Powerful institutions do not change until compelled to. The catalyst of change is a crisis which threatens the society's life. Such a crisis now confronts the West. Louis Kelso and co-author Mortimer J. Adler saw this crisis coming more than fifty years ago. In The Capitalist Manifesto (Random House, 1958) they warned that if we continue our ever more futile efforts to distribute through labor the income which is increasingly earned by the other income-producing...

When a tragic mountain-climbing accident left business professor Denis Shackel stranded on Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand, he turned to the leadership principles he'd been teaching for years to survive the longest night of his life. Alone, with temperatures plunging to -30 degrees Celsius, Shackel managed to stay alive. He broke the night into five thousand five-second intervals, and chose to deal with only one interval at a time -- a strategy based...

Participate in the Lessons of Experience of a boy born in Bellevue, Kentucky, continuing through high school in Pinellas County, Florida, and then the University of Cincinnati. Follow the twenty-three years of experiences as he joins the Financial Management Program and then goes on the fast track program of corporate audit staff, and increasingly more responsible positions to become the chief financial officer (CFO) of two of GE's industrial businesses...

La problemática que ha dado origen al presente trabajo, si se tiene en cuenta el carácter proyectual del diseño industrial, es la progresiva disminución de la participación de la práctica como opción de trabajo de grado, comparativamente con el total de opciones vigentes en escuelas de Diseño Industrial del país. El propósito ha sido identificar posibles dificultades en torno a la práctica, que a su vez, pueden representar obstáculos en...

Diversity is undeniably good for any business. Corporations with a greater percentage of gender diversity in leadership are in a better position to outperform their less diverse competitors. Not only do these companies have higher capital returns, but they also have better employee retention and engagement. Because the companies are racially diverse, innovative, and problem solving, their horizon of relevance is broader for a wide range of customers. Yet,...

The IPO — Initial Public Offering is the most complex financial transaction as it involves knowledge in finance, in many national and international laws, in marketing trends analysis, in macro- and micro- economy, in financial public relations, in econometrics, in fundamental corporate analysis, in financial and securities markets analysis as well as in traditional, financial and analytical accounting. Too many people, including experts, talk about...

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "COMT0211. ACTIVIDADES AUXILIARES DE COMERCIO". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.

In a sea of capital, why are our small business owners starving for the funds to fuel their growth? What would happen if entrepreneurs understood the REAL reasons investors plunk down their investment cash? Author and fundraising expert Patrick Donohue, CFA shares his inside knowledge of how the rules of the capital raising game have dramatically changed in just the last three years and what these changes mean for entrepreneurs. What if entrepreneurs...

PRESUPUESTOS EN EXCEL es resultado de las experiencias académicas con estudiantes de Administración Industrial de la UPTC de Colombia, donde se motiva mediante el método aprender haciendo, la importancia de esta herramienta para facilitar el manejo de la información en la toma decisiones y abordar el futuro obteniendo resultados económicos exitosos. El punto de partida es la información de una empresa de años anteriores (Presupuesto tradicional)...

The ever-changing business environment is demanding evermore from Financials and the Chief Financial Officers in particular. In The CFO in Pole Position, the authors pinpoint the current and future challenges for CFO's to take control and keep the organization on course for survival and success.