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Fresh Produce Shipping: Damages and Compensation (Maritime and Transport Law Library)
by Rex C. TesterThis book is an in-depth study of air and ocean goods-in-transit claims. It sets out to guide and assist businesses within the fresh produce industry to successfully implement the best processes and procedures to maximise their recovery efforts against contracted carriers. Fresh Produce Shipping focuses heavily on protecting the rights and recovery aspects of companies involved in growing, selling, and transporting fresh produce. It gives importers, exporters, loss adjusters, surveyors, and freight forwarders an easy-to-understand guide to the management and requirements of submitting claims. It provides an overview of the shipping terms and procedures involved when raising a claim. The book offers specific and detailed industry knowledge to stakeholders who would not normally have access to such information without the employment of specialists or legal counsel, providing an inexperienced reader with the tools to submit a claim and achieve an understanding of protocol. A valuable guide and comprehensive reference for parties seeking compensation for lost or damaged goods, this book will be of relevance to shippers and importers of fresh produce, lawyers acting for commercial clients and underwriters, cargo surveyors, trade bodies around the world representing fresh produce operators, and forwarders wishing to support their clients.
Fresh to Table
by Gautam Mukunda Brooks C. HoltomAfter the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants, make an unpleasant discovery. While reviewing the office manager's internal electronic communications, company leaders discover that several key employees, including two that were recently promoted, had been spending substantial time on internal social media channels disparaging other employees, citing days when they skipped work, and referring to other instances of unprofessional behavior. This 5-page case explores issues related to electronic communications, termination and disciplinary procedures, and leadership, culture and values. It can be used in General Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Management Communication, Leadership, and Employee Relations courses. The case also allows students to consider how technology affects organizational interactions and culture.
Fresh: A Perishable History
by Susanne FreidbergThat rosy tomato perched on your plate in December is at the end of a great journey--not just over land and sea, but across a vast and varied cultural history. This is the territory charted in Fresh. Opening the door of an ordinary refrigerator, it tells the curious story of the quality stored inside: freshness. We want fresh foods to keep us healthy, and to connect us to nature and community. We also want them convenient, pretty, and cheap. Fresh traces our paradoxical hunger to its roots in the rise of mass consumption, when freshness seemed both proof of and an antidote to progress. Susanne Freidberg begins with refrigeration, a trend as controversial at the turn of the twentieth century as genetically modified crops are today. Consumers blamed cold storage for high prices and rotten eggs but, ultimately, aggressive marketing, advances in technology, and new ideas about health and hygiene overcame this distrust. Freidberg then takes six common foods from the refrigerator to discover what each has to say about our notions of freshness. Fruit, for instance, shows why beauty trumped taste at a surprisingly early date. In the case of fish, we see how the value of a living, quivering catch has ironically hastened the death of species. And of all supermarket staples, why has milk remained the most stubbornly local? Local livelihoods; global trade; the politics of taste, community, and environmental change: all enter into this lively, surprising, yet sobering tale about the nature and cost of our hunger for freshness.
FreshTec: Revolutionizing Fresh Produce
by Ryan Johnson Jose B. AlvarezAn entrepreneurial produce packaging firm, that has developed a disruptive technology that keeps fresh produce and flowers fresh for significantly longer faces strategic growth decisions. CEO Bob Wright must decide how best to bring his company's unique packaging product to market. The technology holds promise after a long development phase, but the packaging is expensive and Wright and his team must convince the industry stakeholders of the packaging's value.
Freshman Quarterback (Chip Hilton Sports Series #9)
by Clair Bee Randall Farley Cynthia B. FarleyAs a member of the freshman football team at State University, Chip Hilton encounters cliques, rivalries, and a conspiracy by the Booster Association to favor some players over others.
Freshwater Whales: A History of The American Ship Building Company and Its Predecessors
by Richard J. WrightThis book deals with the history of a shipbuilding company that has played a basic role in the development of freshwater commerce. But it is more than the story of a shipbuilding company with a tradition that is just now being revitalized. It is the story of the development of a specialized floating tool, the steel-hulled bulk freighter.
