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Pacific Opportunities: Leveraging Asia's Growth
by Adbi AdbForecasts suggest that solid growth in Asia is likely to continue. By 2030, Asian economies are expected to be roughly four times larger than they are today, and Asia's share of global output is expected to rise to 40% of the global total. In contrast, most countries in the Pacific have experienced extended periods of relatively low growth, and many have suffered significant setbacks from disasters.This book analyzes and discerns some of the main trends driving economic relations between Asia and the Pacific. It aims to assess how the 14 Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank can better tap into opportunities arising from Asian growth, and explores how the economic and financial integration between Asia and the Pacific can be expanded to benefit both regions. Pacific Opportunities identifies critical constraints on integration and sets out policy reforms to address these constraints to mutually beneficial economic ties between the two regions.These two very different regions have drawn closer economically over the past two decades as improvements in transport infrastructure and advances in information and communications technology have helped to bridge geographic distance.
Pacific Rift
by Michael LewisThis light-hearted look at business relations between Japan and the West follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants - Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo, and Shuji Tomikawa, a Harvard-educated Japanese working for Mitsui Real Estate in New York City.Through his meetings with these men, the author is able to draw some surprising conclusions about current Japanese business practices, both in relation to foreigners attempting to trade with them, and in terms of their own headlong rush into overseas markets, from the Ginza bars of Tokyo to the wino gangs of Times Square.
Pacific Sentinel: Role for Chris Coleman
by Dina Witter Kathleen L. McginnA new publishing company has just purchased the Pacific Sentinel, a fictional West Coast newspaper. The new publisher is willing to invest $1 million in the future success of the paper and has asked the executive editor and advertising manager to develop a joint plan for how the money should be spent.
Pacific Sentinel: Role for Alex Martinez
by Dina Witter Kathleen L. McginnA new publishing company has just purchased the Pacific Sentinel, a fictional West Coast newspaper. The new publisher is willing to invest $1 million in the future success of the paper and has asked the executive editor and advertising manager to develop a joint plan for how the money should be spent.
Pacific Service Enterprises And Pacific Cooperation
by Gavin Boyd Gunnar K Sletmo"This book is the result of a team effort that has brought together researchers from Europe, Japan and North America. Their backgrounds and experience reflect the interdisciplinary scope of the book, which covers economic, political and business aspects of service enterprises and cooperation in the Pacific-Asia region. The idea for this project originated with Gavin Boyd, who approached l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in 1990 in order to explore possible avenues of cooperation. HEC's Center for International Business Studies (CETAI), which has a long-standing interest in Asia, agreed to support the project, and the newly created Orner DeSerres Chair of Commerce, also at HEC, accepted to coordinate the project and to provide technical support. Gavin Boyd, Associate Member of CET AI, and Gunnar K. Sletmo, Orner DeSerres Professor of Commerce and Member of CETAI, agreed to serve as coeditors for the book."
Pacific Southwest Airlines (Images of Aviation)
by Alan Renga Mark E. MentgesWith its low fares and friendly service, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) was one of the most successful regional airlines in American history. Its distinctive orange, red, and white planes, complete with a beaming smile were immediately recognizable to those living on the West Coast. The airline was also known for employing beautiful and sociable flight attendants. Kenny Friedkin, the founder of PSA, started in 1949 with one leased DC-3 and expanded his fleet to serve millions of passengers each year. Although PSA is no longer in operation, its successful business model of low-priced, efficient service was copied by other airlines and today is considered the norm. In addition, former PSA employees still gather annually to relive the camaraderie they experienced as being a part of one of the most unique airlines of all time.
Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police
by Mark NeocleousThis provocative book offers the first sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacificationIn his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous analyses the development of pacification as a key concept through which capitalist modernity has been organized, offering readers the first book that treats pacification as an important concept in the history of state power and capitalism.Neocleous&’s approach is fourfold, examining pacification as social warfare carried out through the ideology of peace; as a form of social police carried out through mechanisms of security; as law and order exercised through the permanent wars of class society; and as the myriad practices of power designed to counter insurgency.Making use of official documents of state, the writings of counterinsurgency thinkers and the ideas perpetuated by practitioners of counterrevolution, the book unravels the complex ways through which pacification generates new forms of social war and new modes of policing that reproduce capitalist order and fabricate obedient subjects.Through expansive accounts of war and police, and engaging with a range of topics from debt to death, from stasis to civil war, and from the police kettle to the politics of fear, the book offers a provocative analysis of the ways in which state and capital combine to build a pacified social order.
