Every business needs a business plan--a plan to meet the expected and unexpected opportunities and obstacles the future holds. This book will help you take a long, hard look at each element of the plan and show you how to communicate the right message to the right people, and maximize the chances of getting your business launched.

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One of the ways to revitalize established firms is through internal corporate venturing. Recognizing that traditional management principles are often at odds with innovation, this work addresses the problems of corporations whose policies and procedures discourage entrepreneurial effort.

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Highlighting the research on team development and dynamics - and including hands-on tools for improving communication, resolving conflicts, promoting interdependence, and more - this guide helps managers at various levels to motivate teams to achieve higher performance. It is part of "The Harvard Business Essentials Series".

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In this work, a veteran design consultant offers the tools for success gained from nearly 30 years of developing corporate and brand identity programs.

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Traces the economic and historical forces that gave rise to very distinctive regional approaches to creating wine. This book includes chapters on Europe's cheap commodity wine industry; the markets for sherry, port, claret, and champagne; and, the wine industries in California, Australia, and Argentina.

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Tells the story of Georges Doriot who created the venture capital industry. This book traces the events in Doriot's life, including his experience as a decorated brigadier general during World War II; as a professor at Harvard Business School; and as the architect and founder of the first venture capital firm, American Research and Development.

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In this wide-ranging collection, experts from around the world analyze political and economic trends in Latin America since the 1990s.

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Presents a view of how successful organizations evolve and renew themselves and of what managers must do to lead the revival. This book argues that there are times when managers must deliberately create crises by committing acts of 'ethical anarchy' in order to break the constraints of success and renew their organizations.

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Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges Now you can find out- with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced.

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Taking capitalism as a world system for his starting point, Vasapollo illustrates our economic system's contradictions and tendency toward crisis.

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Addressing the critical issue of knowledge transfer within an organization, this book offers practical advice on how to structure the transition of documented information and the even more valuable non-documented knowledge that outgoing staffers have-before it leaves with them.

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Crowdfunding for Filmmakers offers practical information, tips, and tactics for launching a successful film campaign by detailing traditional models of fundraising, utilizing today's technological and social innovations, and augmenting each step with an added personal touch. THis 2nd edition updates the latest techniques on Social Media to get your projects up and running asap.

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Concludes that what matters most is what one makes of experience, particularly the traumatic and unplanned crucible events that challenge one's identity as a leader. This book offers self-assessments and tools designed to help you develop your own Personal Learning Strategy. It includes examples from business, politics, and also the Mormon Church.

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A comprehensive history of how digital currencies have forever changed the way we invest and use money.

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A Culturematic is a little machine for making culture. Once wound up and released, the Culturematic acts as a probe into the often-alien world of contemporary culture, to test for atmosphere, to see what life it can sustain, to see who responds and how. This title describes this little machine and helps the reader master it.

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The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, the

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Monetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the geopolitic

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A framework for planning and operating a customer-centered business in the information age.

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Offers marketing system for measuring and managing customer value as a financial asset. This book outlines customer equity's three core strategies - customer acquisition, customer retention, and add-on selling - and the balance among them, and explain how the customer life cycle affects strategy and the marketing mix.

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