Economics
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:David Sedlak

California’s major aqueducts provide most of the water used by the state’s cities and farms. Water systems that rely on gravity or local rivers and lakes often use less energy ...
( Category: Architecture December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Richard Foster & Sarah Kaplan [Foster, Richard]

CORPORATE EXAMPLES None of the public equity firms we have examined in the McKinsey Corporate Performance Database “found the secret” of creative destruction. None has outperformed the market, or demonstrated ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Philip T. Hoffman

1 For additional ways in which history influences outcomes, see Greif 2006 and David 1994 for path dependence and the way it allows history to affect institutions. 2 Imperial China ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Janet Lowe

The new owners knew that long term, only one newspaper could survive in Buffalo, and that their new property would either perish or stand alone. The Buffalo Evening News plainly ...
( Category: Investing December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Peter Drucker

10 The Paradoxes of Economic Development Few people these days could imagine the excitement and enthusiasm when President Harry Truman committed the US to world-wide economic development in his 1950 ...
( Category: World December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Seth Goldman & Barry Nalebuff [Goldman, Seth]

*At one large chain, the tea buyer was a Mormon and wouldn’t drink any tea, so it was particularly challenging to help him appreciate how our product was different and ...
( Category: Graphic Novels December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-01-25 | Author:Jessica McManus Warnell

Purpose at Work: for Millennials and for All Because of their capacities and life experiences (i.e., motivation by feelings of esteem and self-worth) millennials are well positioned to champion this ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1993-04-16 | Author:Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff

Just how does one go about generating a threat that involves a risk? In Chapter 7 we studied the idea of mixing one’s moves, and suggested several random mechanisms that ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-10-05 | Author:John Lanchester

One of the places where hollowing out can be seen most clearly is in the English countryside. I was in a pretty corner of Sussex last summer, outside a village ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Yaron Brook & Don Watkins [Brook, Yaron]

CONCLUSION: MARKETS ARE MORAL In a 2011 interview with publisher Steve Forbes, the chairman and CEO of Honeywell, David Cote, attacked the popular image of businessmen as villains. “We’re the ...
( Category: Politics & Government December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Paul Oyer

Thick Markets Lead to More Specialization So size matters and, all else being equal, a bigger dating site is better. But all else is not equal in this context. If ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Eric Benjamin Seufert

FIGURE 5.2 An advertising campaign performance overview. In the figure, CTR is measured by dividing ad clicks by ad views. Similarly, install rate is calculated by dividing ad views by ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Adam Alter [Alter, Adam]

Cultural Maladies The insecurities that produce aggressive displays of masculinity in some cultures also inspire culture-specific maladies that affect isolated pockets of the population. Anorexia nervosa sufferers who restrict their ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-18 | Author:Charles Wheelan

All that is well and good. But how does one get rich in the markets? One of my former colleagues at The Economist suggested that this book should be called ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )