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Lehman Brothers

Learn about the Lehman Brothers collapse with iMinds insightful knowledge series. Lehman Brothers Holding Co. was the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank before the firm’s spectacular collapse in 2008. Lehman’s global businesses previously generated more than $19 billion in 2007 from its vast capital markets, investment banking and investment management businesses. The firm’s numerous subsidiaries included Neuberger Berman, Aurora Loan Services, Lehman Brothers Bank and Eagle Energy Partners. Lehman’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing on September 15, 2008 marked one of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history and sent shockwaves throughout the global financial markets. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your iPad with short information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response

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Breakthrough Best Practices for Managing Extreme Risks—Both Natural and Man-MadeHow to prepare for risks ranging from financial crises and climate change to pandemics and terrorismIndispensable information for leaders and strategists in business, the public sector, and nonprofit organizations alikeDraws on leading-edge research from The Wharton School and top risk management experts worldwideHurricanes. Earthquakes. Pandemics. Global economic crises. Terrorism. Whether natural or man-made, massive catastrophes happen far more often than decision-makers once imagined. Organizations must prepare for these events–but how?In Learning from Catastrophes, the world’s leading experts in extreme risk management present innovative approaches to mitigation, preparedness, and response. They show how to dramatically improve forecasting and communication about high-consequence risks, use economic incentives to improve resilience and sustainability, and proactively implement operational steps for rapid, effective response to disaster.In today’s increasingly unstable, uncertain world, preparing for extreme risk has never been more urgent. Whether you’re a leader in the private, public, or nonprofit sector, this book presents the principles and strategies you’ll need.

The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times

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The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times includes: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management.

Routledge Handbook of Korean Business and Management

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This Handbook, authored by a stellar line-up of international contributors, explores the diverse phenomena and issues surrounding the Korean business and management world.Offering insights into trends, challenges, policies and initiatives of corporations and government and providing a nuanced portrayal of Korean business dynamics, the Handbook’s approach is centred around four key themes:Examining the roles played by the government and markets, including labour and financial markets, in Korea’s economic progression. Addressing macro and micro issues in Korean business and management such as business groups, business-government relationships, corporate governance, corporate strategy and globalization, human resource management, employment relations, and chief executive officer (CEO) compensation. Scrutinizing current phenomena by bridging the past and future, exploring mainstream and emerging business issues such as corporate social responsibility, environmental, social, and governance issues, start-up businesses, diversity and inclusion and the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Emphasizing the interplay between agents, structures and institutions. Delving into the intricacies of business and management in a Korean context, this Handbook will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of international business and management, with a particular focus on Asia and Korea.

Climate Capitalism

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"How smart economics hold the key to addressing the multiple crises—from financial to food, climate to resource scarcity—facing the world." —Achim Steiner, executive director, United Nations Environment ProgrammeIn Climate Capitalism, L. Hunter Lovins, coauthor of the bestselling Natural Capitalism, and the sustainability expert Boyd Cohen prove that the future of capitalism in a recession-riddled, carbon-constrained world will be built on innovations that cutting-edge leaders are bringing to the market today. These companies are creating jobs and driving innovation.Climate Capitalism delivers hundreds of in-depth case studies of international corporations, small businesses, NGOs, and municipalities to prove that energy efficiency and renewable resources are already driving prosperity. While highlighting business opportunities across a range of sectors—including energy, construction, transportation, and agriculture technologies—Lovins and Cohen also show why the ex–CIA director Jim Woolsey drives a solar-powered plugin hybrid vehicle. His bumper sticker says it all: "Osama bin Laden hates my car."Corporate executives, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, and concerned citizens alike will find profitable ideas within these pages. In ten information-packed chapters, Climate Capitalism gives tangible examples of early adopters across the globe who see that the low-carbon economy leads to increased profits and economic growth. It offers a clear and concise road map to the new energy economy and a cooler planet."A must-read for entrepreneurs, investors, industry experts, and corporations interested in capitalizing on the greatest wealth-creation opportunity of our lifetime: solving climate change." —Jigar Shah, founder, SunEdison, and CEO, Carbon War Room"Well supported with examples of real business practice." —Ed Crooks, Financial Times

Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws

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“And of the rise or fall in the price of corn on the agriculture and general wealth of the country". Article first published in 1814. According to Wikipedia: "The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (14 February 1766 – 29 December 1834) was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography. Malthus popularized the economic theory of rent.”

