An essential guide to determining which R&D investments are most likely to drive growth, increase profits, and produce innovative products Your company is spending millions on R&D every year, but desp
Retirement planning was simple and predictable 40 years ago. All you needed was your company pension, personal savings, and Social Security.Those days are long gone. Most public pensions are underfund
We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There’s another side to finance, though—the millions of amateurs w
Jill Fryman (Friday to her friends) is a Line Supervisor at a truck manufacturing plant in a small southern Indiana town—and life on the assembly line is almost as predictable as her love life. When i
The popular guide to earning stunning profits in the energy markets—updated with critical information on virtually every market, from fossil fuels to renewable energy.?Energy Trading & Investing, 2nd
This book explores leadership and management in social sector organizations, specifically non-profits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It provides social sector leaders with an overview of c
What is the primary purpose of business? The standard answer is ‘making profits,’ but some visionary entrepreneurs and leaders fundamentally disagree. Instead of just making money, they choose instead
What is the primary purpose of business? The standard answer is ‘making profits,’ but some visionary entrepreneurs and leaders fundamentally disagree. Instead of just making money, they choose instead
This book highlights the unique problems shared by all technologists across knowledge-intensive fields, and how to overcome the most predictable obstacles faced by technology entrepreneurs. It demysti
Up until his diagnosis, Lane lived a fairly predictable life—but when he finds himself at a tuberculosis sanatorium called Latham House, he discovers an insular world with paradoxical rules, med senso
In the OECD-area states provide security business to be conducted through a legal-institutional framework where state institutions, working in a legal-rational, predictable and effective manner, are o
How do trees help reduce violence? What do roads have to do with chronic disease? Prevention Diaries examines the unexpected yet empirically predictable relationships that shape our health, providing
Boost profits, margins, and customer loyalty with more effective CRM strategy Managing Customer Relationships positions the customer as central to long-term strategy, and provides essential guidance t
When Lilly goes on her honeymoon to Thailand alone, the last thing she expects is to meet the mysterious Damien. He turns her predictable world upside down, taking her on a wild, and often hysterical,
In a quest to maintain market position and improve profits in today's fast-paced, competitive market place, organizations need to become more and more customer driven. A customer-driven organization m
After a decades-long career as a serial entrepreneur Richard Koch reveals the powerful principle of simplifying as a strategy for companies to create new markets and increased profits. Readers are giv
Long gone are the days of lining people up for predictable staged group shots; modern brides want photos, and photo-books, that'll let them dive back into the experience of their special day.In this b
This highly original book is an ethnographic noir of how Big Data profits from patient private health information. The book follows personal health data as it is collected from inside healthcare and b
This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping’s
Why does a large proportion of the population engage in some form of gambling, although they know they are most likely to lose, and that the gambling industry makes huge profits? Do gamblers simply ac
Make Massive Profits – Build an Affiliate Marketing Money Machine!Read this book for FREE on Kindle Unlimited!Are you curious about the affiliate marketing lifestyle?Would you like to make the interne
This book presents post-peace agreement violence as a serious, yet predictable and manageable, political phenomenon. Negotiating an end to a civil war is extremely difficult, and many signed peace agr
International trade is the exchange of goods and services across international borders. Global trade gives countries and organizations the opportunity to foray into new markets and increase profits. R
Award-winning journalist Douglas Wissing’s poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while ce
The Respectful Leader is the story of a new CEO, Des Hogan, who discovers that disrespectful behavior by his leadership team is quickly eating away at his company’s morale, productivity and profits. W
Project management sophistication is the state of enterprise practices in which success of projects is predictable and that the definitive measure of project management success continually improves wi
WINNER OF THE DASHIELL HAMMETT AWARDOne night up in Montana, C.W. Sughrue sets his seedy bar’s pricey jukebox in front of an oncoming freight train. When predictable results ensue, he needs to find a
All It Takes Is One Nightto Plunge the World into DarknessLife in Abney, Texas, is predictable and safe--until the night a massive solar flare wipes out all modern technology. Shelby Sparks, novelist
The crash of the minerals super cycle is being felt by the global phosphate industry. Fortunate phosphate companies are watching their profits drop manyfold, and the not-so-lucky ones are turning to s
In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries w
Early autumn, 1964; and for Allan Ross, his final year at quietly prestigious Williams College seems pretty sure to stay predictable and dull—until he meets Ann Ash, the fascinating daughter of
The raison d’etre of a business corporation is to generate profits. How to reconcile profit-making and respect for sometimes contradictory human rights standards, especially in areas where respect for
What happens when women in midlife step out of what's predictable? For Bernadette Murphy, learning to ride a motorcycle at forty-eight becomes the catalyst that transforms her from a settled
Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hila
As you read this book, you will be astounded and excited to learn incredibly powerful tools that can help any business massively expand its profits and grow beyond your wildest dreams. While some of t
For Maggie Rayburn, wife, mother and secretary at a munitions plant, life is pleasant, predictable and secure. When she finds proof of a high-level cover-up on her boss's desk, she impulsively takes i
While other departments in an organization deal with profits, sales growth, and strategic planning, Human Resources (HR) is responsible for employee well-being, engagement, and staff motivation.
How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill — and focused on greatness instead.It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietl
Unclassifiable Rheims: 35 years of daring, defiant photographySince her first photographs in the late ’70s, Bettina Rheims has defied the predictable. From her series on Pigalle strippers (1980) to he
A tale of funny bunny business for Rosemary Wells's bestselling Max and Ruby!Max's sister Ruby and her best friend Louise are in business—they have big plans for the profits from their lemonade stand,
