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By Shikhar Ghosh, Marilyn Morgan Westner, Reza Satchu. 2020
Wes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada's leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by…
the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a series of social injustices-specifically the death of George Floyd in police custody-Hall had an idea to use his privilege, power, and position to make a social impact. He decided to risk his financial security and potentially jeopardize his reputation to launch a new venture, BlackNorth Initiative (BNI), to combat systemic racism. After an initial burst of positive reactions to the BNI, Hall was left with the questions that confront every entrepreneur: What problem am I addressing? What solution should I pursue? Am I the right person to take on this challenge? Who do I need on my team? Hall wants BlackNorth Initiative to have lasting impact after the momentum of the BLM fades. Just two months after launching BNI, Hall faced a dilemma: a leading Canadian businessman and philanthropist offered to donate $1,000,000 to the BNI if they would establish a cultural center for Black Canadians. As Founder and Chairman of the BlackNorth Initiative, Hall had a decision: should he accept the funds and build the center? Could a cultural center help dismantle anti-Black systemic barriers from the bottom up and help legitimize BNI with community activist groups? Or would the costs of establishing and running a center ultimately dilute his focus and diffuse the power of his initial idea?By John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock. 2019
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), Acelerex was leveraging technologies, such as big data and grid…
analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) forecasting tools, cloud computing, real time control systems, energy storage testing software, monitoring, and blockchain smart contracts, to provide consulting expertise and software-as-a-service (SaaS) products to a diverse group of stakeholders, including state and municipal policymakers, regulators, grid developers, utilities, and investors. Demand for Acelerex's services had outstripped supply, and, within a year, the company had grown to 14 professionals, with advanced degrees in multiple technical domains. Moreover, the company had made a profit in its first year, had achieved proof of concept and minimum viable products for all of its targeted services, and made sales along all business lines. But, cash flow had been a constant challenge because of slow-paying clients and rising fixed costs, while talent development had proved a "headache." Acelerex was Johnson's first start-up after 25 years of experience working with major firms and research institutions across all segments of the power sector, including generation, transmission, distribution, consumption, and storage. Having doubled in size for four quarters, he had set himself the challenge of doubling in size again, but he was going to take a year to do it. He was confident there was enough business in the USA to support this rate of expansion and that he could hire the team to deliver it, but was uncertain whether he should raise funds to resolve the cash flow pressure. He was also being asked to do more and more work in China, India, and Africa; did this make sense? And to add to his list of opportunities, he had been asked to provide similar services to transport, natural gas, and water networks.By Michael Norris, Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Endline. 2021
In 2021, Ron DeShay, former American Idol producer, is launching his new business venture: World of Dreams Entertainment Group. World…
of Dreams rethought the existing TV production model, giving audiences more power to directly influence the creation of shows through a digital platform, and building an immersive experience around the TV production business.By Shane Greenstein, Mel Martin, Sarkis Agaian. 2020
After discovering that their cancer diagnostic tool, designed to leverage the cloud computing power of IBM Watson, needed greater integration…
into the clinical processes at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the development team had difficult choices to make. The Oncology Expert Advisor tool used a combination of machine learning and the latest cancer care research to make recommendation to clinicians in the field. Was automated cancer diagnosis the future of cancer care? The development team, comprised of clinicians and data scientists, reviewed the results of their experiment to augment their implementation plan and better evaluate the efficacy of the analytics tool.By Willy Shih, Dawn Lau. 2019
This case examines four Special Economic Zones in Myanmar. While the country's development had been hobbled by a complex history…
of military rule, ethnic conflict, and international sanctions, as it pursued liberalization it sought avenues to developing its economy. The four zones described in the case - Dawei, Kyaukphyu, Thilawa, and the New Yangon City project all had different roots and different motivations. The different rates of progress of each reflected the interests and approaches of each of the projects' participants.By Elie Ofek, Lia Weiner. 2020
Could these dots be connected? Dozens of Israeli startups and Multi National Corporations (MNCs) thought that they could, and were…
employing 700 Palestinian engineers, in part through outsourcing companies, and in part directly by opening local R&D centers. In conjunction, the Palestinian tech ecosystem was benefiting and developing a promising entrepreneurship sector. Both the joint work and the independent Palestinian ecosystem had important geopolitical implications, first by supporting the Palestinian economy, and second in the potential implications it could have on the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians, two peoples who have been in conflict for decades. While the opportunities were clear, various challenges facing an emergent tech sector, coupled with sensitivities surrounding cooperation between long-time 'enemies', created complications. Paradoxically, Palestinians realized that working with Israeli tech companies was highly promising, but the reality was that any relationship with Israel was politically sensitive for them and created a dilemma. The same applied for Israelis motivated but concerned about working with Palestinian engineers. Given the tremendous benefits, MNCs, governments, non-profits, and international organizations decided to promote co-operation between Israeli and Palestinian tech companies and to support the creation of a sustainable Palestinian tech sector; by mitigating the challenges both sides faced. Still, it remained to be determined whether these efforts would bear fruits, or whether tech cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians would remain anecdotal. Moreover, it was as yet unclear what big-picture implications such initiatives could have on the Palestinian economy and on the relationship between the two peoples. Recent developments, including the global pandemic and the peace agreement signed between Israel and the UAE provided their own sets of challenges and opportunities.By Pingyuan Chen. 2021
