and maintain their livability until the bona fide suburbs became more accessible. By tracking the trajectories of those who, in spite of racism, were able to succeed, Michney offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on racial conflict and Black poverty and tells the neglected story of the Black middle class in America's cities prior to the 1960s.

Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization

Author : Gunnar Eliasson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400916108
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Firm Objectives, Controls and Organization written by Gunnar Eliasson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The actual organization and use of information systems in American, European and Japanese firms are investigated and compared with theoretical conclusions. Finally, following the experimental evolution of the information products over the past twenty years, the results presented indicate that information and communication firms are now starting to offer the kind of business information systems predicted by the analysis. The transformation of business information systems technology can be followed in the Chronicle, which is provided on diskette and which covers the development of modern IT and telecommunications industries. The data are arranged to allow researchers to reconfigure the data according to their own needs.

An Insider View To Doing Business In Myanmar

Author : Philip Zerrillo
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811240043
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book An Insider View To Doing Business In Myanmar written by Philip Zerrillo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myanmar has often been referred to as the next great economic frontier. While the world has high hopes for this emerging economy, many hurdles lie ahead. Its laws, infrastructure, financial institutions, and rules of commerce continue to be a work in progress.This book provides numerous examples of companies that have not only overcome various challenges, but also thrived in the rapidly evolving environment that is Myanmar today. It covers the hopes and dreams of Burmese founders, who are leading organisations that are operating there. By telling the stories of their unique perspectives and experiences, we hope to inspire and guide those who follow, helping them envision and trailblaze their own paths forward in the emerging economy.

Business Culture Design (englische Ausgabe)

Author : Simon Sagmeister
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593438151
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Business Culture Design (englische Ausgabe) written by Simon Sagmeister and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although culture is what gives companies the ability to survive, it is often addressed only after problems have emerged. While it is true that corporate culture cannot be put into numbers, it can be visualized and modeled using the author's Culture Map. The values underlying all corporate cultures are represented in seven colors which combine to form individual patterns. The Culture Map can be used as a basis for successful change and innovation processes, mergers, and integrations. When managers and employees see where they are trying to go, it enables them to take the appropriate decisions and actions. "This is the perfect (work-)book for those who want to know what makes their organization tick and who want to actively sculpt its success." Carina Kontio, Handelsblatt "An extensive introduction to the topic of corporate culture with vivid case studies and graphics. Very attractive design and great visual transfer." acquisa

Superior Rendezvous-Place

Author : Jean Morrison
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459711092
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Superior Rendezvous-Place written by Jean Morrison and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Morrison has written a fascinating and important book, full of drama and colourful historical figures. Rare paintings, drawings, maps and archival photographs complement her impeccable research and lively text. Superior Rendezvous-Place encompasses the French predecessors of Fort William, Native Peoples of the time and the evolution of the fur trade, with an emphasis on the North West Company era. This most important work concludes with details of the reconstruction of the fort and the development of Old Fort William, one of Ontario’s "must see" attractions. "Jean Morrison is a natural story teller, and hers is an essential historical document in the compelling history of Fort William, once the centre of the North American commercial universe." - Peter C. Newman, author of Caesars of the Wilderness "This book is wonderful reading. Jean Morrison’s prose is beautiful." - Carolyn Podruchny, fur trade historian, Newberry Library, Chicago

International Business

Author : Alan Sitkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199646961
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book International Business written by Alan Sitkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a refreshingly critical perspective, this text presents a balanced & concise account of the challenges & opportunities of international business. Extensive use of international case examples, demonstrating both good & bad practice, provides students with a realistic depiction of international business.

Conceiving Companies

Author : Timothy L. Alborn
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415180795
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Conceiving Companies written by Timothy L. Alborn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company, locating their origins in social and political practice.

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Author : MILIND T. PHADTARE
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 8120341805
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT written by MILIND T. PHADTARE and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily intended for the postgraduate students of commerce and management, this compact text covers all the topics prescribed in almost all universities and autonomous institutes in India. Each concept is explained with the help of many real-life examples from the Indian context. Considering the fact that the understanding of the concept of strategic intent is prerequisite to the understanding of strategic management, the chapter on strategic intent is included which brings out the differences between various elements of strategic intent. It also covers the current happenings in the businesses from the Indian context. Similarly, a topic on strategic choice has been discussed at length because of the fact that BCG growth-share matrix and GE nine-cell matrix are extremely useful in making a strategic decision in real life. Besides, the book contains ten case studies on various topics of strategic management such as environmental appraisal, critical success factors, SWOT analysis, strategic intent, strategic choice, business level strategy formulation and choice of growth strategy. All these cases are provided with authentic industry specific data. Firms are chosen from different businesses thereby giving business-specific flavour and a broad understanding of various business domains.

