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This book concentrates on the creative heart of business, on how to develop an exciting enterprise from the original germ…
of an idea. * Finding a good idea * Getting started * Creating a winning business plan * Funding your enterprise * Marketing your business * Maintaining progress * Monitoring growthVenture Capital and the Corporate Governance of Chinese Listed Companies
By Lin Zhang. 2012
State-controlled listed companies have always dominated Chinese stock markets. As a result of the rampant scandals related to them, there…
have been voluminous academic efforts to explore their corporate governance, underpinned by agency costs. However, these studies have yet to examine the phenomenon from the perspective of venture capital and adaptive efficiency. During the last ten years, despite China's remarkable progress in the development of its venture capital market, its domestic venture capital has been marginalized by American competitors. Given the different performance between them, the author contends that the corporate governance system of Chinese state-controlled listed companies has hampered the performance of the institutional factors which are responsible for the prosperity of American venture capital in Chinese venture capital markets. With the practice of American venture capital as the mirror, he empirically demonstrates that Chinese domestic venture capital lacks the four factors related to the success of their American counterparts: large and independent funding, application of incentive mechanisms, efficient exit channels, and a high risk tolerance level. More importantly, these defects as a whole are closely linked to the corporate governance of state-controlled listed companies. Considering the potential negative consequences on economic and social development, the author identifies policy reforms underway to harmonize agency costs and adaptive efficiency.Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
By Rand Fishkin. 2018
Rand Fishkin the founder and former CEO of Moz reveals how traditional Silicon Valley wisdom leads…
far too many startups astray with the transparency and humor that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to love Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed to go A young brilliant entrepreneur has a cool idea drops out of college defies the doubters overcomes all odds makes billions and becomes the envy of the technology world This is not that story It s not that things went badly for Rand Fishkin they just weren t quite so Zuckerberg-esque His company Moz maker of marketing software is now a 45 million year business and he s one of the world s leading experts on SEO But his business and reputation took fifteen years to grow and his startup began not in a Harvard dorm room but as a mother-and-son family business that fell deeply into debt Now Fishkin pulls back the curtain on tech startup mythology exposing the ups and downs of startup life that most CEOs would rather keep secret For instance A minimally viable product can be destructive if you launch at the wrong moment Growth hacking may be the buzzword du jour but initiatives can fizzle quickly Revenue and growth won t protect you from layoffs And venture capital always comes with strings attached Fishkin s hard-won lessons are applicable to any kind of business environment Up or down the chain of command at both early stage startups and mature companies whether your trajectory is riding high or down in the dumps this book can help solve your problems and make you feel less alone for having themThe Landlord's Survival Guide: The Truly Practical Insider Handbook For All Private Landlords
By Lesley Henderson. 2007
This concise but comprehensive guide is for first time - as well as established - landlords. It is divided into…
sections, each of which is jam-packed with detail and insider tips. Most sections will only take minutes to read (although a few earlier ones take a little more) and each section tells you exactly what you need to do - and why - to get best results. It provides advice on: viewings - how to arrange and conduct them; making a realistic rent assessment before spending any money; knowing what agents should charge and should do; advertising - how to write, where to place, and how to respond to callers - plus using the response to assess tenants; selecting tenants and closing the deal; and, deposits - why they work and how they can fail.It also offers advice on: agreeing inventories, schedules of condition, and property profiles; assured shorthold leases - what they are, the exceptions, and where to buy them for a song; ending tenancies - the easy, and the hard way; the legal responsibilities that no landlord can ignore; particular aspects about houses in multiple occupation; property maintenance - realistic costs and useful advice; and, dealing with the tax man. Each section has tips, skills, time management ideas, and problem solving advice, plus supportive guidance and helpful websites and phone numbers. If you're looking for a bit of straight talking about your investment, or you're sufficiently interested to discover how to increase your own bottom line rather than some agent's, then this is the guide for you.Contents: Lesson 1 Learning the Ropes when Buying Property; Lesson 2 Mock Advertising; Lesson 3 Yields; Lesson 4 Selecting Agents - or not; Lesson 5 Assured Shorthold Leases; Lesson 6 Advertising; Lesson 7 Inventories, Schedules of Condition and Property Profiles; Lesson 8 Viewings; Lesson 9 Selecting Tenants and Tying Up the Deal; Lesson 10 Deposits; Lesson 11 Ending Tenancies; Lesson 12 The Serious Responsibilities; Lesson 13 Houses in Multiple Occupation; Lesson 14 Property Maintenance; Lesson 15 The Tax Man's Take; IndexIf you are thinking about leaving the rat race to run your own pub, but don't know how to go…
