Breakthrough business results with MVT

a fast,cost-free "Secret Weapon" for boosting sales, cutting expenses, and improving any business process

MVT(TM) (Multivariable Testing) has been heralded as a breakthrough business tool in major publications such as Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Business-Week. Although MVT could become one of the most widely used management tools and has been applied by leading companies ...

Balanced scorecard diagnostics

maintaining maximum performance

The complete guide to analyzing and maximizing a company's balanced scorecard Presenting the next step for balanced scorecard implementation, Balanced Scorecard Diagnostics provides a step-by-step methodology for analyzing the effectiveness of a company's balanced scorecard and the tools to reevaluate balanced scorecard measures ...

Fraud 101

techniques and strategies for detection

Unique insights into the nature of fraud and how to expose it It's not enough to wait for a tip to expose corporate fraud. Fraud 101, Second Edition provides step-by-step guidance on how to perform detection procedures for every major type of fraud. Its ...

Who's afraid of Adam Smith?

how the market got his soul!

In this spirited and timely book, Peter Dougherty shows how economists are drawing on Adam Smith's civic writings to illuminate how the market creates not only fiscal capital, but "social capital." Dougherty demonstrates how Smith's ideas are currently experiencing a renaissance. He then ...

Designing the customer-centric organization

a guide to strategy, structure, and process

Designing the Customer-Centric Organization offers todayâ #s business leaders a comprehensive customer-centric organizational model that clearly shows how to put in place an infrastructure that is organized around the demands of the customer. Written by Jay Galbraith (the foremost expert in the field of organizational ...

The future of human resource management

64 thought leaders explore the critical HR issues of today and tomorrow

The follow-up to the bestselling Tomorrow's HR Management (0-471-19714- 9), this book presents an international panel of expert contributors who offer their views on the state of HR and what to expect in the future. Topics covered include HR as a decision science, understanding ...

It's all about service

how to lead your people to care for your customers

Practical strategies for better customer service based on the principles of servant-leadership Individuals in the workforce and the clients they serve are the fundamental building blocks of every company in America. Executives talk about customer service; but their employees are the ones who make it ...

Bayesian models for categorical data

.The use of Bayesian methods for the analysis of data has grown substantially in areas as diverse as applied statistics, psychology, economics and medical science. Bayesian Methods for Categorical Data sets out to demystify modern Bayesian methods,

The market masters

Wall Street's top investment pros reveal how to make money in Both Bull and bear markets

ÍNDICE: PART ONE: THE GROWTH GURUS. Manu Daftary, DG Capital Management. W. Whitfield Gardner, Gardner Lewis Asset Management. Janna Sampson, Oak Brook Investments. Samuel Stewart, Wasatch Advisors. John C. Thompson, Thompson Investment Management. PART TWO: THE VALUE MASTERS. Robert Lyon, Institutional Capital. Andy Pilara, RS ...

Measuring market risk

Fully revised and restructured, Measuring Market Risk, Second Edition includes a new chapter on options risk management, as well as substantial new information on parametric risk, non-parametric measurements and liquidity risks, more practical information to help with specific calculations, and new examples including Q&A ...

Beyond the J-curve

managing a portfolio of venture capital and private equity funds

In recent times, venture capital and private equity funds have become household names, but so far little has been written for the investors in such funds, the so-called limited partners. There is far more to the management of a portfolio of venture capital and private ...

Getting started in hedge funds

Getting Started in Hedge Funds, Second Edition provides investors with a complete and highly accessible introduction to hedge funds: their history, their effect on world economies along with how they operate, the tactics and investment strategies associated with hedge funds. Financial insider Daniel Strachman offers ...

Unconventional wisdom

counterintuitive insights for family business success

Family businesses prosper by pursuing unconventional strategies. Because they are values-driven and think very long-term, they take approaches not popular with current management fashion or most companies. That is the key to their competitive advantage. However, family businesses must find ways to simultaneously serve business ...

Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

effective enterprise risk management

Kellogg on strategy

concepts, tools, and frameworks for practitioners

Written for business executives and MBA students, "Kellogg on Strategy" is a practical guide to choosing the right strategy for your business and applying it correctly. Rather than covering the basics of strategy, this expert guide shows you how to use strategy effectively so your ...

Fat-tailed and skewed asset return distributions

implications for risk management, portfolio selection, and option pricing

A bridge between the highly technical theory of the statistical distribution of asset returns and real-world applications for portfolio and risk management. This unique book gives non-technical readers an understanding of the highly technical mathematics behind how portfolio management, risk management, and option pricing modeling ...

Hedge funds

insights in performance measurement, risk analysis, and portfolio allocation

Leading hedge fund experts examine current trends, applications, and theories in this dynamic field. Here is an in-depth look at hedge funds-from quantitative and qualitative analysis to portfolio allocation, risk analysis, performance measurement, and new methods of hedge fund performance, evaluation, and risk that investors ...

Actuarial theory for dependent risks

measures, orders and models

The increasing complexity of insurance and reinsurance products has seen a growing interest amongst actuaries in the modelling of dependent risks. For efficient risk management, actuaries need to be able to answer fundamental questions such as: Is the correlation structure dangerous? And, if yes, to ...

Regional powerhouse

the greater Pearl River Delta and the rise of China

"The Pearl River Delta has played a vital role in China's remarkable economic growth in the last 25 years. This book will help the reader understand the dynamics of the region, its contributors to China's development, and its outlook to the future." - Sir ...

The idea machine

how ideas can be produced industrially

Can ideas be produced industrially? In the same way as shoes or chocolate? Or does it require flashes of inspiration from brilliant creative thinkers? No, claims Nadja Schnetzler. In her Swiss company BrainStore, ideas are produced in the same way as products: to order and ...