BE SEEN

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom a leader whose business is all about creating connection: strategies to find your audience, hone your brand, and achieve your dreams by letting the world see the real you.Do you feel like you're hiding in the shadows and not living up to your true potential?Do you lack the confidence to show the world who you really are and build the business you really want?Do you want to stop comparing yourself to other people on social media and start feeling empowered in your own personal journey?If you answered yes to any of those questions, then BE SEEN: Find Your Voice, Build Your Brand, Live Your Dream is the guide you need to break free from your fears and step into your spotlight.BE SEEN is a roadmap for building a personal brand that showcases your unique talents and strengths. Through relatable stories and actionable advice, Jen Gottlieb shares her own path to becoming a recognized expert in her field and takes you on a journey of self-discovery to help you find your voice and unleash your full potential.Divided into four parts, each with its own set of tactical strategies, BE SEEN helps you to:Be Courageous: This section focuses on mindset shifts and self-reflection exercises to break through the barriers holding you back and find the courage to take bold action.Be Creative: Here, you'll learn how to tap into your creativity and unlock the unique talents that make you stand out so you can build the future you dream of.Be Connected: Building meaningful relationships and cultivating a tribe of loyal supporters who align with your values and goals is the focus of this section. Jen provides networking tips and tricks to help you connect with others authentically.Be Visible: Finally, you'll learn how to step into your spotlight and showcase your talents to the world. Jen provides practical advice on content creation and marketing strategies to help you get your message out there.With a foreword from New York Times best-selling author Gabby Bernstein, BE SEEN is an inspiring guide filled with step-by-step methods, personal anecdotes, and all the tools you need to build your own personal brand.Whether you're an entrepreneur, a creative professional, or just someone who wants to build a life that reflects your true self, BE SEEN will help you unleash your full potential and finally be seen for the incredible, unique person you are.

International Entrepreneurship

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This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging. It examines the situation in both advanced and developing countries and shows how the entrepreneurial orientation of the founders of small and medium sized enterprises has resulted in phenomenal growth, often fuelled by innovation and new technologies. It contrasts the experiences of Chinese family business in China and among the overseas Chinese with the experiences of family businesses in the United States and Europe. One important conclusion is that there has been a noticeable fall in entrepreneurial proclivity in the advanced economies, in contrast to the position in emerging economies.

Ten Crises

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Financial crises are dramatic events. When they emerge, they tend to dominate the attention of the press and become the focus of policymakers. In one form or another, they have affected the lives of millions of people throughout the world. As references to 16th century Dutch tulips, 18th South Seas merchant ventures, or 1920s Florida real estate make clear, they have been around for a long time. At their worst, such as in the cases of the Great Depression or the current Great Recession, their effects have been felt worldwide, with the number of people affected counted into the billions. They have at times changed the course of history.This book analyses ten of the most important financial crises of the last thirty years. The specific crises covered in the book are the 1982 Chilean crisis, the 1992 ERM crisis, the 1994 Mexican crisis, the 1997 Asian crisis, the 1998 Russian crisis, the 1999 Brazilian crisis, the 1999 Ecuadorian crisis, the 2000 Turkish crisis, the 2002 Argentine crisis, and the 2008 crisis in Iceland. The set includes the most important emerging-market crises of the last three decades as well as two particularly informative advanced-country crises, the ERM crisis of 1992 and the Icelandic crisis of 2008. A separate chapter is devoted to each crisis, and a brief concluding chapter sums up some of the key lessons that I believe that we can draw from these events.

