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21. |  Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - The Health Care Crisis, Close to Home By: Craig Chappelow Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2006 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - The Health Care Crisis, Close to Home
Davidson Medical Ministries, a fine example of leadership in action where it matters most—close to home.
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22. |  Leadership in Action: Being Responsible: Boards are Reexamining the Bottom Line Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2007 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Being Responsible: Boards are Reexamining the Bottom Line
More and more companies, especially in Europe, are shifting their myopic view of the financial bottom line to embrace an approach called corporate social responsibility, which proposes that companies' policies, practices, and decisions should take into account not only financial performance but also the social and environmental consequences of company activities.
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23. |  By: Eric Bing; Marc J. Epstein Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 06-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pharmacy on a Bicycle Every three minutes, nearly 50 children under the age of five dies. In the same three minutes, 2 mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills 655,000 people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for $1.41.
Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly what people need, we just can’t get it to them. They are dying not because we can't solve a medical problem but because we can’t solve a logistics problem.
In...
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24. |  The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal Publisher: Bloomberg Press Publication Date: 31-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal
A rare analytical look at the financial crisis using simple analysis
The economic crisis that began in 2008 revealed the numerous problems in our financial system, from the way mortgage loans were produced to the way Wall Street banks leveraged themselves. Curiously enough, however, most of the reasons for the banking collapse are very similar to the reasons that Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), the largest hedge fund to date, collapsed in 1998. The Crisis of Crowding looks at LTCM in greater detail, with new information, for a more accurate perspective, examining how the subsequent...
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25. |  Environment and Climate Change in Asia: Ecological Footprints and Green Prospects By: Victor R. Savage Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 11-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 14-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Environment and Climate Change in Asia: Ecological Footprints and Green Prospects
This collection of essays on environment and
climate change within Asia is written by faculty members to mark
the celebration of the 10th Anniversary (2001–2011) of the
National University of Singapore’s Masters in Environmental
Management (MEM) program. These essays reflect the
multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary pedagogical nature of the
MEM program with academic contributions from the Arts,
Architecture, Building and Real Estate, Business, Economics, Law,
Medicine, and Sciences as well as inputs from industry and
non-government organizations. The papers provide a mix...
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26. |  The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything By: Jason Kelly Publisher: Bloomberg Press Publication Date: 11-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 13-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
Inside the Trillion Dollar Industry That Owns Everything
What do Dunkin' Donuts, J. Crew, Toys "R" Us, and Burger King have in common? They are all currently or just recently were owned, operated, and controlled by private equity firms. The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything takes the reader behind the scenes of these firms: their famous billionaire founders, the overlapping stories of their creation and evolution, and the outsized ambitions that led a group of clever bankers from small shops operating in a corner of Wall Street into...
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27. |  Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology By: Peter Lucas; Joe Ballay; Mickey McManus Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 25-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 13-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology
We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities--technical, business, and human--that this technological sea change will bring are without precedent. Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as our society navigates this journey.
There are already many more computing devices in the world than there are people. In a few more years,...
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28. |  Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools By: Paul Bambrick-Santoyo; Doug Lemov Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 26-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 13-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools) shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or "levers," allow for consistent, transformational, and replicable growth. With intentional focus on these areas, leaders will leverage much more learning from the same amount of time investment. Fundamentally, each of these seven levers answers the core questions of school leadership: What should an effective leader do, and how and when should they do it.
Aimed at all levels of school leadership, the...
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29. |  By: Richard Watson Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 07-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Future Minds illustrates how to maximise the potential of digital technology and minimise its greatest downside, addressing the future of thinking and how we can ensure that we unleash the extraordinary potential of the human mind. We are on the cusp of a revolution. Mobile phones, computers and iPods are commonplace in hundreds of millions of households worldwide, influencing how we think and shaping how we interact. In the future, smart machines will compete with clever people for employment and even human affection. We are shifting to a world where knowledge will be automated and people...
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30. |  By: Pascal Perri Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 01-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SNCF - Un scandale français
Présentation
Le prix de la SNCF !
"À ce stade, il faut bien s'entendre sur les mots. Le train, en tant que moyen de transport, est utile à la nation. Il a été un formidable outil d'aménagement de l'espace. Non, ce qui est un scandale français, c'est la gestion de la SNCF et, pire encore, l'enfumage méthodique et systématique des citoyens consommateurs que nous sommes. Avec la SNCF, nous n'avons qu'un seul droit : payer et nous taire."
Pascal Perri, économiste des transports, a modélisé ce que coûte vraiment le train à la communauté nationale :
des milliards d'euros de dette et les...
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31. |  China Fast Forward: The Technologies, Green Industries and Innovations Driving the Mainland's Future By: Bill Dodson Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 23-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 01-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: China Fast Forward: The Technologies, Green Industries and Innovations Driving the Mainland's Future
Will China Surpass the United States as an innovation nation?
