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The End of Alchemy : Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy - Thryft
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Recommendation: - This book is a must-read for anyone curious about the underlying causes of the global financial crisis and the flaws within our banking system. Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, presents revolutionary new concepts that challenge traditional notions of money and banking. Through his unique perspective as an actor in the crisis, King offers fresh insights and proposes thought-provoking ideas that will reshape your understanding of modern capitalism. Prepare to be enlightened and have your ideas about economics transformed.
Blockbusters: The Five Keys to Developing GREAT New Products - Thryft
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Great products are the lifeblood of great companies, yet approximately 60 percent of new products fail in the marketplace, after major investments and huge risks. Why? Gary Lynn and Richard Reilly now offer advice that will radically change the way new products are developed and a plan for companies to survive -- and thrive -- in today's competitive and turbulent times. Blockbusters shares the results of a ten-year research study of more than 700 teams illustrated by the inside stories of nearly fifty of the most successful products ever launched -- true "blockbusters," familiar to consumers everywhere. These include Colgate's Total toothpaste (now the market leader after Crest dominated for thirty years!), the Iomega Zip Drive, the Handspring Visor, the PowerShot staple gun, the Polycom SoundStation conference phone, the Apple IIe computer, and many others. Lynn and Reilly reveal and explain in detail the five keys to blockbuster success that companies ignore at their the responsibilities of senior management, a compelling vision of the product, the role of prototyping, the collaboration of people under pressure, and the process of information exchange. In this book, the authors prove that without these crucial elements a blockbuster new product is virtually impossible! Blockbusters uses both winning and losing case studies to explode established myths and to chart a course for implementing the surprising strategies of history-making development teams. A must for senior managers, entrepreneurs, and team leaders alike -- and for any reader curious about how great products are created -- this heavily researched and groundbreaking book promises to become a classic in the fields of product development and organizational renewal.
Hypercompetition - Thryft
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Richard A. D'Aveni | Free Press

Hypercompetition

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Hypercompetition by Richard D'Aveni offers a comprehensive analysis of the challenging and ever-changing business environment of today, where traditional competitive advantages are no longer sustainable. Through hundreds of industry examples, D'Aveni explains how companies can gain a temporary advantage and succeed in dynamic markets by disrupting the status quo and employing a set of strategies referred to as the "New 7-S's". This book is a must-read for managers, planners, consultants, academics, and students of hypercompetitive industries.
Asia is now the world's #1 growth story. Farsighted investors will realize enormous profits by investing in companies that benefit from Asia's historic transformation. In The Silk Road to Riches, a team of world-class financial analysts and newsletter editors point you to the right companies, the right sectors, and the right strategies.
A Practical Guide To Financial Reporting Standards Singapore 4E - Thryft
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Business Intelligence Guidebook : From Data Integration to Analytics - Thryft
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Between the high-level concepts of business intelligence and the nitty-gritty instructions for using vendors’ tools lies the essential, yet poorly-understood layer of architecture, design and process. Without this knowledge, Big Data is belittled – projects flounder, are late and go over budget. Business Intelligence From Data Integration to Analytics shines a bright light on an often neglected topic, arming you with the knowledge you need to design rock-solid business intelligence and data integration processes. Practicing consultant and adjunct BI professor Rick Sherman takes the guesswork out of creating systems that are cost-effective, reusable and essential for transforming raw data into valuable information for business decision-makers. After reading this book, you will be able to design the overall architecture for functioning business intelligence systems with the supporting data warehousing and data-integration applications. You will have the information you need to get a project launched, developed, managed and delivered on time and on budget – turning the deluge of data into actionable information that fuels business knowledge. Finally, you’ll give your career a boost by demonstrating an essential knowledge that puts corporate BI projects on a fast-track to success.
Written by the world's leading thinkers on brand strategy, this book looks at what Asian and emerging market brands need to do to succeed in international markets and the challenges they face when competing with western brands.
The Price of Inequality - Thryft
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Joseph E. Stiglitz | Penguin Book Ltd,uk

The Price of Inequality

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Growing inequality. The poor. Economics. Nobel Prize winning economist. Paperback.
Competitive Strategy : Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors - Thryft
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Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differentiation, and focus -- which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment. More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors,, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing. Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.
The Synergy Myth - Thryft
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Harold Geneen, Brent Bowers  | St. Martin's Press

