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Steve Kerr: Coaching the Golden State Warriors to Joy, Compassion, Competition, and Mindfulness
by Francesca Gino Jeff HuizingaSteve Kerr, coach of the 3-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors, reflects on his values-driven leadership style in the wake of a challenging season.
Stewards of the Market: How the Federal Reserve Made Sense of the Financial Crisis
by Mitchel Y. AbolafiaMitchel Abolafia goes behind the scenes with the Federal Reserve’s powerful Open Market Committee as it responded to the 2008–2009 financial crisis. Relying on verbatim transcripts of closed meetings, Abolafia shows how assumptions about self-correcting markets stymied the Fed and how its leaders came to embrace new ideas.
Stewart Macaulay: Selected Works (Law and Philosophy Library #133)
by David CampbellThis book represents a unique resource about Stewart Macaulay one of the common law world’s leading scholars of the law of contract and of the law in action approach to the study of law. Since 1959, he has published over 50 articles in leading journals, a number of working papers, (with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Law School) a pathbreaking casebook for the teaching of the law of contract, and (with other colleagues) equally pathbreaking collections of materials for the teaching of the law in action or law in context approach to the study of law. In this work Macaulay has established himself as one of the postwar world’s leading scholars of the law of contract and of the sociology of law. His work is an absolute reference point in both disciplines, and it has attracted great attention elsewhere, most notably in economic sociology, where his concept of non-contractual economic relationships is regarded as an important theoretical innovation. Macaulay’s work has become an object of commentary in its own right, and the proposed book is intended to assist further such commentary by making hitherto difficult to obtain works readily accessible. Most of Macaulay’s work is now, when the leading journals are generally available in electronic form, readily accessible to students and researchers in universities. There are, however, a number of interesting and in most cases important works published in less accessible journals or works which were not published in an electronic form, which are difficult to obtain. This book will make them readily available, and in so doing will make it possible in future for scholars to have Macaulay’s complete oeuvre readily to hand. Although Macaulay’s work has provoked very considerable discussion, there previously have been no overall accounts of that work as opposed to critical engagements with aspects of it. In this book, two additional essays by leading commentators give accounts of Macaulay’s work and provide an introduction to, exegesis of and general evaluation of Macaulay’s work as a whole which is not to be found in the existing literature.
Stochastic Discounted Cash Flow: A Theory of the Valuation of Firms (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
by Andreas Löffler Lutz KruschwitzThis open access book discusses firm valuation, which is of interest to economists, particularly those working in finance. Firm valuation comes down to the calculation of the discounted cash flow, often only referred to by its abbreviation, DCF. There are, however, different coexistent versions, which seem to compete against each other, such as entity approaches and equity approaches. Acronyms are often used, such as APV (adjusted present value) or WACC (weighted average cost of capital), two concepts classified as entity approaches.This book explains why there are several procedures and whether they lead to the same result. It also examines the economic differences between the methods and indicates the various purposes they serve. Further it describes the limits of the procedures and the situations they are best applied to. The problems this book addresses are relevant to theoreticians and practitioners alike.
Stochastic Programming: Modeling Decision Problems Under Uncertainty (Graduate Texts in Operations Research #274)
by Ward Romeijnders Willem K. Klein Haneveld Maarten H. van der VlerkThis book provides an essential introduction to Stochastic Programming, especially intended for graduate students. The book begins by exploring a linear programming problem with random parameters, representing a decision problem under uncertainty. Several models for this problem are presented, including the main ones used in Stochastic Programming: recourse models and chance constraint models. The book not only discusses the theoretical properties of these models and algorithms for solving them, but also explains the intrinsic differences between the models. In the book’s closing section, several case studies are presented, helping students apply the theory covered to practical problems. The book is based on lecture notes developed for an Econometrics and Operations Research course for master students at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands - the longest-standing Stochastic Programming course worldwide.
