Global Capitalism, Culture, and Ethics
This book seeks to deepen the reader's understanding of the complex ethical and social disputes that corporations and managers face in an increasingly globalized world. It reviews the history and nature of global capitalism along with the role of the multinational within the global economy. Special attention is paid to emerging and frontier markets where there is economic potential but also major challenges due to institutional voids. Globalization is a constantly evolving field. In addition to exploring basic economic concepts and ethical frameworks, this second edition takes into account many new developments across different industries, ranging from "Big Tech" to "Big Pharma." It reviews some of the controversies that have affected those industries including bribery, censorship, the politics of computer networking, sweatshops, divestment, and the intensifying crisis of climate change. The book now includes short case studies to help spur creative reflection. Also, the revised content is highlighted in two new chapters - "Bribery and Corruption" and "Emerging and Frontier Markets." The book is ideal for use as a textbook on globalization, and specifically for courses that want to introduce a social responsibility or ethical component at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Podcast
Learn how to podcast like a proDo you want to start a podcast but you don't know what to say or where to begin? You're not alone. That feeling of uncertainty stops countless aspiring podcasters from recording their first episode. You've spent hours researching equipment, which software to use and how to post your podcast out to the world. That's the easy part. The hard part is figuring out what to say when you hit the "record" button."Podcast: Learn How To Stop Babbling & Start Podcasting Like A Pro" is a step-by-step guide to help you develop your ideas, write a script or outline for your show, and prepare your podcast. What are you waiting for? Let's get started!
Citizens
'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' - Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' - Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to DictatorshipDescriptionCitizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive as individuals, organisations, and nations.Over the past decade, Jon Alexander's consultancy, the New Citizenship Project, has helped revitalise some of Britain's biggest organisations including the Co-op, the Guardian and the National Trust. Here, with the New York Timesbestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows how history is about to enter the age of the Citizen.Because when our institutions treat people as creative, empowered creatures rather than consumers, everything changes.Unleashing the power of everyone equips us to face the challenges of economic insecurity, climate crisis, public health threats, and polarisation.Citizens is an upbeat handbook, full of insights, clear examples to follow, and inspiring case studies, from the slums of Kenya to the backstreets of Birmingham - and a foreword by Brian Eno.It is the perfect pick-me-up for leaders, founders, elected officials - and citizens everywhere. Organise and seize the future!Buy the book and start reading
Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management
This well-balanced introduction to enterprise risk management integrates quantitative and qualitative approaches and motivates key mathematical and statistical methods with abundant real-world cases - both successes and failures. Worked examples and end-of-chapter exercises support readers in consolidating what they learn. The mathematical level, which is suitable for graduate and senior undergraduate students in quantitative programs, is pitched to give readers a solid understanding of the concepts and principles involved, without diving too deeply into more complex theory. To reveal the connections between different topics, and their relevance to the real world, the presentation has a coherent narrative flow, from risk governance, through risk identification, risk modelling, and risk mitigation, capped off with holistic topics - regulation, behavioural biases, and crisis management - that influence the whole structure of ERM. The result is a text and reference that is ideal for graduate and senior undergraduate students, risk managers in industry, and anyone preparing for ERM actuarial exams.
30 Days to Courage
30 Days to Courage is a guide written by Mentor Experts offering their insight on courage from decades long formal and self-directed learning, documenting, testing, failing, reflecting, and understanding. All of this has been summarized into 19 inspirational and aspirational chapters.These 30-Day Challenges offer the reader steps toward building more courage in their lives and businesses. Each author shares her take on courage and the path she took to success. There are real action steps in each chapter that will help you find your path as well.In this book, you will learn how awakening your emotional and financial independence is heavily reliant on identifying how your Vision + Purpose + Plan + Rewards fits into your future as well as being able to determine what your starting point is, and to integrate and execute the plan within the eight pillars of wellness and success.The Eight Pillars of Wellness and Success are EMOTIONAL + ENVIRONMENTAL + FINANCIAL + INTELLECTUAL + OCCUPATIONAL + PHYSICAL + SOCIAL + SPIRITUALIntegrating these things into your plan will not only enable you to achieve a specific goal in one area of your life, but you'll be able to see how this one goal will fit into all areas of your life. A change in one will affect all, given that the composite of all is you-your life experience. We are excited about this book and the way it will increase our opportunity to expand the Mission and Vision of Powerful Women Today to Champion and Empower Women's Emotional and Financial Independence.Meet The AuthorsCarolina M. Billings, Elisa Magill, Ean Price Murphy, Gina Marie De Leon, Jackie Lapin, Jennifer Polansky, Laurie Smith, Leona Krasner, Lil Barcaski, Marianne Bjelke, Marlenne Doss, Marsha Gleit, Melanie Herschorn, Mindy Gillis, Sallie Wagner, Shira Raymond, Simone Sloan, Siobhan Cunningham, and Stacey Hall.
