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Predators in the Boardroom

Author : Imogen Rose Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Predators in the Boardroom written by Imogen Rose Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is a study of the impact of sexually predatory and/or discriminatory behavior on the performance of venture capital and private equity funds. We contend that predatory and/or discriminatory behavior is a poor management practice resulting in organizational dysfunction and poor investment performance. We begin by introducing a Predatory Behavior Index at the scale of the fund, which we construct by establishing an order relation between different types of predatory behavior; gathering validated information from legal filings to score the index value; and computing the index value as a weighted sum from the scoring. We find statistically significant evidence that fund-level investment performance is negatively correlated with sexually predatory and/or discriminatory behavior.

Icarus in the Boardroom

Author : David Skeel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195346599
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Icarus in the Boardroom written by David Skeel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have always loved risktakers. Like the Icarus of ancient Greek lore, however, even the most talented entrepreneurs can overstep their bounds. All too often, the very qualities that make Icaran executives special-- self-confidence, visionary insight, and extreme competitiveness--spur them to take misguided and even illegal chances. The Icaran failure of an ordinary entrepreneur isn't headline news. But put Icarus in the corporate boardroom and, as David Skeel vividly demonstrates, the ripple effects can be profound. Ever since the first large-scale corporations emerged in the nineteenth century, their ability to tap huge amounts of capital and the sheer number of lives they affect has meant that their executives play for far greater stakes. Excessive and sometimes fraudulent risks, competition, and the increasing size and complexity of organizations: these three factors have been at the heart of every corporate breakdown from 1873, when financial genius Jay Cooke collapsed, to the corporate scandals of the early 21st century. Compounding the scandals is an ongoing cat-and-mouse game between regulators' efforts to police the three factors that lead to Icarus Effect failures and efforts by corporate America to evade this regulation in the name of efficiency and flexibility. These efforts to side-step oversight can rapidly spiral out of control, setting the stage for the devastating corporate failures that punctuate American business history. But there is also a silver lining to the stunning failures: the outrage they provoke galvanizes public opinion in favor of corporate reform. The most important American business regulation has always been enacted in response to a major breakdown in corporate America. Today's business environment poses unprecedented perils for the average American as for the first time ever, more than half of Americans now own stock. Identifying the problems of the past, Skeel offers a strikingly new diagnosis of the fundamental flaws in corporate America today, and of what can be done to fix them.

It's a Jungle Up There

Author : Margaret D. Lowman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300153414
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book It's a Jungle Up There written by Margaret D. Lowman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn to the mysteries of tropical rain forests and fascinated by life in the treetops, Meg Lowman has pursued a life of scientific exploration while raising her two sons, Edward and James Burgess. This book recounts their family adventures in remote parts of the world (Samoa, West Africa, Peru, Panama, India, Biosphere 2, and others), from the perspectives of both kids and parent. Together they explore tropical rain forests, encounter anacondas and piranhas, eat crickets as hors d’oeuvres, discover new species, and nurture a family ethic for conservation. The chapters of the book focus on field biology questions, the canopy access methods developed to answer the questions, and conservation or education components of each expedition. Lowman enumerates the challenges and joys of juggling parenthood and career, and the children reflect on how their mom’s work has affected their lives. A rollicking, inspiring book, It’s a Jungle Up There is an upbeat portrayal of how a parent’s career can imprint children, and how children in turn can influence the success and trajectory of their parent’s career.

Barbarians in the Boardroom

Author : Owen Walker
Publisher : Pearson UK
ISBN 13 : 1292114002
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Barbarians in the Boardroom written by Owen Walker and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Predators and Profits

Author : Martin Howell
Publisher : Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN 13 : 0131402447
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Predators and Profits written by Martin Howell and published by Prentice Hall Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive "no sacred cows" guide to spotting financial scams and how to avoid them, this handbook for the investment consumer shows how to spot the snake oil of the past, present and future.

Ruthless Predators

Author : Jake Hagerman
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039194265
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Ruthless Predators written by Jake Hagerman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve probably met one of these ruthless predators—someone who is charming and slick, confident and keen, manipulative and vindictive. Someone who talks the talk, lies without remorse, and mercilessly works the system, preying on colleagues, superiors, subordinates, and partners in order to climb the proverbial ladder. If you haven’t encountered this individual in your place of work . . . lucky you! It is, unfortunately, statistically likely that you will at some point in your career. The workplace (organization) miscreant, in most cases identified as a subclinical psychopath, is encountered at all levels of organization infrastructure and throughout the myriad of professions that encompass the workplace as we know it. Jake Hagerman, a qualified clinical and industrial-organization psychologist, is here to help you recognize the signs of an organization miscreant and offer practical next steps if you happen to encounter one at your place of business. Plainspoken and candid, the following book entitled, “Ruthless Predators: Miscreants in the Workplace and How to Deal with Them” is a training tool for the general public to improve skill sets for survival in the workplace. Through fifteen case vignettes and an assessment instrument (the “Psychopathy Spectrum Test”), you’ll learn how to recognize the “Dark Tetrad” personality traits of an organization miscreant, how these individuals apply their cat-and-mouse style of manipulation while hiding in plain sight, and how to protect yourself and your company once their despicable behavior is identified.

