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Ce livre s'adresse à toutes celles et ceux qui ont un rôle à jouer face aux grands défis du XXIe siécle : étudiants, salariés, demandeurs d'emploi, entrepreneurs ou dirigeants en quête de sens et d'impact positif dans leur vie professionnelle.Ce manifeste est un appel pour s'engager dans une carrière à impact.Dans le manifeste : des propositions, des portraits inspirants, des retours d'expériences de Ticket for Change pour passer à l'action !Matthieu Dardaillon et Joséphine Bouchez sont entrepreneurs sociaux et co-fondateurs de Ticket for Change, dont la mission est d’aider chacun à activer ses talents pour contribuer à résoudre nos grands défis de société. Ticket for Change a déjà sensibilisé plus de 100 000 personnes, 43 % de leurs bénéficiaires sont engagés dans une carrière à impact. Ils sont suivis par plus de 40 000 personnes sur les réseaux et soutenus par de nombreux partenaires (HEC, Cocacola, Renault, Google etc.) et mentors pionniers (Nicolas Hulot, Pierre Rabhi, Maxime de Rostolan,etc.)

Strategic Risk Leadership

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This casebook extends Strategic Risk Leadership: Engaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty and the Unknown, bringing theory and practice grounded in the first book to life with an array of applicable, real-world examples. The book enables critical thinking about the current state of risk management and ERM, demonstrating contemporary shortcomings and challenges from real-life cases drawn from a global selection of well-known organizations. It confronts modern risk management practices and discusses what leaders should do to deal with unpredictable environments. Providing a basis for developing more effective risk management approaches, the book identifies shortcomings of contemporary approaches to risk management and specifies how to deal with the major risks we face today, illuminated by a variety of comprehensive global examples. It also provides valuable insights on these approaches for managers and leaders in general—including risk executives and chief risk officers—as well as advanced risk management students. End-of-chapter cases illustrate both good and bad risk management approaches as useful inspiration for reflective risk leaders.This book will be a hugely valuable resource for those studying or teaching risk management.

New Horizons in Research on Sustainable Organisations

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Environmental sustainability practice and research have advanced over the past decade from novelty to near-mainstream status today. During this environmentally critical time period, sustainability practitioner techniques, such as environmental, energy and social auditing, other sustainability information and related systems, and a wide variety of environmental sustainability approaches have been developed, improved and institutionalised, advancing both the practice and research of environmental sustainability management and policy. However, academics and practitioners in the sustainability field still have widely differing perspectives on what a sustainable organisation is or might be, but seldom take the opportunity to share these respective sustainability visions, let alone the multiple ways to achieve them. New Horizons in Research on Sustainable Organisations is intended to bridge this gap between academics and practitioners with cutting-edge research from both groups on progress towards sustainability. After working on sustainability-related projects involving other academics, both research- and practitioner-oriented graduate students, consultants, managers and activists, the lead co-editors of this volume saw the need to encourage information exchanges among differing networks of sustainability stakeholders to create a pathway for researchers and practitioners in the general area of organisations and the natural environment to address issues of common interest. There are many networks in the general subject area, but the cross-pollination of ideas between academics and practitioners remains sketchy. New Horizons in Research on Sustainable Organisations is intended to present and encourage such cross-pollination. The chapters in this volume are presented in three subsets, generally proceeding from the most "macro" to the most "micro" in terms of perspective and applicability. However, this arbitrary division belies the integration from macro through meso (or mid-range) to micro levels that is apparent in these studies. Macro approaches typically include wider geographic scopes, greater numbers of stakeholders, and more complex explanatory factors than micro approaches. Each chapter adopts one or more particular sustainability world-view and then grounds these and the other chapter elements within actual organisations. Therefore, the reader is advised to envision not a one-dimensional continuum but rather a circle in which the macro view both feeds back and feeds forward to the micro view. This volume addresses a number of intriguing and important sustainable organisation phenomena such as multiple sustainable development perspectives, changing environmental politics, environmental management systems variations, voluntary environmental programme performance, complex adaptive systems, and environmental technology development. Additionally, several models are suggested, such as cultivation, capabilities and business ecology frameworks.

Mengenlösung: Emissionshandel

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In dieser Ausarbeitung zum Kurs Umweltökonomie soll das umweltpolitische Instrumentarium des Emissionshandels betrachtet werden. Nach einer kurzen Begriffsklärung und der anschließenden Darstellung von Funktionsweise und Ablauf soll die Frage geklärt werden, ob der Emissionshandel als Mengensteuerung eine geeignete Alternative zu der vom Ordnungsrecht geprägten Umweltpolitik sein kann.

Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations

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Volume 20 of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR) contains seven papers that deal with important aspects of employment relationships in a variety of industries, countries and research contexts. The first three papers, each of which analyzes the effects of an exogenous variable (e.g., fiscal adversity, globalization, and new technology, respectively) on labor-management relations, have specific industry/sector settings, namely, pubic schools (primary education), civil aviation and nursing homes (health care), respectively. The first and third of these papers are set in the U.S., the second in Britain. The next four papers, each of which analyzes the effects of enacted or contemplated legislation on specific aspects of labor-management relations and workplace dispute resolution, are set in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S., respectively. The research designs featured in these papers include quasi-experimental, case studies, interviews, surveys and simultaneous equation modeling.

Successful Business Plans

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A business plan is essential for any business, new or established. But where do you start? What do you need to include? Whether you need to raise finance, get senior management to support your plans, or simply want a roadmap for growth you need a successful business plan. We explain what to put in, what to leave out and how to structure it to be most effective. This book takes you step-by-step through how and why to write a business plan. It uses practical techniques and everyday examples to ensure your business plan gets the results you want; whether it’s start-up funding, strategic insight or a recovery plan. It’s written by expert authors, Michael Anderson & Jane Khedair, of Business Plan Services, in association with London Business School.This books will help you:- Persuade investors to back your business - Convince senior management to support your plans - Avoid common business plan mistakes - Adapt your business plan for different audiences

Imagining Marketing

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Imagination is a word that is widely used by marketing practitioners but rarely examined by marketing academics. This neglect is largely due to the imagination's 'artistic' connotations, which run counter to the 'scientific' mindset that dominates marketing scholarship. Of late, however, an artistic 'turn' has taken place in marketing research, and

Building the Future with Human Resource Management

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This book explores the dynamic landscape of contemporary organizations, navigating through topics such as innovation, creativity, emotional intelligence, technology, and sustainability. The book shows how high-skilled workers synergize with machines, emphasizing the evolving nature of work into a talent-centric domain. It delves into human resource management, offering a comprehensive understanding of its strategic significance in fostering innovative, creative, and socially responsible organizations. The chapters guide the reader through an array of topics, from technological trends in HRM to the ethical dimensions of responsible management and the strategic approach to fostering gender equality. Each chapter, authored by experts in management and engineering, serves as a beacon of knowledge, providing executives, managers, engineers, academics, and students with the essential tools and insights needed to propel organizations into the future.

Leading Successful PMOs

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Many organizations profit hugely by utilizing a Project Management Office (PMO); it means they achieve benefits from standardizing and following project management policies, processes, and methods. However, building an effective PMO is a complex process; it requires clear vision and strong leadership so that, over time, it will become the source for guidance, documentation, and metrics related to the practices involved in managing and implementing projects. Leading Successful PMOs will guide all project based organizations, and project managers who contribute to and benefit from a PMO, towards maximizing their project success. In it, Peter Taylor outlines the basics of setting up a PMO and clearly explains how to ensure it will do exactly what you need it to do - the right things, in the right way, in the right order, with the right team.

Competing for a Sustainable World

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Sustainable innovation requires more than a clear vision and commitment. It requires effective execution and implementation based on an ongoing systematic process of engaging stakeholders to generate the evolving information critical for guiding decision-making, developing and implementing business logic for sustainable innovation, overcoming decision-making biases by managers, creating an opportunity framework to spark creativity, and developing effective organizational capabilities to build a sustainable innovation DNA within the organization. Such a capacity provides an organization with the ability to anticipate and overcome internal and external barriers and achieve competitive advantage through sustainable innovation of products, services, and business models.Based on original research, current state-of-the-knowledge, and relevant examples, this book comprehensively outlines and describes the process that managers can undertake to effectively and successfully implement a sustainability strategy that will help them attract and retain managerial talent; increase operating legitimacy and reduce compliance costs; boost stakeholder support; reduce costs through increased efficiency, quality, reliability, safety, and responsiveness of existing operations; foster radical innovations in processes, products, services, and new markets; and promote competitive imagination of future products, services, and business models.