Historical Female Management Theorists
Emerging research interrogates the role of management history in the neglect of women and their accomplishments - Williams builds expertly on this research, bridging feminist theory and critical historiography. Historical Female Management Theorists is essential reading for both feminist scholars and management historians.
Wavelets from a Statistical Perspective
Wavelets from a Statistical Perspective offers a modern, 2nd generation look on wavelets, far beyond the rigid setting of the equispaced, dyadic wavelets in the early days. With the methods of this book, based on the lifting scheme, researchers can set up a wavelet or another multiresolution analysis adapted to their data, ranging from images to scattered data or other irregularly spaced observations. Whereas classical wavelets stand a bit apart from other nonparametric methods, this book adds a multiscale touch to your spline, kernel or local polynomial smoothing procedure, thereby extending its applicability to nonlinear, nonparametric processing for piecewise smooth data. One of the chapters of the book constructs B-spline wavelets on nonequispaced knots and multiscale local polynomial transforms. In another chapter, the link between wavelets and Fourier analysis, ubiquitous in the classical approach, is explained, but without being inevitable. In further chapters the discrete wavelet transform is contrasted with the continuous version, the nondecimated (or maximal overlap) transform taking an intermediate position. An important principle in designing a wavelet analysis through the lifting scheme is finding the right balance between bias and variance. Bias and variance also play a crucial role in the nonparametric smoothing in a wavelet framework, in finding well working thresholds or other smoothing parameters. The numerous illustrations can be reproduced with the online available, accompanying software. The software and the exercises can also be used as a starting point in the further exploration of the material.
The Facility Management Handbook
The wide-ranging umbrella of facility management covers everything from technology systems to disaster recover planning to zoning compliance...and that's just getting started.Facilities management is a multidisciplinary function that requires a deep knowledge of the entire business and physical planning cycle. Undoubtedly, the sheer scope of duties requires a far-reaching reference for staying abreast of the latest innovations and best practices. The Facility Management Handbook is the answer.This guide shares insightful overviews, case studies, and practical guidelines that pave the way for successful planning, budgeting, real estate transactions, construction, emergency preparedness, security, operations, maintenance, and more.The thoroughly revised fourth edition examines cutting-edge technologies and includes new information on: Building Information Modeling (BIM)Contracting and project management methodsFASB and IASB requirementsDistributed workingSustainability reporting and moreThe Facility Management Handbook is the one-stop resource every facility manager must have to master a broad scope of duties while staying current on innovations and best practices.
Revisionary Thinking
How do you get the life you want when things aren't going your way? When things go sideways, most people make one of two mistakes: they either give up on their dreams or they NEVER give up on their dreams, even when those dreams aren't serving them. You can change your plans and still reach your goals. Scratch that. You HAVE to change your plans to reach your goals. That's the real work of resilience. Resilience isn't superhuman internal strength. It's not toxic positivity. It's not sucking it up to stick it out. True resilience is letting go of the "old way of doing things" and rewriting a script for success that gives you the fastest and best path from where you are to where you're going. Backed by data-driven research, ReVisionary Thinking offers concrete strategies for blazing a new path to achieve your goal when the goalposts move on you. You will learn to acquire resilience through adaptive thinking, a three-part process involving flexibility, creativity, and openness to possibility. Specific principles covered include: How to mourn your path without sacrificing your goalWhy your gut instinct fails you in unfamiliar situations--and how to counter itHow to create space for more and better choicesThe benefits of using storytelling to solve problemsAnd much more!Success is not determined by how good you plan is (or was), but rather by how willing you are to design a new one when you need to. You may not have chosen where you are, but you get a choice in what comes next. The success of your vision lies in the ReVision.
Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice
The rights of victims to truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition when businesses are involved in past and present abuses are seldom guaranteed. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally in which economic actors have incurred few legal or financial (indemnity) costs for violating behaviour. Examining cases in Nazi Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Per繳, the Philippines and South Africa, this edited volume traces business accountability efforts. It identifies the tools applicable to different country contexts that have facilitated corporate accountability for human rights violations, while also flagging the barriers that persist. This volume presents the past and the present of accountability for corporations complicit in gross human rights violations, and also considers what the future may hold.
