Engineering Investment Process: Making Value Creation Repeatableexplores the principles and features of a fund’s investment process, their unique characteristics, and the ways they reflect the experie
Making Value, Making Meaning: Techne in the Pre-Columbian World adopts the concept of techne as an analytic tool useful for understanding how the production process created value and meaning for socia
This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities
Manufacturing is in a period of dramatic transformation. But in the United States, public and political dialogue is simplistically focused almost entirely on the movement of certain manufacturing jobs
Developed from the authors’ longstanding course on decision and risk analysis, Value-Added Decision Making for Managers explores the important interaction between decisions and management action
A strategy to profit when markets are range bound–which is half of the time One of the most significant challenges facing today’s active investor is how to make money during the times when markets ar
In this eye-opening book, a renowned economist explains how modern capitalism rewards businesses for taking value from the economy, rather than adding to it -- and why we need to build a system that w
A new look at delivering effective shareholder value from Peter Kontes, a true leader in the world of strategic managementIn The CEO, Strategy, and Shareholder Value, Peter Kontes, a true leader in th
In the light of a rapidly changing media industry with new technologies, actors and advertising models, and the critical role of media in society, this volume highlights the meaning of different value
Computers are increasingly used in the simulation of natural phenomena such as floods. However, these simulations are based on numerical approximations of equations formalizing our conceptual understa
This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today’s financial economies. Much of the regulatory response to the global financial crisis has been based on the assumption that cu
Our newly digital world is generating an almost unimaginable amount of data about all of us. Such a vast amount of data is useless without plans and strategies that are designed to cope with its size
Our newly digital world is generating an almost unimaginable amount of data about all of us. Such a vast amount of data is useless without plans and strategies that are designed to cope with its size
In recent years, global value chains have played an increasingly important role in business strategies, profoundly affecting international trade and development paradigms. Global value chains now repr
A superior new replacement to traditional discounted cash flow valuation modelsExecutives and corporate finance practitioners now have a more reliable discount rate to value companies and make importa
Strategy, ultimately, is not about a company's market share, or cost position, or even Customer satisfaction. It is about performance, making sure that every dollar invested in the company becomes wo
