Economics & Finance
Economics & Finance
For many years, managers analyzed risks separately, without considering how they affected the business entity as a whole. In many cases, risk management was handled by the company’s chief financial officer, who often...
Present-day companies are under great pressure to adapt to the evolving competitive scenarios. In Global, Starr addresses former successful firms that must now address the problems of growing old and slowing down in a...
Global Dreams is an exploration of the many different ways in which the global economy changes politics, work, and families throughout the world. The authors reveal how a few hundred companies dominate...
The world is a fundamentally changed place in which the old Cold War paradigms have disappeared. As the world moves beyond interdependency to the wholly new phenomenon of globalization, these changes are most evident...
Business valuations are usually segregated into three basic categories: (1) transaction-based-mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, ESOPs, buy/sell agreements, exchange ratios, fairness opinions, LBOs, and initial...
If life can be divided into three periods: schooling, working, and retirement, it can be planned in three equal installments of 25 years each-giving you a longer time in which to enjoy your later years. In addition,...
In How to Smell a Rat, Ken Fisher explores how most investment scams can be easily detected and avoided. With his 37 years managing money for individuals and institutions, 25 years writing for the “...
Identity Economics by George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton discusses a new way to understand people’s decisions—at work, at school, and at home. The book brings identity and related norms to economics....
As B. Joseph Pine II and Kim C. Korn explain in Infinite Possibility, the predominant offering in today’s economy is experience. Society has progressed from agrarianism, industrialization, and the...
Integrated Account Management presents a form of direct marketing that emphasizes a proactive, personal approach to managing customer relationships. It is considered by many as being the most effective...
