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Quantitative Analysis For Management: Charles P. Bonini, Warren Hausman, Harold Bierman

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This text may be used in a required or elective quantitative analysis course at the Junior level or first year MBA. It also may be used for an elective course in Modeling and Analysis, Decision Sciences or Management Science. A major new feature of the book is the [...]

The Second Cycle: Winning the War Against Bureaucracy: Lars Kolind

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You’re growing fast. You’re profitable. Maybe they’re even writing great things about you in the business press. But, just beneath the surface, are you incubating the seeds of disaster? It’s happened over and over again, in one industry after another, to companies ranging from IBM to Upjohn. In this book, Lars Kolind [...]

Leading Strategic Change: Bridging Theory and Practice: Eric Flamholtz, Yvonne Randle

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Advance praise: ‘Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle bring both rigor and relevance to a challenge that looms for every manager. Their ability to distil the essence of the available research, the capacity to present this in a lucid and digestible way, the use of insightful case [...]

Business Strategies for the Next-Generation Network (Informa Telecoms & Media): Nigel Seel

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… reviews the failure of previous attempts to start fresh with such concepts as broadband ISDN, covering the net., TV and IT systems. He also describes efforts by carriers to build newness in and transform themselves into enterprises without legacy systems, which leads to the business [...]

Business Sense: Exercising Management’s Five Freedoms: Dan Thomas

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John B. McCoy Chairman and CEO, Banc One Corporation Experience has shown that common threads run through most successful companies. Paying close attention to the basics is perhaps the most important. This book provides an excellent road map for success. — Review
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Invisible Advantage: How Intangibles Are Driving Business Performance: Jonathan Low, Pamela Kalafut, Pam Cohen Kalafut

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Invisible Advantage, by Jonathan Low and Pam Cohen Kalafut, is a thoughtful analysis of the value of intangible assets in today’s corporate world with solid recommendations for turning them into a competitive edge. Low and Kalafut, who have undertaken several major research projects on this topic and presented their results at forums [...]

Principles of Strategic Management (Innovative Business Textbooks): Tony Morden

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“Principles of Strategic Management” provides a comprehensive and accessible treatment of the key principles and practices of the strategic management process. It covers the whole of the strategic management process including strategic analysis, formulation, choice and implementation. Within this framework topics such as business environment, leadership, governance, enterprise management, time management, financial [...]

The Biggest Game of All : The Inside Strategies, Tactics, and Temperaments That Make Great Dealmakers Great: Leo Hindery, Leslie Cauley

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From Publishers Weekly
Hindery, the CEO of the YES Network, the New York Yankees’ cable channel, has handled some 250 deals in his 25-year career with considerable success. Along the way he’s learned lessons like “do more homework than the other guy” and “read the fine print.” [...]

Managing For The Long Run: Lessons In Competitive Advantage From Great Family Businesses: Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

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Conventional thinking holds that family-controlled businesses are beset by inherent weaknesses from “clan” cultures to stable ownership that hobble success and erode competitive advantage. This book argues that those very traits are part of what has ensured the sustained success of some of the world’s leading and long-lived family controlled businesses. This [...]

Smart Thinking for Crazy Times: the Art of Solving the Right Problems: Ian I. Mitroff

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Ian Mitroff, consultant and business policy professor, believes that organizations (and even entire societies) fail to resolve their most pressing predicaments because they commonly start out by addressing the wrong problems. Smart Thinking for Crazy Times: The Art of Solving the Right Problems outlines his well-reasoned approach [...]