Stochastische Modelle der aktuariellen Risikotheorie: Eine mathematische Einführung (Masterclass)
by Riccardo GattoDieses Buch führt mathematisch präzise in die stochastischen Modelle ein, die bei der Bewertung von Schadensbeträgen für Versicherungen von besonderer Bedeutung sind. Abgedeckt werden Modelle für kleine und große Schadensbeträge, Modelle für extreme Ereignisse, Risikomaße, sowie die stochastischen Prozesse der aktuariellen Risikotheorie: Zählprozesse, zusammengesetzte Prozesse, Erneuerungsprozesse und Poisson-Prozesse. Zentrales Thema ist die Bestimmung der Ruinwahrscheinlichkeit des Versicherers. In diesem Zusammenhang werden analytische Lösungen, asymptotische Approximationen sowie numerische Algorithmen wie die Monte-Carlo-Simulation vorgestellt. Gute Grundkenntnisse in der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie werden vorausgesetzt, doch ein Anhang mit den wichtigsten Resultaten erleichtert die Lektüre dieses Buches. Das Buch ist geeignet für fortgeschrittene Bachelor- oder Masterstudierende der Mathematik oder Statistik mit entsprechender Vertiefungsrichtung. Darüber hinaus richtet es sich an Kandidaten, die das Diplom der Schweizerischen Aktuarvereinigung (SAV) erwerben oder sich auf das Diplom der Society of Actuaries (SOA) vorbereiten möchten. Auch praktizierende Versicherungsmathematiker, die ihre technischen Kenntnisse vertiefen wollen, werden angesprochen. Die vorliegende zweite Auflage enthält theoretische Ergänzungen, insbesondere Resultate über die Fluktuationen der Summe und der zusammengesetzten Summe, d.h. des Gesamtschadensbetrages einer Periode. Darüber hinaus erleichtern nun neue Aufgaben verschiedener Schwierigkeitsgrade und mit ausführlichen Lösungen das Selbststudium.
Stochastisches Bestandsmanagement: Grundmodelle für Betriebswirte
by Christian BrabänderDieses Buch erklärt grundlegend das betriebliche Gestaltungsfeld Bestandsmanagement und führt die relevanten Begriffe und Formeln ein. Es beschäftigt sich mit Antworten auf die Fragen, wann Produktbestellungen aufgegeben werden und wie viel auf einmal bestellt werden soll. Dabei werden die Unsicherheiten des zu versorgenden, konsumierenden Prozesses und des Nachschub-Prozesses berücksichtigt. Diese Aufgaben können mithilfe von Modellen optimal gelöst werden. Die wichtigsten Modelle zur Beantwortung der Fragen nach dem Wann und dem Wieviel werden einsteigerfreundlich erklärt und ihre Anwendung an einfachen Beispielen gezeigt. Nacheinander werden das klassische Bestellmengenmodel, das Newsvendor-Modell, das kontinuierliche und das periodische Bestandsmodell erläutert. Weiterführend werden die Anwendungsfälle Zentralisierung und Risikomanagement aus Sicht der Bestandsführung vertieft.
Stock Investing For Dummies: 5th Edition (For Dummies Ser.)
by Paul MladjenovicMladjenovic has written all five previous editions of Stock Investing For Dummies. This experienced author combines years of experience to teach investors and consumers what they need to know on the cusp of big changes in the marketplace. New tax laws and changes in the marketplace offer challenges to the financial landscape that investors have grown accustomed to. Understand the new financial horizons and learn how to invest wisely.
StockX: The Stock Market of Things
by Annelena Lobb Julia Kelley Chiara Farronato John J HortonFounded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust secondary market that bore similarities to the stock market. Inspired by these similarities, StockX's co-founders created a secondary platform that tracked sneaker resale prices over time and that emphasized authenticity, anonymity, and transparency. In 2017, StockX began to experiment with ways to expand from the secondary market into the primary market, using a new type of online auction known as an initial product offering (IPO). Based on the results of its first IPOs, was StockX on the right track with its strategy to expand into the primary market?
Stop Listening to the Customer: Try Hearing Your Brand Instead
by Adam FerrierThe customer is not always right. Far from it. What the customer wants is often at odds with what is best for the business or brand. Adam draws on his years of creative agency experience, the wisdom of other voices, as well as marketing science to outline the dangers of listening to the customer too much and reveals what you can do about it. This book will show you how to build a strong brand or business.
