The Economist: 48 books
by The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been informing and entertaining readers around the world with its blend of the serious, the quirky and the downright surprising.
Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that 98% of Suriname is forest, that Switzerland sells the...
by The Economist, Bob Vause
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In today's volatile, complex and fast-moving business world, it can be difficult to gauge how sound a company really is. An apparently strong balance sheet and impressive reported profits may be hiding all sorts of problems that could even spell bankruptcy. So how do you:
Know whether a company...
Guide to Investment Strategy
How to understand markets, risk, rewards and behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Now in its fourth edition, this classic guide to investment strategy has been revised to give up-to-date ideas on pensions, investments of passion and more.
Peter Stanyer and Stephen Satchell's Guide to Investment Strategy looks at the risks and opportunities of uncomplicated strategies and...
Frugal Innovation
How to do more with less
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Frugal innovation is a way that companies can create high-quality products with limited resources. Once the preserve of firms in poor markets, Western companies are now seeking ways to appeal to cost-conscious and environmentally-aware consumers at home. With an estimated trillion-dollar global market...
Guide to Financial Management
Understand and Improve the Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
A practical and accessible overview of the fundamentals of business finance--now in its third edition.
Managers are constantly expected to make decisions that reflect a full understanding of the financial consequences. In the absence of formal training, few people are prepared for the responsibilities...
Guide to Cash Management
How to avoid a business credit crunch
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The credit crunch highlighted to businesses the importance of cash management, as those firms which ran short of cash discovered when they found themselves in trouble or even went bust.This tightly-written guide clearly explains the six critical aspects of the effective management of cash and cash...
by John Tennent, Graham Friend, The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Full of practical help on how to build the best, most flexible, and easy-to-use business models that can be used to analyze the upsides and downsides of any business project, this new edition of the Guide to Business Modeling is essential reading for the twenty-first century business leader. This...
Business Strategy
A guide to effective decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The effectiveness of a good strategy well implemented determines a business' future success or failure. Yet history is full of strategic decisions, big and small, that were ill-conceived, poorly organized and consequently disastrous. This updated guide looks at the whole process of strategic decision-making,...
Managing Talent
Recruiting, Retaining, and Getting the Most from Talented People
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Survey after survey confirms how the success of businesses has become increasingly dependent on the ability and skills of their staff. And because talented workers are in short supply, the hunt for people of unusual ability will continue in earnest. Hiring such people is the relatively easy part;...
Managing Uncertainty
Strategies for surviving and thriving in turbulent times
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Managing uncertainty has become a new business imperative. Technological discontinuities, regulatory upheavals, geopolitical shocks, abrupt shifts in consumer tastes or behavior, and many other factors have emerged or intensified in recent years and together conspire to undermine even the most carefully...
Guide to Intellectual Property
What it is, how to protect it, how to exploit it
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Intellectual Property (IP) is often a company's single most valuable asset. And yet IP is hard to value, widely misunderstood and frequently under-exploited.
IP accounts for an estimated 5trn of GDP in the US alone. It covers patents, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, designs and trade...
The Chief Financial Officer
What CFOs Do, the Influence they Have, and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The rapid rise in importance of the role of the chief financial officer—from back-office accountant to front-line executive—is unrivaled by that of any other corporate position. With access to every facet of the business, CFOs now wield a level of influence matched only by chief executives.
This...
Growing a Business
Strategies for Leaders & Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Growth is a clear goal for ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders. It's often a short hand for business - and wider economic - success. But it's not without its pitfalls and challenges, and planning for, and managing, a growing business needs careful thought.
Take, for example, the start-up facing...
Why Deals Fail
And How to Rescue Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The combined value of all M&A deals from 1980 to the end of 2015 was almost 65 trillion—bigger than the current annual world economy value outside the US. In that same period, almost 900,000 deals were announced. Many were questionable, as Why Deals Fail shows. With companies expected to continue...