Forbes greatest investing stories

A superb book on a subject of increasing consequence to rapidly growing numbers of Americans." #Steve Forbes, President, CEO, and Editor in Chief, Forbes Take the advice of some of the most successful investors Wall Street has ever seen and you will gain a lifetime ...

Revista Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana, Nº 30-31, año 2003-2004

The price advantage

The Price Advantage, written by three preeminent experts at McKinsey & Company, is the most pragmatic and insightful book on pricing available. Based on in-depth, firsthand experience with hundreds of companies, as well as significant investments in basic pricing research, this book is designed to be ...

Applied mergers and acquisitions

"A well written and comprehensive journey into M&A...an essential reference for any M&A practitioner...this isn#t just a book about great thoughts and process, but rather how to turn insight into deals, and deals into lasting value." #From the Foreword by ...

Practical portfolio performance measurement and attribution

An introductory guide to the significant developments in the area of performance measurement This book provides a clear introduction to the subject of performance measurement. Focusing more on the practical use and calculation of performance returns rather than the academic background it will help readers ...

Active index investing

maximizing portfolio performance and minimizing risk through global index strategies

For over three decades, indexing has become increasingly accepted by both institutional and individual investors. Index benchmarks and investment products that track them have been a driving force in the transformation of investment strategy from art to science. Yet investors# understanding of the sophistication of ...

Financial modeling using Excel and VBA

Provides information for creating financial models and shows how to use basic information in practice. This book offers a blend of theory and practice by discussing financial modelling, from statements and the time value of money problems, to the measuring and comparing of returns on ...

Trading chaos

maximize profits with proven technical techniques

CHAPTER 1: The Market Is What You Think It Is. CHAPTER 2: Chaos Theory. CHAPTER 3: Defining Your Underlying Structure#and How That Affects Winning and Losing. CHAPTER 4: Gearing Up for Trading. CHAPTER 5: What Type of Trader Are You? CHAPTER 6: Super-Natural Trade ...

Free trade in the Bermuda Triangle

...and other tales of counterglobalization

An alternative approach to mapping the world offers a new way to contest capitalism and globalization. Shangri-La, the Bermuda Triangle, Transylvania, the Golden Triangle#far- flung in popular conception, these anomalous places nonetheless occupy the same mysterious zone, a mythography of unruly cartographic practices. And ...

Liderazgo emocionalmente inteligente

recursos y estrategias para formar líderes emocionalmente inteligentes

La cualidad principal de un líder es su espíritu creativo que logra contagiar sus emociones a un equipo humano...lo que le permite sobresalir y conducir a ese determinado grupo a base de su ejemplo y del convencimiento. Un empresario que es capaz de motivar ...

La era de las marcas depredadoras

R.Homs vaticina el entorno competitivo en el cual se desenvolverán las marcas tanto en el corto como en el mediano y largo plazos.Además, en esta obra, se desarrolla uno de los planteamientos más importantes del márketing "La teoría de las compensaciones", mediante la ...

La nueva Ley General Tributaria

(Ley 58/2003, de 17 de diciembre)

Lives of the laureates

eighteen Nobel Economists

Lives of the Laureates offers readers an informal history of modern economic thought as told through autobiographical essays by eighteen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. The essays not only provide unique insights into major economic ideas of our time but also shed light ...

From airline reservations to sonic the hedgehog

a history of the software industry

From its first glimmerings in the 1950s, the software industry has evolved to become the fourth largest industrial sector of the US economy. Starting with a handful of software contractors who produced specialized programs for the few existing machines, the industry grew to include producers ...

Introduction to the economics and mathematics of financial markets

Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets fills the longstanding need for an accessible yet serious textbook treatment of financial economics. The book provides a rigorous overview of the subject, while its flexible presentation makes it suitable for use with different levels of ...

The Euro and its Central Bank

getting united after the nion

This history and analysis of the euro and the European Central Bank traces the process of European monetary integration from its beginnings as a utopian vision in the aftermath of World War II through the establishment of a single currency managed by a central bank ...

Juicios y mentiras

crónica de la crisis del proceso penal estadounidense

El establishment jurídico y la maquinaria mediática estadounidense sostienen sin rubor en los más diversos foros ante el mundo entero –no solo en conversaciones informales y en las películas de Hollywood, sino también por escrito en la pluma de destacados académicos y representantes políticos- su ...

La filosofía del Derecho

La mayoría de las obras que llevan por título “Filosofía del Derecho” tienen en común el ofrecernos un punto de vista muy general sobre el Derecho, designando así una reflexión sistemática sobre la definición del Derecho, su relación con la Justicia, la Ciencia del Derecho ...

European monetary integration

The success of European monetary integration -- called by the editors of this CESifo volume "one of the most far-reaching, real world experiments in monetary policy to date" -- is not assured. Policy makers have been forced to deal with challenges posed by formulating a uniform monetary ...

Managing European Union enlargement

In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become members. The number of new members and their diversity make this "big bang" enlargement particularly challenging ...