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Aims to reflect the industry's practices and efforts to provide products of a consistent quality that meet customers' needs. With information on technological advances and issues of globalization, this book shows the importance of incorporating product quality from the merchandising and design stages through production, delivery, and retailing.

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As an alternative perspective on the analysis of quality demand, the author provides three case studies examining whether, from an engineering point of view, the quality of available of available components hampered the development of particular applications.

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Covers a range of subjects of concern to portfolio managers - investment style, benchmark replication and customization, managing credit and mortgage portfolios, managing central bank reserves, risk optimization, and performance attribution. Divided into two parts, this book provides solutions and methodologies based on investor inquiries.

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Numerous illustrative examples are presented.

Topics covered in the book include PERT/CPM/PDM and extensions, mathematical project scheduling, heuristic project scheduling, project economics, statistical data analysis for project planning, computer simulation, assignment and transportation problems, and learning curve analysis.

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The book is a collection of nine quantitative studies about Renaissance Florentine economy and society. Topics include plague outbreaks, interest rates, wealth distribution, taxes and subsidies, art history, neighbourhood segregation, competitive markets and monopoly power, women's work and business risk.

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The book is a collection of nine quantitative studies about Renaissance Florentine economy and society. Topics include plague outbreaks, interest rates, wealth distribution, taxes and subsidies, art history, neighbourhood segregation, competitive markets and monopoly power, women's work and business risk.

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Combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations. This book shows how to integrate empirical methods, economic theory, and evidence about industry in order to provide high-quality, robust empirical work that is tailored to the nature and quality of data.

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When you and your team are feeling mentally drained, these fifty brainstorming activities can help spark creative solutions, fast.

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This simple, easy-to-use book gives managers, supervisors, and team leaders activities to help their teams overcome emotional obstacles and become more effective. This practical, effective collection of proven exercises will elicit the best from any team.

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Gordon Miller, the author of this book, increased his salary by more than $100,000 in just five years. But he didn't accomplish this by staying loyal to one company. Rather, he changed jobs nearly every year. He says that you too can vastly improve your salary, earn signing bonuses, and score stock options and a flex-time schedule by following his "Big Raise" strategies.

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A final chapter draws conclusions and lessons from the examples, and three appendixes detail antitrust laws applicable to cooperative ventures, Japanese and European microelectronic and computer ventures, and cooperative ventures under NCRA.

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When you finish this book, you will be a better marketer. You will learn how to define your ideal customer experience; understand the importance of the customer's mindset at different buying stages; and increase the focus and effectiveness of your marketing strategies.

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This collection of original essays makes a unique contribution to both the radical and institutionalist economics literature by explicitly identifying and promoting the radical dimension of institutional economics.

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Between 1970 and 1997, the nation's railroads engaged in corporate mergers in an effort to stem the decline of the industry's market base, increase low return on investments, and counter the deterioration of trackage and equipment.

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