Confucian HRM in Greater China

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This volume sets out in search of what we call ‘Confucian HRM’ in Greater China and beyond. It covers theory and practice not only in the People’s Republic of China but also in the Overseas Chinese (Nanyang) Diaspora, namely in Hong Kong and Taiwan, among others. It will seek to understand how far traditional Chinese culture and values continue to influence the degree to which the human resource management (HRM) as adopted in those cultural contexts has been implemented.Confucian HRM in Greater China includes a wide range of concepts such as Confucian HRM, employee participation, family firms, ‘guanxi’, learning and job satisfaction, local labour markets, performance-based pay, training policies, and women’s roles in employment. A wide range of international contributors provide the reader with diverse theories, methodologies and perspectives, arguing that the continuity of traditional Chinese values is indeed still empirically observable in the contemporary practice of people-management in Greater China. The contributors are all experts in their fields who teach and research on HRM in many faculties throughout the world.This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Capitalismo consciente

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Un libro indispensable para toda persona que quiera construir un mundo más humano y cooperativo, y un futuro mejor para todos. La idea base es que la creación de valor de las sociedades no es sólo para los accionistas, sino para todos: clientes, empleados, proveedores, inversores, para la sociedad y el medio ambiente.A través de tener en cuenta los puntos resaltados por los autores se pueden construir mejores empresas y negocios que hagan que el capitalismo alcance todo su potencial y cree valor para todos nosotros.“Capitalismo consciente”, además de un libro, es una organización que se está internacionalizando con capítulos en distintos países del mundo para fomentar sus ideas.

Digital Privacy

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During recent years, a continuously increasing amount of personal data has been made available through different websites around the world. Although the availability of personal information has created several advantages, it can be easily misused and may lead to violations of privacy. With growing interest in this area, Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices addresses this timely issue, providing information on state-of-the-art technologies, best practices, and research results, as well as legal, regulatory, and ethical issues. This book features contributions from experts in academia, industry, and government.

Project Management: It's All Bollocks!

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Welcome to Project Management: It’s All Bollocks! where two people who vaguely know each other and barely like each other will pick over the sadly inadequate body of knowledge that is project management today, and generally challenge just about everything, eliminating that which you don't need to bother to learn about, or should already know, leaving you only with the parts that will give you the results you want. This book is a shakedown of project management, the profession, the myths it creates and promotes, its great ideas and ambitions and a few ropey bits that we’re just not convinced about. The project management profession continues to grow and mature, but is at risk of excluding those who don’t fit the mould. There is a mystique out there that only certificated project managers can be project managers. This is nonsense. The project management skill set is accessible to anyone, and how you choose to access it and put it to use should remain the decision of the individual. There shouldn’t be a right or wrong choice. This book is targeted at those ‘projects as usual project managers’ who will drive most of the change inside organisations tomorrow and beyond, and who really need help to do that.The authors offer up a selection of seven cracking ideas, that when applied to a project environment will ultimately result in you being a good manager of projects in this modern world of business complexity.

The Big Fella

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The never-before-told story of BHP Billiton's global conquests, told by the key players. BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. The Big Fella: The rise and rise of BHP Billiton is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great bourses of the world. Based on more than 60 exclusive interviews, it rips away the superficial gloss to expose the political and industrial forces that really drive Big Business in the 21st century. In an investigative tour de force, authors Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin reveal the visions, the schemes, the scandals and the corporate life-and-death struggles that have characterised BHP's evolution from the first lucky strike by the mysterious Charles Rasp at Broken Hill in 1883 to its merger with Billiton in 2001 to its daring $150 billion bid for Rio Tinto six years later. The result is a gripping story of foresight and blunder, of nation-building and rampant ego, of greed and of grace, written by two master storytellers with, for the first time, access to the key players themselves. The Big Fella won the 2010 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature.

Community Forestry in the United States

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Across the United States, people are developing new relationships with the forest ecosystems on which they depend, with a common goal of improving the health of the land and the well-being of their communities. Practitioners and supporters of what has come to be called community forestry are challenging current approaches to forest management as they seek to end the historical disfranchisement of communities and workers from forest management and the all-too-pervasive trends of long-term disinvestment in ecosystems and human communities that have undermined the health of both.Community Forestry in the United States is an analytically rigorous and historically informed assessment of this new movement. It examines the current state of community forestry through a grounded assessment of where it stands now and where it might go in the future. The book not only clarifies the state of the movement, but also suggests a trajectory and process for its continued development.

