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  • Bubbles and Crashes

    The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation

    by Brent Goldfarb, David A. Kirsch ...
    Financial market bubbles are recurring, often painful, reminders of the costs and benefits of capitalism. While many books have studied financial manias and crises, most fail to compare times of turmoil with times of stability. In Bubbles and Crashes, Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch give us new insights into the causes of speculative booms and busts. They identify a class of assets—major ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Covariant Canonical Gauge Gravity

    by David Vasak, Jürgen Struckmeier, Johannes Kirsch ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book starts with the mathematical basis of the theory - i.e. provide a brief sketch of the theory of manifolds and frame bundles, tensors and their transformations, relativistic kinematics, and aspects of non-flat space-time geometries. The definition of relevant physical quantities (torsion, curvature, non-metricity, tetrads, connection fields etc.) and important geometry concepts are also ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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  • Nudge

    The Final Edition

    by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein ...
    **An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein* More than 2 million copies sold* New York Times bestseller**Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Capitalism without Capital

    The Rise of the Intangible Economy

    by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake ...
    The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Shareholder Value Myth

    How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

    by Lynn Stout ...
    An in-depth look at the trouble with shareholder value thinking and at better options for models of corporate purpose.Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to "maximize shareholder value." In this pathbreaking book, renowned corporate expert Lynn Stout debunks the myth that corporate law mandates shareholder primacy. Stout shows how ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Flaw of Averages

    Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty

    by Sam L. Savage ...
    A must-read for anyone who makes business decisions that have a major financial impact.As the recent collapse on Wall Street shows, we are often ill-equipped to deal with uncertainty and risk. Yet every day we base our personal and business plans on uncertainties, whether they be next month’s sales, next year’s costs, or tomorrow’s stock price. In The Flaw of Averages, Sam Savageknown for his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Deals from Hell

    M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes

    by Robert F. Bruner ...
    A detailed look at the worst M&A deals ever and the lessons learned from themIt's common knowledge that about half of all merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions destroy value for the buyer's shareholders, and about three-quarters fall short of the expectations prevailing at the time the deal is announced. In Deals from Hell, Robert Bruner, one of the foremost thinkers and educators in this ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Financial Accounting

    by Keeran Jacobson ...
    Budgets can be used by assessing the employees. There are different types of budgets, Start up budget, Sales budget, and Summary budget. Working capital, also known as net working capital or NWC, is a financial metric which represents operating liquidity available to a business. Along with fixed assets such as plant and equipment, working capital is considered a part of operating capital.Get now ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blue Line Imperative

    What Managing for Value Really Means

    by Kevin Kaiser, S. David Young ...
    A groundbreaking guide to making profitable business decisionsDo you wonder why your value initiatives aren't providing the payoff you'd hoped for? Could it be because you've been thinking about value all wrong? According to the authors of this groundbreaking guide, there's a very good chance that you have. Using examples from leading companies worldwide, they explain why every decision a company ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Architecture of Innovation

    The Economics of Creative Organizations

    by Joshua Lerner ...
    Find the right innovation modelInnovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot?In The Architecture of Innovation, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner-one of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing

    Empowering Economic Growth and Investment Portfolios

    by Louis C. Gerken ...
    Series series Little Books. Big Profits
    A little book full of enormous value for novices and seasoned venture capitalists alikeAfter having been thrown for a loop by the bursting of the tech bubble more than a decade ago, the venture capital industry suddenly has come roaring back to life over the past two years. In 2011 alone, more than $7.5 billion in venture capital was invested—representing more than a 19% increase over the previous ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Synergy Trap

    by Mark L. Sirower ...
    With acquisition activity running into the trillions of dollars, it continues to be a favorite for corporate growth strategy, but creating shareholder value remains the most elusive outcome of these corporate strategies—after decades of research and billions of dollars paid in advisory fees, why do these major decisions continue to destroy value?Building on his groundbreaking research first cited ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD