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Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have relied on short-term share price increases to sustain their companies long term. Driven by a desire for prosperity,...
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"Reigning the Boardroom: A Trailblazing Guide to Corporate Governance Success" is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to navigate the intricate landscape of corporate governance in today's rapidly changing business world. It offers a forward-looking perspective on governance that aligns with the demands of an ethical, transparent, and strategically-driven business environment. "Reigning the Boardroom" stands out for its ability to bridge theory...
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Powerful institutions do not change until compelled to. The catalyst of change is a crisis which threatens the society's life. Such a crisis now confronts the West. Louis Kelso and co-author Mortimer J. Adler saw this crisis coming more than fifty years ago. In The Capitalist Manifesto (Random House, 1958) they warned that if we continue our ever more futile efforts to distribute through labor the income which is increasingly earned by the other income-producing...
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This book is, based upon an International Conference on 'Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility' held at the Cordia Education Complex, Sanghol, in November 2013 under the auspices of the Lord Rana Foundation Charitable Trust, UK, and the Smt. Jawala Devi Memorial Trust, India.
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Esta obra estudia las particularidades de los delitos cometidos al interior de las sociedades, es decir, aquellos en los cuáles éstas son víctimas de actuaciones de sus propios empleados u otros actores dentro del mercado para lo cual se estructura en cinco capítulos. El primero explica cómo operan los delitos cometidos al interior de las empresas, teniendo en cuenta que muchas de sus modalidades son completamente nuevas y sofisticadas, para...
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In a business climate marked by escalating global competition and industry disruption, successful mergers and acquisitions are increasingly vital to the growth and profitability of many corporations. If history is any guide, 60 to 70 per cent of new mergers will fail — and will destroy shareholder value. To date, analyses of the M&A failure rate tend to focus on individual causes — e.g., culture clashes, valuation methods, or CEO overconfidence...
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THE NOTE BROKERING FOR PROFIT BOOK contains information on everything needed to run a successful mortgage note brokering business using private investor funds. Included are all necessary contacts such as the note buyers and all necessary forms if ever needed. Also, different ways to advertise their business including info on where to buy a turn-key note brokering web-site.
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La problemática que ha dado origen al presente trabajo, si se tiene en cuenta el carácter proyectual del diseño industrial, es la progresiva disminución de la participación de la práctica como opción de trabajo de grado, comparativamente con el total de opciones vigentes en escuelas de Diseño Industrial del país. El propósito ha sido identificar posibles dificultades en torno a la práctica, que a su vez, pueden representar obstáculos en...
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Diversity is undeniably good for any business. Corporations with a greater percentage of gender diversity in leadership are in a better position to outperform their less diverse competitors. Not only do these companies have higher capital returns, but they also have better employee retention and engagement. Because the companies are racially diverse, innovative, and problem solving, their horizon of relevance is broader for a wide range of customers.
Yet,...
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It shouldn't be like this, but a Founder's succession in a company signals a not-so-generous change in command. It feels as if someone who had been the topmost representative of a company until "yesterday" is being ejected, or even expelled, from the organization, no matter how, big or a small, your business is. Lack of planning and empathy, which causes trauma and veritable nightmares during such a transition, occurs in small, medium, or large companies.
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"The Board-Savvy CEO" is a "survive-and-thrive" handbook for nonprofit chief executive officers and executives aspiring to become CEOs. Governance expert and author Doug Eadie explains how leaders who build and maintain a close, productive partnership with their boards do a better job of translating vision into practice and achieving organizational stability, innovation, and growth. The author devotes a chapter to each of the three critical functions...
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Build Business Value will give you an overview of steps you can begin taking today to build the valuable business you want.
The book does not tell you how to make and sell your product or how to deliver your service - I assume you know how to do all that. The bedrock on which business value rests is that of an excellent product or service, competently delivered, and having a competitive advantage in price, service, or quality.
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When you're acquired by Private Equity, the first one hundred days are critical. You need to grow revenue faster, be more profitable, and integrate additional companies, all while getting buy-in from investors. In this environment, ramping up your sales pipeline is a major component of meeting board expectations.
In Post-Acquisition Marketing, Shiv Narayanan reveals how PE-backed companies can leverage marketing to scale faster and deliver on the...
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When a tragic mountain-climbing accident left business professor Denis Shackel stranded on Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand, he turned to the leadership principles he'd been teaching for years to survive the longest night of his life. Alone, with temperatures plunging to -30 degrees Celsius, Shackel managed to stay alive. He broke the night into five thousand five-second intervals, and chose to deal with only one interval at a time -- a strategy based...
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Participate in the Lessons of Experience of a boy born in Bellevue, Kentucky, continuing through high school in Pinellas County, Florida, and then the University of Cincinnati. Follow the twenty-three years of experiences as he joins the Financial Management Program and then goes on the fast track program of corporate audit staff, and increasingly more responsible positions to become the chief financial officer (CFO) of two of GE's industrial businesses...
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Philosophy aims at individual liberation through cessation of pain and suffering. The world around what we see is full of miseries and suffering. Human life is a saga of suffering, pain and happiness. Although happiness is there when we take the proportion of suffering and pain it is not equated or balanced. Human beings from time immemorial have been probing into this existential issues and asking the question how to eliminate pain and suffering?...
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A Valuable Meeting and Procedural Reference for Business Corporations, Boards, and Shareholders.
This handy and valuable reference book bridges a large informational gap for those who are preparing for, leading, and attending board of directors and shareholders business corporation meetings. The author simultaneously draws upon the three principal sources of meeting authority on the subject including
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Por primera vez un libro radiografía las entrañas de los grupos de presión financiera que influyen en las decisiones políticas de los gobiernos de todo el mundo y condicionan la salida de la crisis y la vida de millones de personas.
Sobre los gobiernos y la tecnocracia internacional, se impone una trama mundial de organizaciones internacionales y megabancos, coordinadas y concertadas para la promoción y defensa del sistema financiero que les...
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El diseño y contenido de este libro tiene dos objetivos complementarios. Por un lado, definir las responsabilidades que asumen las personas que ocupan (o están por ocupar) un cargo de director de empresas y, por otro, proporcionar conceptos, lineamientos y herramientas que requieren para cumplir su rol.
Sin perjuicio de lo anterior, esta obra debería también poder ser de utilidad a diferentes audiencias:
• Directores actuales y potenciales...
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This publication is comprised of the two Asian Development Bank (ADB) documents: Integrity Principles and Guidelines (May 2010) and the Anticorruption Policy (July 1998). ADB's Office of Anticorruption and Integrity investigates allegations of fraud, corruption, coercive practice, collusive practice, conflict of interest, obstructive practice, and related misconduct in ADB-financed activities, in accordance with ADB's Integrity Principles and Guidelines....
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