Store Environments: Tips on How to increase sales in the small businesses
by Solange JuvellaThis book seeks to demonstrate to the managers of small businesses the importance of store environments in creating the necessary conditions for sales to be done. Although the book is based on scientific studies and texts, it uses accessible language which makes the book easy to understand and the presented concepts to be applied.
Storytelling for Sustainability in Higher Education: An Educator's Handbook
by Tony Wall Petra Molthan-Hill Heather Luna Denise Baden Helen PunthaTo be a storyteller is an incredible position from which to influence hearts and minds, and each one of us has the capacity to utilise storytelling for a sustainable future. This book offers unique and powerful insights into how stories and storytelling can be utilised within higher education to support sustainability literacy. Stories can shape our perspective of the world around us and how we interact with it, and this is where storytelling becomes a useful tool for facilitating understanding of sustainability concepts which tend to be complex and multifaceted. The craft of storytelling is as old as time and has influenced human experience throughout the ages. The conscious use of storytelling in higher education is likewise not new, although less prevalent in certain academic disciplines; what this book offers is the opportunity to delve into the concept of storytelling as an educational tool regardless of and beyond the boundaries of subject area. Written by academics and storytellers, the book is based on the authors’ own experiences of using stories within teaching, from a story of “the Ecology of Law” to the exploration of sustainability in accounting and finance via contemporary cinema. Practical advice in each chapter ensures that ideas may be put into practice with ease. In addition to examples from the classroom, the book also explores wider uses of storytelling for communication and sense-making and ways of assessing student storytelling work. It also offers fascinating research insights, for example in addressing the question of whether positive utopian stories relating to climate change will have a stronger impact on changing the behaviour of readers than will dystopian stories. Everyone working as an educator should fi nd some inspiration here for their own practice; on using storytelling and stories to co-design positive futures together with our students.
Storytelling im Vertrieb: Eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Blaupause für gewinnende B2B-Verkaufs-Gespräche
by Oliver GrytzmannWie Sie als Vertriebler mit der richtigen Story und den passenden Bildern zum Vertragsabschluss kommen, erfahren Sie in diesem Praxis-Ratgeber. Für Vertriebler wie Sie hat Oliver Grytzmann diese Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung geschrieben. In „Storytelling im Vertrieb“ zeigt er Ihnen an zahlreichen Beispielen, wie Sie mit Storytelling klare mentale Bilder in die Köpfe der Entscheider setzen – bei Außendienst-Einsätzen, Entscheider- und Einkaufsgremien, Vorträgen vor Fachpublikum und bei einem Pitch. Mithilfe dieser mentalen Bilder verstehen Entscheider Ihr Produkt bzw. Ihre Dienstleistung schneller und besser, weil Bilder im Kopf hängen bleiben und Entscheider zu einer Story viel leichter eine emotionale Bindung aufbauen. Drei Vorteile, mit denen Sie als Vertriebler zum Vertragsabschluss kommen. Lernen und erleben Sie: Aus welchen Grundelementen ein mentales Bild besteht.Wie die Struktur einer guten Vertriebs-Story aussieht.Wie Sie diese Struktur in packende Worte fassen können.Welche alternativen Formen des Vertriebs-Storytelling es gibt.Konkrete Anleitungen, wie Sie bereits mit Ihrem Auftreten eine Story erzählen.
Storytelling und Leadership: Inspirieren und motivieren durch Geschichten (essentials)
by Claudia LutschewitzGeschichten und Erzählungen erzeugen Bilder, die einen bleibenden Eindruck hinterlassen. Geschichten hinterfragen festsitzende Überzeugungen, bringen das rationale Denken durcheinander und führen zum Nachdenken. Sie dienen als ergänzendes Lehrinstrument, wecken Aufmerksamkeit, lösen nicht selten einen „Aha-Effekt“ aus und brennen sich im Gedächtnis der Zuhörenden ein. Sie sprechen Muster, Stereotype und Klischees an und stellen diese mitunter auf den Kopf; sie sind direkt und verletzen dabei nicht; sie sind häufig bewertend und verurteilen dabei nicht; sie sind der Finger oder das Salz auf einer Wunde, ohne dabei den Finger direkt auf eine Person zu richten. Dem Menschen ist mit Geschichten und Erzählungen die schöpferische Fähigkeit gegeben, im Labyrinth der Welt einen roten Faden zu finden. Für das Leadership ist Storytelling daher ein grandioses Tool.
Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice!
by Cole Nussbaumer KnaflicInfluence action through data! This is not a book. It is a one-of-a-kind immersive learning experience through which you can become—or teach others to be—a powerful data storyteller. Let’s practice! helps you build confidence and credibility to create graphs and visualizations that make sense and weave them into action-inspiring stories. Expanding upon best seller storytelling with data’s foundational lessons, Let’s practice! delivers fresh content, a plethora of new examples, and over 100 hands-on exercises. Author and data storytelling maven Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic guides you along the path to hone core skills and become a well-practiced data communicator. Each chapter includes: ● Practice with Cole: exercises based on real-world examples first posed for you to consider and solve, followed by detailed step-by-step illustration and explanation ● Practice on your own: thought-provoking questions and even more exercises to be assigned or worked through individually, without prescribed solutions ● Practice at work: practical guidance and hands-on exercises for applying storytelling with data lessons on the job, including instruction on when and how to solicit useful feedback and refine for greater impact The lessons and exercises found within this comprehensive guide will empower you to master—or develop in others—data storytelling skills and transition your work from acceptable to exceptional. By investing in these skills for ourselves and our teams, we can all tell inspiring and influential data stories!
Strategic Capability Response Analysis: The Convergence of Industrié 4.0, Value Chain Network Management 2.0 and Stakeholder Value-Led Management
by David Walters Deborah HelmanThis book integrates Industrié 4.0, Value Chain Network Management 2.0, and Stakeholder Value-Led Management into a method, offering organizations an opportunity to be more analytical when making strategic decisions for operations management activities. Strategic Capability Response Analysis embraces the value expectations of all stakeholders in a business enterprise and links them together with a demand-supply-response relationship. This convergence delivers a focused “agile-rolling-value proposition” that optimizes the expectations and the resources of its stakeholder constituents. The use of Strategic Capability Response Analysis considers the implications of the changing environment of value chain network management for the digital age. Industrié 4.0 has presented numerous opportunities across all industries to improve both the effectiveness of strategic decisions and the efficiency of their implementation to the network stakeholders. As Industrié 4.0 is changing the characteristics of decision making, the proposed model considers the impact of alternative solutions on the core business model components of performance, profitability, productivity, producibility, partnerships and preservation. The book includes case studies to highlight current management problems and how this approach can be used to help resolve those issues.
Strategic Communication for Startups and Entrepreneurs in China (Routledge Insights in Public Relations Research)
by Linjuan Rita Men Yi Grace Ji Zifei Fay ChenThis book presents a comprehensive guide for public relations and strategic communication professionals and entrepreneurs to effectively manage the communication aspects of startups in the context of business in China. Drawing on interdisciplinary theories, current issues, and updated research evidence obtained from entrepreneurs and startup leaders in China, this concise volume provides research-based insights on the best practices for public relations and strategic communication in the unique context of startups. It addresses relationships with stakeholders, public relations practice, leadership communication, and how to leverage the power of social media in the entrepreneurial context. Strategic Communication for Startups and Entrepreneurs in China will be of great benefit to public relations and strategic communication scholars and practitioners, startup leaders and entrepreneurs interested in opportunities in China, and advanced students in public relations, business communication, and entrepreneurship.
