Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-saharan Africa

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-saharan Africa
Quentin Wodon (Auteur), Antonio Estache (Auteur)



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American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
Bryce G. Hoffman (Auteur)

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The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
Barry Werth (Auteur)

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Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing-- atom by atom-- both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug, and a drug to combat the virus that causes AIDS. You will be hooked from start to finish, as you go from the labs, where obsessive, fiercely competitive scientists struggle for a breakthrough, to Wall Street, where the wheeling and dealing takes on a life of its own, as Boger courts investors and finally decides to take Vertex public. Here is a fascinating no-holds-barred account of the business of science, which includes an updated epilogue about the most recent developments in the quest for a drug to cure AIDS.

Enron: The Rise and Fall

Enron: The Rise and Fall
Loren Fox (Auteur)

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"A solid, intelligent and fair account of the hubris that made Enron famous and important, then crazy and crooked."
–Martin Mayer, author of The Fed and The Bankers "Loren Fox unravels one of the great downfalls in the history of corporate America and lays bare the toxic confluence of innovation, greed, and hubris."
–James S. Hirsch, author of Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter and Riot and Remembrance "The tragic debacle of Enron is a defining event for today’s generation of business professionals. Loren Fox synthesizes the complex details into a story that is lucid, engrossing, and fast-paced. Study this story as a mirror for our time."
–Robert F. Bruner, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration,
Darden Graduate Business School, University of Virginia The word "Enron" has officially entered the American vocabulary–not as the symbol of excellence and innovation that Chairman Kenneth Lay envisioned but as the corporate embodiment of greed, excess, and unprecedented fraud. Never in history has one company plummeted so quickly from the heights of power and glory to the depths of public humiliation, bankruptcy, and criminal investigation, dragging so many individuals and firms down with it. Simultaneously fascinating and frightening, Enron: The Rise and Fall provides today’s most illuminating and entertaining book on what was right–and wrong–with late twentieth-century corporate America.

The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance

The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
Michael Perino (Auteur)

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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Muhammad Yunus (Auteur)
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The Toyota Way : 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

The Toyota Way : 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Jeffrey Liker (Auteur)
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How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.

Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by:

• Eliminating wasted time and resources
• Building quality into workplace systems
• Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology
• Producing in small quantities
• Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
Charles D. Ellis (Auteur)

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How Disruption Brought Order: The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World of Advertising

How Disruption Brought Order: The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World of Advertising
Jean-Marie Dru (Auteur)
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Hardcover

Toyota Kata: Managing People For Improvement, Adaptiveness, and Superior Results

Toyota Kata: Managing People For Improvement, Adaptiveness, and Superior Results
Mike Rother (Auteur)
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"Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress--and what it takes to make it a real part of your culture." --Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way "[Toyota Kata is] one of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking." --The Systems Thinker "How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way." --James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute "Practicing the improvement kata is perhaps the best way we've found so far for actualizing PDCA in an organization." --John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing people in a way that makes the best use of their brainpower. Drawing on six years of research into Toyota's employee-management routines, Toyota Kata examines and elucidates, for the first time, the company's organizational routines--called kata--that power its success with continuous improvement and adaptation. The book also reaches beyond Toyota to explain issues of human behavior in organizations and provide specific answers to questions such as: How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization? How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work toward and achieve new levels of performance? How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers? Mike Rother explains how to improve our prevailing management approach through the use of two kata: Improvement Kata--a repeatin

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Roger Lowenstein (Auteur)
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Dr. Martens: The Story of an Icon

Dr. Martens: The Story of an Icon
Martin Roach (Auteur)

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The Connected Company

The Connected Company
Dave Gray (Auteur), Thomas Vander Wal (Auteur)

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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough (Auteur), John Helyar (Auteur)
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The fight to control RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was more than just the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age, and its repercussions are still being felt. The ultimate story of greed and glory, "Barbarians at the Gate" is the gripping account of these two frenzied months, of deal makers and publicity flaks, of an old-line industrial powerhouse that became the victim of the ruthless and rapacious style of finance in the 1980s. Written with the bravado of a novel and researched with the diligence of a sweeping cultural history, here is the unforgettable story of the takeover in all its brutality.

Product Innovation Strategy Pure and Simple: How Winning Companies Outpace Their Competitors

Product Innovation Strategy Pure and Simple: How Winning Companies Outpace Their Competitors
Michel Robert (Auteur)

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Since 1993, thousands of readers have turned to Michel Robert's book Strategy Pure and Simple. Now he returns with a proven strategy to create and launch new products--the lifeblood of any business. Drawing on ten years of research into successful product development, the author goes beyond tips and techniques to provide a unique process of product innovation that encompasses four key steps: search, assessment, development, and pursuit. Filled with anecdotes, case histories, and a rich assortment of real-life lessons from innovators like 3M and Honda, this guide puts a revitalized future within the reach of every organization.

Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation

Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation
Pamela Glintenkamp (Auteur)
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"Industrial Light & Magic" tells the story, through the words of the filmmakers, artists, and technicians who forever changed the world of cinema, of the multiple-Academy-Award-winning visual effects house, Industrial Light & Magic, which was founded by George Lucas in 1975 and celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2010. Featuring never-before-seen imagery, "Industrial Light and Magic" begins with the tale of a small team of students, engineers, and artists who pioneered analogue effects that had never been attempted or realised on the screen for "Star Wars" (1977), and continues through the company's rapid expansion and work, over the next three decades, on more than three hundred films - and into the digital and computer-generated effects era - including the "Star Wars Saga", "the Indiana Jones" series, "the Back to the Future" trilogy, several "Star Trek" films, "the Jurassic Park" trilogy, "the Harry Potter" franchise, "Ghostbusters II", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "the Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, "Iron Man", "Avatar", and the "Transformers" films. This richly illustrated book, featuring extensive commentary by George Lucas, Dennis Murren, John Knoll, Pablo Helman, Rob Coleman, Lorne Peterson, and others, covers the entire scope of ILM's history and filmography, but focuses on the state-of-the art accomplishments and technical achievements from 1996 onward, offering a crash course and behind-the-scenes view on the most groundbreaking effects being created today.

Commodore: The Amiga Years

Commodore: The Amiga Years
Brian Bagnall (Auteur)



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The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 Years of Innovation and Enterprise

The Cambridge Phenomenon: 50 Years of Innovation and Enterprise
Kate Kirk (Sous la direction de), Charles Cotton (Sous la direction de)

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ThighMaster

ThighMaster
Peter Bieler (Auteur), Suzanne Costas (Auteur)

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"Only in America could a would-be monk convince a faded television star to pitch a rehabilitation device designed for Scandinavian skiers and create a nationwide sensation. The marketing strategy alone is worth the price of admission." --Paul B. Brown Special Correspondent for the Business News Network (BNN) and coauthor of Customers for Life "This is the first time the person behind a fad lays out the whole marketing strategy he used. Even I learned a lot." --Bob Rice Pet Rock Promoter "Within a matter of months, Peter Bieler created a $100,000,000 industry out of nothing. This fascinating book chronicles step-by-step how he did it." --Steve Dworman Publisher, Infomercial Marketing Report "As a jack, in an emergency, if you have a very small car ...As a rack to dry homemade pasta ...Prop it on its side and presto! Twin picture frames ...Have it bronzed and claim it's a very early Henry Moore ..." --Diane White columnist for The Boston Globe on alternate uses for the ThighMaster See Inside for Exciting Contest Details!

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby (Auteur)
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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Arthur Herman (Auteur)
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