Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Decision Making & Problem Solving

Sadly, for most leaders this scenario is only a dream. They constantly check on what s happening because they expect the worst (and usually get it). But Keith Murnighan shows that not only is do nothing leadership possible, it is also far more effective than...

Steffen Reik untersucht die Heterogenitat der Kunden in Bezug auf ihre Informationsasymmetrie zu den Verkaufern eines Vertrauensgutes. Er beweist, dass die Existenz informierter Kunden nicht zwangslaufig zu effizienteren Markten fuhrt, sondern tatsachlich effiziente Gleichgewichte storen und die soziale Wohlfahrt negativ beeinflussen kann. Da bei Vertrauensgutermarkten, wie sie auch im Gesundheitswesen und der Finanzbranche vorkommen, eben diese Informationsasymmetrie ursachlich fur Marktineffizienzen ist und das betrugerische Verhalten der Verkaufer erst ermoglicht, wirken die Ergebnisse...

Our objectives in writing Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook are threefold: (1) Provide a unified scheme for classifying the numerous project scheduling problems occurring in practice and studied in the literature; (2) Provide a unified and up-to-date treatment of the state-of-the-art procedures developed for their solution; (3) Alert the reader to various important problems that are still in need of considerable research effort.

Project Scheduling: A Research Handbook has been divided into four parts. Part I consists of three...

A course in family-business entrepreneurship, taught through a narrative about four frustrated people taking a seminar that changes their lives.

In the second book in the Entrepreneurial Edge series, frustrated individuals, immersed in family businesses, enroll in a two-week course on entrepreneurship that will change their lives.

For ten years Mary has been an office manager at her brother's business only to see her younger brother join the company and receive shares while she gets none. Plagued by doubts about her ability to change the culture in the family...

Who can solve these global problems? Corporations.

Never before have corporations been so large, so wealthy, so powerful, and so rich in human creativity and endeavor. Organizational change expert Professor Lynda Gratton shows that it is now critical that these corporations step up to play a more positive role in the world by building inner resilience, actively anchoring themselves in their communities and supply chains, and leveraging their unique capabilities to address complex global challenges such as climate change and...