General management

Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for any party to a transaction. Business transactions take widely varying forms--from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute that value among the parties. Building on decades of experience teaching and advising on business deals, Michael Klausner and Guhan Subramanian show how to accomplish this goal through rigorous attention to designing incentives, conveying information, and specifying parties' rights and obligations. Deals captures the range of real-life transactional complexities with case studies covering Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn, Scarlett Johansson's contract dispute with Disney over the release of Black Widow, litigation surrounding LVMH's pandemic-disrupted

Scripting of derivatives transactions has been a central piece of financial software since the 1990s. Most derivatives valuation and risk systems, either in-house or from external vendors, feature scr

The historical adult debut novel by # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate, The Orphan's Song is a breathtaking story of passion, heartbreak, and betrayal, and a celebration of the enduring

Technology for each of the components of enterprise performance management (EPM) has been rapidly advancing, especially in the areas of predictive analytics and cloud-based solutions but the vision an