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Hugely popular when it was first published in 1911, and regarded as a classic ever since, Where the Money Grows is an honest, humorous, and richly perceptive tour of Wall Street and its enduring customs, institutions, and characters. The Street, according to author Garet Garrett, is a world populated not only by bulls and bears, but also by "wolves," "hoodoos," and "invisibles." You'll meet them all in this immensely entertaining and revealing book.
Also included is a scintillating article, "Anatomy of the Bubble," originally published in the Saturday Evening Post. In piercing prose, Garrett unmasks the "debt" bubble and displays uncanny prescience. Debt, it would seem, can be every bit as dangerous as manias and other "irrational exuberance."
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A Good Quick Read.......2000-12-18
Overall, I believe that most Wiley Investment Classics fall into two different categories, books that are indispensable and fascinating reads, and books that are to be purchased, suffered through as long as possible, and then placed on the shelf for display. "Where the Money Grows" belongs in a third cateogry with "Where are the Customer's Yachts" by Schwed - this is a fantastic quick read with some very pointed insight on Wall Street.
This book is best if you actually work in investment banking, and are not an investor looking for financial wisdom. There are some great chapters on the types of people that you run into in the investment banking world, most of which are recognizable to anyone. The chapter on "Wall Street Habits" is a great commentary on the self-prescribed routines of most people in finance. These words still ring true some 70 years after they were first written. Other chapters on "The Hoodoo" about the bad luck deal guy that everybody in banking knows at least one of, are very pointed. Everybody knows the guy that just can't close anything, regardless of how they are involved. I also enjoyed Chapter 8, "The Invisibles," good for anybody who ever wondered who "they" are, as well as Chapter 11, "Taking Trouble Home" which brilliantly illustrates how people often removed from the market are able to see it with greater clarity.
This is a good little book - I recommend reading it.
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A definitive roadmap for implementing effective supply chain management
Strategic sourcing redefines the traditional approach to buying and using materials and services. Purchasing and supplier programs are receiving substantial attention in current professional literature, but there is little information on implementing supplier strategies and techniques.
Harnessing Value in the Supply Chain offers a specific, step-by-step approach to the strategic sourcing process, developed by the author at Southern California Edison. This unique reference provides expert guidance on designing, launching, executing, evaluating, and maintaining a sourcing project. It includes illustrations, examples, and templates for immediate use. Finally, supply chain management and strategic sourcing are presented in a usable, comprehensive, and cost-effective framework.
To illustrate this approach, the book describes the experience of Southern California Edison, a utility company that achieved $150 million in annual cost reduction through a strategic sourcing program. The story is told from the perspective of the people who led the revolutionary change at SCE, as wellas the suppliers. A detailed method on how to duplicate SCE's success is included in the book.
This book is unique in that it fully traces a strategic sourcing initiative from conception to implementation-and it is the only book that documents the SCE story. Harnessing Value in the Supply Chain is a powerful tool that will help organizations optimize their resources and develop relationships to sustain effective supply chain management.
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Mastering the Acquirer's Innovation Dilemma: Knowledge Sourcing through Corporate Acquisitions
Valerie Bannert-Thurner
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Acquisitions are increasingly used to source capabilities, but often without success. Based on best practices from companies such asnbsp;IBM, GE and Intel, the book outlines the key factors impacting innovativeness post acquisition. These underpin a strategic acquisition and integration management concept. The author provides tools to support managers in their selection of the appropriate target, conducting a technology due diligence, and in choosing and managing the right integration approach.
