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Explore the best business and economics books, including top entrepreneur reads, finance essentials, and foundational texts. Browse our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended books in business and economics.
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Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about ManagementWidely regarded as the most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Top magazines including Fortune and Industry Week have repeatedly named it one of America's best companies to work for. In Science Lessons, Gordon...
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Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances and Results from Knowledge WorkersKnowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet, companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed for the Industrial Age. As this critical sector of the workforce continues to increase in...
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Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger PerformanceEffective managers know that timely coaching can dramatically enhance their teams' performance. Coaching and Mentoring offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals. This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts...
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The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute StrategyIn a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. Yet, in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized. The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resources practices hinder employees' ability...
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Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry ChangeEvery day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners...
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Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and BuyMost of the workers in advertising, the media, retail, and fashion are women. Holding key marketing and advertising positions, women shape the basic promotional appeal of almost every consumer product in America. How did the advertising business go from a handful of women in...
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Counterterrorism Strategies for Corporations: The Ackerman PrinciplesWhen America's corporate leaders need reliable information and expertise about dealing with threats to personnel both here and abroad, they turn to Mike Ackerman, who for more than thirty years has helped the business community deal with everything from random street crime to global...
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The Erotic History of AdvertisingVictoria's Secret and Calvin Klein are brand names practically synonymous with sexually suggestive advertising. Considering their high public profile and huge profits, anyone can see that sex sells. Despite polls indicating that the public would like to see less sex in advertising, Americans don't...
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The Rabbi and the CEO: The Ten Commandments for 21st Century LeadersLeadership is in crisis. In the rough seas of a borderless economy, the Internet, and outsourcing in turbulent markets, a seismic shift has changed the game. The days of the Great Man-whether a Churchill or Kennedy, even a Gates or Welch-are numbered. Virtually anyone...
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The Crafts Business Answer Book: Starting, Managing, and Marketing a Homebased Arts, Crafts, or Design BusinessCompletely revised and updated, The Crafts Business Answer Book is an essential resource for anyone looking to start a homebased art or crafts business or perfect an existing one. Crafts business expert Barbara Brabec provides the answers to every question a creative person might...
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Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something MovesRobert Ringer's books have created a revolution in the self-development genre and shown millions the way to personal and professional achievement. Filled with humorous and enriching anecdotes Action , exhorts the reader when you close the book, get up out of your chair and...
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early DaysFounders at Work recounts the early struggles for independence and acceptance of many of modern technology's giants, through personal interviews that are at times hilarious, at times painful, and always inspiring. The book will interest anyone curious about what goes on in a startup,...
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Philodemus, on Property ManagementThe surviving portion of the treatise On Property Management, by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, is translated here into English for the first time. It focuses primarily on the vices or virtues involved in the acquisition and preservation of property and wealth.Author: Voula TsounaPublisher: Society...
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Biotechnology and the Human GoodIn the past several decades biotechnologies have provided patients with a multitude of means to address illness and disability. Some biotechnologies, such as reproductive technologies and genetic enhancements, have created significant questions about the appropriateness of medical progress, and carry ethical and social implications...
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Volvo 1944-1968 Workshop Manual Pv444, Pv544 (P110), P1800, Pv445, P122 (P120 & Amazon), P210, P130, P220, 144, 142 & 145A comprehensive workshop manual for all Volvo cars manufactured from 1944 through 1968 utilizing the B14 (1414cc) B16 (1583cc) and B18 (1778cc) engines and M4, M30 and M40 transmissions and overdrive. Specific models include the PV444, PV544 (P110), P1800, PV445, and P122 (P120 &...
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Seeing Organizational PatternsKeidel uses his now-famous triangles and other geometric mind-aids to provoke new perspectives on organizational design. Those in search of new lenses and language for assessing companies will be delighted.Author: Robert W. KeidelPublisher: Beard BooksPublished: 03/01/2005Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...
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All Organizations are Public: Comparing Public and Private OrganizationsReprint. All organizations, whether they be governmental, business, or not-for-profit, are to one degree or another subject to public authority and therefore are all "public" in their basic nature.Author: Barry BozemanPublisher: Beard BooksPublished: 09/01/2004Pages: 204Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.56h x 6.70w x 0.53dISBN: 9781587982330This...
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Financial Planning for High Net Worth IndividualsA comprehensive and authoritative guide to the art and science of wealth management.Author: Richard H. Mayer, Donald R. LevyPublisher: Beard BooksPublished: 12/31/2003Pages: 428Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.87dISBN: 9781587982323This title is not returnable
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Beyond the Quick Fix: Managing Five Tracks to Organizational SuccessThe necessary non-quick fix for creating and maintaining organizational success. A reprint.Author: Ralph H. KilmannPublisher: Beard BooksPublished: 01/01/2004Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72dISBN: 9781587982187This title is not returnable
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Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding and ScandalThis is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with the megamerger movement of the 1980s and the scandals that it produced.Author: Jeffrey G. MadrickPublisher: Beard BooksPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72dISBN: 9781587982170This title is not returnable
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