This book contains a classic guide to historical study of early modern Chinese fiction from the late Qing Dynasty till…
early republican China. It does not merely study the new fiction writing in China, which was strongly influenced by the western fiction, but also draws a comparison between classical Chinese fiction and the early modern Chinese fiction. This book is an excellent reference in the study of early modern Chinese literature since it conveys a point of view to the readers with abundant and solid historical materials. At the heart of the book, it is the matter of a specific value in trans-cultural studies between the western world and China.This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most…
tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interactions with publishers; the challenges of literary sociability; the vexed construction of enduring careers; the factors that prevented most aspiring writers (particularly the less privileged) from accruing significant rewards; the rhetorical professionalisation of periodicals; and the manners in which emerging paradigms and technologies catalysed a belated transformation in how literary writing was consumed and perceived.This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and…
quantitative methods and techniques. Case studies from Sweden and Germany are presented, investigating how the gender and integration-neutral or integration-blind nature of the reviewed legislation can disadvantage migrant women in the labor market.The book contributes to the discourses of liberal and post-colonial feminism through new methodological and empirical insights. It, therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of migrant women’s chances to enter the labor market, as well as gender and integration studies in general.By David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore. 2015
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious…
beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies, early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern history.By Christoph Weber, Alexander Koeberle, Boris Canessa, Jens Escher, Peter Preller. 2016
Unternehmer erhalten durch dieses Buch entscheidenden Rat in der Frage welche Art von Family Office f 65533 r sie…
passt Wichtige Fragen sind Welche Leistungen kann das Family Office erbringen Welche Rechtsform soll das Family Office haben und wie soll es strukturiert sein Was kann es zum Familienmanagement beitragen Wer darf wann welche Leistungen zu welchem Preis beziehen Wer darf entscheiden und wann Wer bekommt Informationen und zu welchem Zeitpunkt Fundiert und praxiserprobt zeigen die Autoren die wichtigsten Aufgaben und Ausgestaltungsm 65533 glichkeiten auf Auch Family Officer und Berater erhalten wertvolle Hinweise erg 65533 nzt durch ausgew 65533 hlte Interviews mit Unternehmern und SpezialistenBy Jopi Nyman, Monika Mueller, Johanna C. Kardux, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras. 2021
This volume explores ways in which the literary trope of the palimpsest can be applied to ethnic and postcolonial literary…
and cultural studies. Based on contemporary theories of the palimpsest, the innovative chapters reveal hidden histories and uncover relationships across disciplines and seemingly unconnected texts. The contributors focus on diverse forms of the palimpsest: the incarceration of Native Americans in military forts and their response to the elimination of their cultures; mnemonic novels that rework the politics and poetics of the Black Atlantic; the urban palimpsests of Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Johannesburg, and Los Angeles that reveal layers of humanity with disparities in origin, class, religion, and chronology; and the palimpsestic configurations of mythologies and religions that resist strict cultural distinctions and argue against cultural relativism.By Marco Picone, Vincenzo Todaro, Francesco Lo Piccolo. 2021
This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to…
describe appropriately. So far, scholars have adopted a widespread dominant perspective that proved unable to grasp the essence of post-modern complexities that urban spaces imply. The book provides a taxonomy, in order to describe the rules of these new and peculiar cities, by using the living dimension as a device for the epistemological breaking down of traditional socio-spatial analyses. After a thorough theoretical introduction, it describes two Sicilian case studies that prove particularly relevant to the construction of a new, alternative urban regionalization theory. These two areas, Palermo and South-Eastern Sicily, are described through several aspects, such as the role of migrants and migrations in defining urban regionalization, the power of fiction and the new urban forms that are slowly emerging in Sicily. Overall, this book provides a refreshing view of what Sicily has been and is becoming, by deconstructing most of its clichés and suggesting theoretical perspectives grounded in both quantitative and qualitative analyses.Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the…
same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local networks that linked commerce and conflict in early modern Europe.Hillmann traces the development of Saint-Malo and the social structure of its merchant elite from the 1680s through the onset of the French Revolution. He pinpoints the role of privateering, showing how it enabled local merchant communities to secure their hold on established trades, seize new opportunities, and withstand the threats of armed conflict. In wartime, rulers commissioned ship-owning traders to fit out vessels as corsairs to raid enemy shipping. Within a mercantilist worldview, this state-sanctioned private war at sea aligned the interests of local elites and the royal government. Locally, within Saint-Malo, the partnerships that merchant elites formed in their privateering ventures gave rise to a cohesive network that held their community together amid outside conflicts. Combining rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network analysis of partnership ties over more than a century, The Corsairs of Saint-Malo offers a new understanding of the local organizational foundations of early modern capitalist development.Traditional economic theory studies idealized markets in which prices alone can guide efficient allocation, with no need for central organization.…
