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Entrepreneurs in History: Success vs. Failure, Entrepreneurial Role Models provides examples of entrepreneurial role models and highlights factors that led to the success of entrepreneurs in history. Why did some fail and others succeed? Readers can learn from their experiences. The environment in which they strived contributed to their success or failure. Their personal characteristics were important in overcoming obstacles in their path and contributed to their achievements. Examples of entrepreneurship/invention are provided in nine sets of three chapters each. The first chapter in each set is a profile of an unsuccessful or less successful entrepreneur/ inventor, the second chapter is a biographical sketch of one who succeeded where his counterpart failed, and the third chapter is an evaluation of factors that caused one to fail and allowed another to succeed. Topics include production of the automobile, invention of the steamboat and the telephone, introduction of the mainframe computer, the mini-computer, and the personal computer, development of the vulcanization of rubber, and invention of the airplane and the sewing machine. Also, four profiles provide examples of early failure--late success and of converting failure into success. Determination, motivation, and perseverance were displayed by all of these individuals/ teams. Readers can learn from them as they enlighten by example.
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Entrepreneurs Vs. the State
Burton W. Folsom
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Offering a unique balance of industry and academic experience, this unique author team presents the latest in financial theory while maintaining a strong real-world connection. Aiming to engage rather than intimidate, they offer a book that is reader-focused yet does not water down content. Their consistent approach focuses on value: what creates value, what destroys it, how value is measured, and how value and risk are related. Offers web-based Interactive Modules that provide extensions of the material presented in the book, such as Excel spreadsheets and Internet links. Bundles with the book Prentice Hall's
Mastering Finance CD that includes video clips and other material to illustrate concepts. Features an earlier presentation of the cost of capital (to Chapter 9 from Chapter 12), preceding capital budgeting and cash flow estimation chapters. Provides all-new material on business valuation techniques. Perfect for the financial analyst, marketing manager, or information technology manager who wants an updated reference on financial topics.
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- Learn P&G Strategies
- The P&G 99 Can't Help If You Don't Use What You Learn.
- it is ok
- It encapsuled what I learned in 5 years working on P&G brand
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Winning with the P&G 99: 99 Principles and Practices of Procter Gambles Success
Charlie L. Decker
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Instantly recognizable as the company behind such familiar products as Ivory soap, Tide detergent and Crest toothpaste, Procter & Gamble is admired as one of the world's best managed companies. Marketing training at P&G rivals that of an MBA degree, and Harvard Business School teaches P&G's brand-management system. Now, a former P&G marketing executive identifies ninety-nine practices and principles that fuel this $35 billion powerhouse -- strategies for success in business and in life.
As a brand manager, Charles Decker saw P&G wisdom at work from the inside. For this book, he interviewed dozens of ex-"Proctoids," as they call themselves, to incorporate their perspectives on P&G. Here are the beliefs ("A brand can't stand still"), the code of business conduct ("Do the right thing") and the rules of engagement for television advertising ("Show the package in the first eight seconds") that are at the heart of this marketing giant. Here are anecdotes of a corporate culture where winning is the goal, risk avoidance the criterion, and the airtight memo the basis for action.
Accessible and engaging, WINNING WITH THE P&G 99 offers the time-tested strategies that have kept P&G on top -- practical insights for anyone managing a business, a career, or striving for a personal best.
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Learn P&G Strategies.......2006-01-27
Over five billion people around the world purchase products made by Proctor & Gamble, including 98 percent of all households in the United States. Proctor & Gamble is best known for its brands, including Bold, Spic and Span, Crisco, Crest, Cover Girl, and Ivory Soap. P&G has been so successful with marketing their brands that Harvard Business School teaches P&G's brand management system. What are the secrets to their success?
In this book, Charles L. Decker, a former brand manager at Proctor & Gamble, outlines the policies, ethics, and strategies that are the bedrock of P&G's success.
· Rigorous testing. P&G using panels of regular people to test their products, providing a "reality check" for the product development team. Every product undergoes blind testing against its competition. If P&G's brand doesn't win the test, its product doesn't go to market.
· Adapt products to local markets. When P&G enters a new market it works hard to express a commitment to its host country, by talking to the press and meeting with local opinion leaders. It also adapts products to meet the needs of consumers in host countries by using focus groups, and incorporating nationals into brand management.
· Maintain high ethical standards. P&G boasts that it makes no unethical political contributions, pays no bribes and does not deal under the table with customers or suppliers.
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o Emphasize the solution, not the problem.
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The P&G 99 Can't Help If You Don't Use What You Learn........2005-06-15
That's right. None of the books that I recommend for the reader can help them unless they absolutely make the decision that they are going to apply the principles and the methodology that the writer is trying to communicate. I have tried the advice that Charles Decker gives and you know what? It Works!
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His section on thinking Globally versus acting with a local mentality were also helpful areas of his book. Pg 187 begins with a ripping section on Going To Market and using the concepts of transforming your product into a brand.
The book ends with lessons for effective print advertising including an area it seems a lot of start-ups struggle with ...Tag lines.
Again it worked for me I just hope you apply what you're reading and Flip the Switch...the lights do come on in this book.
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it is ok.......2000-01-22
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It encapsuled what I learned in 5 years working on P&G brand.......1999-01-16
An excellent, well organized primer on the P&G system and culture - a great demonstration of how best to build brands and people in an organization. Can apply many of these principles to other organizations, large or small.
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This text represents a unique approach to introductory corporate finance. Although many texts have embraced the theme of shareholder wealth maximization, this book thoroughly carries out this theme in a uniquely consistent and unified fashion. It establishes the notion that a discounted cash flow mode captures the market valuation process. It then applies this concept of valuation not only to the typical analysis of capital expenditure decisions and cost of capital, but also to working capital management, financial budgeting and planning, and international financing and investing decisions. Additionally, this text is further differentiated by superior, substantive, and systematic treatment of the investing and financing decisions of multinational firms as part of the core managerial process.
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It is rare that a project lender, property development financier, PFI banker, MBO debt provider or securitization investor does not insist on its borrower taking out some form of interest rate and/or cross-currency hedging. By and large, however, the implications of integrating a swap into a structured financing are little understood and often ignored. At best, current practice is often misrepresentative and lax. This text offers clear, detailed, practical guidance on the key commercial, operational, legal and documentation issues that arise. It provides lenders, swap providers, borrowers, finance consultants and lawyers with the confidence and technical ability to ask the right questions at the right time, and to ensure that, whatever the nature of the financing, the swap is correctly integrated into the structure.
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The third edition of this highly successful textbook provides an accessible and concise introduction to the core concepts and key topic areas of Corporate Finance. It incorporates a wide range of topical real-world examples, allowing students to relate theory to practice. Corporate Finance: Principles & Practice provides the ideal structure for any corporate finance course, particularly where there are time constraints due to modular delivery. It offers integrated coverage of the three key decision areas in finance - investments, financing and dividends, providing a clear and logical framework for study.
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