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Corporate Strategic Business Sourcing
Kevin R. Maromonte
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To improve competitiveness in the global marketplace, companies are reducing costs through outsourcing--the purchase of goods and services from suppliers. In many cases, outsourcing is less expensive for companies than producing these goods and services internally. Companies, however, do not always achieve their ultimate goal of competing more effectively. This is because decisions to outsource are primarily based on the promise of lower direct costs, without considering other source performance criteria that also impact costs and ultimately competitiveness. Corporate Strategic Business Sourcing guides management in selecting the best sources--those that will raise performance to world-class levels and improve competitiveness. To improve sourcing decisions, the concept of the Strategic Business Unit, or SBU, is applied to each source being considered to provide the company with goods and services. Following the SBU approach, similar product and service lines are grouped together in the corporation. As a result quality levels, delivery performance, customer service, and product advancements, as well as costs, are more easily measured and improved. Just as the focus on these five criteria leads to improved SBU performance, the same approach can be applied to enhance the performance of the individual sources of goods and services. This is accomplished by similarily quantifying and improving the quality, delivery, cost, customer service and product advancement performance of the companies' sources, whether outside suppliers or in-house functions.
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This digital document is an article from Chief Executive (U.S.), published by Chief Executive Publishing on June 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3398 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Outsourcing is no longer seen as a tactic for achieving short-term objectives but as a strategic tool for exploring new business opportunities, building new corporate capabilities and improving competitive positions. As they concentrate on their core competencies, companies are increasingly opening themselves up to outsiders that can perform tasks better. The spread of strategic sourcing is dramatically transforming the business world. It is challenging many traditional ideas, such as the relationship of the company with the rest of the world. In the present environment, the lines separating companies from their customers, suppliers and competitors are fast disappearing. Strategic sourcing is serving to 'unbundle' the corporation, thus paving the way for the creation of networked, virtual business organizations of the future.
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Title: Side by side. (strategic sourcing and alliances)(Second Partner, Once Removed: Maintaining the New Extended Corporate Family)
Author: Peter Hapaaniemi
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Chief Executive (U.S.) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 1997
Publisher: Chief Executive Publishing
Issue: n124
Page: pS4(6)
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Law school casebook supplement containing important statutes for the study of "white-collar" crimes. Although suited for the named casebook, it is ideal for other cases on this subject as well. It features statutes cited in the casebook as well as other relevant materials.
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Excellent transaction. .......2007-01-19
This item arrived timely and in brand new condition. I was very pleased.
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Soils on a Warmer Earth
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The theme of this book is a far reaching one and should attract great interest, both in industrialized as well as in less developed countries. Although the question of climate change and its effects on soil productivity is overshadowed by so many current events, it is almost certain that this subject will remain on the international agenda for the years to come; not only as science and research are concerned but also in relation to development policies, agricultural policies and others, especially since poor, rich, developed and developing countries are equally threatened by these problems.
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Polymer Processing: Principles and Design presents the background required to design processes for thermoplastics. Often engineers are hired by the polymer industry to develop and design processes for thermoplastics, to design polymer processing machinery, to develop processes for new polymers, and to optimize existing processes. However, at best, they receive only a little training in polymer science and no training in the design of polymer processes. This book emphasizes the fundamental concepts that allow the student and the practicing engineer to carry out practical design decisions. While most books leave the student with equations only, Polymer Processing: Principles and Design provides the numerical methods required to solve the equations using the personal computer and easy-to-use IMSL numerical subroutines, and ensures a solid foundation in the principles underlying the design of polymer processing techniques.
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Excellent!.......2000-09-20
This book is great for a student or a practicing engineer. It starts with the fundamentals of polymer science and ends with more specific processing problems. There are design problems at the end of each chapter for which solutions are not provided. This is great for a college textbook, but is not very useful for the practicing engineer. Overall, this book is well worth it.
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Geology of the Country North of Derby (Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 125)
D. V. Frost
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First Principles of Cosmology
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A concise, exciting introduction to cosmology with an emphasis on the basic principles. It is unique from the standpoint of clarity and simplicity of explanations using the application of mechanics, thermodynamics and particle physics to questions on the universe as a whole. It advances to include an emphasis on general equations of state, unifying the treatment of dust, radiation, cosmological constant, or exotic components, the treatment of inhomogeneities ("clumpy universe") and their important effects on observations.
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Works. London, 1819-50
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Watson is Where It Wuz
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