International Financial Management: Jeff Madura

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For junior senior and graduate level finance courses called International Finance International Financial Management and Multinational Finance in finance departments.

About the Author
Jeff Madura is the SunTrust Bank Professor of Finance at Florida Atlantic University. He has written several textbooks including International Financial Management and Financial Markets and Institutions. His research on topics of banking and financial markets has been published in numerous journals including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Journal of Money Credit and Banking Journal of Banking and Finance Applied Financial Economics Journal of Risk and Insurance Journal of Financial Research and Journal of Financial Services Research. He has received awards for excellence in teaching and research and has served as a consultant for commercial banks securities firms and other corporations. He has served as a Director for the Southern Finance Association and Eastern Finance Association and served as President of the Southern Finance Association.

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International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures: Helen Deresky

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This globally oriented book covers the most current research and trends in International Management. It offers comprehensive and integrative cases that illustrate the actual behaviors and functions required for successful cross-cultural management at the strategic and interpersonal level. Includes numerous boxed features that relate concepts to real-world practice. Also includes experiential exercises for self-test. For professionals in international business.

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This globally oriented book covers the most current research and trends in International Management. It offers comprehensive and integrative cases that illustrate the actual behaviors and functions required for successful cross-cultural management at the strategic and interpersonal level. Includes numerous boxed features that relate concepts to real-world practice. Also includes experiential exercises for self-test. For professionals in international business.

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Business Essentials (3rd Edition): Ronald J. Ebert, Ricky W. Griffin

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A concise, streamlined edition of Ebert’s larger Business volume, this extremely successful book provides the essence of business in a brief and affordable format. Its compact presentation spans the range of functional areas—management, marketing, operations, accounting, information systems, finance, and law—clearly demonstrating the interrelationships between them. Coverage features the most intriguing and up-to-date examples, case studies, Internet exercises, SCANS-oriented critical-thinking exercises, new videos, part-opening World Wide Web vignettes, and Crafting Your Business Plan exercises. Each chapter contains tables, photographs, and figures carefully chosen to illustrate, in a visually appealing way, the points and messages of the chapter. For anyone—from mailroom to management—who seeks to thrive in today’s business world.

From the Back Cover
A concise, streamlined edition of Ebert’s larger Business volume, this extremely successful book provides the essence of business in a brief and affordable format. Its compact presentation spans the range of functional areas—management, marketing, operations, accounting, information systems, finance, and law—clearly demonstrating the interrelationships between them. Coverage features the most intriguing and up-to-date examples, case studies, Internet exercises, SCANS-oriented critical-thinking exercises, new videos, part-opening World Wide Web vignettes, and Crafting Your Business Plan exercises. Each chapter contains tables, photographs, and figures carefully chosen to illustrate, in a visually appealing way, the points and messages of the chapter. For anyone—from mailroom to management—who seeks to thrive in today’s business world.

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Economic Development (The Addison-Wesley Series in Economics): Michael P. Todaro, Stephen C. Smith

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This best-selling text offers a unique policy-oriented approach that uses models and concepts to illustrate real-world development problems. Retaining its hallmark accessibility throughout, the Eighth Edition uses the most current data, offering full coverage of recent advances in the field, and featuring a balanced presentation of opposing viewpoints on today’s major policy debates.

Economic Development includes extensive country-specific examples, with particular attention given to economic dislocations throughout Asia, Russia, and Brazil. Updated Country Case Studies and Comparative Case Studies allow students to apply concepts to specific developing nations.

About the Author
Michael P. Todaro was Professor of Economics at New York University for eighteen years and Senior Associate at the Population Council for thirty years. He lived and taught in Africa for six years. He appears in Who's Who in Economics and Economists of the Twentieth Century. He is also the author of eight books and more than fifty professional articles.

Stephen C. Smith is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University. He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University. Smith is author of Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works, co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, and author or coauthor of some three dozen journal articles.
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Financial Markets and Institutions: Jeff Madura

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This text describes financial markets and institutions by providing a conceptual framework to understand why markets exist and what their role is in the financial environment. Each type of financial market is described with a focus on its utilization by financial institutions, its internationalization, and recent events that have affected it. Each type of financial institution is described with a focus on its regulatory aspects, management, use of financial markets, and performance. This edition continues its strong tradition of emphasizing timely examples and practical applications, including Internet materials, and offers a unique tie into Internet resources.

About the Author
Jeff Madura is the SunTrust Bank Professor of Finance at Florida Atlantic University. He has written several textbooks, including International Financial Management and Financial Markets and Institutions. His research on topics of banking and financial markets has been published in numerous journals, including Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Financial Research and Journal of Financial Services Research. He has received awards for excellence in teaching and research, and has served as a consultant for commercial banks, securities firms, and other corporations. He has served as a Director for the Southern Finance Association and Eastern Finance Association, and served as President of the Southern Finance Association.

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Principles of Risk Management and Insurance (Principles of Risk Management and Insurance, 6th ed): George E. Rejda

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Covers the basic concepts in risk management and insurance, legal principles in risk and insurance, personal property and liability risks, commercial property and liability risks and life and health risks and the insurance industry. DLC: Insurance.

About the Author

George E. Rejda is a nationally known expert on private insurance and social insurance programs. He is a Past President of the American Risk and Insurance Association. His primary research areas are Social Security and unemployment insurance. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, initially limited to 125 experts on Social Security in the United States. He is the founding editor of Benefits Quarterly in the employee benefits field and also served as Communication and Notes editor for the Journal of Risk and Insurance. He has published numerous books, articles, and other publications, several of which were used by the Insurance Institute of America in its professional program. He is a former member of the examination committee of the Insurance Institute of America, which designs and administers professional examinations to employees in the property and casualty insurance industry. His textbook, Principles of Risk Management and Insurance, is widely used by colleges and universities throughout the United States. Rejda received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied risk and insurance as a Huebner Foundation Fellow in the Wharton School. He is a former member of the Administrative Board of the Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU). During his career at UNL, he has taught more than 13,000 students.

