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  • The TRACE Econometric Model of the Canadian Economy

    Series series Heritage
    The TRACE (Toronto annual Canadian econometric) model is an annual, non-linear econometric model of the Canadian economy designed primarily to forecast the statistics which appear in the principal tables of the Canadian National Income and Expenditure Accounts. TRACE is the first Canadian econometric model from which a published ex ante forecast has been made. In this book the authors describe the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Marketing High Technology

    An Insider's View

    Marketing is civilized warfare. And as high-tech products become increasingly standardized—practically identical, from the customer's point of view—it is marketing that spells life or death for new devices or entire firms. In a book that is as fascinating as it is pragmatic, William H. Davidow, a legend in Silicon Valley, where he was described as "the driving force behind the micro processor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Service Breakthroughs

    What Do Citicorp, UPS and Marriott have in common? They are "breakthrough" service providers,firms that changed the rules of the game in their respective industries by consistently meeting or exceeding customer needs and expectations. To find out how these companies do it, service management experts James Heskett, Earl Sasser, and Christopher Hart put the question to the chief executive officers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Intelligent Enterprise

    A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for Industr

    In this penetrating study of how knowledge-based services and technology are revolutionizing the economy and every corporate strategy, James Brian Quinn argues that the successful companies of the 90's -- whether in manufacturing or services -- will derive their competitive edge not from ephemerally superior products but from a deep understanding of a few highly developed knowledge and service ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning

    In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes that the term is an oxymoron -- that strategy cannot be planned because planning is about analysis ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Connected Corporation

    How Leading Companies Manage Customer-Supplier All

    Until now, the relationship between a company and its customers or suppliers has consisted of arms-length haggling over the price of a part or a service. Today, reveals alliance expert Jordan D. Lewis, customers and suppliers are actually embracing each other-sharing data, design work, and even research and development. The result, Lewis finds, has been a dramatic improvement in each firm's costs, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Service Profit Chain

    How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value

    In this pathbreaking book, world-renowned Harvard Business School service firm experts James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr. and Leonard A. Schlesinger reveal that leading companies stay on top by managing the service profit chain.Why are a select few service firms better at what they do -- year in and year out -- than their competitors? For most senior managers, the profusion of anecdotal ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Major Recessions: Britain and the World 1920-1995

    In the twentieth century there have been five major recessions: two in the interwar period, and three more starting 1973, 1979, and 1989. This book focuses on events in the UK, but sets them in their international context and makes frequent comparisons with other countries. Major recessions happened at a similar time in all major countries, and the lessons are general. Three main conclusions are ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • DK Essential Managers: Making Decisions

    by Robert Heller ...
    Series series DK Essential Managers
    Learn all you need to know about making effective decisions, from defining objectives to developing fail-safe strategies. This practical guide shows you how to reassess your own decision-making skills and oversee the resolutions made by others, plus it provides practical techniques for you to try when making decisions.Power tips help you handle real-life situations and develop the first-class ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Roaring 2000'S

    Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in History

    In his bestselling book, The Great Boom Ahead, published in 1993, Harry Dent, one of the world's most prescient economic prognosticators, stood practically alone in forecasting a new age of prosperity emerging in the 1990s and extending into the new century. Dent foresaw a booming stock market, falling mortgage rates, and the resurgence of America as the premier global economic superpower. All of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • New Rules for the New Economy

    10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World

    by Kevin Kelly ...
    The classic book on business strategy in the new networked economy— from the author of the New York Times bestseller The InevitableForget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Creating Shareholder Value

    A Guide For Managers And Investors

    Economist, consultant, and Wall Street Journal contributor Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the practical tools and tests for a corporate strategy that creates shareholder value.The ultimate test of corporate strategy, the only reliable measure, is whether it creates economic value for shareholders.After a decade of downsizings frequently blamed on shareholder value decision ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Strategy-Focused Organization

    How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment

    The creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makes strategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, but by everyone. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and David Norton share the results of ten years of learning and research into more than 200 companies that have implemented the Balanced ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Asset Pricing under Asymmetric Information

    Bubbles, Crashes, Technical Analysis, and Herding

    Asset prices are driven by public news and information that is often dispersed among many market participants. These agents try to infer each other's information by analyzing price processes. In the past two decades, theoretical research in financial economics has significantly advanced our understanding of the informational aspects of price processes. This book provides a detailed and up-to-date ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Strategy Safari

    A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Mangament

    Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on business strategy by leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field.No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication of Strategy Safari, managers, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • ChangeWave Investing 2.0

    Picking the Next Monster Stocks While Protecting Your Gains in a Volatile Market

    by Tobin Smith ...
    Investment guru Tobin Smith reveals his secrets for scoring monster returns in today’s volatile stock market by focusing on the emerging sectors that have the best potential for explosive growth — what Smith refers to as ChangeWaves.ChangeWave Investing 2.0 presents a radically improved method for picking the next monster stocks while protecting current profits. Using the ChangeWave principles, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Trendspotting

    Think Forward, Get Ahead, Cash in on the Future

    This is the book that will show anyone how to discern true signs of change. Here are the hottest tips on what to expect from the economy and technology, arts and entertainment, politics and society at large. Written by a public relations expert, this new insider's guide goes beyond other books on forecasting by revealing the hows and whys of "trendSpotting," offering hundreds of compelling ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Placing the Social Economy

    In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the social economy and the term 'the third way' has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness of the social economy as a restraint on capitalist excesses with some arguing that the 'third way' is ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Benefit-Cost Analysis

    Financial and Economic Appraisal using Spreadsheets

    Benefit-Cost Analysis offers the perfect introduction to benefit–cost analysis. The book closely integrates the theory and practice of benefit–cost analysis using a spreadsheet framework. The spreadsheet model is constructed in a truly original way which contributes to transparency, provides a check on the accuracy of the analysis, and facilitates sensitivity, risk and alternative scenario ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Effective Financial Planning for Library and Information Services

    This title is a concise guide to financial planning, with definitions of financial terms and the key processes involved, which also provides tips on how to present your budget most effectively to secure funding. As pressures of business increasingly affect all information functions, it has become ever more important to be able to justify the costs involved in running any form of information ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Beyond the Core

    Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots

    by Chris Zook ...
    All companies must grow to survive--but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core business provides insufficient new growth or even hits the wall? In Beyond the Core, Zook outlines an expansion strategy based on ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Strategy Maps

    Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes

    More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Future of Competition

    Co-Creating Unique Value With Customers

    In this visionary book, C. K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy explore why, despite unbounded opportunities for innovation, companies still can't satisfy customers and sustain profitable growth. The explanation for this apparent paradox lies in recognizing the structural changes brought about by the convergence of industries and technologies; ubiquitous connectivity and globalization; and, as a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Human Side of M & A

    How CEOs Leverage the Most Important Asset in Deal Making

    There are thousands of mergers every year and, by some estimates, two-thirds of them either fail or fall far short of expectations. How can leaders keep their merger from becoming a head-on collision? In The Human Side of M&A, Dennis Carey and Dayton Ogden argue that most failed mergers looked good on paper--they made financial and strategic sense--but the crucial human element was neglected or ... Read more

    $67.99 USD