Sustainable Investing
An accessible introduction to sustainable investing for investors Can investors do well financially and do good for the world? Should they try? A common assumption about investors is that they don't care who wins as long as they're making money. For some investors, this mindset still rings true. Yet, many investors today want to make money and do good. Sustainable investing has gained considerable momentum in the last few decades. It delivers value by balancing traditional investing with environmental, social, and governance-related (ESG) insights to improve long-term outcomes. Sustainable Investing: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) demystifies sustainable investing for investors. Using a user-friendly question-and-answer format and insights from noted investment professionals, this book explores some of sustainable investing's most critical questions in a clear and concise manner. The book explains how this approach involves investing in sustainable companies or funds and can include any investment approach that considers ESG criteria when selecting and managing investments. It demystifies sustainable investing specifically for average investors and examines whether such investments have a place in their portfolios. By covering everything from the changing investment landscape and the roles of social and religious values in finance to how to build a portfolio with purpose, H. Kent Baker, Hunter M. Holzhauer, and John R. Nofsinger provide an essential introduction to sustainable investing.
An Introduction to Latent Class Analysis
This book provides methods and applications of latent class analysis, and the following topics are taken up in the focus of discussion: basic latent structure models in a framework of generalized linear models, exploratory latent class analysis, latent class analysis with ordered latent classes, a latent class model approach for analyzing learning structures, the latent Markov analysis for longitudinal data, and path analysis with latent class models. The maximum likelihood estimation procedures for latent class models are constructed via the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and along with it, latent profile and latent trait models are also treated. Entropy-based discussions for latent class models are given as advanced approaches, for example, comparison of latent classes in a latent class cluster model, assessing latent class models, path analysis, and so on. In observing human behaviors and responses to various stimuli and test items, it is valid to assume they are dominated by certain factors. This book plays a significant role in introducing latent structure analysis to not only young researchers and students studying behavioral sciences, but also to those investigating other fields of scientific research.
Dear Work
Don't burn out--stand out. Do you find yourself striving for big goals but running on fumes? Are you ever stuck in the frustrating cycle of overworking and under-living? Do you love the work you do--or at least used to--but feel overwhelmed by it? When it comes to work and our relationship with it, something has to change. This doesn't mean you need to bound out of bed every day in love with your work, nor do you need to settle for dragging yourself out of bed surviving your way through it, but you can feel a greater sense of aliveness engaging in it. Dear Work transforms traditional advice by using the power of brain science to show you how to boost your Work Vitality Quotient so you stand out, bringing your best, most energized self--without burning out. Sara Ross, chief vitality officer and leadership expert, will show you how to: - Identify the four "success traps" that limit your potential by luring you into thinking you're doing what it takes when really what you're doing is taking from you.- Adopt a "yes, and" mindset to work better with stress and feel fueled and fulfilled in the process.- Expand your approach to self-care to strategically identify when slowing down is needed and when accelerating in a different direction is even better. In a world that refuses to let up, reigniting your take-on-the-day vitality will be your competitive advantage at work and your path to pursuing a fully lived life outside of it as well.
Love and Work
A Wall Street Journal bestsellerWorld-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best--both at work and in life. You've long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don't know the real truth of what we love--what engages us and makes us thrive--and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others.In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity--how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love.How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts?How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else?How can you choose roles in which you'll excel?Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can: Choose the right role on the team.Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews.Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you.Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you.Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students.Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives--our work, teams, and classrooms.It's time we brought love back in.Love and Work shows you how.
Putting Improv to Work
Improv is an art form in which participants act and respond in the present, trusting that each thoughtful action will lead to a wonderful outcome--even if it isn't the intended result. In this book, the principles and practices of unscripted theater are applied to non-theatrical circumstances. This book is based on a highly successful business school course, and aids in the development of communication, teamwork, creativity, confidence, emotional intelligence and other abilities. Each chapter assesses a different component of improv--how it connects to stage success and how it can be used in professional, academic and social settings. This is the only text that lays out an entire course on applied improv, providing activities with detailed instructions and descriptions. With roots in higher education, the book is informal, entertaining, and designed to be beneficial for anybody. Behavioral science, philosophy, art and athletics are all used to inform this discussion of improv and its real-world applications.
The R Guide for New Data Scientists
The R Guide for New Data Scientists is written for someone who has graduated from college and has either had some discipline related course or has a desire to learn some of the basic data science building blocks. Data science is interdisciplinary, and I have work with people who have backgrounds in business or economics and are competent data scientists with some additional coursework. Ordinarily, we look for potential data scientists who have degrees in statistics, computer science, econometrics, information technology, operations research, mathematics, or engineering. That encompasses a wide range of disciplines. People who become data scientists generally have coursework in statistics, data analysis, basic programming, and college mathematics. During or after college, they have been exposed to machine learning models and prediction, R or Python programming, and some data wrangling. This book is designed to help with the latter. We'll cover basic data science tools and R programming with RStudio. We'll cover getting and cleaning data, data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis (EDA), inferential statistics, regression models, generalized linear models, machine learning and prediction using random forests, and building Shiny apps. There is R coding in every chapter, with many examples. Leaning the content is driven by very involved examples, including some using COVID-19 data. You'll find data scientists at banks, insurance companies, railroads, hospitals, utilities, and pharmaceutical companies. They work at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Wal-Mart, Caterpillar. They are employed by the Department of Transportation (DoT), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). and the Department of Defense (Dod). Having a good data science team is like bringing a combined arms force to bear on a stubborn, defending enemy to drive them from their stronghold and reveal their vulnerabilities. "Torture the data, and it will confess to anything." - Ronald Coase, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Inkurated
Turn your day-to-day worries into a personal growth journal with INKURATED. Get back to your creative self by recording all the things you're grateful for and appreciative of in life. It's time to stop carrying around negative thoughts and let the positivity flow. INKURATED is an easy way for you to document your life, day by day, and create a better version of yourself. Life is uncertain. Let's make it a little bit more certain. INKURATED is a personal growth journal with a twist. It's easy to use, and it's designed for you to keep track of your daily actions and goals. Instead of focusing on what goes wrong, INKURATED lets you focus on what goes right. When you're feeling overwhelmed with life's little questions and big worries, take a moment to stop worrying about what's going on and start focusing on what you can do instead.
