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The only nonprofit management book you must have-in an exciting new edition.
As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. This Third Edition of “Mission-Based Management” provides comprehensive, hands-on...
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Residents in Boston, Massachusetts are automatically reporting potholes and road hazards via their smartphones. Progressive Insurance tracks real-time customer driving patterns and uses that information to offer rates truly commensurate with individual safety. Google accurately predicts local flu outbreaks based upon thousands of user search queries. Amazon provides remarkably insightful, relevant, and timely product recommendations to its hundreds...
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This book explores the full power of the Material Adverse Change clause, and today's M&A in general. You'll dig into the real causes of M&A failure, and discover the traits and practices that lead to poor results as you learn how to avoid these common mistakes and drive more successful deals. Recent case studies highlight common mistakes made-and propagated-by otherwise intelligent people, so you can identify and eliminate these practices within your...
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George Schultze truly loves what he does as a major player in the distressed investing world. As the portfolio manager for Schultze Asset Management, he and his team have over $250 million in funds under management. They have a strong background in perfecting strategy by analzying the true value of distressed companies, and have been honing a successful approach to making money on financially troubled companies for years. Recently, George was thrust...
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Distress Investing is a comprehensive guide to distress investing around the world. Increasingly, corporate rehabilitation is more interesting than corporate liquidation to governments and capital markets. And increasingly a mezzanine industry of mutual funds, hedge funds, and private investors has stepped up to fill the role of the traditional corporate lender. This book covers distress investing from theoretical underpinnings to practical applications....
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This updated and revised second edition of The Fundamentals of Hedge Fund Management will address how the credit crisis, legislation, fraud, technology, investor demand, global markets and the economic landscape have affected the hedge fund industry. It will provide readers with a detailed in-depth analysis of the industry, the people in it and an outlook for where the industry is headed. Strachman has constructed a timely and indispensable resource...
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Inside the Black Box explains how quantitative and algorithmic trading strategies work in non-mathematical terms supplemented by anecdotes and real-world stories. There is a large chasm in the understanding of what quants do with quants often perpetuating the darkness by cloaking even trivial facts about their strategies and operations in secrecy. Most of their strategies are understandable and with that understanding investment professionals can...
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MarketPsych: How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity is designed to be a practical guide for financial advisors to learn about the most important, and most ignored, aspect of their work psychology. This book makes the theoretical practical by translating it into concrete tools and techniques designed specifically for financial advisors. The MarketPsych Handbook contains practical worksheets and planning tools that affect all aspects of...
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In Regulating Wall Street, Stern has assembled a team of experts, each a specialist in a relevant discipline, to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the legislation that is now on the table. Not all of the issues addressed in the current legislation are equally important. Some, such as financial sector compensation and consumer protection - are perhaps not central to future financial stability. Others, such as the future role of the Federal Reserve,...
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The idea of a firm’s competitive life-cycle and its stock valuation is based on the premise that competition and capital flows operate over the longer term to force companies’ economic returns toward the cost of capital. In a nutshell, the pattern of corporate economic returns and reinvestment rates reflects an unending struggle between managerial skills and competition over time. To maintain well above average economic returns and reinvestment...
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Consumers are rapidly leaving their banks in favor of institutions that are lower-cost and more consumer-centric - and flocking to new institutions that are not even banks but possess a superior customer proposition. Electronic payments are the future. Thought leader in financial innovation for PayPal Dan Schatt covers what banks must learn to compete and thrive in this new environment. This book covers: Industry leaders PayPal, Google, Square, and...
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