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Competing Against Luck
The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.
How do companies know...
Prediction Machines
The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
"What does AI mean for your business? Read this book to find out." -- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Artificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible, magically bringing machines to life--driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that...
by Enrique Ochoa Reza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 3, 2016
El sector eléctrico es uno de los más importantes en el páis, por ello, dado los avances en esta materia a nivel mundial, era necesario plantear una reforma energética que diera cabida a la competitividad, el uso de energías renovables y que elevara la calidad del servicio eléctrico para los...
Oil on the Brain
Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry—the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.
Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought....
Restaurant Success by the Numbers, Second Edition
A Money-Guy's Guide to Opening the Next New Hot Spot
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This one-stop guide to opening a restaurant from an accountant-turned-restaurateur shows aspiring proprietors how to succeed in the crucial first year and beyond.
The majority of restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! Roger Fields--money-guy,...
War at the Wall Street Journal
Inside the Struggle To Control an American Business Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
A tale about big business, an imploding dynasty, a mogul at war, and a deal that epitomized an era of change
While working at the Wall Street Journal, Sarah Ellison won praise for covering the $5 billion acquisition that transformed the pride of Dow Jones and the estimable but eccentric Bancroft...
by Michael A. Leeds, Peter von Allmen, Victor A. Matheson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The sports industry provides a seemingly endless set of examples from every area of microeconomics, giving students the opportunity to study economics in a context that holds their interest. Thoroughly updated to reflect the current sports landscape, The Economics of Sports introduces core economic...
The Distilleries of Campbeltown
The Rise and Fall of the Whisky Capital of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Starting with the early origins of Campbeltown, David Stirk relates in The Distilleries of Campbeltown how the town grew from a small settlement into a Royal Burgh that depended on the herring fishery before whisky became the main trade in the town and its associated villages of Dalaruan and Dalintober....
by Bartow J. Elmore
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
"Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about…the Coca-Cola system—past and present." —Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company
By examining “the real thing” ingredient by ingredient, this brilliant history shows how Coke used a strategy of outsourcing and leveraged free...
Winning the Global Game
A Strategy for Linking People and Profits
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In the 21st century global economy, emerging nations will provide almost half of the potential customers for western goods and services, concludes international business expert Jeffrey A. Rosensweig. Drawing on extensive research, Rosensweig contends that firms with truly global strategies will profit...
The Know-It-Alls
The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The debut of a well-known and respected New York Times journalist: Noam Cohen has appeared on Talk of the Nation, MSNBC, and numerous commercial and public radio stations in conjunction with his work on technology for the New York Times. He appeared in the documentary "Page One."
Former...
Javatrekker
Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century-globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination-are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee,...
Water Allocation in Rivers under Pressure
Water Trading, Transaction Costs and Transboundary Governance in the Western US and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Water trading and river basin governance have been upheld as institutional blueprints for allocating water for people, agriculture and ecosystems in a changing climate. Progress has been uneven, however, despite multiple decades of institutional reforms in river basins under pressure from demand, development...
Morning Miracle
Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Pulitzer Prize–nominated Post veteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers the question “Do newspapers still matter?” with a resounding yes.
What The Kingdom and the Power did for the New York Times, Morning Miracle will do for the Washington...