Strategic Compensation and Talent Management: Lessons for Managers
by Jed DeVaroWritten for current and aspiring managers, this textbook guides readers through the core components of compensation and puts them in the manager's chair, challenging them to apply their understanding to solve business problems such as attracting, managing, and retaining company talent. The book's central theme, supported by extensive treatment of compensating differentials, is that compensation is heavily driven by market competition. The coverage also includes analytics, negotiation and bargaining, wage theft, and non-profits and small businesses, as well as a detailed treatment of stock options. Case studies are included to demonstrate the principles in practice, and 'lessons for managers' in each chapter provide practical advice and takeaways. A rich package of online teaching and learning materials, including teaching slides, sample syllabi, additional case studies, and a test bank is also provided to support teachers and students.
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation
by David ChandlerA holistic perspective for navigating and exploring the CSR landscape. Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation, Fifth Edition, redefines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as being central to the value-creating purpose of the firm and provides a framework that firms can use to navigate the complex and dynamic business landscape. Based on a theory of empowered stakeholders, this bestselling text argues that the responsibility of a corporation is to create value, broadly defined. The primary challenge for managers today is to balance the competing interests of the firm’s stakeholders, understanding that what they expect today may not be what they will expect tomorrow. This tension is what makes CSR so complex and demanding, but it is also what makes CSR integral to the firm’s strategy and day-to-day operations. The new edition includes the latest research, new cases, a streamlined table of contents, and expanded emphasis on the legal perspective of strategic CSR. Keep your course content up-to-date! Subscribe to David Chandler's 'CSR Newsletters' by e-mailing him at david.chandler@ucdenver.edu. The newsletters are designed to be a dynamic complement to the text that can be used for in-class discussion and debate. Past newsletters are archived as a freely-available resource for instructors and students at: http://strategiccsr-sage.blogspot.com/
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation
by David ChandlerA holistic perspective for navigating and exploring the CSR landscape. Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation, Fifth Edition, redefines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as being central to the value-creating purpose of the firm and provides a framework that firms can use to navigate the complex and dynamic business landscape. Based on a theory of empowered stakeholders, this bestselling text argues that the responsibility of a corporation is to create value, broadly defined. The primary challenge for managers today is to balance the competing interests of the firm’s stakeholders, understanding that what they expect today may not be what they will expect tomorrow. This tension is what makes CSR so complex and demanding, but it is also what makes CSR integral to the firm’s strategy and day-to-day operations. The new edition includes the latest research, new cases, a streamlined table of contents, and expanded emphasis on the legal perspective of strategic CSR. Keep your course content up-to-date! Subscribe to David Chandler's 'CSR Newsletters' by e-mailing him at david.chandler@ucdenver.edu. The newsletters are designed to be a dynamic complement to the text that can be used for in-class discussion and debate. Past newsletters are archived as a freely-available resource for instructors and students at: http://strategiccsr-sage.blogspot.com/
Strategic Deals in Emerging Capital Markets: Are There Efficiency Gains for Firms in BRIC Countries? (Advanced Studies in Emerging Markets Finance)
by Irina Ivashkovskaya Svetlana Grigorieva Eugene NivorozhkinThe industrial development of emerging markets has been a powerful driver for mergers and acquisitions. The contributions collected in this book assess major M&A deals in the largest emerging capital markets (Brazil, Russia, India, China) and their role in shareholder value creation in the markets’ specific business environments. In addition, the book explores various dimensions of M&A deals in order to summarize the main trends in corporate control markets in the largest emerging countries, and how they differ from those in developed countries; to identify deal-performance relationships and the determinants of success or failure; to reveal the drivers for the premium in M&A deals; and to capture market responses to different M&A strategies. By doing so, the book makes a significant contribution to the literature, which has to date largely focused on developed markets.
