S Michael: 742 books
Mergers & Acquisitions
A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
In 1999, MCI WorldComm and Sprint agreed to merge. Valued at $129 billion, this expected transaction was the largest in history. However, it fell victim to regulators in Europe concerned with the potential monopoly power of the merged firm. This M&A action was merely the latest in a growing trend...
by Michael S. Dobson PMP, Deborah Singer Dobson M.Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Let’s face it — who among us has only a single project? Multiple projects are the norm, not the exception, and there are very good reasons why this is so. A lot of projects simply aren’t big enough to justify the investment of a full-time project manager: having only one is impractical. Depending...
by Greenberg Theodore S.; Gray Larissa; Schantz Delphine; Gardner Carolin; Latham Michael
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
In recent years, the revelations of grand corruption and the scale of the plunder of state assets has led to greater scrutiny of financial relationships with politically exposed persons (PEPs) and potential money laundering risks associated with these customers. PEPs individuals who are or have been...
by Michael S. Dobson PMP, Deborah Singer Dobson M.Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Project Risk and Cost Analysis focuses on risk in the context of project management, primarily in the area of risk’s effects on project costs, with emphasis on the many modern tools that help you and your organization quantify and manage project risk. You will learn how to perform a formal risk and...
Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making
Mental Models, Milgram and the Problem of Obedience
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
In commerce, many moral failures are due to narrow mindsets that preclude taking into account the moral dimensions of a decision or action. In turn, sometimes these mindsets are caused by failing to question managerial decisions from a moral point of view, because of a perceived authority of management....
by Michael S. Kwao
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This book will enhance the way you think and the ability to understand yourself better. Opportunities come more than once in a life time so challenge yourself beyond expectation to prove that the conditioned thoughts of your mind can be changed. This book will embrace your capabilities with positive...
by Larry S. Miller, Harry W. More, Michael C. Braswell
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Outstanding first-line supervisors are essential to the success of any law enforcement agency, yet many officers lack the supervision training necessary to excel. E**ffective Police Supervision immerses readers in the group behaviors and organizational dynamics supervisors must master in order to...
Data Mining Techniques
For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The leading introductory book on data mining, fully updated and revised!
When Berry and Linoff wrote the first edition of Data Mining Techniques in the late 1990s, data mining was just starting to move out of the lab and into the office and has since grown to become an indispensable tool of...
White-Collar Crime
An Opportunity Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational...
The Arab Awakening
America and the Transformation of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustration erupted throughout the streets; public unrest provoked violent police backlash; long-established dictatorships fell. How did this all happen? What might...
The Teacher's Guide to Leading Student-Centered Discussions
Talking About Texts in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2006
Engage and enlighten students by skillfully guiding them through thought-provoking classroom discussions using these straightforward strategies.
Experiments
Planning, Analysis, and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Praise for the First Edition:
"If you . . . want an up-to-date, definitive reference written by authors who have contributed much to this field, then this book is an essential addition to your library."
—Journal of the American Statistical Association
Fully updated to reflect...
by Donny C. F. Lai, Humphrey K. K. Tung, Michael C. S. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
"Professional Financial Computing Using Excel and VBA is an admirable exposition that bridges the theoretical underpinnings of financial engineering and its application which usually appears as a "black-box" software application. The book opens the black-box and reveals the architecture...
Aligning Values and Politics
Empowerment Versus Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Aligning Values and Politics argues that empowering individuals for self-actualization is an indispensable tool for attaining freedom; therefore, politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization. Private property rights have in the past helped people to develop skills, but such rights...