Applied Innovation and Knowledge Management in Organizations
The series Innovative Knowledge Management offers scientific contributions and case studies to scholars and management practitioners. The thematic focus is located in the intersection between innovation and knowledge management connecting related disciplines by a multidisciplinary and practice-oriented approach.
Work to Wealth
If you want to have more money, more choice and more freedom in your life, now and in the future, you need to rethink why you work, and how to make the most of it.This book will change the way you think about work, lifestyle and money. Work to Wealth provides practical guidance on how to evaluate your work situation, avoid the 'working trap' and invest your income to generate wealth.Understand how to: Look forward to a day's work and make money that works hard for you and your future Change your mindset about earnings, and how to maximise them Invest your income wisely by applying the principle of asset accumulation Build a passive income and become - and stay - wealthy Develop a long-term relationship with an independent financial adviser who can guide you to a happy retirement
Win When They Say You Won’t: Break Through Barriers and Keep Leveling Up Your Success
Become the project manager of your career and advance in your job no matter what obstacles you faceHave you ever met the requirements for a promotion, but still didn't feel qualified enough to take on the new role? Has a male colleague ever repeated what you just said in a meeting, and received positive feedback as if he said it first? Has anyone every implied that you should be less confident and direct, and more "likeable"?Innovation thought leader and former Fortune 50 executive, Daphne E. Jones has experienced her share of dog whistle disempowerment throughout her career--but she didn't let it stop her. Instead, she developed an actionable system for overcoming imposter syndrome, negativity and building the career of her dreams--and now she shares her winning approach with you. In Win When They Say You Won't, Jones walks you through the process of: Envisioning what success looks like to youPrioritizing your objectives and mapping out how to achieve themWorking your plan, soliciting constructive feedback from other stakeholders, and altering your strategy as neededReflecting on your accomplishments and lessons learned, while defining your next win"You don't have to rely on what women, especially women of color, have needed to do for a hundred years--that is, to work twice as hard to get half as far," Jones writes. "We can work twice as smart, just like businesses do, and go further than you ever imagined. Don't wait for change to only come from above, you can use my strategies to advance right now, even in seemingly impossible situations."Win When They Say You Won't provides the inspiration, insights, and tools you need to deconstruct any momentum that has been set against you and take your career to the next level--starting now.
Responsible Management of Shifts in Work Modes - Values for a Post Pandemic Future, Volume 1
Considering the organisations that have borne the impact of the changes and the challenges to the health sector, Responsible Management of Shifts in Work Modes - Values for a Post Pandemic Future, Volume 1 unpacks what responsible management means, explores future adaptions to heighten responsibility and proffers recommendations.
Think and Grow Rich
Think And Grow Rich is one of the most prestigious and treasured book in the field of motivational literature. This book can help you reach your highest potential and bring you great personal happiness. Napoleon Hill gives you a blue print for self-mastery helping you accomplish whatever goal you have set up for yourself.Napoleon Hill mentions that every page within the book contains a magical secret that, once discovered, will unlock the key to making money and becoming wealthy beyond your current wildest dreams. This makes every reader study the book at a deeper level, searching each page for this secret. There is a secret within the book, but, I recommend you study the book several times and do all the exercises Napoleon Hill recommends. These exercises are designed to help you develop the level of skill where success becomes natural. There are 13 main chapters within think and grow rich. The principles and philosophy of success that Napoleon Hill outlined in his masterwork.
