Corporate category: 1876 books
Snacks
A Canadian Food History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
"Snacks" is a history of Canadian snack foods, of the independent producers and workers who make them, and of the consumers who can’t put them down. Janis Thiessen profiles several iconic Canadian snack food companies, including Old Dutch Potato Chips, Hawkins Cheezies, and chocolate maker...
True to Our Roots
Fermenting a Business Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
True to Our Roots sets forth the simple but powerful management principles that enabled Fetzer Vineyards under Paul Dolan to become one of America’s biggest and best-known wineries even as it was turning into a model for sustainable businesses everywhere. Today, Dolan and Fetzer are leading the...
Development Effectiveness Report 2009
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Private sector investment is widely recognized as the engine of economic growth. The long-term strategic framework 2008-2020 (Strategy 2020) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) identifies private sector development and private sector operations as one of five drivers of change to pursue its vision...
Development Effectiveness Report 2010
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The private sector is regarded as a major contributor to economic growth through investments, new technologies, knowledge transfer, and enhanced productivity, as well as through the creation of jobs and income. This is particularly true in Asia and the Pacific, where much of the recent success in...
Verizon Untethered
An Insider's Story of Innovation and Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Verizon leadership team stands apart from most leadership teams today in their willingness repeatedly to put the enterprise before the individual. At first blush, this might look like a hopelessly old-fashioned notion in the age of the selfie. Yet, I would argue this is a trait that future leaders...
by FLLC Guides
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
One super popular form of investment that’s recently gained momentum is cryptocurrency. You may be familiar with bitcoin, which is essentially hat started all of this, and there are others such as Ethereum, which is a Turing programmable currency that lets developers create different technologies...
The Mutual Fund Industry
Competition and Investor Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Mutual funds form the bedrock of retirement savings in the United States, and, considering their rapid growth, are sure to be more critical in the future. Because the size of fees paid by investors to mutual fund advisers can strongly affect the return on investment, these fees have become a contentious...
by Gooseberry Patch
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
• Celebrates the 100 year history of Sun-Maid® Growers
• Including the original “Sun-Maid Girl” who brought these foods into generations of homes and hearts
• More than 50 favorite recipes featuring raisins and dried fruits
Sun-Maid© Natural Raisins and Dried Fruit have been a part...
The Rule of Logistics
Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Every time you wheel a shopping cart through one of Walmart’s more than 10,000 stores worldwide, or swipe your credit card or purchase something online, you enter a mind-boggling logistical regime. Even if you’ve never shopped at Walmart, its logistics have probably affected your life. The Rule...
The Rise of Mutual Funds
An Insider's View
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today U.S. mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. New and updated to reflect the crash of 2008, Matthew Fink's latest book, The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider's...
Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work
From Strategy and Target Selection to Post Merger Integration
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
For many industries, mergers and acquisitions have become the main pathway for reaching strategic objectives like growth, technological leadership, or efficiency in production and distribution. However, the success rate of most M&A deals is low - and flawed. Unrealistic synergies, wrong target...
Financing High-Tech Startups
Using Productive Signaling to Efficiently Overcome the Liability of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This book examines the adverse effects of complexity, information asymmetries, transaction costs, and uncertainty on investors’ decision making. It suggests mitigating those effects using appropriate and matching signals, and analyzes a sample of 903 German startups to quantitatively highlight the...
by Paul Westhead, Mike Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Increasingly, entrepreneurship research recognizes a wide variety in entrepreneurial behaviour. One such difference is marked between experienced or habitual entrepreneurs and novices. This book, authored by established experts in the field, introduces and explores the habitual entrepreneur phenomenon.
Building...
by Thomas Ramge, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to...