Michael S: 742 books
No Way Out?
Government Intervention and the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In response to the ongoing financial crisis, the U.S. government has significantly expanded its role in economy, resulting in new legislation and both public and private policy overhauls. But these hasty efforts to buoy the economy may ultimately do more harm than good. In No Way Out?, Vincent R....
Mastering Project Portfolio Management
A Systems Approach to Achieving Strategic Objectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This unique text provides a holistic view of project portfolio management (PPM) that includes people, process, tools, and techniques that work synergistically within the organization to produce portfolio decisions with the best chance of success. It illustrates the entire PPM process from strategic planning...
Mergers & Acquisitions
A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
In 1999, MCI WorldComm and Sprint agreed to merge. Valued at $129 billion, this expected transaction was the largest in history. However, it fell victim to regulators in Europe concerned with the potential monopoly power of the merged firm. This M&A action was merely the latest in a growing trend...
by Greenberg Theodore S.; Gray Larissa; Schantz Delphine; Gardner Carolin; Latham Michael
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
In recent years, the revelations of grand corruption and the scale of the plunder of state assets has led to greater scrutiny of financial relationships with politically exposed persons (PEPs) and potential money laundering risks associated with these customers. PEPs individuals who are or have been...
by Larry S. Miller, Harry W. More, Michael C. Braswell
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Outstanding first-line supervisors are essential to the success of any law enforcement agency, yet many officers lack the supervision training necessary to excel. E**ffective Police Supervision immerses readers in the group behaviors and organizational dynamics supervisors must master in order to...
Data Mining Techniques
For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The leading introductory book on data mining, fully updated and revised!
When Berry and Linoff wrote the first edition of Data Mining Techniques in the late 1990s, data mining was just starting to move out of the lab and into the office and has since grown to become an indispensable tool of...
White-Collar Crime
An Opportunity Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework. Using the opportunity perspective, which assumes that all crimes depend on offenders recognizing an opportunity to commit an offense, the authors uncover the processes and situational...
by Donny C. F. Lai, Humphrey K. K. Tung, Michael C. S. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
"Professional Financial Computing Using Excel and VBA is an admirable exposition that bridges the theoretical underpinnings of financial engineering and its application which usually appears as a "black-box" software application. The book opens the black-box and reveals the architecture...
Aligning Values and Politics
Empowerment Versus Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Aligning Values and Politics argues that empowering individuals for self-actualization is an indispensable tool for attaining freedom; therefore, politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization. Private property rights have in the past helped people to develop skills, but such rights...
Corruption in the Contemporary World
Theory, Practice, and Hotspots
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book deals with large-scale, systemic corruption, a phenomenon that it identifies as part of the political landscape in most, if not all, societies of the contemporary world. While the analysis is grounded in the political thought of earlier thinkers, especially Edmund Burke, and integrates the...
by Fisher Investments, Michael Kelly, Andrew S. Teufel
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
The Fisher Investments On series is designed to provide individual investors, students, and aspiring investment professionals the tools necessary to understand and analyze investment opportunities—primarily for investing in global stocks.
Each guide is an easily accessible primer to economic...
Financial Management of Health Care Organizations
An Introduction to Fundamental Tools, Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This new Fourth Edition of Financial Management of Health Care Organizations, offers an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management, including health care accounting and financial statements; managing cash, billings and collections; making major capital investments;...
T’ai Chi & Qigong for Your Health
Historical and Scientific Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
T’ai Chi and qigong are popular because of their great reputations as exercises with numerous health-related benefits. Can these benefits simply be results of placebo effects? Chapters in this e-book not only provide an interesting historical backdrop in which taiji...
Power Electronics Handbook
Devices, Circuits and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...