Author: Bob Vause
Publisher: Bloomberg Pre
Keywords: books, economist, companies, analysing, guide
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1576603415
ISBN-13: 9781576603413
This is a comprehensive guide to making sense of a company’s annual report, measuring a business against its competitors, judging the creditworthiness of a company, assessing the investment potential, and putting a value on a company.
Author: John Lam
Publisher: IBM Pre
Keywords: environment, difference, companies, greening
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-05-07
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0137150830
ISBN-13: 9780137150830
How IT Can Drive Immense Business Value by “Going Green” For CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, and IT leaders: The green IT business case and best practices for making it happen Timely help for companies facing rising energy costs, new government rules, and growing public concern Powerful new insights from IBM’s breakthrough $1 billion green computing initiative Chances are your enterprise IT organization has a significant carbon footprint. In an era of unpredictable energy costs, reducing energy usage throughout your data centers and IT infrastructure represents a powerful cost-cutting
Author: Yvonne Wright
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: don, companies, trucking, secrets
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2009-01-23
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 0557043751
ISBN-13: 9780557043750
Knowledge is power. If you are contemplating getting a Class ?A? Commercial Driver?s License (CDL), read this book first. Trucking companies paint a deceptively scintillating picture of the profession. It is imperative that you learn the secrets the trucking companies don?t want you to know. Learn to sidestep being brainwashed into making choices that only benefit the company. Allow this book to guide you through the minefield of trucking choices. You will emerge not just unscathed, but victorious! An aptitude test will determine if you are truck driver material. You will learn how to choose a
Author: Luis E. Pereiro
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: markets, emerging, companies, valuation
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-08-15
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0471220787
ISBN-13: 9780471220787
Reducing variables and negotiating risk in lucrative emerging markets "A timely book on the critical subject of valuation in emerging markets. Academics and practitioners have provided over the last few years many pieces of the puzzle, and Pereiro successfully puts them all together. With a broad overview of the underlying theory and many examples in which the theory is put to work, this book is bound to become one of the must-read references on the topic." --Javier Estrada, IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain), Editor-in-Chief, Emerging Markets Review "Valuation is a key factor for success
Author: Donald E. Wolf
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Keywords: story, companies, six, dreams, dams
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1996-10
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0806128534
ISBN-13: 9780806128535
Who conceived of the Hoover, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee dams? Who laid the financial foundations for the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay bridges? In Big Dams and Other Dreams, Donald E. Wolf recounts how the interests of the visionary men behind these projects coincided during the early twentieth century, what they accomplished, and what has become of the empires they created. In twelve colorful, thoroughly researched chapters, Wolf gracefully renders the story of Six Companies, a combine of firms led by industrial giants Henry J. Kaiser, Marriner Eccles, Harry Morrison, Charles Swigert, P
Author: Bo Burlingham
Publisher: Portfolio Trade
Keywords: choose, companies, giants, small
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2007-03-27
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1591841496
ISBN-13: 9781591841494
It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do . . . creating a great place to work . . . providing great customer service . . . making great contributions to their communities . . . and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside fourteen remarkable companies that have chosen to
Author: Marcia Angell
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: deceive, companies, drug, truth
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2005-08-09
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0375760946
ISBN-13: 9780375760945
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and increasingly failed to meet spiraling prescript
