A vividly told history of greed and its greatest practitionersin the last forty years, and how it gave rise to our currenteconomic ills. As Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping andincisive, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth did notstart in the 2000s but has been on the rise in the United Statessince the 1970s, led by a few individuals who argued thatself-interest guides society more effectively than communityconcerns. In telling the stories of these politicians, economists, andfinanciers—who declared a moral battle for freedom but gave rise toan age of greed—Madrick traces the lineage of some of our nation’smost pressing economic problems. He begins with Walter Wriston,head of what would become Citicorp, who led the battle againstgovernment regulation. He examines the ideas of economist MiltonFriedman, who created the plan for an anti- Rooseveltian America;the politically expedient decisions of Richard Nixon that fueledinfl ation; and the actions of

Fundamentals of Carrier Transport is an accessibleintroduction to the behaviour of charged carriers in semiconductorsand semiconductor devices. It is written specifically for engineersand students without an extensive background in quantum mechanicsand solid-state physics. This second edition contains many new andupdated sections, including a completely new chapter on transportin ultrasmall devices. The author begins by covering a range ofessential physical principles. He then goes on to cover both low-and high-field transport, scattering, transport in devices, andtransport in mesoscopic systems. The use of Monte Carlo simulationmethods is explained in detail. Many homework exercises areprovided and there are a variety of worked examples. The book willbe of great interest to graduate students of electrical engineeringand applied physics. It will also be invaluable to practisingengineers working on semiconductor device research anddevelopment.

Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles.We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articleson leadership and selected the most important ones to help youmaximize your own and your organization's performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership will inspire you to: - Motivate others to excel - Build your team's self-confidence in others - Provoke positive change - Set direction - Encourage smart risk-taking - Manage with tough empathy - Credit others for your success - Increase self-awareness - Draw strength from adversity

Salespeople are looking for one tiring...answers. In The Sales Bible, Jeffrey Gitomer describes methods and techniques that really work--every day, in realworld selling situations. In short...answers. Carry it with you--overcome objections as they happen. Read one short chapter in The Sales Bible and watch your sales results improve immediately. The book is a gold mine of practical, hands-on information for sales professionals. The 39.5 ways to sales success Top-Down Selling-the real secret to finding the decider 25ways to get the appointment that has eluded you 19.5 buying signals-how to recognize then and when to close the sale Real-world advice on working a room and building your network How to fill your sales pipeline with prospects ready to buy How to use the right questions to make more sales in half the time 10 great cold-call opening lines How to find the hot button and push it once you find it Hundreds of techniques and sales methods…to help you get the tou

Babson College president provides a simple, systematic, andresearch-based method - identical to the one taught at Babson - forachieving success in an uncertain world. In a world where you canno longer plan or predict your way to success, what is the best wayto achieve your goals? It's a daunting question, but today - whenchange seems to be the only constant - it's one that everyone, fromentrepreneurs and managers to newly minted grads, must resolve. Thesimple answer, say the authors of "Just Start": you must act. Andthen go from there. Written by a trio of seasoned business leaders- Babson College President Leonard Schlesinger, organizationlearning expert Charles Kiefer, and veteran journalist and authorPaul B. Brown - "Just Start" draws both from academic research andproven practices in organizations to lay out a simple yet reliablemethod for moving forward on anything when you are faced withvolatility. The key, say the authors, is not only to thinkdifferently (much like an entrepreneur would), but to

A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storiedinvestment bank Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year,make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millionsof dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères Co. stood apart. Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategywere its weapons of choice. For more than a century, the mystiqueand reputation of the "Great Men" who worked there allowed the firmto garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsizedinfluence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, theirtitanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men ofLazard jeopardized all they had built. William D. Cohan, himself a former high-level Wall Street banker,takes the reader into the mysterious and secretive world of Lazardand presents a compelling portrait of Wall Street through thetumultuous history of this exalted and fascinating company. Cohan deconstructs the explosive feuds between Felix Ro

Most distribution channels are outdated and unwieldy, servingneither customers nor channel partners adequately. Despite newtechnologies that have streamlined many transactions and processes,a general lack of leadership combined with flawed and deeplyingrained structures make distribution channels exceedinglydifficult to change. What companies need, says V. Kasturi Rangan, is a new approach togoing to market—"channel stewardship"—that simultaneously addressescustomers’ best interests and drives profits for all channelpartners. In Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy, Rangan showshow any member of a distribution channel can adopt this role andlearn how to shape an effective, constantly evolving, and mutuallybeneficial channel strategy. This book outlines three disciplines that companies must masterto navigate the complex distribution environment successfully: mapthe industry channel, build and edit one’s own channel continuouslyto best serve customers, and align and influence one

