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Energy budgets at risk (EBaR)

a risk management approach to energy purchase and efficeinci choices

An innovative approach to energy-efficiency investment and energy purchase decisions "Energy Budgets at Risk (EBaR) [registered] introduces a new energy management framework that reduces energy costs and energy-efficiency investment risk by applying risk management tools developed in the financial industry. EBaR quantitatively determines energy-efficiency investment ...

European public-private collaboration

a choice between efficiency and democratic accountability?

This book looks at some of the major themes concerning governance in the EU, namely the focus on market-friendly regulations, output legitimacy and how the requirement of efficiency is combined with the requirement of democratic accountability. The dilemma between efficiency and democratic accountability is analysed ...

Managing oneself

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their knowledge workers' careers. Instead, you ...

Managing your boss

Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job - and thereby ...

Five strategies you need right now

What will count among the most urgent strategic issues facing your organizations in the next 5-10 years? And what should you be doing - today - to get ready? Get the answers from "Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now". Renowned strategist, consultant, and author George Stalk ...

Lessons from private equity any company can use

Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional public companies. How do PE firms become such powerhouses? Learn how, in "Lessons from Private ...

Manage the media

(don't let the media manage you)

Today's CEOs are facing a major public-relations problem: They're getting shellacked by the media. And this is costing companies more than lost reputations - it is costing them cold, hard cash. In "Manage the Media" (Don't Let the Media Manage You), veteran business ...

Creative capital

Georges Doriot and the birth of venture capital

Venture capitalists are the handmaidens of innovation. Operating in the background, they provide the fuel needed to get fledgling companies off the ground - and the advice and guidance that helps growing companies survive their adolescence. In "Creative Capital", Spencer Ante tells the compelling story of ...

Becoming a resonant leader

develop your emotional intelligence renew your relationship sustain your effectiveness

What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a commitment to being their very best. As Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis have shown in their bestselling books "Primal Leadership" and ...

Greater good

how good marketing makes for better democracy

Because marketing is move democratic than politics. In Greater Good, John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz argue that democracy, like a marketplace, should be driven by a healthy dialogue that benefits all parties. When governments treat citizens more like consumers - studying their needs, encouraging ...

Marketing metaphoria

what deep metaphors reveal about the minds of consumers

Meet the seven samurai of metaphor in this provocative follow-up to "How Customers Think". Jerry and Lindsay Zaltman explain how and why we use deep metaphors, which the authors define as any form of non-literal representation so deeply embedded in a person's thought processes ...

Groundswell

winning in a world transformed by social techonologies

Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff define 'the groundswell' as a social structure in which technology puts power into the hands of individuals and communities, not institutions. We see examples of this all around us: Second Life, You Tube, Twitter, etc. The technology that is enabling ...

Exchange rates and macroeconmic dynamics

The impact of exchange rate movements on prices and economic activity is at the core of international macroeconomic theory and policy. In recent years, interest in this issue has increased, following strong exchange rate fluctuations, the unsustainability of the current account imbalances and the expected ...

Megacommunities

how leaders of gobernment business and non-profits can tackle today´s global challenges together

In a time of rapid globalization and growth, the interconnected world demands a freshly recast consciousness and a revolution in perspective - a challenge that falls to leaders of organizations in three sectors: business, government and civil society. Leading voices in each of these spheres must ...

Insitutions for social well-being

alternatives for Europe

In the debate on the future of Europe#s social dimension, efficiency is often seen as the main economic objective. Considerations of social equity are regarded as subjective and as a constraint on policymaking, and many argue that economic forces should prevail over social objectives ...

Subvenciones de I+D+i en el ámbito de la contaminación

(balance 2004-2007)

El objetivo del libro es reflejar la labor investigadora llevada a cabo por las entidades participantes y beneficiadas por el conjunto de ayudas promovidas por la Dirección General de Calidad y Evaluación Ambiental (DGCEA) del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente. El documento contribuye a la difusión ...

The great inflation and its aftermath

the past and future of american affluence

It's a giant gap in our history. The Great Inflation, argues award- winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson in this provocative book, was the worst domestic policy blunder of the postwar era and played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life-and ...

Dictionary of international business terms

Updated to reflect the most recent trends, trade agreements, cartels, and innovations in international business, this handbook defines approximately 5,000 terms related to the international marketplace. Definitions and explanations focus on international finance and marketing, foreign exchange, import/export, trade organizations, and much more ...

201 errores en la valoración de empresa

diagnóstico para conocerlos y prevenirlos

Se pueden cometer distintas clases de errores en la valoración de empresas. Desde fallos en tasas de descuento, en los flujos y en el valor terminal, en inconsistencias y faltas conceptuales, hasta errores de interpretación, organizativos o estatuarios. Las posibles causas: la precipitación, copiar otras ...

The future of the Internet and how to stop it

This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity - and reveals that it is in danger precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the Internet and PC are on a path to a ...