Strategic Digital Transformation: A Results-Driven Approach (Business and Digital Transformation)
by Gordon Fletcher Marie Griffiths Alex FentonEmerging technologies are having a profound impact upon business as individuals and organisations increasingly embrace the benefits of the ‘always on’ attitude that digital technologies produce. The use of the web, apps, cloud storage, GPS and Internet-connected devices has transformed the way we live, learn, play and interact – yet how a business can fully benefit from this transformation is not always clear. In response, this book enables students and business leaders to take a strategic and sustainable approach to realising the value of digital technologies. It offers results-driven solutions that successfully transform organisations into data-driven, people-focused businesses capable of sustainably competing at a global level. Split across four key parts, the material moves through understanding digital business to planning, implementing and assessing digital transformation. The current challenges facing all small organisations, including limited resources, financial pressures and the lack of dedicated IT departments, are explored. The authors consider the ways in which innovation can increase competitive advantage, how innovative business models can create new opportunities and how a data-driven perspective can release embedded value within the organisation. Contemporary international case studies and examples throughout each chapter bridge theory with practical application and systematically document the patterns of activities that enable success. This textbook is a vital resource for postgraduate and undergraduate students of digital business, innovation and transformation. By showing how to initiate digital transformation across an organisation, it will prepare business owners, directors and management of small- and medium-sized businesses to take strategic advantage of new and emerging technologies to stay ahead of their competition.
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning: Methodological Reflections and Case Studies (Green Energy and Technology)
by Giovanni CampeolThis volume gathers a selection of research contributions on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), including theoretical and methodological studies and real-world case studies. It sheds new light on the respective steps in the procedure defined in the SEA Directive from theoretical and operational standpoints, intended to enhance the sustainability of plans and programmes adopted by local, regional and national authorities. Improving the legitimacy and transparency of decision-making in the field of environmental management was one of the goals that led the European Commission (EU) to adopt Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of environmental programmes’ effects. This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to SEA, and addresses the demand for policies and strategies to strengthen resilience through concrete measures to reduce energy consumption, mitigate pollution, promote social inclusion and create urban identity.
Strategic Equity Partnerships in Professional Football: Evidence on Stakeholder Attitudes for the Case of the German Bundesliga (Event- und Impaktforschung)
by Tobias DuffnerThe study explores the underlying motives and processes why and how corporate sponsors and professional football clubs in Germany enter into an additional share deal given the contradictory nature of corporations (monetary driven) and football clubs (maximising sporting success while operating in economic equilibrium). This work aims to generate theory within the specific field of professional football and to provide recommendations for action.
Strategic Human Resource Management: Formulating and Implementing HR Strategies for a Competitive Advantage
by Ananda Das GuptaThe concept of strategic human resource management has developed widely in the last couple of years, especially because of the impact of human resources on the competitiveness of organizations. The development of human resource strategies involves taking into account their multiple mutual dependencies and the fact that they must be vertically integrated with the business strategy. These strategies define the intentions and plans related to the overall organizational considerations, such as organizational competitiveness, effectiveness or image, and to more specific aspects of human resources management, such as resourcing, motivating, valuating, learning and development, reward and employee relations. Strategic management of human resources provides a large perspective on the way critical issues or success factors related to people can be addressed and how different concepts of strategic decisions are made, with long-term impacts on the behavior and success of the organization. The fundamental objective of human resource strategic management is to generate strategic capabilities by ensuring that the organization has the high-qualified, committed and well-motivated employees it needs to achieve and sustain the competitive advantage. The emergence of strategic human resource management (SHRM) is influenced by global competition and the corresponding search for sources of a sustainable competitive advantage. SHRM has achieved its prominence because it provides a means by which business firms can enhance the competitiveness and promote managerial efficiency. It facilitates the development of human capital that meets the requirements of a competitive business strategy, so that organizational goals and the mission of the organization will be achieved. The HRM system is defined as "a set of distinct but interrelated activities, functions and processes that are directed at attracting, developing, and maintaining (or disposing of) a firm’s human resources." Many agree that HRM is the most effective tool which contributes to the creation of human capital, and in turn, contributes to organizational performance and the competitive advantage. This book puts emphasis on understanding the role of HRM between organizations and people and provides an analytical approach toward encompassing HRM, employment relations, and organizational behavior. As a management discipline, HRM draws insights, models and theories from cognate disciplines and applies them to real-world settings. Further, this book discusses how current theoretical perspectives and frameworks (e.g., those related to strategic competitiveness, knowledge management, learning organization, communities of practice, etc.) can be applied by reflective practitioners to create an eco-friendly organizational culture.