A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action.Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always theingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking tomaximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly settingthemselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most companies haveleft their futures almost entirely to chance, and don’t evenrealize it. The reason? Managers feel they must make choices withfar-reaching consequences today, but must base those choices onassumptions about a future they cannot predict. It is thiscollision between commitment and uncertainty that creates THESTRATEGY PARADOX. This paradox sets up a ubiquitous but little-understood tradeoff.Because managers feel they must base their strategies onassumptions about an unknown future, the more ambitious of themhope their guesses will be right – or that they can somehow adaptto the turbulence that will arise. In fact, only a small number oflucky daredevils prosper, while many more unfortunate, bu

Written with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge thatmade The Last Tycoons a bestseller and a prize winner, House ofCards is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, andstupidity in the financial world, and the consequences for all ofus.

“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just saidwe were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’scall it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfullyamusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. Anincomparable raconteur, possessed of an irrepressible wit and anabiding love of books and authors, Cerf brilliantly evokes theheady days of Random House’s first decades. Part of the vanguard of young New York publishers whorevolutionized the book business in the 1920s and ’30s, Cerf helpedusher in publishing’s golden age. Cerf was a true personality,whose other pursuits (columnist, anthologist, author, lecturer,radio host, collector of jokes and anecdotes, perennial judge ofthe Miss America pageant, and panelist on What’s My Line? )helped shape his reputation as a man of boundless energy andenthusiasm and brought unprecedented attention to his company andto his authors. At once a rare behind-the-scenes account of bookpublishing and a fascinat

A Harvard Business Review Book. Widely acknowledged as theworld's foremost authority on leadership, John Kotter has devotedhis remarkable career to studying organizations and those who runthem, and his bestselling books and essays have guided and inspiredleaders at all levels. Here, in this collection of his acclaimedHarvard Business Review articles, is an astute assessment of thereal work of leaders, as only John Kotter can offer. To complementthe HBR articles, Kotter also contributes a new piece, a thoughtfulreflection on the themes that have developed throughout his work.Convinced that most organizations today lack the leadership theyneed, Kotter's mission is to help us better understand whatleaders--real leaders--do. True leadership, he reminds us, is anelusive quality, and too often we confuse management duties andpersonal style with leadership, or even mistake unworthy leadersfor the real thing. Yet without leadership, organizations move tooslowly, stagnate, and lose their way. With John Kotter on What

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differentiation, and focus -- which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of co

Themosttrustedresourceonbecomingaleaderisnowupdatedandrevisedforanewgeneration. Thisleadershipclassiccontinuestobeabestsellerafterthreeeditionsandtwentyyearsinprint.Itisthegoldstandardforresearch-basedleadership,andthepremierresourceonbecomingaleader.Thisnewedition,withstreamlinedtext,moreinternationalandbusinessexamples,andagraphicredesign,ismorereadableandaccessiblethaneverbefore. TheLeadershipChallenge,FourthEdition,hasbeenextensivelyupdatedwiththelatestresearchandcasestudies,andoffersinspiringnewstoriesofrealpeopleachievingextraordinaryresults.Theauthors'centralthemeremainsthesameandismorerelevanttodaythanever:"LeadershipisEveryone'sBusiness."Their"fivepractices"and"tencommitments"havebeenprovenbyhundredsofthousandsofdedicated,successfulleaders.Thisedition,withalmostone-thirdnewmaterial,emphasizestheglobalcommunityandrefocusesonbusinessleaders. 《领导力（第4版）》讨论的是领导者如何激励他人自愿地在组织中做出卓越的成就；讨论的是领导者如何通过实际行动

The third edition of this highly accessible book is designedfor people who want to understand how multinational firms work andwhat their consequences for the economy and for political choicesare. It is designed to be readily useful to students of economicsand business administration and to scholars (teachers andresearchers) with interests in multinational enterprises.

The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financialincentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die.Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yettoo much common management "wisdom" isn’t wise at all—but, instead,flawed knowledge based on "best practices" that are actually poor,incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers usethis dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous toorganizational health.