The Bezos Blueprint

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The communication and leadership secrets of Jeff Bezos and how to master them, from the bestselling author of Talk Like Ted.Jeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world’s most influential company, a brand that likely touches your life every day. As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and present. He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. The Bezos Blueprint by Carmine Gallo reveals the communication strategies that Jeff Bezos pioneered to fuel Amazon’s astonishing growth. As one of the most innovative and visionary entrepreneurs of our time, Bezos reimagined the way leaders write, speak, and motivate teams and customers. The communication tools Bezos created are so effective that former Amazonians who worked directly with Bezos adopted them as blueprints to start their own companies. Now, these tools are available to you.

Ethics in Management and Business

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This book explores ethical decision-making within the business landscape. Covering key facets such as ethical dilemmas, organizational culture, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the text delves into strategies for implementation, social impact measurement, and challenges and benefits. Transparency and accountability mechanisms are discussed alongside the role of leadership in promoting ethics and maintaining an ethical organizational culture. The importance of diversity and inclusion, compliance, and ethical governance are highlighted, providing insights into strategies for promotion and the impact on financial performance. The book also navigates through ethical challenges in the supply chain, responsible innovation, digital ethics, and privacy. Additionally, readers gain valuable perspectives on facing ethical challenges, the role of leadership in crises, and the impact of ethics on financial results. Case studies in specific sectors, including technology, health care, and finance, offer practical insights into ethical practices and strategies to promote ethics within diverse industries. This book serves as an essential guide for individuals and organizations committed to navigating the complex landscape of ethical decision-making in the business world.

Managing Your Anxiety (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

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What's the worst that can happen?Anxiety is the most prevalent mental disorder worldwide. But rumination, worry, and catastrophizing don't have to hold you back at work. By understanding how anxiety works, you can better manage these feelings.This book will help you distinguish stress from anxiety, use self-compassion and mindfulness to combat the symptoms, find the support you need, and move forward more comfortably and confidently in your job.This volume includes the work of:Alice BoyesJudson BrewerRasmus HougaardJacqueline CarterHow to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Zoom

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L’Europe se refond, la France se décentralise, notre quotidien se mondialise. Et les régions ? Vont-elles s’uniformiser, s’affronter, s’assembler en faisant valoir leur singularité ? Petite région industrielle méconnue au bataillon européen, que devient la Franche-Comté ? Quelles seront les couleurs de son avenir ? La grisaille d’une médiocrité généralisée ? Les éclairs glacés de secteurs de pointe illuminant un désert vert, depuis les rives du Doubs et de la Savoureuse ? À moins que des efforts conjugués ne refaçonnent un tissu régional moderne, aux couleurs chaudes, riche de solidarités économiques et humaines.

The Money Tree

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From bestselling author of The $100 Startup and Side Hustle comes Chris Guillebeau's engaging story about the power you have to create your own financial destiny.Like financial classics The Latte Factor and The Richest Man in Babylon, The Money Tree uses a compelling story with captivating characters to share its core insight: you are never at the mercy of fortune as long as you have an appetite for hard work and a willingness to step outside your comfort zone.Jake Aarons is in trouble. He's being evicted from his apartment in less than 30 days, the bill for his $50,000 in overdue student loans is almost due, and the digital marketing agency he works at just implemented a new military-style grading system that might cost him his job. To top it off, Jake's new relationship with Maya was going so well... but with everything else falling down around him, he might lose her, too.In search of answers, Jake reluctantly attends a weekly group meeting at the invitation of a coworker. Everyone in the group is trying to create a lucrative side hustle with one key requirement: they can only spend up to $500 before earning a profit. Over the course of several weeks, Jake undertakes a series of challenges, first learning how to make $1,000 in a single weekend, and ultimately how to discover the untapped skills he needs to take control of his finances--and his life.

Security Analysis, Sixth Edition, Part I - Survey and Approach

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This chapter is from Security Analysis, which has withstood the test of time as well or better than any investment book ever published. Now the Sixth Edition updates the masters' ideas and adapts them for the 21st century's markets. This second edition, which was published in 1940 and still considered the definitive edition, has been updated by a dream team of some of today's leading value investors. Featuring a foreword by Warren E. Buffett (in which he reveals that he has read the 1940 masterwork "at least four times"), this new edition of Security Analysis will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing--more relevant than ever in the tumultuous 21st century markets.

Basta chiacchiere!

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Metti dodici esperti di lavoro intorno al tavolo del futuro e scoprirai dove stiamo andando. Gli autori del libro sono professionisti che ci raccontano le sfide dell'oggi e le potenzialità per il lavoro del domani. Tra i temi affrontati: il futuro delle imprese e del lavoro; le nuove organizzazioni; la gestione delle risorse umane; le nuove politiche attive del lavoro. E poi l'ecologia, il clima, la creatività e il tema del terzo settore e del no profit, le cui potenzialità sono ancora tutte da scoprire.

