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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
\"As with his weekly column, James Montier's Value Investing is a must read for all students of the financial markets. In short order, Montier shreds the 'efficient market hypothesis', elucidates the pertinence of behavioral finance, and explains the crucial difference between investment process and investment outcomes. Montier makes his arguments with clear insight and spirited good humor, and then backs them up with cold hard facts. Buy this book...
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Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
""One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980's." -- New York Times Book Review A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this...
Publisher
Corenet Global Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Essential Guide to Corporate Real Estate is a fundamental examination of Corporate Real Estate ("CRE"). As a foundational manual, the guide covers the spectrum of variables shaping the daily decisions of CRE professionals and provides insights and strategies for effective management.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Financial statements are fundamental to any business, large or small. They are actually report cards" on the performance of the business. When reading them, you will encounter odd terminology, strange calculations, and of course, big numbers. But what insight can they give you as a manager, owner, or investor? How can you use financial statements to manage the business or be a wiser investor without having to become a CPA? And what in the world do...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Language
English
Description
From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined...
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Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
There's nothing easy about apology. The news is filled with examples of leaders apologizing, needing to apologize, or failing miserably at the attempt. And certainly we all have occasion to apologize ourselves-maybe more often than we realize. But we don't need more apologies, says John Kador-we need better ones. Too many people just go through the motions, missing out on the power of apology to restore strained relationships, create possibilities...
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
For the past 20 years, corporations have been receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs." But, as Greg LeRoy demonstrates in this important new book, it's become a costly scam. Playing states and communities off against each other in a bidding war for jobs, corporations reduce their taxes to next-to-nothing and win subsidy packages that routinely exceed $100,000 per job. But the subsidies come with few strings attached....
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Language
English
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"This is the first in-depth examination of the important ongoing fusion of activism, capitalism, and social change masterfully told through a compelling narrative filled with vivid stories and striking studies. Today, corporations and their executives are at the front lines of some of the most important and contentious social and political issues of our time, such as voting rights, gun violence, racial justice, immigration reform, climate change,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A gripping novel of dark family secrets, bigotry, lust, and lies set in the world of the phenomenally wealthy The Liebling family is among the wealthiest in New York, but in the eyes of "old money" gentile aristocrats like the patrician Van Degans, they will always be lower-class Jewish nouveau riche-especially since it's common knowledge that patriarch Jules Liebling built the powerful Ingraham Corporation from the profits he made selling liquor...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Business and forbidden pleasure collide in this Italian marriage of convenience romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Annie West. No marriage? No merger. They had only one option. He'd denied his attraction while she'd been promised to his brother. So when Olivia Jennings is jilted days before her elaborately planned wedding, Alessandro Sartori offers himself as groom. Their families will get the merger they want. And he'll finally get the bride...
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Language
English
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Description
How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy. In this shocking expos, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and...
Author
Series
Janet Watson chronicles volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Mystery A selection in Parade 's roundup of "25 Hottest Books of Summer 2018" A Paste Magazine's Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 pick A Medium's Books pick for We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 list Set in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon -- Sherlock Holmes -- in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes will use espionage,...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Kate Brewster's quest to become the first woman to run a Wall Street institution is about to come to fruition. Wooed away from a top job at a competing firm by Ed Roth with promises of breaking the glass ceiling when she succeeds him as the head of the investment bank Drake Carlson, Kate learns that she has real potential for the top spot. First, she must prove her worth by unconventionally putting together an IPO for a small games maker whose most...
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Language
English
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Description
In this new edition of his classic book, David Korten illuminates the convergence of ideological, political, and technological forces that have driven an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in a handful of corporations and financial institutions and left the market system blind to all but its own short-term financial gains. As he vividly documents, the social and environmental consequences of these efforts have been devastating....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the author of the acclaimed Mr. China comes another rollicking adventure story-part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio-that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China.
In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident while the West seems mired in doubt. Having lived and worked in China for more than two decades, Tim Clissold explains the secrets that Westerners can use to...
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