Values Across the Curriculum

Author : Peter Tomlinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000627977
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Values Across the Curriculum written by Peter Tomlinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The background to this book, first published in 1986, and its underlying concern lies with those aspects of education which relate to values. Amongst these, moral and social values are often thought of as central, and they are the title’s primary concerns. The study also deals with the value aspects and implications of the major areas of the sec

Defense Against the Psychopath: A Brief Introduction to Human Predators

Author : MR Stefan H. Verstappen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0986951528
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Defense Against the Psychopath: A Brief Introduction to Human Predators written by MR Stefan H. Verstappen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense against the Psychopath is a brief study guide to teach people how to recognize and defend against our society's most dangerous predators, psychopaths.

The Predator

Author : Terri Blackstock
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0979421918
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Predator written by Terri Blackstock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eye of the Predator

Author : Abhisar Sharma
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 9350093650
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Eye of the Predator written by Abhisar Sharma and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zanghara South Waziristan. August 5, 2009: In a carefully orchestrated midnight attack US drones zeroed in and killed the dreaded leader of the infamous Tehreek-e-Taliban as he lay with his wife on his father-in-law's terrace. A riveting, highly-informed conspiracy novel set in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US, The Eye of the Predator is an arresting account of an unlikely group of men who slept with the enemy in a desperate bid to fight the monster of Pakistan. The question is who tipped off the CIA? Baitullah Mehsud the dreaded leader of the Pakistani Taliban had grown too big for his boots. His delusions of grandeur, his manic dreams of ruling all of Pakistan and his brazen and bloody terrorist acts were making many people uneasy. The US, the ISI, the Karzai Government, the Government of Pakistan and various splinter groups of the Taliban ? all of whom had at one time or the other partnered with him ? now wanted him dead.

Raging Against the Machine

Author : Chris Brazier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904456025
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Raging Against the Machine written by Chris Brazier and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over thirty years, the core concerns of New Internationalist have been: Anger at the world's ever-growing divide between rich and poor; concern at the state of the environment and the damage done by consumer culture; and resistance to the economic sway of transnational corporations and the IMF/World Bank axis that backs them up. This collection of the most influential pieces of writing published by the magazine is far more than just a retrospective, but a reflection of the evolution of the international movement of resistance to Washington-led globalisation.

Predator & Prey: Judge

Author : Gherbod Fleming
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Predator & Prey: Judge written by Gherbod Fleming and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Fit to Judge? Douglas Sands is a middle-aged corporate manager whose comfortable life has been filled with loss and disappointment. He has a good job, lives in a fine home and wants for nothing... except, perhaps, for everything to be different, or perhaps just as it was years ago. Before his son died. Before he and his wife lost their passion for one another. Before a co-worker turned up dead. Sands finds himself yearning for the past even more when he begins to see and hear things that are not of the world he knew. Monsters lurking in the shadows seem to desire the only things of value to him. But even as his eyes open to the truths of the World of Darkness, Douglas Sands is forced to deal with the all-too-human mistakes he's made as well. He cannot help but wonder if he's truly fit to judge the supernatural fiends he discovers. Predator & Prey: Judge is the second in the series of six novels that explores the Hunters newly arrived within the World of Darkness and the supernatural foes they have an obligation to confront. In the course of the series, the line between hunter and the hunted continues to blur. The series continues with Predator & Prey: Werewolf.

Guerrilla Warfare in the Corporate Jungle

Author : K.F. Dochartaigh
Publisher : Business Expert Press
ISBN 13 : 1952538858
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Guerrilla Warfare in the Corporate Jungle written by K.F. Dochartaigh and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using his experiences of life in the corporate jungle, K.F. Dochartaigh has produced a survival manual that assists and guides the reader on how best to navigate corporate pitfalls and avoid being ‘trapped’. The book fuses three separate but intertwined disciplines of the animal kingdom, the guerrilla battlefield, and the corporate world to help establish patterns of behavior and to understand the motivations that drive each action. All three areas share a common environment: the jungle, where visibility is limited, and ambush is the only method of attack by predators. The book blends animal and human psychology and provides safe passage in all its encounters. This book does not condone war—in fact, quite the opposite—and, as you will see, it takes more of a defensive position in repelling attacks and seeks to promote the occurrence of collaboration over individual competition, which will also become apparent. It is not a “call to arms” or a promotion of anarchy—not by any stretch of the imagination—as it merely assists the individual in adapting within their environment in order to ensure their survival. Whether you work as an accountant, IT consultant, lawyer, salesperson, or project manager, the same logic still applies because there is a natural order in all corporate vocations.