The Emerald Handbook of Women and Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies

Author : Shahamak Rezaei
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800713266
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Emerald Handbook of Women and Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies written by Shahamak Rezaei and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerald Handbook of Women and Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies examines women's role in entrepreneurial practices in a range of developing countries and applies unique strategic contextual frameworks to analyse, interpret and understand individual processes, themes and issues.

Competencies and Institutions Fostering High-growth Firms

Author : Martin J. Wainwright
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
ISBN 13 : 1601981767
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Competencies and Institutions Fostering High-growth Firms written by Martin J. Wainwright and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formalism of probabilistic graphical models provides a unifying framework for capturing complex dependencies among random variables, and building large-scale multivariate statistical models. Graphical models have become a focus of research in many statistical, computational and mathematical fields, including bioinformatics, communication theory, statistical physics, combinatorial optimization, signal and image processing, information retrieval and statistical machine learning. Many problems that arise in specific instances-including the key problems of computing marginals and modes of probability distributions-are best studied in the general setting. Working with exponential family representations, and exploiting the conjugate duality between the cumulant function and the entropy for exponential families, Graphical Models, Exponential Families and Variational Inference develops general variational representations of the problems of computing likelihoods, marginal probabilities and most probable configurations. It describes how a wide variety of algorithms- among them sum-product, cluster variational methods, expectation-propagation, mean field methods, and max-product-can all be understood in terms of exact or approximate forms of these variational representations. The variational approach provides a complementary alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo as a general source of approximation methods for inference in large-scale statistical models.

Strategic Tools in Dynamic Environments

Author : Cornelius Herzog
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640703847
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Tools in Dynamic Environments written by Cornelius Herzog and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,2, European Business School - International University Schlo Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel, language: English, abstract: "The reason why firms succeed or fail is perhaps the central question in strategy" stated Porter. While traditional strategy approaches can soundly answer this central question in stable environments, these approaches are not directly applicable to dynamic environments and there is currently no final and complete answer that determines the causes for a company's failure or success with their strategies in dynamic environments. Nevertheless, there are many examples of companies that outperform their competitors even in dynamic environments, such as Microsoft and Intel, and there are many examples of companies that have not been successful at all, such as Siemens and BenQ with their mobile phone division. One critical point of each strategy is the strategic management process during which the strategy is developed and implemented and during which strategic tools such as the famous SWOT analysis or Porter's five forces are used, for example, to structure or collect data. The purpose of this paper is to explore if strategic tools developed in stable environments are still suitable in dynamic environments or if there are certain constraints. Therefore, the paper builds on existing literature to develop a thorough understanding of dynamic environments and successful patterns of strategy in dynamic environments, and based on this understanding, an analysis framework is developed to analyze several strategic tools. The new finding is that the use of strategic tools is still desirable in dynamic environments, but that there are limitations that must be considered to obtain useful results when using tools. This finding is used to develop a categorization of strategic tools and to propose a new framework for the use of strategic tools

Strategy Making in a Crisis

Author : Michael Gibbert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849805261
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book Strategy Making in a Crisis written by Michael Gibbert and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Gibbert presents a thoughtful theoretical framework allowing readers to critically think about imaginations related to strategy making. His research is based on a highly complex case and diversified context allowing us to understand the use of different theories in an integrated way. Gilbert Probst, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland Putting imagination center stage in strategy making is a long overdue perspective, one that can renew the field. Michael Gibbert makes an important contribution through this integrative framing. Yves Doz, INSEAD, France If you can t imagine the future of your company, how are you supposed to shape it? This book helps appreciate and execute imaginative strategy making. Martin Hoegl, WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, Germany Which strategy making approach works best in a crisis? In current literature, the recommendations oscillate between prediction, control, and practice, but this unique book focuses specifically on strategy making in a crisis. In a crisis, the business landscape is neither stable nor predictable, resources are scarce rather than abundant, customers disappear and shareholders revolt, all of which can make prediction and control very difficult. Drawing on evidence from philosophy, and on a multi-year case study of a major multinational, Michael Gibbert points to three different kinds of imaginations and proposes a three-step model for imaginative strategy making. Introducing new topics on this subject, Strategy Making in a Crisis will strongly appeal to top-level managers, including corporate development departments, and business-unit level strategy. Postgraduate students will also receive ideas for their own theses, not only from the content, but also from the approach which is deductive and integrates management theories using social science literature and methodology.