Pacing and Derisking Innovation Investments
by Rowan Gibson Peter SkarzynskiThis chapter shows you how to distinguish between different kinds of growth opportunities in terms of time frame and risk profile and provides some practical guidelines for pacing and derisking your commitments.
Pacing for Growth: Why Intelligent Restraint Drives Long-term Success
by Alison EyringGo the Distance!Whether you're running a race or running a company, pacing is everything. Go too fast and you'll burn yourself out—too slow and you're left in the dust. So how can leaders find the right speed? Growth expert Alison Eyring, who is also a long-distance runner and triathlete, found the answer in endurance training. It's a concept she calls Intelligent Restraint. Eyring shows leaders how to evaluate their company's and team's current capacity for growth and identify the right capabilities and pacing strategies to increase growth steadily and sustainably. She masterfully weaves physiological and psychological research, in-depth business case studies, examples from real leaders, and practical tools with her own narrative of endurance training. The result is a revolutionary new mindset for enduring success.
Paciolo on Accounting (Routledge Revivals)
by R. Gene Brown Kenneth S. JohnstonPublished in 1963, this book about the famous accountant and bookkeeper Luca Paciolo explores his extraordinary contribution to the development of the accounting profession. Paciolo is the first known writer to publish a work describing the double entry process.
Package Design Workbook: The Art And Science Of Successful Packaging
by Steven Dupuis John SilvaThe Art and Science of Successful Packaging provides designers with a thoughtful packaging primer that covers the challenges of designing packaging for a competitive market in a very hardworking and relevant way. Package Design Workbook addresses all aspects of the creative process including choosing a package format, colors and materials, final finishes, and special considerations such as awkward objects and unique display considerations. This book breaks down the process of design in a much more comprehensive way than most books on the subject, which just analyze the final designs. This guide also offers case studies in the back half of the book with the text focusing on why specific colors, formats, type treatments, and finishes were chosen, and what the resulting effects were on the consumer and the client.
The Package King: A Rank-and-File History of UPS
by Joe Allen&“An incisive history&” of how a bicycle messenger service in Seattle became a global behemoth, and the labor battles along the way (Dissent). We may see their trademark brown trucks everywhere today, but few people know the behind-the-scenes story of United Parcel Service and how it became one of America&’s most admired companies. This book reveals how UPS managed to displace General Motors—the very symbol of American capitalism—to become the largest private-sector unionized employer in the United States; its long, tumultuous history with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; and its effects on its workers and surrounding communities. It also explores the question of its future in the age of Amazon—as it battles to hold on to the throne of the Package King. &“Get a copy of Allen&’s book for yourself and then pass it on to a UPS driver the next time you get a delivery. She is part of the most organized section of what is possibly the most important industry in 21st-century capitalism, and the outcome of her story will have a lot to do with what our world looks like on the other side of this pandemic.&” —Indypendent
Packaged Pleasures: How Technology & Marketing Revolutionized Desire
by Gary S. Cross Robert N. ProctorFrom the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned, condensed, and distilled, unleashing new and intensified surges of pleasure, delight, thrill--and addiction. In Packaged Pleasures, Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor delve into an uncharted chapter of American history, shedding new light on the origins of modern consumer culture and how technologies have transformed human sensory experience. In the space of only a few decades, junk foods, cigarettes, movies, recorded sound, and thrill rides brought about a revolution in what it means to taste, smell, see, hear, and touch. New techniques of boxing, labeling, and tubing gave consumers virtually unlimited access to pleasures they could simply unwrap and enjoy. Manufacturers generated a seemingly endless stream of sugar-filled, high-fat foods that were delicious but detrimental to health. Mechanically rolled cigarettes entered the market and quickly addicted millions. And many other packaged pleasures dulled or displaced natural and social delights. Yet many of these same new technologies also offered convenient and effective medicines, unprecedented opportunities to enjoy music and the visual arts, and more hygienic, varied, and nutritious food and drink. For better or for worse, sensation became mechanized, commercialized, and, to a large extent, democratized by being made cheap and accessible. Cross and Proctor have delivered an ingeniously constructed history of consumerism and consumer technology that will make us all rethink some of our favorite things.