Freshwaters and Wetlands of Patagonia: Ecosystems and Socioecological Aspects (Natural and Social Sciences of Patagonia)
by Gabriela Mataloni Rubén D. QuintanaThe Freshwaters of Patagonia adopts a socioecological approach, in which experts from across Patagonia review recent, scientifically rigorous literature and data of their own, thus synthesizing the current knowledge directly relevant to understand the present state and future trends of icefields, freshwater and wetland ecosystems in this region.The book’s organization into three parts provides a studied and comprehensive view on the patterns and processes of the various ecosystems in Patagonia, and describes the sociological aspects of freshwater ecosystems, as well as characterizes the conservation of the freshwater and wetland ecosystems, in Patagonia. The chapters offer a broad, state-of-the-art overview of the current status of glaciers, freshwater and wetland ecosystems of this region, as well as studies of both local and large scale biodiversity patterns, and study cases of extreme and naturally polluted environments.The volume concludes with the current status of Patagonian freshwaters, and discusses the scientific, legal and administrative tools aimed at their sustainable management within the framework of the UNEP Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda. A broad audience of students, scientists, engineers, environmental managers, and policy makers will be interested in this volume.
Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma
by John A. Quelch Margaret RodriguezIn 2014, Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) were quickly gaining popularity as an investment vehicle which joined together private investors and nonprofits to tackle social issues. Although numerous SIB projects and proposals had cropped up across the U.S. following the launch of the first SIB in the UK in 2010, none were explicitly focused on healthcare. Fresno, California announced the first healthcare SIB in 2013 to fund home-based programs to reduce asthma attacks. If successful, the Fresno SIB model would help solve the challenge of delivering preventative care efficiently in at-risk communities.
Freud on Madison Avenue
by Lawrence R. SamuelWhat do consumers really want? In the mid-twentieth century, many marketing executives sought to answer this question by looking to the theories of Sigmund Freud and his followers. By the 1950s, Freudian psychology had become the adman's most powerful new tool, promising to plumb the depths of shoppers' subconscious minds to access the irrational desires beneath their buying decisions. That the unconscious was the key to consumer behavior was a new idea in the field of advertising, and its impact was felt beyond the commercial realm.Centered on the fascinating lives of the brilliant men and women who brought psychoanalytic theories and practices from Europe to Madison Avenue and, ultimately, to Main Street, Freud on Madison Avenue tells the story of how midcentury advertisers changed American culture. Paul Lazarsfeld, Herta Herzog, James Vicary, Alfred Politz, Pierre Martineau, and the father of motivation research, Viennese-trained psychologist Ernest Dichter, adapted techniques from sociology, anthropology, and psychology to help their clients market consumer goods. Many of these researchers had fled the Nazis in the 1930s, and their decidedly Continental and intellectual perspectives on secret desires and inner urges sent shockwaves through WASP-dominated postwar American culture and commerce.Though popular, these qualitative research and persuasion tactics were not without critics in their time. Some of the tools the motivation researchers introduced, such as the focus group, are still in use, with "consumer insights" and "account planning" direct descendants of Freudian psychological techniques. Looking back, author Lawrence R. Samuel implicates Dichter's positive spin on the pleasure principle in the hedonism of the Baby Boomer generation, and he connects the acceptance of psychoanalysis in marketing culture to the rise of therapeutic culture in the United States.
Freundschaft oder Kollegialität?: Freundschaftsanbahnung in Organisationen als Kommunikationsproblem (Organisationsstudien)
by Harms HerbertBereits ein wenig Organisationserfahrung lehrt: Am Arbeitsplatz wird nicht nur gearbeitet. Angesichts der Allgegenwärtigkeit persönlicher Beziehungen fällt jedoch der Mangel an theoretisch trennscharfen und empirisch angemessenen Beschreibungen auf. Der Band schließt diese Lücke anhand eines differenzierungstheoretischen Vorgehens, wodurch Kollegialität und Freundschaft als distinkte soziale Ordnungen sichtbar werden: Kollegen erwarten wie Vorgesetzte lediglich konformes Handeln. Ob man die Anweisung tatsächlich gerne ausführt oder ob man dem Kollegen wirklich von Herzen zum Geburtstag gratuliert, kann hingegen nicht legitimerweise eingefordert werden. Im Unterschied dazu erwarten Freunde eine Kongruenz von Handeln und Erleben und dürfen daran auch im Enttäuschungsfall festhalten. Mit Hilfe der zugrundeliegenden Begriffsarbeit wird Freundschaft identifizierbar als (zu) anspruchsvolle Kommunikationsform, die vielfältig zum Problem werden kann — nicht nur für die Organisation, sondern auch für die (vermeintlichen) Freunde. Die Studie fokussiert hierzu auf das Problem der Freundschaftsanbahnung aus der Sicht eines Mitglieds und beantwortet die Frage, welchen Unterschied es macht, wenn die Anbahnung in einem formalen Kontext statt findet. Anhand vielfältiger und detaillierter Sekundäranalysen wird herausgearbeitet, wie die formale Ordnung die Zurechnung auf Kollegialität strukturell nahelegt, ohne Freundschaft damit auszuschließen. Damit liefert die Studie einen spannenden Blick auf ein bisher vernachlässigtes Thema, das gerade auch für Praktiker relevant ist.