Wealth Beyond Money
We have been conditioned to believe that in order to gain massive wealth, we must temporarily neglect our health and relationships.Or that in order to have an amazing body, we must spend hours in the gym and neglect our work.Or to have thriving relationships, we must scale back from focusing on our finances and fitness.The truth is, you can have it all-and this book will show you how.Forget the old notion of work-life balance.Balance is boring. Abundance is amazing!Whether you're already an accomplished professional, an entrepreneur, or an ambitious high performer just starting out in your career, Wealth Beyond Money will help you attain and maintain holistic abundance, clarity, and joy in all areas of life.You'll learn methods to achieve financial independence, while also transforming your body into the best shape of your life.You'll even learn scientific methods others have used to reverse the effects of aging.Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, getting six-pack abs, exploring the world, growing a family, or all of the above, Wealth Beyond Money is the blueprint.This step-by-step guide to lifestyle design teaches: - How Ethan went from being the garbage guy at nightclubs to owning multiple million-dollar brands- How to sculpt the body of your dreams, without needing a gym membership or totally giving up the foods you really love- How to surround yourself with people who truly want to help you succeed- How to make the right decisions, at the right time, to get the right results- How to create additional streams of revenue that could potentially raise your income by two, three, or even ten times- How to manifest your dreams and desires into reality- And much, much more!Author Ethan King has studied the lives of the ultra-successful and distilled their thinking and experiences into actionable steps you can follow to transform your life today.The wisdom found in the pages of Wealth Beyond Money will help you unlock your maximum potential and evolve into the best possible version of YOU.
One More Thing Before You Leave Home
What is a life skill not taught in high schools but if it were, many young adults would benefit from it? As a 7-year veteran Administrative Assistant & Assistant Property Manager, I have interacted with people of all ages and from all walks of life who were relatively clueless about the fundamentals of renting before signing their first lease. They had no idea of their credit score and lacked crucial information when it came to renewing or ending a lease.Therefore, I created this guide to outline the basics of the process and the expectations of all parties once they sign on the dotted line. And because the life of the renter is more than paying rent each month, I include suggestions from budgeting to choosing the right roommate.
How to Ninja Nicely
How to Ninja Nicely is a way of achieving personal and professional success without subterfuge. This is victory for nice people. It's a lesson in how to win by being ethical and approachable.A short jargon-free book that brings effective people skills within reach of everyone, even if they have never worked in a business environment. The simple condensed presentation makes this a book ideal for commuters and those who are short of time.It puts you back in control when life feels as if it is going off track.Drawing on the real-life experiences of FTSE director and coach Julie Fawcett, one of the founding directors of the UK's first 24 hour online banking service egg.com, How to Ninja Nicely puts realising full potential within everyone's reach.Julie is an exceptional coach, experienced psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society's clinical psychology and coaching divisions, who has been in the people business for over 30 years.
Wealth Beyond Money
We have been conditioned to believe that in order to gain massive wealth, we must temporarily neglect our health and relationships.Or that in order to have an amazing body, we must spend hours in the gym and neglect our work.Or to have thriving relationships, we must scale back from focusing on our finances and fitness.The truth is, you can have it all-and this book will show you how.Forget the old notion of work-life balance.Balance is boring. Abundance is amazing!Whether you're already an accomplished professional, an entrepreneur, or an ambitious high performer just starting out in your career, Wealth Beyond Money will help you attain and maintain holistic abundance, clarity, and joy in all areas of life.You'll learn methods to achieve financial independence, while also transforming your body into the best shape of your life.You'll even learn scientific methods others have used to reverse the effects of aging.Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, getting six-pack abs, exploring the world, growing a family, or all of the above, Wealth Beyond Money is the blueprint.This step-by-step guide to lifestyle design teaches: - How Ethan went from being the garbage guy at nightclubs to owning multiple million-dollar brands- How to sculpt the body of your dreams, without needing a gym membership or totally giving up the foods you really love- How to surround yourself with people who truly want to help you succeed- How to make the right decisions, at the right time, to get the right results- How to create additional streams of revenue that could potentially raise your income by two, three, or even ten times- How to manifest your dreams and desires into reality- And much, much more!Author Ethan King has studied the lives of the ultra-successful and distilled their thinking and experiences into actionable steps you can follow to transform your life today.The wisdom found in the pages of Wealth Beyond Money will help you unlock your maximum potential and evolve into the best possible version of YOU.