Packaging Boyhood: Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes
by Lyn Mikel Brown Sharon Lamb Mark TappanPlayer. Jock. Slacker. Competitor. Superhero. Goofball. Boys are besieged by images in the media that encourage slacking over studying; competition over teamwork; power over empowerment; and being cool over being yourself. From cartoons to video games, boys are bombarded with stereotypes about what it means to be a boy, including messages about violence, risk-taking, and perfecting an image of just not caring. Straight from the mouths of over 600 boys surveyed from across the U.S., the authors offer parents a long, hard look at what boys are watch ing, reading, hearing, and doing. They give parents advice on how to talk with their sons about these troubling images and provide them with tools to help their sons resist these mes sages and be their unique selves.
Packaging for Sustainability
by Helen Lewis Leanne Fitzpatrick Karli VergheseThe packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improve packaging's sustainability by reducing its environmental and societal impacts. This is a considerable challenge because of the complex interactions between products and their packaging, and the many roles that packaging plays in the supply chain. Packaging for Sustainability is a concise and readable handbook for practitioners who are trying to implement sustainability strategies for packaging. Industry case studies are used throughout the book to illustrate possible applications and scenarios. Packaging for Sustainability draws on the expertise of researchers and industry practitioners to provide information on business benefits, environmental issues and priorities, environmental evaluation tools, design for environment, marketing strategies, and challenges for the future.
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers' Schemes
by Sharon Lamb Lyn Mikel BrownThe stereotype-laden message, delivered through clothes, music, books, and TV, is essentially a continuous plea for girls to put their energies into beauty products, shopping, fashion, and boys. This constant marketing, cheapening of relationships, absence of good women role models, and stereotyping and sexualization of girls is something that parents need to first understand before they can take action. Lamb and Brown teach parents how to understand these influences, give them guidance on how to talk to their daughters about these negative images, and provide the tools to help girls make positive choices about the way they are in the world. In the tradition of books like Reviving Ophelia, Odd Girl Out, Queen Bees, and Wannabees that examine the world of girls, this book promises to not only spark debate but help parents to help their daughters.
Packaging You!
by Greg WoodThis essential guide is designed to help you quickly succeed in your search for employment in today's economy. Things have changed, times have changed, and times are tough. Old methods that typically rely on resumes and cover letters no longer work. New strategies and tools are needed for job-hunting success, and you will find them here. The Hire Advantage combines the four key milestones to employment based on Greg Wood's proven job-hunting series, TheHireRoad: Packaging - teaches you how to implement new and unique tools that will clearly separate you from your competition. Promotion - introduces strategies and techniques that help you successfully penetrate the hidden job market by broadcasting your value to the business community, not your resume. Product Demonstration - teaches you the techniques to conduct a proactive, strategic interview that will greatly enhance your chances of getting the offer. Pricing - teaches you how to negotiate the difference between what you're offered and your true worth to the organization.
PACTO MENEM - KIRCHNER, EL (EBOOK)
by Juan GaspariniEn qué se parecen escándalos como los de Thales, Skanska, Siemens, Alstom y el #tren bala#, la cuenta suiza de Menem, el Valijagate o los fondos de Santa Cruz? Existe un patrón de comportamiento entre empresas, actores políticos y del ámbito judicial? Son, todos ellos, piezas de un sistema coercitivo que hacen a la impunidad argentina en estos veinticinco años de democracia? El pacto suizo de no agresión entre Carlos Saúl Menem y Néstor Kirchner florece en este libro impecablemente documentado, en el que se revela la matriz helvética de las coimas, sin dudas la llave para muchos de estos interrogantes. Porque más allá de mutuas críticas ideológicas y de supuestos odios políticos, ambos ex presidentes han decidido, al menos con los dineros suizos, no pasar a mayores, evitar la confrontación. Por encima de convenciones internacionales, de reglamentos y de órganos de control, las firmas trasnacionales no han abandonado la estrategia de sobornar para competir en los mercados. Esta investigación periodística muestra cómo funcionan, dentro y fuera del país, las grandes coimas, y desnuda un hecho que, aun estando al alcance de la mano, la justicia prefiere ignorar: la red de la corrupción internacional y sus complicidades vernáculas no sólo no se ha alterado, sino que se han fortalecido en las últimas décadas.
