Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Peak Load and Capacity Pricing
Theory and Practice in Electricity
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Peak Load and Capacity Pricing lays out clear pricing strategies for understanding peak load and capacity pricing structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs.
The New Plantation
Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model. It provides a much-needed in-depth analysis to fully comprehend the magnitude of the forces at work that impact black...
Leading Spiritually
Ten Effective Approaches to Workplace Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Leading Spiritually reviews workplace spirituality from revered streams such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, but also from a stance of personal reflection, self-leadership, and powerful interpersonal relationships.
Unmasking Financial Psychopaths
Inside the Minds of Investors in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
As financial markets expand globally in response to economic and technological developments of the twenty-first century, our understanding and expectations of the people involved in these markets also change. Unmasking Financial Psychopaths suggests that an increasing number of financiers labeled...
Absence of Arbitrage Valuation
A Unified Framework for Pricing Assets and Securities
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Absence of Arbitrage Valuation presents a unified asset pricing strategy through absence of arbitrage and applies this framework to such disparate fields as fixed income security pricing, foreign exchange spots, and forward rates.
Exporting the Alaska Model
Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This timely book examines how the "Alaska model" can be adapted for use elsewhere, examining issues of implementation and showing that this model can be employed even in resource-poor areas in the industrialized and in the industrializing world.
Analyzing Event Statistics in Corporate Finance
Methodologies, Evidences, and Critiques
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Analyzing Event Statistics in Corporate Finance provides new alternative methodologies to increase accuracy when performing statistical tests for event studies within corporate finance. In contrast to conventional surveys or literature reviews, Jeng focuses on various methodological defects or deficiencies...
Somebody in Charge
A Solution to Recessions?
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
This book asks a fundamental question, that is, whether "somebody in charge" could have prevented or solved the problem leading up to our current financial crisis. This book explores and answers that question from a scholarly and academic economic viewpoint.
by L. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
This new book will provide an extensive analysis of the role of the Federal Reserve in contributing to the crisis through its low interest-rate policy during 2002-2006, and in dealing with the crisis under Bernanke with his aggressive and innovative policies implemented in the wake of the Lehman collapse in September 2008.
Diversity Intelligence
Integrating Diversity Intelligence alongside Intellectual, Emotional, and Cultural Intelligence for Leadership and Career Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book analyzes the emerging concept of diversity intelligence, which values the differences in employees without attempting to make everyone alike. Organization leaders need diversity intelligence to better interact with the changing demographics in America and the global economy, by embracing...
Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences
Leadership for Global Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Although the title of this volume and its major focus will be on one major aspect of global sustainability - climate change - this volume continues with the overall framing of the series: global sustainability is a multi-faceted, global, multi-generational, economic, social, environmental, and cultural phenomenon and challenge to our species.
Practical Sustainability
From Grounded Theory to Emerging Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
A structured guideline for development and implementation of business strategies, programs, and models with core sustainability values is then proposed and explicitly discussed, drawing upon management models, tools and techniques proven to be effective in organizational decision-making and prognostication.
Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy
Integrating Research and Practice on Sustainable Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Technology breakthroughs in sustainable renewable energy and energy conservation technologies require that there be a strong institutional ecosystem in place which supports innovation, but the nature of this foundation and how it works is not well-known. Becoming a leader necessitates new forms of cross-sector cooperation.
by S. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Taylor leads readers through creativity and how it relates to leadership followed by the five stages of theory behind the idea: 1) preparation, 2) time-off (or incubation), 3) the spark, 4) selection, and 5) elaboration.