The Synergy Myth

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The business genius who turned a few small corporations into the $22 billion industrial empire known as ITT shares his observations about what is wrong with American companies today and how every American citizen can help fix the problems.
Essentials Of Economics - Thryft
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John Sloman | Prentice Hall

Essentials Of Economics

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A revised and abridged version of the introductory textbook Economics, 3rd Edition by the same author. Covers markets in action, the supply decision, wages and the distribution of income, aggregate demand and supply, the determination of national income and the role of fiscal policy, unemployment and inflation, international trade, and the balance of payments and exchange rates. Each chapter concludes with a summary and study questions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Cases in Marketing Management and Strategy - Thryft
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John A. Quelch | Prentice Hall

Cases in Marketing Management and Strategy

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For senior year undergraduate Marketing courses, and first year MBA courses in Marketing/International/Asian Business. The book provides a broad-based approach to Asia-Pacific marketing case-studies. Cases include studies on products and services; consumer and business markets; profit and non-profit organizations; Asian firms operating within and outside of the region as well as non-Asian companies operating in Asia; small and large enterprises; manufacturing and trading businesses; and low- and high-technology industries.
The property market goes through cycles, and an investor needs to understand market conditions for a balanced view on opportunities and risks. But how can one sift through the noise and formulate a clear strategy? Respected market analyst and fifth-time author Ku Swee Yong looks at market trends, explains the impact of government policies and dispels common misconceptions. The lead articles delve into how the residential sector will be affected by the ageing population and the expiry of many HDB flats’ 99-year lease, and offer suggestions for the Concept Plan 2021. Others sketch out how the property landscape will be affected by changes in the retail scene, the adoption of FinTech, the rise of co-working & co-living spaces. Preparing for a Property Upturn provides an exciting overview of the current and future real estate issues. Whether you are seeking local or regional prospects, investors and market practitioners alike will benefit from perspectives which are backed by extensive data and research.
The Rich Dad's Guide to Investing : What the Rich Invest in That the Poor Do Not! - Thryft
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- This book could be a good read for individuals looking to gain insight into the minds of the wealthy and learn how they invest their money wisely. Robert T. Kiyosaki's personal experiences and the contrasting influences of his two fathers make this book a unique and enlightening guide to wealth creation. - If you are tired of living paycheck to paycheck and want to break free from the cycle of financial struggle, this book is for you. Robert T. Kiyosaki shares his own journey from poverty to wealth and provides practical advice on how to make your money work for you through strategic investments. - If you're seeking a no-nonsense approach to personal finance and want to understand the true power of money, this book is a must-read. Robert T. Kiyosaki's nuts-and-bolts approach demystifies investing and empowers readers to take control of their financial future. Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn from a self-made multi-millionaire who has been there and done it all.
Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.The Freakquel is here. In Superfreakonomics Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner look deeper, question harder and uncover even more hidden truths about our world, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to hurricanes. They ask, among other things: ~What's a sure-fire way to catch a terrorist? ~Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness? ~Which cancer does chemotherapy work best for? ~Why is combating global warming easier than we think? Sometimes, the most superfreaky solution is the simplest.~from the back cover
When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management - Thryft
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Picking up where Liar's Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer's desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners. Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along with two Nobel prize winners and a floor of Wall Street's brightest and best, Long-Term Captial Management was from the beginning hailed as a new gold standard in investing. It was to be the hedge fund to end all other hedge a discreet private investment club limited to those rich enough to pony up millions. It became the banks' own favourite fund and from its inception achieved a run of dizzyingly spectacular returns. New investors barged each other aside to get their investment money into LTCM's hands. But as competitors began to mimic Meriweather's fund, he altered strategy to maintain the fund's performance, leveraging capital with credit on a scale not fully understood and never seen before. When the markets in Indonesia, South America and Russia crashed in 1998 LCTM's investments crashed with them and mountainous debts accumulated. The fund was in melt-down, and threatening to bring down into its trillion-dollar black hole a host of financial instiutions from New York to Switzerland. It's a tale of vivid characters, overwheening ambition, and perilous drama told, in Roger Lowenstein's hands, with brilliant style and panache.

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At Thryft, our Economics collection opens up pathways to understanding complex economic theories and real-world applications. Whether you’re interested in microeconomics, macroeconomics, or behavioural economics, our carefully curated selection is designed to enrich your knowledge. Discover works from Nobel laureates and renowned economists that are essential for students, professionals, and enthusiasts who crave a deeper understanding of the economy.