Building a better business

the key to future marketing, management and motivation

Starting from the premise that people's attitudes to business have changed: both the role businesses should play in the world and how individuals can achieve a better work-life balance, this book shows how you can build a better and more successful business and achieve ...

Managing for the long run

lessons in competitive advantage from great family businesses

Fidelity, Hallmark, Michelin, and Wal-Mart are renowned industry powerhouses with long leadership track records. Yet, these celebrated companies are united by another factor not generally equated with competitive success: They are all family-controlled businesses. Although many view the hallmarks of family businesses--stable strategies, clan cultures ...

Many unhappy returns

one man's quest to turn arround the most unpopular organization in America

When Charles O. Rossotti became commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, the agency had the largest customer base--and the lowest approval rating--of any institution in America. Mired in scandal, caught in a political maelstrom, and beset by profound management and technology problems, the ...

El IRPF a la luz de la doctrina administrativa

Esta obra recoge una amplia selección de consultas sobre el IRPF, atendiendo al doble criterio de cercanía temporal y de relevancia de las cuestiones o temas planteados. En este sentido se incorporan unas reseñas sobre cada consulta analizada, con objeto de facilitar su conocimiento, además ...

Foundations of dynamic economic analysis

optimal control theory and applications

Foundations of Dynamic Economic Analysis presents a modern and thorough exposition of the fundamental mathematical formalism used to study optimal control theory, i.e., continuous time dynamic economic processes, and to interpret dynamic economic behavior. The style of presentation, with its continual emphasis on the ...

Trade blocs

economics and politics

Preferential trade blocs are in vogue. Despite the successes achieved in liberalizing trade by multilateral trade negotiations sponsored by the World Trade Organization (WTO), numerous countries have separately negotiated preferential trade treaties with one another. Representing a significant departure from the WTO's central principle ...

The economics of technology diffusion and energy efficiency

Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not invest in best-practice ...

El compromiso de actividad del desempleado

La presente obra analiza una de las instituciones más interesantes y complejas en materia de desempleo, cual es el compromiso de actividad del desempleado. Su estructura se compone de cuatro grandes partes: - En la primera se estudia la interrelación entre las políticas pasivas y activas ...

En torno al Quijote

adaptaciones, imitaciones, imágenes y música en la Biblioteca

INDICE: Introducción. Don Quijote de La Mancha: del libro al mito. La "Colección cervantina" de Gabriel Molina Navarro en la Biblioteca Histórica Municipal. Catálogo. Bibliografía. Índices.

Dirección estratégica de Recursos Humanos

gestión por competencias

El estudio de los Recursos Humanos como factor estratégico para el desarrollo de las organizaciones, se ha convertido en una de las prioridades en los albores del siglo XXI. En esta obra Martha Alicia Alles ha encarado el tema en toda su extensión. Así, Dirección ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro-Area

macro modelling, learning and empirics

The emergence of a new macro economy in Euro-Asia is a great challenge for academics and policy makers alike. Our book focuses on this macro economy and the monetary and fiscal policy responses. As the new environment has evolved over time, private behaviour as well ...

Imperfect knowledge and monetary policy

Based on lectures given as part of The Stone Lectures in Economics, this book discusses the problem of formulating monetary policy in practice, under the uncertain circumstances which characterize the real world. The first lecture highlights the limitations of decision rules suggested by the academic ...

Fair trade for all

how trade can promote development

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They ...

Del Barroco al Romanticismo

pintura napolitana de la colección Neapolis

Del Barroco al Romanticismo. Pintura napolitana de la colección Neapolis', que reúne 66 obras de los principales artistas que vivieron en esta ciudad italiana #José de Ribera, Luca Giordano, Gaspare Trabéis, Giuseppe Carelli, Giovan Battista Recco, Charles-Françoise Grenier De La Croix o Juan Ruiz#. La ...

Credit risk management

"Credit Risk Management" will enable general bankers, staff, and credit analyst trainees to understand the basic information and principles underlying credit risk evaluation, and to use those underlying principles to undertake an analysis of non financial and financial risks when preparing a credit proposal. Since ...

IT governance

how top performers manage IT decision rights for superior results

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets ...

Career warfare

10 rules for building a successful personal brand and fighting to keep it

As the youngest-ever CEO of John Hancock Financial Services and the bestselling author of Brand Warfare, David D'Alessandro knows plenty about breaking away from the pack. "In Career Warfare", this ultimate insider tells the true story of how he learned the unwritten rules of ...

A bias for action

how effective managers harness their willpower, achieve results, and stop wasting time

In "A Bias for Action", Sumantra Ghoshal and Heike Bruch reveal that only 10 per cent of managers act purposefully to get truly important work done. "A Bias for Action" shows that great managers produce results not by motivating others, but by engaging their own ...

Equity Markets in Action

The Fundamentals of Liquidity, Market Structure and Trading

This book takes an in depth look at the nature of market making and exchanges. From theory to practicalities, this is a comprehensive, up to date handbook and reference on how markets work and the nuances of trading. It includes a CD with an interactive ...

Heard on The Street

quantitative questions from Wall Street job interviews