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
by Anna Lowenhaupt TsingA wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a "clash" of cultures, anthropologist Anna Tsing here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting social interactions that make up our contemporary world. She focuses on one particular "zone of awkward engagement"--the rainforests of Indonesia--where in the 1980s and the 1990s capitalist interests increasingly reshaped the landscape not so much through corporate design as through awkward chains of legal and illegal entrepreneurs that wrested the land from previous claimants, creating resources for distant markets. In response, environmental movements arose to defend the rainforests and the communities of people who live in them. Not confined to a village, a province, or a nation, the social drama of the Indonesian rainforest includes local and national environmentalists, international science, North American investors, advocates for Brazilian rubber tappers, UN funding agencies, mountaineers, village elders, and urban students, among others--all combining in unpredictable, messy misunderstandings, but misunderstandings that sometimes work out. Providing a portfolio of methods to study global interconnections, Tsing shows how curious and creative cultural differences are in the grip of worldly encounter, and how much is overlooked in contemporary theories of the global.
Friction: Passion Brands in the Age of Distruption
by Jeff Rosenblum Jordan BergEvery industry around the globe is being completely disrupted. Stalwart brands are losing market share to upstarts that capture our collective consciousness. Trillions of dollars are at stake. Brands know a new approach is needed. But most don’t realize the strategic underpinnings need to change. Great brands are no longer built through interruptive advertisements. Friction argues that brands don't simply need clever messages or new, shiny technologies. They need a fundamental change in strategy. Friction provides a system for embracing transparency, engaging audiences, creating evangelists, and unleashing unprecedented growth. The authors of Friction have worked on some of the industry's most innovative assignments for the world’s most successful brands. This groundbreaking book reveals how corporations can divorce themselves from legacy business models to create a passion brand. A brand that breaks its addiction to traditional advertising. A brand that empowers its customers. A brand that dominates the competition.
Frictionless Markets
by Jack BuffingtonThis volume models a 21st century supply chain: one that uses technology that leads to the power of the individual, not larger organizations. Author Jack Buffington explains how in the near future, each of us will be a "prosumer" in a peer-based economy of micro-level manufacturing with little waste and infinite customization. There are two primary schools of thought in regard to the world economy of the future; from one side is a belief that economic growth can continue in perpetuity, driven upon a cheap and plentiful energy supply. From the other point of view is a perspective that economic growth will soon end has due to a lack of cheap and plentiful oil, too much financial debt, and a damaged environment that cannot withstand more growth. Frictionless Markets proposes a third way: a 21st century model based upon an economic calculus that does assume that fossil fuels are rapidly depleting and the environment is being damaged, but does not assume that this means an end to growth, but rather, a beginning of opportunities. Frictionless Markets tells the story of why and how frictionless markets will exist by the year 2030. Dr. Jack Buffington is both a supply chain professional for one of the largest consumer products companies in the world, and a researcher in biotechnology and supply chain at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Frictionless: Why the Future of Everything Will Be Fast, Fluid, and Made Just for You
by Christiane Lemieux Duff McDonaldSerial entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux describes the new rules of entrepreneurship and business, arguing that visionary startups leverage the concept of “frictionless” to beat their competitors. Based on interviews with dozens of startup founders, experts and scholars on entrepreneurship, Frictionless provides readers with a wide-ranging education in starting companies that thrive in the world of frictionless commerce—made possible by new technologies, a new mindset, and new demands from Millennial consumers. Working with bestselling author and journalist Duff McDonald, Lemieux also shares her own story—lessons learned, failures absorbed—at the helm of DwellStudio (which was acquired by Wayfair) and her latest venture, The Inside. Some founders profiled in the book are reducing friction in their own business models, others reduce friction through improved customer experiences, and still others are revolutionizing their operations to create frictionless organizations. Readers will glean lessons from the founders of well-known companies such as Instant Pot, Bonobos, Hims, and Halo Top—as well as upstarts Billie, Dame Products, and Convene. Frictionless outlines the groundwork necessary for getting a company up-and-running and explains how companies make and market products and services while meeting the demands of their customers and employees today. Frictionless is the essential handbook for creating tomorrow’s mind set and competitive advantage.
