Deals

Lets Make a Deal!Mike and his little brother, Andy, are headed for the Dinosaur Card Trading Fair. They're ready to wheel and deal. It's, 4 Stegosaurus for 1 Triceratops, and 2 Triceratops for 1 Allos

Ed Edwards works in the dirty, tough world of used car sales,but feels sure he is destined for more in life.Dreaming of a brighter future for himself and his plucky little sister, Ed wants to get out

From the Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series, a hard-boiled novel set in 1960s Texas in which a no-nonsense car salesman faces a tempting decision, a dangerous deal, and an alluri

'A kidnapper is nothing more than a commodities trader. In both situations, it's kill or be killed.' Chris Voss is an award-winning business school professor and corporate consultant. He's also former

When Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas adopt twin babies only to have them taken away, along with their money, the Sisterhood is called in to make the perpetrators pay. Simultaneous.

Drawing from her fieldwork as an organizational psychologist, Rousseau (organizational behavior and public policy, Carnegie Mellon U.) examines the phenomenon how employees negotiate individualized ar

Employees with valuable skills and a sense of their own worth can make their jobs, pay, perks, and career opportunities different from those of their coworkers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Work a

風靡25年的常春藤名校熱門課程！一門跨國的商業交易課，廣泛教授於美國、瑞士、新加坡與中國所有對交易談判與合約設計有需求的企業主管、創業家，以及商業和法律相關的學生和專業人士的必讀經典。走進哈佛與史丹佛的大師講堂，揭開商業世界交易背後的思維與結構！《DEALS交易力：從商業合約設計到併購談判的8堂實戰課》利用各種實例點出了現實世界複雜交易的多樣性，這些實例包括微軟收購領英（LinkedIn）、史嘉蕾‧喬韓森針對《黑寡婦》的播映與迪士尼發生合約糾紛、路威酩軒集團（LVMH）因疫情決定放棄收購蒂芙尼（Tiffany & Co.）所引起的訴訟、喬治‧諾克羅斯和路易斯‧卡茨針對《費城詢問報》的所有權而引發的爭執、國家廣播公司／維亞康姆針對《歡樂一家親》最後三季跟派拉蒙影業公司協商，以及其他許多案例。事實上，商業交易的形式非常多樣，但每一筆交易都有相同的目標，或至少應該要有這樣的目標──使聯合價值最大化，並將價值平均分配給雙方。麥克‧克勞斯納與古漢‧蘇布拉曼尼安援引了數十年的商業交易教學和顧問經驗，告訴讀者這個目標應該如何達成，並透過清楚簡潔的文字，確立協商的基本框架，以及未使價值最大化而必須加以釐清的經濟學概念；將經濟學理論實際應用在真實的交易場景中。對商業和法律界的學生和專業人士來說，《DEALS交易力：從商業合約設計到併購談判的8堂實戰課》都是不可多得的參考資源。交易力八大重點：1.了解協商與議價能力的基本框架。2.解讀資訊不對稱與逆向選擇的挑戰。3.解決事前資訊不對等難題的機制。4.如何處理道德風險與確認履約的狀況。5.如何經由合約保障投資。6.長期合約該如何做出適合的調整以因應商業環境的變化。7.設計讓雙方都能保有價值的退場機制。8.分析如何從經濟學的角度擬定理想的合約。從二手車交易買賣到數十億美元企業併購，商學院教授與法學專家聯手，從現實生活的實際案例了解如何成為交易協議中的最大贏家，讓你在商業交易中獲取最大價值。

In this fourth volume of The Deals of Warren Buffett, we trace Buffett’s journey as he made Berkshire Hathaway the most respected company in the world. When we left Buffett at the end of Volume 3 towards the end of the 1990s, he was leading the largest corporation in America and his personal fortune had reached $40 billion. In this enthralling next instalment, we follow Buffett’s investment deals over the first few years of the 21st century, as Berkshire grew to become a giant with annual profits north of $4 billion.Buffett, then in his early 70s, was still tap dancing to work, thoroughly enjoying analysing companies, finding bargains and interacting with his growing team of managers. By studying the decision-making that went into his investment deals and the successful and unsuccessful outcomes, we can learn from Buffett and become better investors ourselves. During this period, exploiting the low prices following the dot-com crash, Buffett made investments in the following companies: