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WHAT’S NEXT: FUTURE GLOBAL TRENDS AFFECTING YOUR ORGANIZATION
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Disruptive forces in the industrial sectors Global executive survey
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Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective
Richard T. Watson, Pierre Berthon, Leyland F. Pitt, George M. Zinkhan,Amaliy fanlar, -
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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION GUIDE for Canadian Officers and Directors
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Currents of change
Adrian King, Wim Bartels,This survey is based on several months of research by professionals at KPMG member firms around the world who analyzed thousands of company annual financial reports, corporate responsibility (CR) reports and websites.
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Business in Society
Philip Burton,By recasting the long-running argument about the role of business in society, companies can dislodge a debate that's now wedged between two seemingly incompatible points of view.The relationship between big business and society canbe viewed as an implicit social contract with obligations, opportunities and mutual advantages.
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WHAT’S NEXT: FUTURE GLOBAL TRENDS AFFECTING YOUR ORGANIZATION
Richard Klimoski, Karen B. Paul, Randstad,The fundamental structural changes in the global population that have been witnessed in recent decades are set to continue and intensify, with profound implications for the composition of the international labor force and, as a consequence, for the human resource strategies of major employers
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Disruptive forces in the industrial sectors Global executive survey
Asustosh Padhi, Arthur Wang, Thomas Baumgartner,These disruptions are unprecedented in their scale and speed, driven, among others, by massive advances in data generation, computing power, and connectivity (see Exhibit 1). They already affect all aspects of business and life more broadly. As one senior business leader told us: “Technological advancements will have a massive impact on societies and revolutionize the way we work, and hence our lives.” Preconceptions concerning the roles and responsibilities of companies are being challenged like never before
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The Accidental Partnership® Series: High Performance Business Family Teams
Aron R. Pervin,The fundamental premise underlying The High Performance Family Company is competence – family employees possess the ability and the desire to do what needs to be done – that is, the necessary talents and motivations for productive effort. They bring this basic human competence with them every day and will use it in their work to the extent that the organizational conditions permit its expression. The right organizational environment, therefore, is critical to individual and collective potential being expressed in a productive way. Competence will only become the norm in the family owned entrepreneurial business if conditions that encourage collaboration, commitment and creativity are allowed to flourish.
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Work to do Women in male-dominated industries in Hong Kong
Experts,Work to do: Women in male-dominated industries in Hong Kong is an Economist Intelligence Unit report commissioned by The Women’s Foundation. It examines women’s representation in four industry sectors: logistics and transport, luxury, technology, and trading and hedge funds. The report draws upon data gathered separately by The Economist Intelligence Unit and The Women’s Foundation, interviews conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit and panel discussions organised by The Women’s Foundation and Bloomberg.
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Launch! Advertising and Promotion Real Time
Experts,The textbook publishing industry is undergoing staggering change as many traditional business models and practices quickly lose relevance. Peer-to-peer textbook trading networks, online used-book sellers and a gray market that allows low-priced international editions to displace expensive U.S. texts push publishers to reconsider outmoded ways of delivering content. Likewise, the digital natives who make up our university student bodies (that’s you!) inspire educators to think about the transfer of knowledge in exciting new ways
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Introduction to Financial Accounting
Henry Dauderis, David Annand,Accouncing involves a process of collecting, recording, and reporting a business’s economic activities to users. It is ofen called the language of business because it uses a unique vocabulary to communicate information to decision makers. To understand accounting, we first look at the basic forms of business organizations. The concepts and principles that provide the foundationfor financial accounting are then discussed. With an emphasis on the corporate form of business organization, we will examine how we communicate to users of financial information using financial statements. Finally, we will review how financial transactions are analyzed and then reportedon financial statements.
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Intermediate Financial Accounting
Glenn Arnold, Suzanne Kyle,To be successful in Intermediate Financial Accounting, it is imperative for a student to have a strong foundational knowledge of all Introductory Financial Accounting concepts. The purpose of Lesson 1 is to help a student identify any weaknesses in their Intro Accounting knowledge. Lesson 1 consists of a series of labs intended to help a student identify any knowledge gaps. If a weakness comes to light, the student is encouraged to go back to that concept in Intro Accounting and review in detail. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure they come into Intermediate Financial Accounting with the appropriate prerequisite knowledge.
