Icp imprint: 267 books
Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
Modeling Based on Geometric Lévy Processes and Minimal Entropy Martingale Measures
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
This volume offers the reader practical methods to compute the option prices in the incomplete asset markets. The [GLP & MEMM] pricing models are clearly introduced, and the properties of these models are discussed in great detail. It is shown that the geometric Lévy process (GLP) is a typical...
Stock Markets, Investments and Corporate Behavior
A Conceptual Framework of Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Stock Markets, Investments and Corporate Behavior examines the nature of stock market growth and decline, the function of financial markets, and their implications for commercial companies. Traditionally, finance academics have attempted to understand financial markets and commercial companies as...
From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence
Assessing Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other words, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. More recently, this field has fragmented into a number of related disciplines with subtle...
Lead With Cash: Cash Flow For Corporate Renewal
Cash Flow for Corporate Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
This book takes an entirely new look at how companies ought to be managed. It argues that managers need to focus on how corporate decisions affect the firm's cash. The author, who is well known in the fields of management and crisis management, suggests that companies that follow the paradigm presented...
The Tao of Innovation
Nine Questions Every Innovator Must Answer
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Tao of Innovation is the first book to blend Eastern philosophy with tried-and-true innovation strategies. It presents a holistic, intuitive and practical approach to developing game-changing innovation.
Having over 30 years of real-world global corporate, entrepreneurial, and consulting...
by Roscoe B White
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This graduate level textbook develops the theory of magnetically confined plasma, with the aim of bringing the reader to the level of current research in the field of thermonuclear fusion. It begins with the basic concepts of magnetic field description, plasma equilibria and stability, and goes on...
The Value of Uncertainty
Dealing with Risk in the Equity Derivatives Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Along with the extraordinary growth in the derivatives market over the last decade, the impact of model choice, and model parameter usage, has become a major source of valuation uncertainty. This book concentrates on equity derivatives and charts, step by step, how key assumptions on the dynamics...
by Phillip Phan
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Microfinance is regarded as a lynchpin in private sector solutions to a host of complex social challenges, from child labor, education, and women's rights, through to sustainable local economic development. The principle of self-help through capital accumulation in the US inner city looks similar...
Perspectives on Supplier Innovation
Theories, Concepts and Empirical Insights on Open Innovation and the Integration of Suppliers
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result of...
by Tai Wei Lim, Xiaojuan Ping
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the past 18 years, after the handover of the former British colony Hong Kong to China, Beijing and the Special Administration Region (SAR) have been trying to work out a mutually beneficial relationship based on pragmatism and a focus on economic prosperity. The Occupy Central with Love and Peace...
by Andrew Webb
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The global trend of increasingly ageing societies and long term illnesses has meant a growth in demand for intensive care resources. This book advises on leadership and organizational development of intensive care units, in order to give best practices for governance, performance, emergency response...
Metals and Energy Finance
Advanced Textbook on the Evaluation of Mineral and Energy Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Given the design component it involves, financial engineering should be considered equal to conventional engineering. By adopting this complementary approach, financial models can be used to identify how and why timing is critical in optimizing return on investment and to demonstrate how financial...
The Knowledge Enterprise
Innovation Lessons from Industry Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Knowledge Enterprise is a unique second edition about mastering business innovation. Industry-leading companies reveal the secrets and lessons of transition leadership, the importance of customer engagement and the power of open innovation. Building on the success of the first edition, this book...
The Fundamentals of Imaging
From Particles to Galaxies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
It is through images that we understand the form and function of material objects, from the fundamental particles that are the constituents of matter to galaxies that are the constituents of the Universe. Imaging must be thought of in a flexible way as varying from just the detection of objects —...