The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite by Duff McDonald
2017 | ISBN: 0062347179 | English | 672 pages | EPUB | 1 MB
This comprehensive and authoritative guide will teach you the DAX language for business intelligence, data modeling, and analytics. Leading Microsoft BI consultants Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari help you master everything from table functions through advanced code and model optimization. You’ll learn exactly what happens under the hood when you run a DAX expression, how DAX behaves differently from other languages, and how to use this knowledge to write fast, robust code. If you want to leverage all of DAX’s remarkable power and flexibility, this no-compromise “deep dive” is exactly what you need.
What Should I Do? is the cornerstone question for a multitude of ethical considerations – and the basis for this text.
Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook, by Mary Jane Byrd takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to planning, organizing, and running a small business. While employing current research and theory, its pragmatic “how-to” perspective illustrates many practical examples and applications from the business world. It explains how to achieve optimum benefits from the limited resources available to small firms, as well as how to plan for growth and succession in a business. It also explores arguments both for and against owning a small business.
Global Business Today is for the undergraduate or MBA level course of International Business where a concise paperback is desired. Global Business Today appeals to instructors looking for an analytical (as opposed to a descriptive) approach to the course. Global Business Today is known for being practical, which is an important point as many instructors who teach this course are often not researchers, but come from the business world. The text is influenced by each of the author’s extensive global consulting experience for Fortune 500 companies.
“Very rich variety of examples and case studies to illustrate and underpin the theoretical understanding” – Dr Stefan Kesting, University of Leeds
Business Driven Technology 7e provides the ultimate flexibility in tailoring content to the exact needs of your MIS or IT course!
This textbook connects tried-and-tested theory, analytical frameworks, data and case examples to deliver a comprehensive guide to the subject from authors who keep pace with the ongoing developments in both theory and practice.
The promise of technology has always been about happiness in one form or another. Technology aspires to make tiresome chores go faster, to help people get better at their work, and to augment human abilities. And yet, research suggests that technology has a strong negative impact on our lives. We all struggle a little with being human in the digital age.
Grounded in actual research and supported by the author’s 25 years of experience teaching business and management students, this book is designed especially for students and researchers in business looking to do practical research, and introduces them to the reality of conducting research for the classroom or the boardroom.
Author Note: Laura Hartman was most recently at DePaul University. She also currently services as executive director of a trailblazing trilingual elementary school in Haiti, the School of Choice/l’Ecole de Choix. She is also cofounded an online micro-development, finance, and education system for people living in poverty in Haiti, called Zafen. Previously, Hartman served as director of external partnerships for Zynga.org, the charitable arm of the social game developer Zynga. She has written many other books including Rising above Sweatshops: Innovative Management Approaches to Global Labor Challenges.
Do you need to brush up on your statistical skills to truly excel in your economics or business course?
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