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Business Expert Press
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The rapid growth in computer technology provides supply chain managers with valuable tools to better coordinate and control their operations. This book seeks to describe systems available to give supply chains information system support, demonstrating key tasks with demonstrated analytic techniques. This second edition is basically the same as the first edition, but with newer cases to demonstrate concepts. The target market for this book is practitioners...
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Business Expert Press
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The supply chain management field is one of the fastest growing fields in our economy, given the heavy growth in international trade as a means to access outsourced production opportunities to lower costs and the growth in information technology to coordinate supply chains. However, this opportunity to lower costs entails significant risks, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, political unrest, and economic turbulence. This book discusses risks in supply...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Scandals relating to manipulation and fraud have dominated much of the history of business and the accounting profession in America since its founding. Crooks, corruption, scandals, and panics have been regular features of the business landscape ever since, with regulations and the expansion of financial disclosure, auditing, and regulatory agencies following major debacles. Prior to the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in...
4) Achieving service excellence: maximizing enterprise performance through innovation and technology
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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As the service sectors play an increasingly important role in all economies worldwide, service executives and professionals are well advised to recognize two main pathways to achieving sustainable success in services, namely, enhancing the strategic differentiation and operational excellence of their service enterprises; obviously, these executives and their employees need to develop the knowledge and skills required to achieve such success. This...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This book is aimed at leaders of nonprofit organizations. These leaders include executive directors, managers, board members, pastors, key volunteers, and anyone who wishes to make a difference. The four overarching areas of living the mission, making good decisions, getting things done,and developing your team emerged from literature searches, focus groups, and surveys to discover objectively what critical skills and knowledge are most useful to...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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There is intense competition among emerging markets to capture their share of the global economy. This book addresses questions that are germane to accomplishing this goal. Most important to this end is the study and practice of international business and foreign trade. Undertaking such a study raises many questions such as: Why are emerging markets and the firms doing business in them internationalizing so aggressively? Why in the past decade has...
7) Applied international finance: managing foreign exchange risk and international capital budgeting
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This text is designed for use in a course in applied international corporate finance for managers and executives. Instead of the "encyclopedic" approach, the text focuses on the two main issues of interest to managers who deal with overseas operations. The first main issue is how uncertain foreign exchange (FX) rate changes affect a firm's ongoing cash flows and equity value, and what can be done about this risk. The second main issue is the estimation...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Liquidity involves the degree to which an asset can be bought or sold in the market without affecting its price. The 2007 to 2009 financial crisis was characterized by a decrease in liquidity and necessitated the introduction of Basel III capital and liquidity regulation in 2010. In this book, we apply such regulation on a broad cross-section of countries in order to understand and demonstrate the implications of Basel III.This book summarizes the...
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Business Expert Press
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2014.
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English
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This book presents essential elements for understanding, interpreting, and conducting cost benefit analysis (CBA) in the context of local government. The cost benefit technique is so often referenced in government policy that a correct understanding is necessary for officials entrusted with public decisions. It is especially useful for those charged with preparing numerical analyses to assess the worthiness of a specific policy proposal. In this manual,...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Religion is a topic that businesses often ignore, in spite of 70% of the world being religious. Whether the silence results from the taboo nature of the topic or the thought that religion is a separate domain from consumption and business, it cannot be denied that it has received scant attention. Many do not realize (or resist) the idea that religion is a key contributor to a consumer's core values, which then contribute to consumption decisions,...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This book is a comprehensive collection of cost-volume-profit applications. Business professionals, entrepreneurs, business professors, and undergraduate and graduate business students will benefit from this onestop how-to book of formulas, explanations, and examples. The user will find a wide range of topics, from calculating basic breakeven, to dealing with multiple products, mixed costs, changing costs, and changing prices.
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Many empirical researchers yearn for an econometric model that better explains their data. Yet these researchers rarely pursue this objective for fear of the statistical complexities involved in specifying that model. This book is intended to alleviate those anxieties by providing a practical methodology that anyone familiar with regression analysis can employ--a methodology that will yield a model that is both more informative and is a better representation...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This book is a practical and comprehensive guide to succeeding in doing business and investing in emerging Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. It covers the newly emerging country's history, geography, demographics and market size, political environment, economic conditions and industries, legal framework, cultural idiosyncrasies including religious issues. It also discusses language, beliefs and customs, business etiquette and attitudes, management...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Operations Research is a bouquet of mathematical techniques that have evolved over the last six decades to improve the process of business decision making. Operations Research offers tools to optimize and find the best solutions to myriad decisions that managers have to take in their day to day operations or while carrying out strategic planning. Today, with the advent of operations research software, these tools can be applied by managers even without...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Change management is a challenging and continuous process that requires a particular skill set for both leaders and managers. It is essential for leaders and change agents to understand and address the five most important questions: Why? What? Who? How? When? Inside, you'll learn the concept of change management, its impact on the company's business performance and sustainability, and the relevant issues associated with it. The author highlights the...
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Business Expert Press
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2014.
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English
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This handy book on intercultural communication is ideal for the busy executive, frequent international business traveler, expatriate, and student of international business communication. It offers insights into the finer nuances of intercultural communication and assists in decision making, problem solving, and adjusting to other cultures. Lucid and practical in its approach, the book is replete with numerous examples that illustrate business beyond...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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This book is a part of a series, which recognizes that there is intense competition among emerging markets and against advanced economies to capture their share of the global economy. The series addresses questions that are germane to accomplishing this goal. Most important to this end is the study and practice of international business and foreign trade. Undertaking such a study raises many questions, which the series will attempt to answer. What...
18) Creating a pathway to your dream career: designing and controlling a career around your life goals
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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What do you want your life to be like when you're 25? 35? 55? Do you want a job that will feed you and your family or do you want a career that will be an integral part of your life--a career that will feed your passions, enable the lifestyle you choose, and be a continual source of engagement and pride? But do you really have the luxury of even considering your dream job in an era in which more than 40 percent of college graduates can't even get...
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Uses real market examples to demonstrate the development of effective marketing strategies. The approach uses an organization's mission and vision statements to guide the development of marketing goals, strategies, and tactics. Central to the development of marketing strategy is the use of the marketing mix of price, place, product, and promotion. The book neatly weaves the process of developing a marketing strategy with the use of the marketing mix....
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Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Marketers, merchandisers, and sales executives alike are struggling with Big Data--the data streaming at increasing speeds from myriad channels and options for communicating with customers. The tools are likely to continue to multiply, paralyzing many executives with simply too many choices. Using data from a four-year study, this book provides a process for rigorous decision making, eliminating the paralysis and optimizing decision making for marketing...