about it, this book is for you. How to Run a Successful Pub provides you with all the information and advice you need to make your dream a reality. It will help you to: FIND YOUR IDEAL PUB PLAN AND SET UP YOUR BUSINESS TARGET YOUR CUSTOMERS MAKE MORE MONEY CONTROL YOUR SALES MAXIMISE YOUR PROFITS This book is packed with practical, up-to-date advice on marketing, managing staff, bookkeeping, licensing law, food, fruit machines, raising finance and the necessary regulations.Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era
By Laura Phillips Sawyer. 2016
Reliance on Foreign Markets: Multinationality and Performance
By Makoto Nakano, Bayanjargal Purevdorj. 2014
This study examines the relationship between multinationality and the performance of Japanese manufacturing companies during the period 1999-2008 by using…
geographic segment information. Despite the enormous interest in and importance given to multinationality from the academic and business worlds, prior findings about the multinationality-performance relationship are conflicting and inconsistent. The overall results of the present study show that multinationality has a positive impact both on accounting performance and on market-based performance. In additional tests, Japanese electric and electronic equipment companies' reliance on the Asian market was found to have a negative impact on profitability and no significant impact on firm value, whereas reliance on other foreign markets such as the Americas and the EU had a positive impact on profitability and firm value. The multinationality-performance relationship cannot be generalized and varies among geographic regions. This book contributes to both the multinationality-performance literature and the geographic segment reporting literature by offering empirical evidence about Japanese manufacturing companies and comparing them with prior findings about American companies. The “I” of the Hurricane: How to Generate Corporate Energy
By Art Mcneil. 2014
Helps business and public sector organizations implement inspirational leadership and hold people accountable. Identifies the need for an ethics platform…
to establish behavioral boundaries and reinforce the living of the organization's cultural-values and visionWii Encore?
By Andrei Hagiu. 2011
Nintendo faced huge difficulties in July 2011. Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox had caught up with the innovative motion-sensing controllers…
of the original Wii. And the new Nintendo 3DS handheld console had experienced a very disappointing start. Moreover, videogame consoles (particularly handheld ones) were facing increasing substitution from online and mobile games played on social networks and/or mobile phones (e.g. Zynga's Farmville). First, could Nintendo come up with a novel and innovative console once again (a Wii Encore) in order to escape head-to-head competition against its two larger rivals (Sony and Microsoft)? Second, how could Nintendo fend off the new substitutes, which were competing for a large portion of its customers?New Technologies and Branding
By Philippe Sachetti, Thibaud Zuppinger. 2018
Between cases of study, theoretical panorama and practical reflections, this book gives brand leaders the means to defend their brand…
in a changing environment, where new technologies and manipulation techniques have rendered old defense schemes obsolete. Rather than suggesting a reflection from the point of view of the crisis, the authors deal with the question under another, broader theme: conflict.Playing to Win: 3. Where to Play
By A. G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin. 2013
Play to Win: How Strategy Really Works is an 8-chapter books published in 2013 by Harvard Business Review Press and…
written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley and Rotman School of Management Dean Roger L. Martin. The authors present a framework for creating strategy based on a decade of work at P&G. The framework is a strategic choice cascade, made up of 5 decision points that apply to companies of all sizes and in all markets. The model guides leaders in making choices around a winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems and is enriched by using the context of P&G's experience. The authors provide perspectives on how to put the framework into practice, offering practical tips and personal insights. Chapter 3, Where to Play (23 pages), moves to the second step of the framework, making market decisions connected company's winning aspiration. Market choices define the company's business focus and set the stage for the challenges to come. The authors divide these choices into five dimensions: geography, product type, consumer segment, distribution channel, and vertical stage of production. They explain that while these dimensions are the same for all companies, the significance of each dimension is variable, and they illustrate with an analysis of P&G's Bounty brand. The authors also discuss the role of the competitive arena and highlight common problems that companies face in making market decisions. They look in depth at how P&G found new markets for established brands.How Government Debt Accumulates
By Jonathan Schlefer, Dante Roscini. 2011
This note discusses the economics of government-debt accumulation. Fiscal deficits are only part of the picture; other factors include the…