Friday Forward: Inspiration & Motivation to End Your Week Stronger Than It Started
by Robert GlazerFROM USA TODAY AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELEVATEWake up. Get inspired. Change the world. Repeat.Global business leader and national bestselling author, Robert Glazer, believes we all have a responsibility to each other: to give one another the inspiration and support we need to be our best. What started as a weekly note known as Friday Forward to his team of forty has turned into a global movement reaching over 200,000 leaders across sixty countries and continually forwarded to friends and family.In FRIDAY FORWARD, Robert shares fifty-two of his favorite stories with real life examples that will motivate you to grow and push you to be your best self. He encourages you to use this book as part of a positive and intentional Friday morning routine to get the weekend started on a forward-looking note that will carry you through the week. At once uplifting and deeply thought-provoking, these stories will challenge you to propel yourself outside your comfort zone to unlock your innate potential. By making small, intentional changes, you have the power to create lasting impact, not only in your own life, but also to inspire those around you to do the same. Today is the perfect day to start.
Frieden in politischem Unsettlement: Jenseits von Konfliktlösung
by Jan PospisilDie internationale Friedensförderung ist in eine Sackgasse geraten. Ihre hochgesteckten Ziele haben bestenfalls zu einem mittelmäßigen Erfolg geführt, der von Momenten des völligen Scheiterns unterbrochen wurde. Die Diskreditierung des Begriffs "liberale Friedenskonsolidierung" hat dazu geführt, dass er sich weiterentwickelt hat, um auf die zahlreichen Kritiken zu reagieren. Begriffe wie "inklusiver Frieden" verbinden das liberale Paradigma mit kritischen Begriffen des Kontexts und der Notwendigkeit, Praktiken zu verfeinern, um "das Lokale" oder "Komplexität" zu berücksichtigen. Es ist jedoch unklar, wie sich dies in klare Leitlinien für die Praxis der Friedensförderung umsetzen lässt. Paradoxerweise hat die gegenwärtige Politik der Friedenskonsolidierung ein noch nie dagewesenes Maß an Vagheit erreicht. Frieden in der politischen Unruhe bietet eine alternative Antwort, die in einem neuen Diskurs verwurzelt ist, der darauf abzielt, sowohl auf die Erfahrungen der Arbeit in Friedensprozessen einzugehen. Es zeichnet ein neues Verständnis von Friedensprozessen als Institutionalisierung formalisierter politischer Unruhe und zeigt neue Wege auf, damit umzugehen. Das Buch zeigt auf, wie Friedensprozesse Formen der Uneinigkeit institutionalisieren und fortlaufende Prozesse schaffen, um sie zu bewältigen, anstatt sie zu lösen. Es schlägt einen bescheidenen Ansatz vor, um "Aufhänger" für künftige Prozesse zu schaffen und den Einsatz kreativer Nicht-Lösungen und Praktiken der Uneinigkeit zu maximieren, die als Wege für pragmatische Nachkriegsübergänge diskutiert werden. Nur wenn wir die Natur und die Techniken der formalisierten politischen Unruhe verstehen, können wir neue konstruktive Wege finden, mit ihr umzugehen.
Friedrich Engels
by W.O. HendersonFirst Published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy
by Samuel HollanderThis book rejects the commonly encountered perception of Friedrich Engels as perpetuator of a "tragic deception" of Marx, and the equally persistent body of opinion treating him as "his master's voice". Engels's claim to recognition is reinforced by an exceptional contribution in the 1840s to the very foundations of the Marxian enterprise, a contribution entailing not only the "vision" but some of the building blocks in the working out of that vision. Subsequently, he proved himself to be a sophisticated interpreter of the doctrine of historical materialism and an important contributor in his own right. This volume serves as a companion to Samuel Hollander's The Economics of Karl Marx (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Friedrich Engels: Young Revolutionary
by W.O. HendersonFirst published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Friedrich Hayek: A Biography
by Alan EbensteinThis biography tells the story of one of the most important public figures of the twentieth century, Friedrich Hayek.Here is the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian economist who became, over the course of a remarkable career, the great philosopher of liberty in our time. In this richly detailed portrait, Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of a visionary thinker, from Hayek's early years as the scholarly son of a physician in fin-de-siecle Vienna on an increasingly wider world as an economist and political philosopher in London, New York, and Chicago.Ebenstein gives a balanced, integrated account of Hayek's extraordinary diverse body of work, from his fist encounter with the free market ideas of mentor Ludwig Von Mises to his magisterial writings in later life on the legal, political, ethical, and economic requirements of a free society. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1974, Hayek's vision of a renewed classical liberalism-of free markets and free ideas in free societies-has taken hold in much of the world.Alan Ebenstein's clearly written account is an essential starting point for anyone seeking to understand why Hayek's ideas have become the guiding force of our time. His illuminating portrait of Hayek the man brings to new life the spirit of a great scholar and tenacious advocate who has become, in Peter Drucker's words, "our time's preeminent social philosopher."
