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The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide
Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Preparing independent or guerrilla filmmakers for the legal, financial, and organizational questions that can doom a project if unanswered, this guide demystifies issues such as developing a concept, founding a film company, obtaining financing, securing locations, casting, shooting, granting screen...
Citizen Lane
Defending Our Rights in the Courts, the Capitol, and the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A fascinating memoir . . . well documented, dramatic, and brilliantly crafted.” -Robert K. Tanenbaum, first deputy counsel, congressional investigation committee on JFK assassination Freedom Rider, friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Dick Gregory’s vice-presidential running mate, legal defense...
Reinventing You
Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A step-by-step guide to reinventing you
Are you where you want to be professionally?
Whether you want to advance faster at your present company, change jobs, or make the jump to a new field entirely, the goal is clear: to build a career that thrives on your unique passions and talents....
Groundswell, Expanded and Revised Edition
Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into your broader marketing efforts? It's an unstoppable...
The $10 Trillion Prize
Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Meet your new global consumer
You’ve heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy. But do you know enough about these new consumers to convert them into customers?
Do you know that:
There will be nearly one billion middle-class consumers...
Lay This Body Down
The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves-and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using peons,” but his reaction to a federal investigation was almost unbelievable: he decided to destroy the evidence. Enlisting...
The Endless Crisis
How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, hopes for a new phase of rapid economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high,...
by William A. Sahlman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are glossy five-color charts, bundles of meticulous-looking spreadsheets, and decades of month-by-month financial projections. Yet nothing could be further...
Seven Strategy Questions
A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into the day-to-day actions carried out in your company. That means channeling resources into the right efforts, achieving the right balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone pulling in the same...
No Ordinary Men
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did—the...
Remember Who You Are
15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Leadership requires many attributes besides intelligence and business savvy-courage, character, compassion, and respect are just a few. New managers learn concrete skills in the classroom or on the job, but where do they hone the equally important human values that will guide them through a career...
Do I Look Like an ATM?
A Parent's Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Youth financial education is an urgent issue, and author Sabrina Lamb believes that African American parents first must reeducate themselves about finances to make sure the next generation does not fall into the spending trap that can be a family legacy. The lack of a healthy financial education has...
Tinder Box
The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of its day, a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "absolutely fireproof."...
Fixing the Game
Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
American capitalism is in dire straits, caught in a perilous pattern of increasing volatility, decreasing investor returns, and ongoing bad behavior by executives. And it’s getting worse. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, we’ve seen two massive value-destroying market meltdowns and a...