Insuring the Industrial Revolution

Author : Robin Pearson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351927329
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Insuring the Industrial Revolution written by Robin Pearson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking. Yet whilst the danger of fire had always been taken seriously, it was not until the start of the eighteenth century that a sophisticated system of insurance became widely available. Whilst a number of high profile fires during the seventeenth century had drawn attention to the economic havoc a major conflagration could wreak, it was not until the effects of sustained industrialization began to alter the economic and social balance of the nation, that fire insurance really took off as a concept. The culmination of ten years of research, this book is the definitive work on early British fire insurance. It also provides a foundation for future comparative international studies of this important financial service, and for a greater level of theorising by historians about the relationship between insurance, perceptions of risk, economic development and social change. Through a detailed study of the archives of nearly 50 English and Scottish insurance companies founded between 1696 and 1850 - virtually all the records currently available - together with the construction of many new datasets on output, performance and markets, this book presents one of the most comprehensive histories ever written of a financial service. As well as measuring the size, market structure and growth rate of insurance, and the extent to which the first industrial revolution was insured, it also demonstrates ways in which insurance can be linked into wider issues of economic and social change in Britain. These range from an examination of the joint-stock company form of organization - to an analysis of changing attitudes towards fire hazard during the course of the eighteenth century. The book concludes by emphasising the ambivalent character of fire insurance in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, contrasting the industry's dynamic long-run rate of growth with its more conservative attitude to product design and diversification.

Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals

Author : Henry R. Hermann
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128092955
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals written by Henry R. Hermann and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life examines human nature and the influence of evolution, genetics, chemistry, nurture, and the sociopolitical environment as a way of understanding how and why humans behave in aggressive and dominant ways. The book walks us through aggression in other social species, compares and contrasts human behavior to other animals, and then explores specific human behaviors like bullying, abuse, territoriality murder, and war. The book examines both individual and group aggression in different environments including work, school, and the home. It explores common stressors triggering aggressive behaviors, and how individual personalities can be vulnerable to, or resistant to, these stressors. The book closes with an exploration of the cumulative impact of human aggression and dominance on the natural world. Reviews the influence of evolution, genetics, biochemistry, and nurture on aggression Explores aggression in multiple species, including insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals Compares human and animal aggressive and dominant behavior Examines bullying, abuse, territoriality, murder, and war Includes nonaggressive behavior in displays of respect and tolerance Highlights aggression triggers from drugs to stress Discusses individual and group behavior, including organizations and nations Probes dominance and aggression in religion and politics Translates the impact of human behavior over time on the natural world

Sex & the Married Girl

Author : Mandi Norwood
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429978937
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Sex & the Married Girl written by Mandi Norwood and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marriage revolution is at hand-it's going on right now, led by straight-shooting, brutally honest gloves-off contemporary Married Girls. With her fifteen years of experience at top women's magazines, Mandi Norwood speaks to this new generation of married women who crave independence and adventure just as much as they crave commitment. Like a great girls' night out, this smart, sexy, candid guide reveals married girls most intimate confessions from over one hundred in-depth interviews. So what makes today's Married Girls's marriage different from her mother's marriage? Sometimes hilarious, often tender, and always empowering, Mandi Norwood delivers from-the-heart, savvy, and practical advice about every aspect of modern marriage from power, controlling money, omigod-the-mother-in-law, to brazen behavior in bed.

The Hitched Chick's Guide to Modern Marriage

Author : Mandi Norwood
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429978945
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Hitched Chick's Guide to Modern Marriage written by Mandi Norwood and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marriage revolution is at hand--it's going on right now, led by a new generation of married women who crave independence and adventure just as much as they crave commitment. With her fifteen years of experience at top women's magazines, Mandi Norwood hosts the perfect girls' night out, revealing married women's most intimate confessions from more than one hundred in-depth interviews. Sometimes hilarious, often tender, and always empowering, this smart, sexy, candid guide offers from-the-heart, savvy, and practical advice about every aspect of modern marriage from power, controlling money, and omigod-the-mother-in-law, to brazen behavior in bed.It's something entirely different-sexier, more independent and definitely more complicated. The balance of power has not just shifted, it's off its axis entirely. Mandi Norwood has tapped into the new beast that is modern marriage to deliver straight talk about what really happens: at the dinner table, over the checkbook and in the bedroom. In over one hundred interviews with these new-fashioned wives-hitched chicks-Norwood learned not just what women in marriages today want but how they get it. She found an energetic, adventurous generation whose intimate confessions add up to a hilarious and very candid night out with the girls. "High-voltage advice right out of Pandora's Box."-Lauren Stover, author of THE BOMBSHELL MANUAL OF STYLE "As soon as he slips the ring on your finger, find this book and read it cover to cover. It's the must-have-how-to manual for marriage."-Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief, Self