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Corporate Governance
Peter F. Drucker,The tug of war between individual freedom and institutional power is a continuing theme of history. Early on, the focus was on the church; more recently, it is was on the civil state. Today, the debate is about making corporate power compatible with the needs of a democratic society. The modern corporation has not only created untold wealth and given individuals the opportunity to express their genius and develop their talents but also has imposed costs on individuals and society. How to encourage the liberation of individual energy without inflicting unacceptable costs on individuals and society, therefore, has emerged as a key challenge.
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Foundations of Business Law and The Legal Environment
The group of experts,This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials and to their own lawyers.
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Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective
Richard T. Watson, Pierre Berthon, Leyland F. Pitt, George M. Zinkhan,This book reports the results of our research. It is written both for practitioners and business students. Managers wishing to understand how electronic commerce is revolutionizing business will find that our comprehensive coverage of essential business issues (e.g., pricing and distribution) answers many of their questions. Advanced business students (junior, seniors, and graduate students) will find that the blend of academic structure and practical examples provides an engaging formula for learning.
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BASIC PROBABILITY THEORY
Robert B. Ash,This book has been written for a first course in probability and was developed from lectures given at the University of Illinois during the last five years. Most of the students have been juniors, seniors and beginning graduates, from the fields of mathematics, engineering and physics. The only formal prerequisite is calculus, but an additional degree of mathematical maturity may be helpful.
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Applied Probability
Paul E Pfeiffer,This is a "first course" in the sense that it presumes no previous course in probability. The units are modules taken from the unpublished text: Paul E. Pfeifer, ELEMENTS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY, USING MATLAB. The units are numbered as they appear in the text, although of course they may be used in any desired order. For those who wish to use the order of the text, an outline is provided, with indication of which modules contain the material.
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Davies Insights
William M. Alnley, Jennifer F. Longhurst,The major theme of this sixth annual edition of Davies Governance Insights is the rise in importance of direct communication between boards of directors and public companies' shareholders, commonly referred to as shareholder engagement.
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Corporate Governance in Canada
Shelley Obal,This guide outlines the responsibilities and liabilities imposed on directors of Canadian corporations. While the guide focuses on public companies, private company directors have essentially the same responsibilities and liabilities as their public company counterparts except for those imposed by securities laws or stock exchange requirements.
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Directors Briefing — Shareholder Engagement
Andrew J. MacDougall, Robert Adamson,This Briefing highlights the regulatory, policy and social trends toward increased shareholder engagement and the related benefits and risks. It describes strategies and techniques to balance these benefits and risks and to enable boards to engage with their shareholders more effectively and efficiently. This Briefing also highlights how leading companies are using new mechanisms and technologies to interact with their shareholders in ways that increase shareholder confidence in the board’s oversight of the company’s affairs.
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Succession Planning
Richard Shrapnel,Business Evolution is what many peoplerefer to as succession planning. It is out building,retaining and passing on your wealth from generation to generation, and leaving a lasting legacy. It involves recognising and coming to grips with the many complex family, individual and business issues that must be addressed in the evolution process.
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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION GUIDE for Canadian Officers and Directors
Marc Barbeau, Helene Bussières, John lorito,This revised Second Edition of Stikeman Elliott’s Executive Compensation Guide reviews the common legal issues that typically arise in the context of executive compensation, including issues relating to securities law, employment law, taxation, pensions law and intellectual property. The guide is designed to help Canadian and international companies and their boards identify the main challenges to focus on as they develop executive compensation plans and policies. We hope that you and your company will find it useful.
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Davies Governance Insights
William M. A, Scott D. Fisher,Davies Ward Philips and Vineberg LLP is an integrated firm of approximately 240 lawyers with offices in Toronto, Montreal and New York. The firm focuses on business law and is consistently at the heart of the largest and most complex commercial and financial matters on behalf of its clients, regardless of borders.