IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results: Peter Weill, Jeanne Ross

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Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom-designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company [...]

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting and Running a Bar: Steve Johns, Carey Rossi

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Where everybody knows their name… Whether their dream bar is a comfortable neighborhood joint or a nightclub teeming with entertainment, readers can achieve their goal with this step-by-step guide. They’ll learn how to focus their vision for their bar, how to build a business plan, what they need to know [...]

Operations Management: Jay Heizer, Barry Render

Operations Management: Jay Heizer, Barry Render
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(Pearson Education) A broad introduction to the field of operations management, presenting the current view of the operations function as a realistic set of activities and practices that improve everyday life. The CD-ROM contains lecture notes and video cases of real companies, as well as practice [...]

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology: Henry William Chesbrough

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From Publishers Weekly
The great corporate research departments at companies like Bell Labs, IBM and Xerox were once the motor of American industry. But that may be changing, according to this probing academic study of corporate technological innovation. Chesbrough, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business [...]

Medicine and Money: Why Some Treatments Are Insured and Others Aren’t…How Some Drugs Get to Market While Others Don’t…What Insiders Know But the Rest of Us Don’t: Christina Blackett Schlank

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The health care industry has undergone so much change since 1990 that the rules that apply to buying medical services for the past hundred years are useless. Health care is more directly–and more immediately–impacted by financial issues today than it ever has been. This [...]

Practical Business Forecasting: Michael K. Evans

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Stressing the concrete applications of economic forecasting, Practical Business Forecasting is accessible to a wide-range of readers, requiring only a familiarity with basic statistics. The text focuses on the use of models in forecasting, explaining how to build practical forecasting models that produce optimal results. In a clear and detailed format, [...]

Practical Business Forecasting: Michael K. Evans

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Stressing the concrete applications of economic forecasting, Practical Business Forecasting is accessible to a wide-range of readers, requiring only a familiarity with basic statistics. The text focuses on the use of models in forecasting, explaining how to build practical forecasting models that produce optimal results. In a clear and detailed format, [...]

Practical Business Forecasting: Michael K. Evans

Editorial Reviews

Stressing the concrete applications of economic forecasting, Practical Business Forecasting is accessible to a wide-range of readers, requiring only a familiarity with basic statistics. The text focuses on the use of models in forecasting, explaining how to build practical forecasting models that produce optimal results. In a clear and detailed format, [...]

Practical Business Forecasting: Michael K. Evans

Editorial Reviews

Stressing the concrete applications of economic forecasting, Practical Business Forecasting is accessible to a wide-range of readers, requiring only a familiarity with basic statistics. The text focuses on the use of models in forecasting, explaining how to build practical forecasting models that produce optimal results. In a clear and detailed format, [...]

Jack: Straight from the Gut: Jack Welch, John A. Byrne

It’s hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. Under his leadership, General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business. In Jack: Straight from the Gut, Welch, with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne, [...]