Robert James: 508 books
The Sortino Framework for Constructing Portfolios
Focusing on Desired Target Return™ to Optimize Upside Potential Relative to Downside Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
The most common way of constructing portfolios is to use traditional asset allocation strategies, which match the client’s risk appetite to a weighted allocation strategy of fixed income, equities, and other types of assets. This method focuses on how the money is allocated, rather than on future...
Change Management
A Guide to Effective Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Now a classic in its field, the fourth edition of Change Management: A Guide to Effective Implementation continues to offer readers highly practical strategies and step-by-step guidance for applying different models of change in different organizational scenarios.
New to the Fourth Edition:
A...
by Robert M. Groves, Floyd J. Fowler Jr., Mick P. Couper
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Praise for the First Edition:
"The book makes a valuable contribution by synthesizing current research and identifying areas for future investigation for each aspect of the survey process."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association
"Overall, the high quality of...
An Introduction to Statistical Learning
with Applications in R
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This...
Power of Influence
How to Persuade Anyone to Do Anything for You Willingly and Happily
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
No matter if you are wanting to be able to improve your influence over the people in your daily interactions, or if you are needing to be more persuasive during your business pursuits, learning how to covertly influence and persuade people will be a useful skill.
Instead of argument, get...
Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006
In the first anthology of its kind, Thomas O'Brien and Scott Paeth have gathered unique pieces from across religious perspectives to illustrate the growing influence and contribution of religion to the field of business ethics. Events in the recent past make clear people in business urgently need...
Voluntary Simplicity
Responding to Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
A simpler life. In a shadow cast by the jarring beginning of the new millennium, simplicity has an undeniable appeal. Global conflicts, domestic security concerns, and a stalling economy can make keeping up with the Joneses feel like, at best, a misguided luxury. Now is not a time for excess; it is...
The Quality Business
Quality Issues in the Smaller Firm
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This book is the first to seriously consider quality issues in smaller firms, based upon well-conducted research and careful theorizing. Subjects covered include:
* the relevance of formal quality standards such as BS 5750 to small firms
* definitions and implementations of 'quality' in a business...
by James R. Barth, Robert E. Litan, R.Dan Brumbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The future of American banking is in doubt and the industry and the federal insurance fund that helps support it are in turmoil. The ingredients of the turmoil have been simmering in public view since at least the early 1980s when commercial bank loans to lesser developed countries (LDCs) began to...
Assessing Performance
Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the...
The Baby Book, Revised Edition
Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
America's bestselling "baby bible" -- an encyclopedic guide to the first two years of your baby's life.
The million-copy bestseller by "the man who remade motherhood" (TIME) has now been revised, expanded, and bought thoroughly up-to-date -- with the latest information on...
The Premature Baby Book
Everything You Need to Know About Your Premature Baby from Birth to Age One
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
This major new addition to the Sears Parenting Library is a comprehensive, authoritative, and reassuring guide for parents of premature babies. 20 line drawings & photos.
Microsoft Virtualization
Master Microsoft Server, Desktop, Application, and Presentation Virtualization
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Microsoft Virtualization: Master Microsoft Server, Desktop, Application, and Presentation Virtualization serves a thorough reference for those considering a migration into the virtualized world. It provides the tools and explanations needed to create a fresh virtualization environment. Readers walk...
Academic Leadership and Governance of Higher Education
A Guide for Trustees, Leaders, and Aspiring Leaders of Two- and Four-Year Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
BESTSELLER
"The book is content rich for those looking for detailed background information on a wide range of topics. The list is far too long to repeat here, but suffice it to say that this is a comprehensive work that addresses issues related to organizational dynamics, policy frameworks,...