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You’ve seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don’t know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usual...

A winning business plan is the first step towards creating outstanding performance in a business. As a business owner and/or manager you need an effective business plan, to secure finance if required and to improve your business.This practical,accessible book will take you step by step through the ...

How do you write a great ad? Go straight to the basics: work out what you want to say, to whom you are saying it, and how you want to say it.Offering advice on everything from writing copy and choosing a typeface to how agencies work and the different strategies used for print, television, and onlin...

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to...

An updated edition of a groundbreaking book on best practices for nonprofits What makes great nonprofits great? In the original book, authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant employed a rigorous research methodology derived from for-profit books like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have a...

Explains the contemporary role of management accounting in organisations and demonstrates how it creates and enhances value for shareholders. This text has been developed using major cases based on real Australian businesses and includes numerous illustrations of current management accounting practi...

This is a clear, concise, and easy-to-use guide to financial modelling suitable for practitioners at every level. Using a fundamental approach to financial modelling that's accessible to both new and experienced professionals, "Using Excel for Business Analysis: A Guide to Financial Modelling Fundam...

Logos are an intricate component of any organisation's visual communications, putting good logo designers in high demand. Designing a logo is a crucial skill set for any graphic designer and can become a niche speciality. It is an endeavour that all graphic designers will encounter at some point in ...

This title presents a powerful series of arguments that capitalism, once an effective system, is dangerously obsolete and brings grave threats to life on Earth. In the vein of his bestseller, "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television", nationally recognised social critic Jerry Mander researc...

Endorsed by University of Cambridge International Examinations, Cambridge International AS Level Accounting Revision Guide provides a comprehensive coverage of Cambridge International AS Level Accounting syllabus. Cambridge International AS Level Accounting Revision Guide provides a comprehensive c...

Companies pay lip service to "delighting customers" while simultaneously disappointing them at every opportunity. Turning customers into passionate fans is a cheap and incredibly powerful way to boost profits but to do it, you have to see your business the way your customers do. You have to walk in ...

"Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting" is devoted to publishing high-quality research and cases that focus on the professional responsibilities of accountants and how they deal with the ethical issues they face. The series features articles on a broad range of important a...

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. The articles highlight the work of founding editor Warren J. Samuels, American economists' role in the creation of federal trade acts, and Islamic economic...

Companies pay lip service to "delighting customers" while simultaneously disappointing them at every opportunity. Turning customers into passionate fans is a cheap and incredibly powerful way to boost profits but to do it, you have to see your business the way your customers do. You have to walk in ...

Companies pay lip service to "delighting customers" while simultaneously disappointing them at every opportunity. Turning customers into passionate fans is a cheap and incredibly powerful way to boost profits but to do it, you have to see your business the way your customers do. You have to walk in ...

Companies pay lip service to "delighting customers" while simultaneously disappointing them at every opportunity. Turning customers into passionate fans is a cheap and incredibly powerful way to boost profits but to do it, you have to see your business the way your customers do. You have to walk in ...

"Leading with Communication," by bestselling authors Teri and Michael Gamble, prepares today's students to acquire skills, develop a global perspective, and master the technology they need to enhance their visibility and credibility as leaders. Addressing leadership from the students' perspective, t...

"Visionary Pricing" is dedicated to Dan Nimer, pioneer of pricing and price management. The volume features leading edge thinking from today's preeminent pricing thought leaders from North America, Europe, and Asia who originally came together 30 years ago to encourage the development of pricing. Th...

This book series' mission is to provide a forum for critique, commentary and discussion about key methodology issues in the strategic management field. Strategic management relies on an array of complex methods drawn from various allied disciplines to examine how managers attempt to lead their firms...

This volume includes archival documents and essays exploring the inter-relationship between the government and the economy. In the first piece, Levy, Peart, and Albert examine the one-sided controversy generated by Rose Wilder Lane and V. Orval Watts against a new generation of Keynes-influenced tex...

Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for competition in nature. But game theory has been only sporadically applied to the humanities; indeed, we almo...

According to author Cindy Wigglesworth, Spiritual Intelligence is "the ability to behave with wisdom and compassion while maintaining inner and outer peace regardless of the situation." In her new book, SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence, Cindy helps us understand how spiritual in...

This 2006 book treats two vital public policy issues: how should distributions from individual accounts be regulated, and how can the market for private annuities function better? It provides a comprehensive survey of the issues that arise when contributors to individual accounts become eligible for...

Lean thinking is a powerful method that allows organizations to improve the productivity, efficiency and quality of their products or services. Achieving these benefits requires good teamwork, clear communication, intelligent use of resources and a commitment to continuous improvement. This 2006 boo...

Mechanism design is the field of economics that treats institutions and procedures as variables that can be selected in order to achieve desired objectives. An important aspect of a mechanism is the communication among its participants that it requires, which complements other design features such a...

Extremists are people whose ideas or tactics are viewed as outside the mainstream. Looked at this way, extremists are not necessarily twisted or evil. But they can be, especially when they are intolerant and violent. What makes extremists turn violent? This 2006 book assumes that extremists are rati...

The late Patrick Primeaux, a past editor of this series, was an outstanding teacher of business ethics and a longtime chair of the Theology Department at St John's University in New York City. Patrick, through his teachings, research articles and books, had a profound influence on how many contempor...

Innovation is the ruling buzzword in business today. Technology companies invest billions in developing new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge; policymakers craft regulations to foster a climate of innovation. And yet businesses report a success rate of only fo...

Across the United States, thousands of people, most of them in low-income or minority communities, live next to heavily polluting industrial sites. Many of them reach a point at which they say "Enough is enough." After living for years with poisoned air and water, contaminated soil, and pollution-re...

Real Estate Finance in the New Economic World: deregulation & internationalisation examines the financing of real estate investment and development within the context of an increasingly integrated international world economy and financial system.Table of Contents1. International Economic Development...

In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the first time, how in-memory data management is changing the way businesses are run. Today, enterprise data is split into separate databases f...