The Case Writing Workbook
This case writing workbook offers something unique in the world of case writing manuals. The third edition of The Case Writing Workbook: A Guide for Faculty and Students provides 11 standalone chapters that focus specifically on challenges related to the case writing process. The book is meant for day-to-day use as a model of the case writing process, with exercises, worksheets, and training activities that will guide you through the entire course of writing both a traditional case and Instructor's Manual or a concise/short case and its associated Teaching Note. Brief explanatory notes will lead you step-by-step through all the developmental exercises, including readying the case for publication and teaching it in the classroom or online. Designed as an individualized workshop to assist case authors to structure their writing, this book combines the easy-to-understand, student-focused language with new material covering the latest developments and challenges in the world of case writing. These include: - A fresh focus on writing and teaching concise cases, which are particularly suited to the world of blended learning. - Emphasis on secondary research methodology, particularly using digital technologies and social media. - A new case study running throughout the book, with restructured worksheets and notes to support it. - Enhanced online case teaching information and discussion of the development of multi-media cases, particularly using video. Complete instructor's materials to support the text are available online, including PowerPoint presentations, guidance on embedding cases within the curriculum, a sample syllabus that incorporates cases within it, and selected student assignments and handouts. Finishing all the book's assignments will result in a complete case and Instructor's Manual that can be tested in the classroom and submitted to a conference or journal. The Case Writing Workbook is a must for the shelf of any academic or student conducting qualitative research and looking to enhance their skill set, and any instructor working with cases in their teaching.
InnovateHERs
"InnovateHERs inspires and guides by telling the stories of a diverse set of women who have developed the mindset, and have used it to succeed in brilliant ways." - Coco Brown, CEO, The Athena Alliance "One inspiring story after another, this is a great book about great women." - Jack Lynch, CEO and President, Houghton Mifflin HarcourtAs a woman, how can you foster an entrepreneurial mindset to succeed in business? How do you take an idea, dream or goal and transform that into a strategy for success in a purpose driven organization? How can you align your purpose and passion to help you do well and do good in your profession?Authors Barbara Kurshan and Kathleen Hurley, both experienced and highly regarded business and education leaders, wanted to know how today's top female leaders might answer these questions. So, they asked. The result is InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top.Through personal interviews with 30 of today's top women leading purpose-driven organizations-ranging from those in startups and nonprofits to those in large companies across the globe-Kurshan and Hurley have created a unique, insider's view of what it takes to be a successful female leader in today's competitive world. Whether you're an entrepreneur, corporate leader, or new to business, learning how to leverage your personal entrepreneurial traits and skills is key to accelerating your purpose-driven professional journey.Learn how these accomplished, purpose-driven, entrepreneurial women blazed new trails and rose to the top of their professions. Discover how to think bigger, lead stronger, and embrace your unique passions, traits, and skills. They are InnovateHERs, and they'll show you how to be one, too.
Crisis, Chaos, and Organizations
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an illustration of how chaotic changes to large systems are caused by small, seemingly insignificant environmental events such as the initial case(s) of COVID-19 in China. From this small starting point for the pandemic, there have been (and continue to be) millions of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent trying to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. World government and corporate leaders are striving to deal with this pandemic, but uncertainty is felt across the globe. Unprecedented strategies (e.g., the United States government's multi-trillion-dollar stimulus package (s)) have been used to halt the spread of COVID-19. These small events cascade throughout larger and larger systems leading to unforeseeable consequences. Organizations must experiment and make decisions on how to react. Decisions must be made and implemented to see what the effects of these decisions are. The chapters in this volume provide important insights for all organizations during this time of crisis. The chapters express bottom-up and top-down approaches to a crisis-initiating environmental change by organizations. The chapters provide insight into the way organizations perceive the effect of COVID-19 as 1) a permanent or transitory change in the organization's environment; and 2) as a crisis or opportunity. Taken together, the chapters provide both scientists and practitioners with a starting point for understanding the impact of COVID-19 on organizational theory and on management practice for readers.
Crisis, Chaos, and Organizations
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an illustration of how chaotic changes to large systems are caused by small, seemingly insignificant environmental events such as the initial case(s) of COVID-19 in China. From this small starting point for the pandemic, there have been (and continue to be) millions of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent trying to alleviate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. World government and corporate leaders are striving to deal with this pandemic, but uncertainty is felt across the globe. Unprecedented strategies (e.g., the United States government's multi-trillion-dollar stimulus package (s)) have been used to halt the spread of COVID-19. These small events cascade throughout larger and larger systems leading to unforeseeable consequences. Organizations must experiment and make decisions on how to react. Decisions must be made and implemented to see what the effects of these decisions are. The chapters in this volume provide important insights for all organizations during this time of crisis. The chapters express bottom-up and top-down approaches to a crisis-initiating environmental change by organizations. The chapters provide insight into the way organizations perceive the effect of COVID-19 as 1) a permanent or transitory change in the organization's environment; and 2) as a crisis or opportunity. Taken together, the chapters provide both scientists and practitioners with a starting point for understanding the impact of COVID-19 on organizational theory and on management practice for readers.
Start Your Network Marketing Business
In this book detail orieted about Network marketing is a business model that depends on person-to-person sales by independent representatives, often working from home. A network marketing business may require you to build a network of business partners or salespeople to assist with lead generation and closing sales.