Paddle8: Painting a New Picture of the Art Market
by Mukti KhaireThe Paddle8 case is a short case that presents the idea for a new business in the global art market and asks students to evaluate whether it will work, given the structure and unique workings of the art market. Paddle8 is a New York-based startup that partners with well-known galleries to offer art works from their collections for sale on the Paddle8 website to carefully selected, globally-dispersed members. The firm aims to help galleries overcome their geographic limitations and to make art more accessible to a wide range of new collectors with the help of its technology platform. The question is: will this succeed in the context of the art market where exclusive access is a prime driver of value?
PadFone vs. FonePad
by Willy Shih Sen ChaiTo Jonney Shih, Chairman of ASUSTek Computer, the introduction of Apple's iPad made clear the need to transition his company to a new cloud-computing era. But the company's roots in the manufacture of Windows-powered desktop and notebook PCs bounded the creativity of his design and engineering teams. The case examines the ASUS's efforts to get into the smartphone business, leveraging experimentation it has done in tablets and a range of hybrid devices. Will its experimentation and recombination of features lead it to market success, or simply confuse consumers?
Padre Rico, Padre Pobre: Los Secretos Para Ganar Dinero Que No Te Ensenan En La Escuela! (Padre Rico Ser.)
by Robert T. KiyosakiBasado en el principio de que los bienes que generan ingreso siempre dan mejores resultados que los trabajos tradicionales, Robert Kiyosaki explica cómo pueden adquirirse dichos bienes para, eventualmente, olvidarse de trabajar.El libro #1 de finanzas personales.Con un estilo claro y ameno, este libro te pondrá en el camino directo al éxito financiero y así lograrás que el dinero trabaje para ti.Padre rico Padre pobre es el bestseller que revolucionó la forma de entenderlas finanzas personales. El autor y conferencista Robert Kiyosaki desarrolló una perspectiva económica única a partir de la exposición que tuvo a dos influencias: su propio padre, altamente educado pero muy inestable y el padre multimillonario, sin educación universitaria, de su mejor amigo.Los problemas monetarios que su Padre pobre experimentó toda la vida (concheques mensuales muy respetables pero nunca suficientes) rompían con lo que le comunicaba su Padre rico: que la clase pobre y la clase media trabajan por dinero pero la clase alta, hace que el dinero trabaje para ellos. Kiyosaki presenta la filosofía detrás de esta relación excepcional con el dinero. Este libro aboga de manera convincente por el tipo de conocimiento financiero que nunca se enseña en las escuelas.Padre rico padre pobre lo ayudará a:-Derribar el mito de que usted necesita tener un ingreso elevado para hacerse rico.-Desafiar la creencia de que su casa es una inversión.-Mostrar a los padres por qué no confiar en el sistema escolar para la enseñanza de sus hijos acerca del dinero.-Definir de una vez y para siempre qué es una inversión y qué es una obligación.-Mostrar qué enseñar a los hijos acerca del dinero para su futuro éxito financiero.Lo que ha dicho la crítica:"Padrerico padre pobre es el punto de partida para quien quiera tomar el control de su futuro financiero." -USA Today
Padre Rico, Padre Pobre: Qué les enseñan los ricos a sus hijos acerca del dinero, ¡que los pobres (Padre Rico Ser.)