This book explores the long-term forces shaping businessattitudes in the British and American cotton industries from theeighteenth to the twentieth century. Mary Rose traces social,political and developmental differences from the early stages ofindustrialization. She demonstrates how firms become embedded innetworks, and evolve according to business values and strategies.The book examines local and regional networks, the changingcompetitive environment, community characteristics and nationaldifferences. Rose's findings challenge traditional views with newevidence that the character and achievements of each industryuniquely reflect local circumstances and historical experience.This is a critical synthesis of the multidisciplinary literature onthe cotton textile industries of two major industrial nations and astudy of the changing forces influencing decision making. Animportant contribution to comparative business history, this bookwill be of interest to graduates and scholars in all areas ofbusiness and econo

YaYa CEO Ferrazzi works with "Inc." writer Raz to explain theguiding principles he has mastered over a lifetime of reaching outto explain what it takes to build the kind of lasting, mutuallybeneficial relationships that lead to professional and personalsuccess.

The book that shows how to get the job done and deliverresults . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in yourfirst management job Larry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEOs, a manwith few peers who has a track record for delivering results. RamCharan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards ofdirectors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some companiesare successful and others are not. Together they’ve pooled theirknowledge and experience into the one book on how to close the gapbetween results promised and results delivered that people inbusiness need today. After a long, stellar career with General Electric, Larry Bossidytransformed AlliedSignal into one of the world’s most admiredcompanies and was named CEO of the year in 1998 by Chief Executivemagazine. Accomplishments such as 31 consecutive quarters ofearnings-per-share growth of 13 percent or more didn’t just happen;they resulted from the consistent practice of the discipline ofexe

Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomnessis the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you thinkabout business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader,renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, andNew York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written amodern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luckand skill. This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceiveand deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdropof the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken forskill–the world of trading–Fooled by Randomness providescaptivating insight into one of the least understood factors in allour lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the authortackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation ofthe influence of happenstance on our lives. The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whomhave grasped, in their own way, the significance

In 1999, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore offered this idea toreaders as a new way to think about connecting with customers andsecuring their loyalty. As a result, their book The ExperienceEconomy is now a classic, embraced by readers and companiesworldwide and read in more than a dozen languages. And though the world has changed in many ways since then, the wayto a customer's heart has not. In fact, the idea of stagingexperiences to leave a memorable--and lucrative--impression is nowmore relevant than ever. With an ongoing torrent of brandsattacking consumers from all sides, how do you make yours standout? Welcome to the new Experience Economy. With this fully updatededition of the book, Pine and Gilmore make an even stronger casethat experience is the missing link between a company and itspotential audience. It offers new rich examples--including the U.S.Army, Heineken Experience, Autostadt, Vinopolis, American GirlPlace, and others--to show fresh approaches to *ing andstaging compelling experiences, while

The LNCS series reports state-of-the-art results in computer science research, development, and education, at a high level and in both printed and electronic form. Enjoying tight cooperation with the R&D community,with numerous individuals, as well as with prestigious organizations and societies, LNCS has grown into the most comprehensive computer science research forum available. The scope of LNCS, including its subseries LNAI, spans the whole range of computer science and information technology including interdisciplinary topics in a variety of application fields. The type of material published traditionally includes - proceedings (published in time for the respective conference) - post-proceedings (consisting of thoroughly revised final full papers) - research m0nographs (which may be based on outstanding PhD work,research projects, technical reports, etc.)

The authors present important research showing thatcorporatist institutions generate smaller non-competitive wagedifferentials than a decentralized system. A theoreticalexplanation is developed based on the hold-up problem ininvestments, arguing that corporatist institutions solve theproblem by specifying ex ante nominal contracts that remove thenecessity of ex post bargaining over the surplus of an employmentrelationship. The authors also argue that such institutions allowsufficient flexibility to accommodate aggregate shocks, even moreso than decentralized systems. Corporatism or Competition? is thefirst book to bring together the mass of research on comparativewage differences, wage movements and employment behaviour indifferent countries with different institutional frameworks, in anorganized and coherent fashion.

The story of the men, ideas and organizations thatrevolutionized how we understand business. Imagine, if you can, theworld of business without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fiftyyears ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly,but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition,costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scaleengineering project without knowing the laws of physics. But in the1960s, four mavericks and their posses created instigated aprofound shift in thinking that turbocharged business as neverbefore, with implications far beyond what even they imagined. InThe Lords of Strategy, renowned business journalist and editorWalter Kiechel tells, for the first time, the story of the four menwho invented corporate strategy as we know it and set in motion themodern, multibillion-dollar consulting industry: Bruce Henderson,founder of Boston Consulting Group Bill Bain, creator of Bain Company Fred Gluck, longtime Managing Director of McKinsey Compan