Business Aspects category: 650 books
by Derek A. Neal
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
How do we ensure that waste and inefficiency do not undermine the mission of publicly funded schools? Derek Neal writes that economists must analyze education policy in the same way they analyze other procurement problems. Insights from research on incentives and contracts in the private sector point...
Konzeption eines Modells der beruflichen Handlungskompetenz fuer die betriebliche Weiterbildung
Eine Kompetenzerhebung von drei Berufsgruppen aus dem paedagogischen und oekonomischen Taetigkeitsbereich
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Das Buch behandelt die Förderung der beruflichen Handlungskompetenz durch eine betriebliche Weiterbildung. Die Autorin betrachtet zunächst den Kompetenzerwerb theoretisch und analysiert hierbei den aktuellen Kompetenzdiskurs. Anschließend folgt eine empirische Studie, die eine quantitative Untersuchung...
Social E-Enterprise
Value Creation through ICT
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
As the importance of the social sector has increased in recent years, utilizing social enterprise aids in the development of knowledge, research, and practices in order to achieve an organizations’ goals. Therefore, an understanding of ICT implementation in regards to social enterprise is crucial...
by Lan Gao
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Educational researchers have long been concerned about the factors that influence the patterns of attendance in higher education and the extent to which higher education has been accessible to all students regardless of their socioeconomic status. Extensive research has indicated that a variety of...
Spazio metropolitano
Per rilanciare la competitività del Nord Est
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Lo sviluppo e la competitività delle regioni europee è sempre più legata alla capacità di dare forma a spazi metropolitani dinamici e attrattivi a scala globale. Creare spazi metropolitani significa fornire risposte innovative alle esigenze di mobilità dei cittadini, alla domanda di servizi complessi,...
La Rosa Di Jericho
Il paradigma olivettiano per una nuova cultura della formazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Attraverso il racconto della storia della Olivetti, dalle origini ai giorni nostri, è possibile rintracciare le ragioni di un successo economico, imprenditoriale, culturale e sociale che non ha avuto precedenti né in Italia né nel mondo: un progetto ricorsivo che pone come reale motore d'impresa...
by Alec Ross
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.
While Alec Ross was working as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, he traveled...
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?
What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?**
When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google...
Automate This
How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today’s best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it.
It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific...
Overcomplicated
Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators?
After a thorough analysis by the top experts,...
An Engine, Not a Camera
How Financial Models Shape Markets
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts...
by Abner J Peddiwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2004
The 65th-anniversary edition of an educational classic proves its relevance in examining today's educational quandaries
McGraw-Hill first published The Saber- Tooth Curriculum in 1939, and it has remained a classic bestseller to this date. The book is just as relevant and applicable to the...
Unnatural Selection
Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“Compelling . . . Technology is changing the landscape of society, and Roeder describes how humanity is changing along with it.” —Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse
Does the geek personify a distinct new phase in human evolution, as the environment shifts to favor their traits?...
Ours to Hack and to Own
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Includes stars in the field such as Yochai Benkler, Douglas Rushkoff, Astra Taylor, Dmytri Kleiner
Definitive collection on building and sustaining a cooperative Internet