China is tirelessly working to overcome its technological deficiencies by driving R&D initiatives in government and business and adapting Western Internet platforms for domestic use. It is extending its technological reach through a major drive to rival India as a services outsourcing leader and projecting its high-tech brands into the companies and homes of other countries. But whether China succeeds will depend on how it handles such issues as demography, energy dependency, and resource limitations.
The environmental...
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32. |  The Death of Corporate Reputation: How Integrity Has Been Destroyed on Wall Street By: Jonathan R. Macey Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 13-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 31-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Death of Corporate Reputation: How Integrity Has Been Destroyed on Wall Street Why did the financial scandals really happen? Why are they
continuing to happen? In The Death of Corporate Reputation,
Yale's Jonathan Macey reveals the real, non-intuitive reason, and
offers a new path forward. For over a century law firms,
investment banks, accounting firms, credit rating agencies and
companies seeking regular access to U.S. capital markets made large
investments in their reputations. They treated customers well
and sometimes
endured losses in transactions or
business deals in order to sustain and nurture
their reputations as faithful brokers and
“gate-keepers.” ...
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33. |  From Financial Crisis to Recovery (Collection) By: Mark Zandi Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 11-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 23-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: From Financial Crisis to Recovery (Collection) A new collection of objective, authoritative insights into
the American economy: 2 authoritative books by top economist Mark
Zandi, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
2 authoritative eBooks offer a realistic, non-ideological,
and actionable view of the U.S. economy: what’s happened,
where we stand, and where we’re headed
Get past politics and ideology: gain an objective understanding
of where America’s economy stands, where it’s headed,
and the best ways to improve it for the long-term. Moody Analytics
chief economist Mark Zandi – who’s advised leaders in
both political...
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34. |  By: Richard Banks Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 28-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 14-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Future of Looking Back Get an inside look at Microsoft researcher Richard Banks’s thinking about the extension of our most human rites—remembering, reminiscing, reflecting, and honoring—from the physical to the digital and the future of our digital artifacts and content....
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35. |  By: Michael Payne Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 23-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 25-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Olympic turnaround
The story of the Olympic Games contains some remarkable business lessons. It is the story of how the nearly-bankrupt Olympic movement edged away from the abyss through visionary, and sometimes hard-headed leadership and the creation of a unique corporate marketing platform. Olympic Turnaround tells for the first time how the future of one of the world's iconic institutions was secured. It is the story of a fine balancing act as an amateur organization struggled with and eventually embraced the business world. But it did so on its own terms, maintaining its identity, not compromising its...
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36. |  By: Rob Dietz; Dan O’Neill Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 05-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Enough Is Enough It’s time for a new kind of economy
We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is not more but enough.
They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial system, create jobs, and more—all with the aim of maximizing long-term well-being instead of short-term profits. Filled with fresh ideas and...
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37. |  The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent By: Vivek Wadhwa Publisher: Wharton Digital Press Publication Date: 02-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 21-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
Many of the United States’ most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of workers, and helping establish the United States as the most entrepreneurial, technologically advanced society on earth. Now, Vivek Wadhwa, an immigrant tech entrepreneur turned academic with appointments at Duke, Stanford, Emory,...
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38. |  Empires of Oil: Corporate Oil in Barbarian Worlds By: Duncan Clarke Publisher: Profile Books Publication Date: 06-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 11-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Empires of Oil: Corporate Oil in Barbarian Worlds
We might think that the world’s oil empires are invincible megaliths, dominated by American interests, but Duncan Clarke reveals the ways in which these empires will face huge challenges in the twenty-first century. Based on razor-sharp analysis of contemporary geopolitics and a deep knowledge of global history, he shows exactly why these empires are declining. He explains where the new empires of oil will be around the world; which of the hidden threats and unknown enemies are and will be the most serious; and where companies have gone wrong and can improve their global strategies....
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39. |  By: Patrick Dixon Publisher: Profile Books Publication Date: 26-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Futurewise
The pace of change in the past two decades has been extraordinary and it has become much harder for businesses to anticipate the environment in which they will be operating not far down the line - how markets and marketing will change, how employees and consumers behaviour and attitudes will change. Patrick Dixon has been at the forefront of those who have identified the ways things are going and in this fourth edition of his highly acclaimed book he brings us right up to date on what the future holds - how things are becoming ever Faster, more Urban, more Tribal, more Universal, more...
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40. |  The American Phoenix: And why China and Europe will struggle after the coming slump By: Charles Dumas; Diana Choyleva Publisher: Profile Books Publication Date: 15-SEP-2011 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The American Phoenix: And why China and Europe will struggle after the coming slump
2012 will bring another global economic crisis. It could have been avoided if America and other deficit countries had embarked on currency devaluation and tighter domestic policy to sustain recovery and growth, boost exports and savings, while cutting excessive debts built up in the pre-crisis ’gilded age’. But they didn’t. Instead they continued to run large government deficits, effectively transferring debt from private to public hands, rather than reducing it through rising national savings rates. Savings-rich countries, notably China, have not helped. To get the global economy in...
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