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Entrepreneurial Small Business: Jerry Katz, Richard Green

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Entrepreneurial Small Business (ESB) provides students with a clear vision of small business as it really is today. It focuses on the distinctive nature of small businesses that students might actually start versus high growth firms. The goal of the companies described in this textbook is personal independence with financial security; not market dominance with extreme wealth. Traditional beliefs and models in small business are discussed, as well as the latest findings and best practices from academic and consulting arenas. Katz and Green recognize the distinction between entrepreneurs who aim to start the successor to Amazon.com and the pizza place around the corner. They discuss the challenges facing entrepreneurs, while keeping focused on the small businesses students plan to start.

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Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures–and Yours: Tarun Khanna

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…an objective and insightful comparison of China and India. –Foreign Affairs, May 1, 2008

Khanna delivers a dense but lively blend of anecdotes and analysis. He shows how entrepreneurial spirit is transforming both these countries not only economically, but strengthening ties between the two. –Newsweek

The eye of this business-school professor for interesting stories is sharp and he offers illuminating explanations of why India and China work in the ways that they do. –The Economist, January 24, 2008

Called well worth reading by The Economist and earnest and entertaining by the Financial Times, Tarun Khanna s Billions of Entrepreneurs is an elegantly written book that mixes on-the-ground stories with thorough research to show how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new business models and bringing hope to countless people across the globe. Khanna juxtaposes, on a variety of levels, China and India; explores how the future depends on understanding the yin and yang of these two nations; and emphasizes the increasingly important links between China, India, and the West. Khanna embraces what he calls a big tent view of entrepreneurship going beyond typical stories of high profile, young executives taking companies public and focusing on social and political entrepreneurs who are redefining the norms of daily activity.

In the book, Khanna sets out to demystify many of the questions that confound foreigners (BusinessWeek), exploring subjects that include each nation s treatment of multinationals, Chinese and Indian managerial talent, and state vs. grassroots approaches to business and entrepreneurship. Khanna s insightful analysis draws on history, economics, and political science, and is humanized by vivid portraits of the lives of individual entrepreneurs, politicians, and activists whom the author has met during his regular visits to each country. He argues that hope for prosperity in both countries lies in the hands of the billions of entrepreneurs who are alleviating social problems and historic tensions, benefiting both countries and the world at large.

According to the Financial Times: What Khanna does do, and does well, is cover vast sociopolitical and economic ground, and provide meaty information derived from conversations with people who have done business in India and China.

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Business: Ricky W. Griffin, Ronald J. Ebert

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Business: Ricky W. Griffin, Ronald J. Ebert

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A current introductory business text which continues to inform the student about the important facets of today’s business world. Now in its third edition “Business” covers an array of contemporary international issues, the ethical and legal environment, technology, service operations and social responsibility. The authors feature a strong focus on high quality/high productivity issues with an excellent discussions on the total quality management concept and looks at today’s business diversities - entrepreneurship, multiculturalism, family businesses, franchises and medium sized business. States. Recognising Business Trends and Challenges. Conducting Business Ethically and Responsibly. ORGANIZING AND MANAGING BUSINESSES Managing the Business Enterprise. Running the Small Business. Setting Business Goals and Strategies. Organising the Business Enterprise. MANAGING PEOPLE IN ORGANIZATIONS: Motivating, Statisfying, and Leading Employers. Managing Human Resources. Dealing with Organised Labor.

From the Publisher
One of the most comprehensive — yet readable — surveys of all major facets of business operations and management, this best-selling text moves from broad, general perspectives to focused coverage of specific business functions. A carefully orchestrated variety of boxes, cases, vignettes, illustrations, quotes, a running “field trip,” interactive questions, and an informal first-person narrative all work together to draw students dynamically into the real world of contemporary business — further enriched by a host of supplements, including a multimedia CD-ROM.
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Riches in Niches: How to Make It Big in a Small Market: Susan Friedmann

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“At last, a book that addresses the key to contemporary marketing. Nichepreneurs, the term Susan Friedmann brilliantly coined, defines a powerful mindset that has become the giant killer strategy for small business success….This is the must-read business book of the year.” — Rick Segel

Why do some financial advisors wind up making millions on TV giving investment advice while others labor in obscurity? How do some attorneys land regular columns in prestigious trade publications? Where do those speakers who give the annual address at industry conventions come from? What is the secret reason that a select few service professionals enjoy high-profile, high-prestige, and high-paying status as “experts” in their fields?

More importantly, can the rest of us do it? Susan Friedmann answers a resounding “Yes!” In Riches in Niches: How to Make It BIG in a Small Market, Friedmann explores the multiple factors that separate the “experts” from the service professionals who may have identical–if not better–skills, but whom no one has ever heard of.

You will learn:
* Why positioning yourself as an Expert in a Niche–a sweet spot known as a nichepreneur–is the most surefire route to success any service professional could want.
* The GEL Formula: Friedmann’s proven technique that shows service professionals how to find the professional niche that makes the best use of their skills while yielding maximum profit.
* The Seven Secrets nichepreneurs need to know to create, claim, and benefit from their Expert Identity.
* Creative ways to create secondary, even tertiary, income streams capitalizing on the benefits of “Being the Expert.”

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