level of debt as a percent of nominal GDP; the interest rate; the inflation rate; the growth rate; and changes in the exchange rate if some debt is owed in a foreign currency. The note discusses how these factors interact to affect government debt levels.The Random House Response to the Kindle
By Bharat N. Anand, Peter W. Olson. 2010
In early 2010, e-readers like Amazon's Kindle, and Apple's impending iPad, threatened to disrupt the book publishing industry. The case…
provides an overview of the industry, describes the broader trends regarding e-readers, and asks: how should major publishers like Random House respond to these trends?Revitalizing Dell
By Jan W. Rivkin. 2010
Dell Inc., with its vaunted Direct Model, defined success in the personal computer industry for more than a decade. Starting…
in the mid-2000s, however, the company fell on hard times. In 2009, Michael Dell and his management team must figure out why the Direct Model has faltered and what they can do to revitalize the company.Tata Nano - The People's Car
By Bharat N. Anand, Krishna G. Palepu, Rachna Tahilyani. 2010
The case explores how Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, developed the Nano, the world's cheapest car. The case focuses…
on the translation of Ratan Tata's (Chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, Managing Director of Tata Motors into the Nano Project. The case raises questions around breaking the price - quality barrier and changing existing internal processes to accommodate revolutionary new ideas. The dilemma of success - Tata Nano was a runaway bestseller - left Tata Motors debating how large a bet they should make on the Nano and what kind of capacity commitment this requires.Financial Exchanges: A Comparative Approach
By Francis A Lees. 2012
The recent global economic crisis has drawn a spotlight on the world of finance. Financial exchanges are changing, and this…
insightful, new book examines the manner and reasons for these changes. Financial Exchanges: A Comparative Approach offers an in-depth analysis of this sector. Surveying thirty different financial exchanges, including stock, derivative, commodity and offshore exchanges, this book examines the challenges they face and the ways in which they are adapting. The book includes a pertinent chapter on the dominance of derivatives, examining a number of derivative exchanges in detail. Taking in a host of international exchange powerhouses, including those in Hong Kong, Shanghai, London, New York and the Persian Gulf, this book will benefit students taking courses on financial markets and institutions, as well as professionals interested in international financial markets.Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State
By Arthur A. Daemmrich, Benjamin Kramarz. 2009
This case describes how Denmark has balanced the impacts of globalization, including outsourcing and movement of labor with its social…
welfare offerings. Reforms implemented during the past two decades drove down unemployment, promoted new company formation, and put the country at or near the top of international polls on the ease of doing business. The case describes how Danes forged a consensus that embraced international trade and outsourcing while supporting continuous upgrading of workplace skills. In April 2009, the new Prime Minister, Lars L kke Rasmussen, is balancing short-term responses to a global recession against longer-term planning for the Danish labor market and macroeconomy. Can Denmark keep its borders open to the free movement of goods, services, and labor while also sustaining the breadth of its welfare offerings?BTEC First Business Level 2 Assessment Guide: Unit 7 Providing Business Support
By Carole Trotter. 2013
Take the guesswork out of BTEC assessment with sample student work and assessor feedback for all pass, merit and distinction…
criteria.By focusing on assessment this compact guide leads students through each pass, merit and distinction criterion by clearly showing them what they are required to do.Helps your students' to tackle the new exam with confidence with mock examination questions together with answers and feedback Provides a sample student answer for every single pass, merit and distinction criterion, together with detailed assessor's comments on how work can be improved, so that students know exactly what their work needs to show to hit their grade target Includes realistic model assignments that provide an opportunity to generate all evidence, with each criterion and grade clearly indicated. Supports students with detailed revision-style summaries of all the learning aims from the unit allowing them to quickly find the facts and ideas they will need for their assessment. Enables you to customise your course to the units you deliver when used alongside other guides in the seriesIceland (B): Redefining Aaa-Rated Sovereigns
By Aldo Musacchio. 2008
In May of 2008, a team of sovereign debt analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the country's…
sovereign long-term debt from Aaa to Aa1 or lower. Investor sentiment toward Iceland had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the situation could spiral out of control. The Moody's team knew that carry traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence crisis because they were quick to liquidate their holdings at the first sign of distress. The plunge in the Icelandic Krona since the beginning of 2008 also forced the Icelandic people to confront a decision: would joining the European Union (EU) protect Iceland from capricious swings in investor sentiment? What, if anything, should Iceland do to avoid a future crisis?