Managing complex mergers

real world lessons in implementing succesful cross-cultural mergers and acquisitions

Everybody knows that most mergers regularly fail to deliver the promised benefits, in fact many actually destroy value. This is especially so where there are complex clashes of corporate or national culture to take into account. And yet the potential prize of a successful operation ...

Question of value

master the latest developments in value-based management, investment and regulation

There has been considerable growth in and maturing of ideas surrounding shareholder value, value-based management and financial reporting. Here, in a single source, experts from a variety of professional backgrounds come together to provide a set of practices for valuation and corporate analysis. Questions of ...

Smart business metrics

measure what really counts and manage what makes the difference

Understanding your organization#s key performance drivers is crucial to the success of your business. Too often, the wrong operating targets are set, and bad targets can bring bad performance. Smart Business Metrics provides the tools that will enable you to make strategic decisions based ...

Effective training

systems, strategies, and practices

This text, both academic and practical, discusses theory and principles of training as they relate to organizational objectives and strategies. This new edition emphasizes the value of developing training programs, with examples provided for both large and small organizations, relating training to the overall strategy ...

Leisure travel

a marketing handbook

A useful and pragmatic approach to understanding how to market travel products and destinations, Leisure Travel enables students to understand the needs of different types of travelers based on their personality profiles. The book offers a unique historic perspective, based on the author's more ...

The truth about managing people

...and nothing but the truth

The Truth About Managing People Will Surprise You Think you know what motivates people and how to manage them? Think again. Did you know: Happy workers are not necessarily productive workers? Great followers make great leaders? Charisma can be learned? Not everyone wants a challenging ...

Marketing and the bottom line

the marketing metrics to pump up cash flow

Marketing really isn't different, and it really isn't impossible to measure. It#s an investment. Unless you can measure its impact, you're wasting your money. Select the right metrics for your company and ensure a regular assessment of marketing by top management ...

Linear algebra

For courses in advanced linear algebra, this text presents a careful treatment of the principle topics concerned, illustrating the power of the subject through a variety of applications

Foundations of finance

the logic and practice of financial management

Macroeconomics

theories and policies

This text traces the history of macroeconomics, the evolution of macroeconomic thought, and the resulting theory and policy. The book places the various macroeconomic theories in the order in which they developed chronologically, and illustrates the similarities and differences of the models. The author admires ...

Services marketing

people, technology, strategy

Managing today!

This unique, re-engineered text defines and describes the new paradigm brought on by recent dramatic changes in the field of management. Managing Today! redefines the traditional functional approach employed by previous management texts to more accurately reflect recent, fundamental changes in the economy and workplace ...

Elementos basicos de estadistica economica y empresarial.

Microeconomics

The rise and fall of strategic planing

That is why, he asserts, the process has failed so often and dramatically. Mintzberg traces the origin and history of strategic planning through its prominence and subsequent fall. He argues that we must reconcieve the process by which strategies are created by emphasizing informal learning ...

Self-Assessment and Career Development.

Making management decisions.

Economics. A problem-solving approach.

Training Inter personal Skills.

Tips for managing people at work..