Friedrich List: Economist and Visionary 1789-1846
by William HendersonPublished in 2004, Friedrich List is a valuable contribution to the field of History. This study is based upon the material included in Friedrich List's collected works (cited as Werke) and upon the documents preserved in the List archives in Reutlingen. The most important biographies of List are those by Ludwig Hausser, Friedrich Lenz, Carl August Meissinger, Carl Brinkmann, and Hans Gehrig. List's early career has been examined by Karl Goeser and Paul Gehring, his services to the Union of Merchants by Hans-Peter Olshausen, his work as a journalist by Carl Schneider, and his activities in the United States by William Notz.
Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both
by Adam Galinsky Maurice SchweitzerWhat does it take to succeed? This question has fueled a long-running debate. Some have argued that humans are fundamentally competitive, and that pursuing self-interest is the best way to get ahead. Others claim that humans are born to cooperate and that we are most successful when we collaborate with others. In FRIEND AND FOE, researchers Galinsky and Schweitzer explain why this debate misses the mark. Rather than being hardwired to compete or cooperate, we have evolved to do both. In every relationship, from co-workers to friends to spouses to siblings we are both friends and foes. It is only by learning how to strike the right balance between these two forces that we can improve our long-term relationships and get more of what we want.Here, Galinsky and Schweitzer draw on original, cutting edge research from their own labs and from across the social sciences as well as vivid real-world examples to show how to maximize success in work and in life by deftly navigating the tension between cooperation and competition. They offer insights and advice ranging from: how to gain power and keep it, how to build trust and repair trust once it's broken, how to diffuse workplace conflict and bias, how to find the right comparisons to motivate us and make us happier, and how to succeed in negotiations - ensuring that we achieve our own goals and satisfy those of our counterparts.Along the way, they pose and offer surprising answers to a number of perplexing puzzles: when does too much talent undermine success; why can acting less competently gain you status and authority, where do many gender differences in the workplace really come from, how can you use deception to build trust, and why do you want to go last on American Idol and in many interview situations, but make the first offer when negotiating the sale of a new car.We perform at our very best when we hold cooperation and competition in the right balance. This book is a guide for navigating our social and professional worlds by learning when to cooperate as a friend and when to compete as a foe--and how to be better at both.
Friend of a Friend . . .: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career
by David BurkusHanding out business cards? Or just joining LinkedIn? Not anymore. This is a new and startling look at the art and science of networking. Everybody knows that in order to expand your business opportunities, it’s essential to reach out and build your network. But did you know that it’s your secondary, or dormant, contacts who will be the most helpful to you? Or that too many of us inadvertently run the risk of isolating ourselves into corporate silos? And what do the very best networkers do that most of us do not? Business school professor David Burkus digs deep to find the unexpected networking secrets that provide both a unique and science-based explanation on how best to grow your universe. Based upon entertaining case studies and research, this is the most up-to-date, practical, and revelatory guide for building one’s professional and personal connections in today’s fast-paced world. Forget the outdated advice in all the other networking books and learn how to make use of the hidden networks you already have.
Friend of the Soul: A Benedictine Spirituality of Work
by Norvene VestIn this second book in her series on Benedictine spirituality, Norvene Vest brings the insights of Benedict’s Rule to the world of work. A gifted interpreter of Benedict’s wisdom, Vest examines with empathy and clarity the plight of men and women who wish for their work to be life-giving, service to others, and the place where they can experience the presence of God. Vest brings Benedict’s perspective to three areas of work discontent today: the stress of performance, overproduction, and acquisitiveness. To these she opposes three Benedictine principles: vocation, or being called to what we do; stewardship, or taking care of what we are given; and obedience, or serving one another. Her emphasis is on the words of Benedict’s primary text and its application for people today. Each chapter concludes with extensive spiritual exercises and food for thought.
Friendly Cards, Inc.
by William E. FruhanInvolves analysis of a major capital investment proposal, an acquisition of another company, an estimate of the funds required for these two possible outlays, and a recommended course of management action.