Buying for business

insights in purchasing and supply management

Buying For Business provides a simple but comprehensive guide to purchasing and supply. With current literature often academic in focus and unsuited to modern business readers, it offers straightforward and engaging information on the principles and practice of purchasing and supply management that will be ...

Beyond governance

creating corporate value through performance, conformance and responsability

Following a series of corporate scandals, legislators have company executives in their sights, and are arming themselves with ever-greater regulatory firepower. All agree that good governance is essential - but must not be allowed to stifle business performance. Beyond Governance develops the concept of Enterprise Governance ...

Leadership and governance from inside out

At last, there#s a business leadership book that really tackles the tough issues of integrity and governance. Taking a unique approach to leadership, this book gathers the path-breaking perspectives of influential shareholder activists; opinion-leading CEOs of major firms; trailblazing, distinguished academics; and courageous regulators ...

The personal efficiency program

how to get organized to do more work in less time

How to be more organized and productive at work and have more fun doing it In the decade since the publication of first edition of this international bestseller, Kerry Gleeson's famed Personal Efficiency Program (PEP) has revolutionized the work lives of more than a ...

Decision analysis for management judgment

In an increasingly complex world, decision analysis plays a key role in helping managers gain a greater understanding of the situations they face. This updated classic offers unrivalled coverage of the problems associated with unaided managerial decision making and the methods designed to overcome them ...

Creating an environment for successful projects

Since it was first published in 1997, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects has become a landmark work that shows how to develop project management as an organizational practice. This second edition offers solid, results-oriented advice on how upper management can create an environment that ...

Global strategy and organization

In the battle for global dominance, only those organizations that lead the ongoing globalization of their industries will succeed. That#s why students need a strategic framework that they can apply in a global setting. In GLOBAL STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATION, awarding-winning scholars and teachers Anil ...

Rethinking marketing

developing a new understanding of markets

This book is the result of a seminar in Spring 2003 that brought together senior marketing Professors from both Europe and the US. The seminar is part of project funded for 4 - 5 years to discuss the future of marketing. Three basic issues are addressed ...

The naked truth

a working woman's manifesto on business and what really matters

In this provocative book, Margaret Heffernan, former CEO and Fast Company contributor, fuses her own experience with that of hundreds of women to identify the biggest challenges and the best solutions that women face today. From VPs of Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs to women ...

Operations management

concepts, methods, and strategies

Core Concepts of Operations Management takes a streamlined approach that focuses on fundamentals and leaves room for additional content. With Wiley#s Business Extra Select program, Instructors can build on the core text by adding articles, cases, and readings from such leading business resources as ...

The art of the long view

planning for the future in an uncertain world

"Artful scenario spinning is a form of convergent thinking about divergent futures. It ensures that you are not always right about the future but-better-that you are almost never wrong about the future. The technology is powerful, simple, and enjoyable, and so is Schwartz's book ...

Global and transnational business

strategy and management

In this new edition of a successful textbook the authors assess the turbulent environment in which international businesses operate and the approaches to strategy formulation and implementation which can be adopted. They also examine the functional and operational management of companies and fuse together the ...

Performance drivers

a practical guide to using the balanced scorecard

A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard performance drivers Nils-Goran Olve, Jan Roy and Magnus Wetter Since the groundbreaking work of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has achieved increasing popularity in the business world. Previously, many ...

Emotions at work

theory, research and applications for management

In this book, the authors provide up-to-date thinking and research on the broad range of emotional experience in working environments with particular attention to the causes of emotional change, the consequences of emotional experience for individuals and their organisations, and the implications for effective strategies ...

How to create your own luck

the 'you never know' approach to networking, taking chances, and opening yourself to opportunity

Networking guru Susan RoAne shows readers how to exploit chance to create a bigger network of contacts, friends, and acquaintances#the key to new life opportunities. In How to Create Your Own Luck, she reveals the eight traits of successful people who make their own ...

Attracting investors

a marketing approach to finding funds for your business

How can businesses do a better job of attracting capital? The answer: "Marketing!" Marketing expert Philip Kotler teams up with a renowned marketing consultant and an INSEAD professor for this practical, marketing-based approach to raising capital from investors. Based on the premise that entrepreneurs and ...

The pierate inside

building a challenger brand culture within yourself and your organization

Most marketing and branding books fall into one of two camps: either they are about leaders or they assume that brands can be managed by process alone. The Pirate Inside is different. It forwards the idea that brands are about people, and Challenger Brands are ...

Modern project finance

a casebook

This cutting-edge financial casebook is divided into four modules: Structuring Projects, Valuing Projects, Managing Project Risk, and Financing Projects. The cases have been carefully selected to reflect actual use of project finance over the past five years in terms of geographic location (the cases come ...

Currency trading

how to access and trade the World's Biggest Market

The fast moving foreign exchange (FOREX) used to be the exclusive domain of banks and other major financial institutions. In 2002, new developments have opened this remarkable arena to the average investor. With these new developments, author Philip Gotthelf provides a comprehensive guide to currency ...

Applied time series modelling and forecasting

A time series is a sequence of numerical data in which each item is associated with a particular instant in time. Examples of time series include: monthly unemployment figures, weekly measures of money supply and daily closing prices of stock indices. This text covers time ...

International economics

study guide

An evenhanded, unbiased introduction to the concepts and the latest theoretical and policy issues in international economics. Over 100 case studies#many new to this edition#back up the material with real-world examples and applications from economics and business. Appendices provide expanded coverage to enrich ...

Credit risk models and the basel accords

The Bank for International Settlements is only 1-2 years away from effectively requiring all major financial institutions in the world to use a sophisticated credit models. The most widely used model is based on the 1974 Merton model of risky debt. A more recent extension ...