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“candace howes”

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  • Competitiveness Matters

    Industry and Economic Performance in the U.S.

    Edited by Candace Howes, Ajit Singh ...
    This book argues, against the current view, that competitiveness--that is, the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector--matters to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and particularly to its long-term capacity to raise the standard of living of its citizens. The book challenges the arguments popularized most recently by Paul Krugman thatcompetitiveness is a dangerous obsession that ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Creating a Kaizen Culture: Align the Organization, Achieve Breakthrough Results, and Sustain the Gains

    by Jon Miller, Mike Wroblewski, Jaime Villafuerte ...
    FOSTER AND SUSTAIN A KAIZEN CULTURE IN YOUR ORGANIZATIONFOREWORD BY JOHN TOUSSANT, CEO OF THEDACARETransforming a culture is far more about emotional growth than technical maturity. Co-written by leaders at the Kaizen Institute, Creating a Kaizen Culture explains how to enable an adaptive, excellent, and sustainable organization by leveraging core kaizen values and the behaviors they generate.The ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Leading Product Development

    The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping

    by Steven C. Wheelwright ...
    In their groundbreaking book Revolutionizing Product Development, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark demonstrated how project leaders for product development could apply new innovations to bring products to market at breakneck speed. Now, in their new work, they address the general manager's role in leading product development efforts -- at the functional, unit, group, and corporate levels.Up ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Doing the Right Things Right

    How the Effective Executive Spends Time

    by Laura Stack ...
    A How-To Guide for the Modern LeaderInspired by Peter Drucker's groundbreaking book The Effective Executive, Laura Stack details precisely how 21st-century leaders and managers can obtain profitable, productive results by managing the intersection of two critical values: effectiveness and efficiency.Effectiveness, Stack says, is identifying and achieving the best objectives for your organization ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Insurance and Behavioral Economics

    Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly, Stacey McMorrow ...
    This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark models of choice derived from classical economic theory. Where actual choices stray from predictions, the behavior is considered to be anomalous. Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Making MRP Work

    by Giles Johnston ...
    Is your MRP system helping your business to perform, or is it just creating more work for you?'Making MRP work' is a practical guide aimed at Operations Managers and business directors who need some support with their MRP / ERP system. If you are operating an existing MRP system but feel that it could be doing more for you then this book can help you to identify the changes you need to make.Many ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Management

    Organizations, Governance, and Performance

    by Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr, Kenneth J. Meier ...
    How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be estimated? The fate of public policies in today's world lies in the hands of public organizations, which in ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Precisely Wrong: Why Conventional Planning Systems Fail

    by Chad Smith, Carol Ptak ...
    OverviewAt the heart of most supply chains lies a planning tool called Material Requirements Planning (MRP). Invented in the 1950s, codifed in the 1960s and commercialized in the 1970s, MRP became THE way of life for supply order generation and synchronization throughout the world. Yet the people that interact with MRP everyday know that something is very wrong. They may not be able to explain ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Supply Chain Strategy, Second Edition: Unleash the Power of Business Integration to Maximize Financial, Service, and Operations Performance

    by Edward H. Frazelle ...
    The industry standard in supply chain management—fully revised and updated to provide today’s logistics solutionsThe proven pillars of success in logistics and supply chain management introduced in the first edition of Supply Chain Strategy now guide the supply chains of many of the world’s most successful organizations, including 3M, Abbott, BP, Coca-Cola, Disney, Hallmark, Honda, Mitsubishi, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization

    Essays in Honor of Leonard W. Weiss

    Edited by David B. Audretsch, J.J. Siegfried ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Empirical Studies in Industrial Organization brings together leading scholars who present state-of-the-art research in the spirit of the structure-conduct-performance paradigm embodied in the work of Leonard W. Weiss.The individual chapters are generally empirically or public policy oriented. A number of them introduce new sources of data that, combined with the application of appropriate ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Risk and Return in Transportation and Other US and Global Industries

    by Manolis G. Kavussanos, Stelios Marcoulis ...
    The type of research methodologies used in analysing stock returns in the book is outlined in this technical chapter. The chapter begins with definitions of useful summary statistics, such as the mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and their interpretation. Tests statistics for inferences on population means, proportions and differences of means, among others, are also presented. A ... Read more

    $89.09 USD