Courage & Confidence
What do you wish you had the courage to do? To achieve anything in life you must have the confidence to begin, to imagine, to plan and to make it happen. So many people are held back by fear or wanting to play it safe, and yet, if you can find the courage to start, you never know what will be possible for you. Changing your life and achieving your dreams is possible. It starts with you taking that first step to recognise what you want your life to be like and then having the courage and the confidence to make it so. Courage and Confidence is the essential guide for women in business who are ready to take on their biggest dreams and make them a reality. Filled with practical advice and tools combined with powerful and motivational stories to inspire you into action!Proceeds from the sale of this book go towards providing scholarships for women to attend The Women's Business School programs. Featuring Authors: Amy Huebner, Annette Densham, Bianca Stawiarski, Candice Meisels, Cath Nolan, Chelsea Munro, Danielle Loader, Emma Cook, Fleur Chambers, Jenny Pither, Jody-Lee Euler, Justine Martin, Karen Mc Dermott, Karen Perks, Mafae Belasco, Marika Gare, Melissa Haque, Natashia Telfer, Peace Mitchell, Samantha Richards, Sandy Davies, Sarah Stoddart, Vanessa Atienza-Hipolito, Vanessa Marrama
Master Your Mindset
Discover the leader you already are.Leadership isn't just for CEOs. We need good leadership everywhere. In the workforce. In government. In our schools, communities, and homes. Today, the doors stand wide open for women to step into these roles, but modern female leadership doesn't look the same as the male roles of the past. The rules are different. The mindset is different. Join Molly Gimmel, entrepreneur and former chairwoman of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), as she explores the unwritten rules of successful female leadership.Through interviews with powerful women from all walks of life-large corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, Hollywood, politics, and more-Gimmel reveals the mental attitudes that define effective leaders.Filled with personal stories, humor, and profound insights from the trenches, Master Your Mindset shows you step by step how to connect with yourself and with those around you in authenticity, confidence, and integrity to become the best leader you can be.
Master Your Mindset
Discover the leader you already are.Leadership isn't just for CEOs. We need good leadership everywhere. In the workforce. In government. In our schools, communities, and homes. Today, the doors stand wide open for women to step into these roles, but modern female leadership doesn't look the same as the male roles of the past. The rules are different. The mindset is different. Join Molly Gimmel, entrepreneur and former chairwoman of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), as she explores the unwritten rules of successful female leadership.Through interviews with powerful women from all walks of life-large corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, Hollywood, politics, and more-Gimmel reveals the mental attitudes that define effective leaders.Filled with personal stories, humor, and profound insights from the trenches, Master Your Mindset shows you step by step how to connect with yourself and with those around you in authenticity, confidence, and integrity to become the best leader you can be.
Supply Chain Sustainability in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
This book examines the sustainability of supply chains in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), focusing specifically on the developed and emerging economies of the UK and India.
Counting Statistics for Dependent Random Events
This book on counting statistics presents a novel copula-based approach to counting dependent random events. It combines clustering, combinatorics-based algorithms and dependence structure in order to tackle and simplify complex problems, without disregarding the hierarchy of or interconnections between the relevant variables. These problems typically arise in real-world applications and computations involving big data in finance, insurance and banking, where experts are confronted with counting variables in monitoring random events.In this new approach, combinatorial distributions of random events are the core element. In order to deal with the high-dimensional features of the problem, the combinatorial techniques are used together with a clustering approach, where groups of variables sharing common characteristics and similarities are identified and the dependence structure within groups is taken into account. The original problems can then be modeled using new classes of copulas, referred to here as clusterized copulas, which are essentially based on preliminary groupings of variables depending on suitable characteristics and hierarchical aspects.The book includes examples and real-world data applications, with a special focus on financial applications, where the new algorithms' performance is compared to alternative approaches and further analyzed. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to master students, PhD students and researchers whose work involves or can benefit from the innovative methodologies put forward here. It will also stimulate the empirical use of new approaches among professionals and practitioners in finance, insurance and banking.
Leadership in Statistics and Data Science
This edited collection brings together voices of the strongest thought leaders on diversity, equity and inclusion in the field of statistics and data science, with the goal of encouraging and steering the profession into the regular practice of inclusive and humanistic leadership. It provides futuristic ideas for promoting opportunities for equitable leadership, as well as tested approaches that have already been found to make a difference. It speaks to the challenges and opportunities of leading successful research collaborations and making strong connections within research teams. Curated with a vision that leadership takes a myriad of forms, and that diversity has many dimensions, this volume examines the nuances of leadership within a workplace environment and promotes storytelling and other competencies as critical elements of effective leadership. It makes the case for inclusive and humanistic leadership in statistics and data science, where there often remains a dearth of womenand members of certain racial communities among the employees. Titled and non-titled leaders will benefit from the planning, evaluation, and structural tools offered within to contribute inclusive excellence in workplace climate, environment, and culture.