Movie bullets

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Le aziende sono luoghi di prigionia? Ambienti che trasmettono noia e falsi sensi di sicurezza?La paura di perdere il posto di lavoro annulla la creatività?Perché la vita media di una società è di soli 22 anni?Le poche società ultracentenarie hanno delle caratteristiche comuni che consentono loro di sopravvivere così a lungo?È possibile salvare un’azienda dal fallimento e portarla a risultati eccellenti grazie alla creazione di un gruppo di management reale?I film possono essere utilizzati per orientare al cambiamento le persone?Cinema e psicologia possono insieme indirizzare in modo positivo il management di un’azienda?Movie bullets cerca di dare una risposta a queste domande partendo dall’esperienza sviluppata in una società di servizi.

New Directions in Organizational Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

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This research shows the dynamic relationship between work, health and satisfaction. New Directions in Organizational Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, comprehensively covers new developments in the field of occupational health psychology and provides insight into the many challenges that will change the nature of occupational health psychology. The editors have gathered 40 experts from all over the developed world to discuss issues relevant to human resource and talent management, and specifically to employment related physical and psychological health issues. Especially because it comes at a time of economic turbulence that will create work stress and strain, organizations, researchers and practitioners will find this book valuable.

Stop Competing on Price

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Stop Competing on Price is a differentiation manual to sell with dignity at fair prices. To extract the value your business generates. Many companies don't differentiate; and even if they do, fail at communicating it effectively. When a client doesn't perceive a difference, will decide based on price. In this book you will learn how to design and communicate your difference to stop competing on price. This is a book about differentiation. On how to transform an average business into a remarkable one. The problem is not to have a higher price, but not helping the client understand why. Don't be afraid of your competitors' price, but not being able to explain yours.

Énergie : Économie et politiques

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Cette nouvelle édition dresse un bilan des nombreux changements que connaît le secteur de l'énergie dans son ensemble. Elle fournit des données économiques et institutionnelles et propose des analyses des politiques menées de par le monde.En quelque trente ans, peu d'industries ont connu une mutation comparable à celle qui a « changé la donne » dans les différents secteurs de l'énergie : pétrole, gaz, charbon, électricité, nucléaire, renouvelables.Les changements technologiques, les rapports de force entre pays, le comportement des acteurs, les décisions politiques mettant le marché au coeur de toutes les réformes, autant de déterminants majeurs qui ont bouleversé les fondamentaux mêmes de ces activités.Comment les prix se forment-ils sur ces différents marchés ? Comment tenir compte des deux dimensions de l'énergie : un bien stratégique, mais aussi de service public ? Ce qui vaut pour une énergie est-il pertinent pour les autres ? Le marché peut-il toujours se substituer à la planification et à quelles conditions ? Quels sont les liens entre énergie et environnement ?Voilà quelques questions, parmi beaucoup d'autres, auxquelles cet ouvrage - dans sa troisième édition actualisée - apporte des réponses.Il dresse un bilan de ces changements, basé sur une analyse économique rigoureuse des secteurs et du « bien-énergie » dans son ensemble. Il fournit également de nombreuses données chiffrées et institutionnelles présentées de manière synthétique et propose des analyses critiques des politiques menées en Europe et dans le monde.Si la démarche est d'abord méthodologique, le texte fournit également de nombreux exemples de situations pratiques observées et des études de cas.Ce livre peut satisfaire un large public : étudiants ingénieurs, en licence ou maîtrise d'économie et de sciences politiques, responsables et observateurs de l'industrie de l'énergie et de l'économie dans son ensemble.La 1re édition de l'ouvrage Énergie a obtenu le prix AFSE du meilleur manuel d'économie (2011).

Le meilleur de l'actualité 2019-2020

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Le meilleur de l’actualité 2019-2020 fait la synthèse de tous les événements majeurs de l’année 2019 et vous accompagne dans la préparation de vos concours et examens 2020 !36 Fiches Actualité pour décrypter et synthétiser les grands évènements de l'année, leur contexte et leurs enjeux.7 Fiches Débats pour décoder et discuter des grandes questions de société.7 Fiches Portraits pour découvrir les personnalités qui ont fait l'actualité.Des chronologies thématiques pour une vision d'ensemble de 2019.Toutes les fiches sont illustrées des dates, chiffres marquant et cartes indispensables.+ de 200 QCM corrigés pour réviser vos connaissances.+ 16 Fiches Data en couleur et détachables : les données clés de l'année pour réviser.RDV d'ACTU : de nouvelles fiches d'actualité offertes tous les mois sur www.dunod.com

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