Management

Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today’s hedge funds, but most feel like they’re on the outside looking in, due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. 

Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it? In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders--call them disrupters, visionaries, or changemakers--develop, build, and scale their solutions in ways that bring about the truly revolutionary change that makes the world a fairer and better place.

Kaplan, Inc., 2015. — 293 p. — ISBN 978-1-4754-3108-6The second in the eight books set designed to prepare for the GARP FRM Exam (2015 year).ContentsThe Time Value of MoneyProbabilitiesBasic statisticsDistributionsHypothesis testing and confidence intervalsLinear regression with one regressorRegression with a single regressorLinear regression with multiple regressorsHypothesis testing and confidence intervals in multiple regressionsSimulation ModelingEstimating volatilities and correlationsSelf-TestFormulas

Praise for Performance Management "We are witnessing a convergence among advanced management concepts and practices. Performance management is a means to pull it all together, to understand the strengths and limitations of each management practice and leverage it for competitive advantage. Cokins' book walks us through all this in a manner that makes something confusing much less so.

Ce livre délivre des outils pour mettre en exergue les risques significatifs pouvant affecter le business model de l'entreprise.

Strategy is a foundational aspect of management education, whilst strategic thinking is an essential business skill. This shortform textbook provides the absolute essentials of the field, focusing on how strategy works as a managed process.

Real problems are formulated into tractable mathematical models, which allow for an analysis of various approaches.

Corporate finance theory seeks to understand how incorporated firms address the financial constraints that affect their investment decisions. This is achieved by using varied financial instruments that give holders different claims on the firm's assets. Recent scholarship in this area explores precisely how legal mechanisms affect corporate finance and the development of financial markets. The legal environment is crucially important in explaining the choices that companies make about their capital structure.

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Do you own your stuff—or does it own you?

Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner.

Based on the authors' combined experience of seventy years working on projects around the globe, Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners contains hands-on, how-to information that you can put to immediate use. Taking an approach that combines analytical and practical results, this is a valuable reference for a wide range of individuals and organizations within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.

Kaplan, Inc., 2015. — 328 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4754-3111-7The fourth in the eight books set designed to prepare for the GARP FRM Exam (2015 year).ContentsVaR Methods Quantifying Volatility in VaR Models Putting VaR to Work Measures of Financial RiskStress TestingPrinciples for Sound Stress Testing Practices and SupervisionBinomial TreesThe Black-Scholes-Merton Model Greek Letters Prices, Discount Factors, and Arbitrage Spot, Forward, and Par Rates Returns, Spreads, and Yields One-Factor Risk Metrics and HedgesMulti-Factor Risk Metrics and Hedges Assessing Country RiskCountry Risk Assessment in Practice External and Internal RatingsCapital Structure in Banks Operational RiskSelf-Test: Valuation and RiskModels Formulas

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today. The challenge for businesses today is to mitigate this risk through creating resilient supply chains.

The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.

PRAISE FOR Balanced Scorecard Step-By-Step: Maximizing Performance and Maintaining Results, Second Edition "As a practitioner and thought leader, Paul Niven is superbly bridging the gulf between BSC theory and application through hands-on experiences and real-world case studies. The book provides a practical road map, step-by-step, to plan, execute, and sustain a winning scorecard campaign. Easy to read . . . tells a powerful story with lessons learned/best practices from global customer implementations. Must-read for anyone interested in BSC or grappling with how to create a strategically aligned organization." —Vik Torpunuri, President and CEO, e2e Analytix

* this is a used book in good condition. For courses in Principles of Management or Introduction to Management. Costs 30% less than hardcover text, Content = 100% Robbins/Coulter Management 7e, but this is ppbk AND online! Includes pin code for online use. Online layout matches printed text exactly. SHOW Active Concept Check feature (online). Highly interactive w/out the high cost; online access never expires. Integrated Mastering Management video and ROLLS Companion website.

Just as infrastructure development acts as a catalyst for economic growth, it is also changing the landscape for potential investors and the burgeoning field of infrastructure finance. Infrastructure systems for transportation, utilities, and public works are essential for economic growth and have quickly developed into an emerging alternative asset class.

This new edition presents a thorough discussion of the mathematical theory and computational schemes of Kalman filtering.

"John Morecroft's book is an ideal text for students interested in system modelling and its application to a range of real world problems. The book covers all that is necessary to develop expertise in system dynamics modelling and through the range of applications makes a persuasive case for the power and scope of the approach. As such it will appeal to practitioners as well as students."