The Art of Retreats
Business leaders need to find inner peace if they are to create an inspiring and sustainable future. But how can we develop the strength and foresight we need to lead with purpose when growth and profit are constantly driving our efforts? How can we link our actions with results amid increasing noise and complexity? How can we think strategically and expand our consciousness when technology keeps us hooked to our devices? By introducing periods of retreat, leaders develop greater self-awareness and achieve the clarity, balance, and purpose to do not just what is good for business but also what is right for the world. The Art of Retreats provides simple, practical advice for creating effective solo retreats, from the occasional hour carved into the day to profoundly insightful weekends and more. Drawing on a unique combination of business experience, science, philosophy, and ancient wisdom, it offers deep reflections, practices, and contemplations that will help leaders find peace, resolve, and wisdom in an otherwise hectic life.
Applied Regularization Methods for the Social Sciences
Researchers in the social sciences are faced with complex data sets in which they have relatively small samples and many variables (high dimensional data). Unlike the various technical guides currently on the market, Applied Regularization Methods for the Social Sciences provides and overview of a variety of models alongside clear examples of hands-on application. Each chapter in this book covers a specific application of regularization techniques with a user-friendly technical description, followed by examples that provide a thorough demonstration of the methods in action. Key Features: Description of regularization methods in a user friendly and easy to read manner Inclusion of regularization-based approaches for a variety of statistical analyses commonly used in the social sciences, including both univariate and multivariate models Fully developed extended examples using multiple software packages, including R, SAS, and SPSS Website containing all datasets and software scripts used in the examples Inclusion of both frequentist and Bayesian regularization approaches Application exercises for each chapter that instructors could use in class, and independent researchers could use to practice what they have learned from the book
A Problem of Fit
A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing--how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can help both students and universities. How much does it cost to attend college in the United States today? The answer is more complex than many realize. College websites advertise a sticker price, but uncovering the actual price--the one after incorporating financial aid--can be difficult for students and families. This inherent uncertainty leads some students to forgo applying to colleges that would be the best fit for them, or even not attend college at all. The result is that millions of promising young people may lose out on one of society's greatest opportunities for social mobility. Colleges suffer too, losing prospective students and seeing lower enrollments and less socioeconomic diversity. If markets require prices to function well, then the American higher-education system--rife as it is with ambiguity in its pricing--amounts to a market failure. In A Problem of Fit, economist Phillip B. Levine explains why institutions charge the prices they do and discusses the role of financial aid systems in facilitating--and discouraging--access to college. Affordability issues are real, but price transparency is also part of the problem. As Levine makes clear, our conversations around affordability and free tuition miss a larger truth: that the opacity of our current college-financing systems is a primary driver of inequities in education and society. In a clear-eyed assessment of educational access and aid in a post-COVID-19 economy, A Problem of Fit offers a trenchant new argument for educational reforms that are well within reach.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Responsible Machine Learning
This book is a unique entanglement of theory, examples and processes relevant to Responsible Machine Learning. You will find intuitions and examples for Interpretable Machine Learning (IML) and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Descriptions are supplemented by code snippets with examples for R with the use of randomForest, mlr3 and DALEX packages. Finally, the process is shown through a comic book describing the adventures of two characters, Beta and Bit. The interaction of these two shows the decisions that analysts often face, whether to try a different model, try another technique for exploration or look for other data -- questions like how to compare models or validate them. All examples are fully reproducible so that one can replay all adventures on a local desktop. Model development is a responsible and challenging task but also an exciting adventure. Sometimes textbooks focus only on the technical side, losing all the fun. Here we are going to have it all.
A Problem of Fit
A critical examination of the complex system of college pricing--how it works, how it fails, and how fixing it can help both students and universities. How much does it cost to attend college in the United States today? The answer is more complex than many realize. College websites advertise a sticker price, but uncovering the actual price--the one after incorporating financial aid--can be difficult for students and families. This inherent uncertainty leads some students to forgo applying to colleges that would be the best fit for them, or even not attend college at all. The result is that millions of promising young people may lose out on one of society's greatest opportunities for social mobility. Colleges suffer too, losing prospective students and seeing lower enrollments and less socioeconomic diversity. If markets require prices to function well, then the American higher-education system--rife as it is with ambiguity in its pricing--amounts to a market failure. In A Problem of Fit, economist Phillip B. Levine explains why institutions charge the prices they do and discusses the role of financial aid systems in facilitating--and discouraging--access to college. Affordability issues are real, but price transparency is also part of the problem. As Levine makes clear, our conversations around affordability and free tuition miss a larger truth: that the opacity of our current college-financing systems is a primary driver of inequities in education and society. In a clear-eyed assessment of educational access and aid in a post-COVID-19 economy, A Problem of Fit offers a trenchant new argument for educational reforms that are well within reach.