by Robert T. KiyosakiBasado en el principio de que los bienes que generan ingreso siempre dan mejores resultados que los trabajos tradicionales, Robert Kiyosaki explica cómo pueden adquirirse dichos bienes para, eventualmente, olvidarse de trabajar. El libro #1 de finanzas personales. Con un estilo claro y ameno, este libro te pondrá en el camino directo al éxito financiero y así lograrás que el dinero trabaje para ti.Padre rico Padre pobre es el bestseller que revolucionó la forma de entender las finanzas personales. El autor y conferencista Robert Kiyosaki desarrolló una perspectiva económica única a partir de la exposición que tuvo a dos influencias: su propio padre, altamente educado pero muy inestable y el padre multimillonario, sin educación universitaria, de su mejor amigo.Los problemas monetarios que su Padre pobre experimentó toda la vida (con cheques mensuales muy respetables pero nunca suficientes) rompían con lo que le comunicaba su Padre rico: que la clase pobre y la clase media trabajan por dinero pero la clase alta, hace que el dinero trabaje para ellos. Kiyosaki presenta la filosofía detrás de esta relación excepcional con el dinero. Este libro aboga de manera convincente por el tipo de conocimiento financiero que nunca se enseña en las escuelas.Padre rico padre pobre lo ayudará a: -Derribar el mito de que usted necesita tener un ingreso elevado para hacerse rico. -Desafiar la creencia de que su casa es una inversión. -Mostrar a los padres por qué no confiar en el sistema escolar para la enseñanza de sus hijos acerca del dinero. -Definir de una vez y para siempre qué es una inversión y qué es una obligación.-Mostrar qué enseñar a los hijos acerca del dinero para su futuro éxito financiero. Lo que ha dicho la crítica: "Padre rico padre pobre es el punto de partida para quien quiera tomar el control de su futuro financiero." -USA Today
Padre rico, padre pobre para jóvenes: Del autor de Padre Rico Padre Pobre, el bestseller #1 de finanzas personales
by Robert T. Kiyosaki¡Los secretos para ganar dinero que no te enseña la escuela! El autor de Padre rico, Padre pobre, Robert T. Kiyosaki te pondrá en el camino directo al éxito financiero con esta nueva edición revisada y actualizada. Con un estilo claro y ameno, esta obra, de la serie escrita por Robert T. Kiyosaki, te mostrará cómo lograr que el dinero trabaje para ti. Su contenido no sólo refiere a la sorprendente historia de su autor, sino además, te enseñará cuestiones que impactarán tu vida y aprenderás a tomar el tipo de decisiones que te harán rico, aun en la juventud. -Conocerás los términos y conceptos propios del medio financiero. -Descubrirás que para ser rico es necesario trabajar con la intención de aprender, no de ganar. -Comprenderás cómo funciona el dinero y cómo hacerlo crecer en tu beneficio. Estos consejos financieros funcionarán como una valiosa arma secreta para que obtengas la libertad y riqueza que deseas.
PADRE Y OTRAS HISTORIAS, EL (EBOOK)
by Antonio Dal MasettoUn rutinario trayecto en bicicleta, la conversación con un amigo, el primer poema de amor parecen, enunciados, temas de redacción que solo pueden transmitirnos emociones comunes ya sentidas y dichas. No cuando los cuenta un narrador como Antonio Dal Masetto. Los pormenores y matices de una relación encuentran en el interprete sutil y lacónico, que parece apuntar los comentarios menos previsibles, los que siempre se nos escapan. Con una nostalgia que nunca amenaza bordear el sentimentalismo, con una economía que bien sabe el valor significativo del silencio, con unos pies de plomo que son la quintaesencia del pudor narrativo pero también el arma secreta de su poder de sugestión, Antonio Dal Masetto evoca anécdotas, articula escenas y arma si relatos que surgen o se esconden dentro de nítidas y entrañables evocaciones. No interpreta los hechos, pero se resigna a que los colores puros de la memoria personal pueden extinguirse en una crónica falseada por el tiempo, la pereza o la vocación de olvido de ciertas cosas. Quien lea El padre y otras historias encontrara en el muchos de los temas que informan la narrativa conocida del autor de Bosque. Y encontrara también inflexiones y matices secretos, una variedad de recursos que hacen de los relatos de Antonio Dal Masetto un territorio de admirable riqueza narrativa y emocional.
Padronanza delle Abitudini: Come Pensano e Agiscono le Persone di Successo
by Adidas WilsonSentirai sempre persone che trovano una scuse dicendo che non sono nati con il talento necessario per avere successo. Tuttavia, raggiungere il successo in qualcosa si riduce all'impegno e al tempo per acquisire e padroneggiare le abilità. Il talento, infatti, non è altro che un punto di partenza. Nessuno nega l'esistenza del talento naturale. Ci sono geneticamente avvantaggiati, soprattutto per quanto riguarda le capacità fisiche. Tuttavia, il successo non è sempre un'impresa fisica per la maggior parte delle persone. Vogliono solo fare qualcosa ed essere bravi. Desiderano guadagnare uno stipendio decente mentre fanno qualcosa di appagante, il tutto per una vita comoda. Ogni persona di successo che vedi ha dovuto lavorare sodo per arrivarci; dal velocista olimpico al musicista di fama mondiale. Desideri avere successo? Bene, smettila di limitarti. "Per essere una stella, devi far risplendere la tua luce, seguire il tuo percorso e non preoccuparti dell'oscurità, perché è allora che le stelle brillano più luminose." -Napoleon Hill