Such models build from Adam Smith’s famous concept of an invisible hand, which guides markets and renders regulation or interference largely unnecessary. Yet for many markets, prices alone are not enough to guide feasible and efficient outcomes, and regulation alone is not enough, either. Consider air traffic control at major airports. While prices could encourage airlines to take off and land at less congested times, prices alone do just part of the job; an air traffic control system is still indispensable to avoid disastrous consequences. With just an air traffic controller, however, limited resources can be wasted or poorly used. What’s needed in this and many other real-world cases is an auction system that can effectively reveal prices while still maintaining enough direct control to ensure that complex constraints are satisfied.In Discovering Prices, Paul Milgrom—the world’s most frequently cited academic expert on auction design—describes how auctions can be used to discover prices and guide efficient resource allocations, even when resources are diverse, constraints are critical, and market-clearing prices may not even exist. Economists have long understood that externalities and market power both necessitate market organization. In this book, Milgrom introduces complex constraints as another reason for market design. Both lively and technical, Milgrom roots his new theories in real-world examples (including the ambitious U.S. incentive auction of radio frequencies, whose design he led) and provides economists with crucial new tools for dealing with the world’s growing complex resource-allocation problems.By Nate Eastman. 2021
Shakespeare’s Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique is a textbook focused on specific storytelling techniques and genres that Shakespeare…
invented or refined. Drawing on examples from popular novels, plays, and films (such as IT, Beloved, Sex and the City, The Godfather, and Fences) the book provides an overview of how Shakespearean storytelling techniques including character flaws, conflicts, symbols, and more have been adapted by later writers and used in the modern canon. Rather than taking a historicist or theoretical approach, Nate Eastman uses recognizable references and engaging language to teach the concepts and techniques most applicable to the future study of Creative Writing, English, Theater, and Film and Media. Students will be prepared to interpret Shakespeare’s plays and understand Shakespeare as the beginning of a literary tradition. A readable introduction to Shakespeare and his significance, this book is suitable for undergraduates.By Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer. 2021
The period of past four decades has been characterized as one of neo-liberalism, financialization, globalization, privatization and de-regulation. Inequality has…
risen in industrialised countries, labour’s share in national income has been in decline and economic growth slowed. The evidence of the damage to the environment from human economic activity, and the dramatic consequences of failure to address climate change have become more apparent and urgent. The global financial crises shocked the complacency of the neo-liberal era, though a decade later it may be doubted how much has changed. The central purpose of this volume is to investigate a range of economic and social policies, which move in the direction of constructing a post-neoliberal world. These range over alternative forms of ownership (public, co-operative), policies to address and reverse economic and social inequalities, responses to the forces of globalization, re-constituting the financial system and its roles, and the nature of employment.By Andreas Schutkin. 2015
Das Buch zeigt wie das Neue Routinen und Widerst nde in Unternehmen berwinden kann …
Innovationen entstehen oft zuf llig und meist sind solche Unternehmen am erfolgreichsten die einen Artenschutz f r echte Erneuerer einf hren und an den Mut und die Neugier ihrer Mitarbeiter pl dieren Es ist riskant Es ist unbequem Es st rt Das Neue ist in Unternehmen nicht gern gesehen Wie Sie als Entscheider trotzdem die richtigen Weichen f r Innovationen stellen - darum geht es in diesem leidenschaftlichen Pl doyer f r das Neue Sie erfahren warum Abenteurer und Routiniers getrennt zu besseren Ergebnissen kommen warum ein Chief New Officer so wertvoll ist und wie Sie das Plus-Modell f r Innovationen zielsicher einsetzen Mit Test Sind Sie Routinier oder AbenteurerBy Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx. 2021
DISCOVER THE WORK THAT LAUNCHED REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD Although it was published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is as…
controversial and provocative as ever. Its stirring and poetic language helped spread Marx and Engels' socialist message far and wide, unleashing a century of political revolution. In an age of great inequality, the Manifesto's message of an exploited and suffering working class that must rise up and claim the means of production and wealth continues to resonate. This deluxe edition features an insightful introduction from Tom Butler-Bowdon which explains how the text came to be written, and why it remains popular.By Béatrice Collin, Marie Taillard. 2021
Get an insider’s perspective into how this 110-year old world leader in beauty built on its legacy to transform itself into…
a digital and tech powerhouse Digital Makeover: How L'Oréal Put People First to Build a Beauty Tech Powerhouse examines L’Oréal’s successful people-driven digital transformation. Professors and authors Beatrice Collin and Marie Taillard set out exactly how L’Oréal turned itself into a digital and tech powerhouse by building on its legacy to reimagine relationships inside the company, and with its customers and partners. Digital Makeover comprehensively describes L’Oréal’s strategy, including: Maintaining market leadership in the face of disruption Believing in the transformative power of the organization, its legacy and its people A social-centric approach to beauty tech, ecommerce and digital services The company’s successful play for market dominance in China Case studies that showcase best practices for digital transformation across sectors Digital Makeover is perfect for anyone interested in business strategy, marketing, or digital transformation, as well as businesspeople and leaders from inside and outside the beauty industry, and belongs on the shelves of anyone with an interest in organizational transformation, management, leadership and digital strategies.