Integrating Safety and Security Management to Protect Chemical Industrial Areas from Domino Effects

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This book provides insight into domino effects in industrial chemical sites and process industries. It is about the integration of safety and security resources to prevent and mitigate domino effects in the process industries. It explains how chemical industrial areas, comprised of various hazardous installations, are susceptible to a chain of undesired events, or domino effects, triggered by accidental events or intentional attacks and then presents solutions to prevent them.Firstly, the book provides a dynamic graph approach to model the domino effects induced by accidental fire or intentional fire, considering the spatial-temporal evolution of fires. Then, a dynamic risk assessment method based on a discrete dynamic event tree is proposed to assess the likelihood of VCEs and the vulnerability of installations, addressing the time dependencies in vapor cloud dispersion and the uncertainty of delayed ignitions. A dynamic methodology based on dynamic graphs and Monte Carlois provided to assess the vulnerability of individuals and installations exposed to multi-hazards, such as fire, explosion and toxic release during escalation events. Based on these domino effect models, an economic approach is developed to integrate safe and security resources, obtaining the most cost–benefit protection strategy for preventing domino effects. Finally, a resilience-based approach is provided to find out the most cost-resilient way to protect chemical industrial areas, addressing possible domino effects. This integrated approach will be of interest to researchers, industrial engineers, chemical engineers and safety managers and will help professionals to new solutions in the area of safety and security.

The Tourism and Leisure Industry

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Find out how the ways we live and work are changing the ways in which we play! As populations grow and urbanization increases, social class, income, and ethnicity are influencing where and when people travel. The Tourism and Leisure Industry: Shaping the Future gives you the knowledge and skills you need to keep your business on top of this competitive field. An essential read for all leisure and tourism experts, this book analyzes and explains demographics, global supply and demand, globalization, intercultural behavior, and mobility to help you forecast future consumer needs. This insightful book also predicts new markets and products to help you tailor your business to the tourism and leisure trends of the next generation. The Tourism and Leisure Industry: Shaping the Future evaluates traditional leisure time activities, such as theme parks and sporting events as well as the fastest growing activities, such as leisure-based wellness resorts. Find out what the populations of different countries are expecting from their free time in terms of temporal aspects, benefits, and location. Get up-to-date advice on information technology and see how it will be changing the way you do business. The Tourism and Leisure Industry: Shaping the Future focuses on a variety of factors impacting tourism today, including: changes in social values intercultural technology races changed economic market conditions changing lifestyle trends population growth networked economies the growing market for senior travelers The Tourism and Leisure Industry: Shaping the Future is your contemporary guide to the next steps in the evolution of tourism and leisure. Filled with tables and figures to help you organize and understand the information it presents, this book is easy to read yet suitable for any expert in the leisure field. With case studies, research reports, and extensive bibliographies, it is a vital resource for destination managers, consultants, and teachers alike.

Principes de l'économie

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Le « Mankiw - Taylor » est un best-seller mondial et le manuel de référence dans l'enseignement des principes de l'économie. Il conserve, dans cette 6e édition, la clarté, la progressivité et les qualités pédagogiques qui ont fait le succès du livre dès l'origine et passe en revue tous les grands thèmes et les problématiques de la microéconomie, puis de la macroéconomie.Les 34 chapitres traitent des questions au coeur de l'analyse économique standard et abordent les principes et les pratiques de l'économie comportementale. Ce manuel suit la structure d'un enseignement universitaire d'économie. Il présente :Idées : théories keynésienne, néoclassique, marxiste, féministe, conceptions orthodoxe et hétérodoxe...Concepts : marché, externalités, politiques publiques, croissance, système monétaire...Les variables clés de l'analyse économique.Les éléments essentiels de la formalisation mathématique sont présentés de manière accessible. En marge de l'exposition de la « théorie économique standard », le livre réalise des incursions dans le domaine de l'économie comportementale, de la théorie du choix public et des sciences politiques. Ainsi, il reste à ce jour un manuel sans égal.Les étudiants ont accès à des QCM interactifs et des vrais/faux interactifs, avec corrigés. Ceux-ci sont accessibles grâce aux QR Codes imprimés dans l'ouvrage.Des compléments réservés aux enseignants (PowerPoint, manuel de l'instructeur, Test Bank) sont disponibles sur demande.

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