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Fundamentals of Quantitative Business Methods: Business Tools and Cases in Mathematics, Descriptive Statistics, and Probability
Mark Soskin , and James Xander Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0072368241 |
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This is the story of a breakthrough in competency-based quantitative business education. Begun in 1991 as part of a college-wide effort to revolutionize business education instruction. The foundations of the new approach were the following four competencies: Teamwork, Communication, Creative Thinking and Adapting to Change. The introductory quantitative methods course occupies a critical position in a competency-based curriculum. An effective "quant methods" course must challenge students to enlist quantitative techniques to solve business problems and establish a lifelong link between data analysis and business decision making. Like many other business programs, we formerly gave responsibility for teaching business mathematics, descriptive statistics, and probability to departments outside the business college. As elsewhere, we were deeply concerned that business math and basic stat courses were generally ill-suited to our business curriculum needs. For example, out business curriculum made little use of material from the business calculus course required in our program. We also discovered that anxiety about these quantitative courses were so high that many students postponed taking them until right before graduation. By requiring a course whose material was seldom applied, the not so subtle and erroneous message was sent to students that fundamental math, stat, and probability is not useful in business. For competency-based education to be successful, quantitative learning must be effectively linked to the rest of the curriculum. First, only quantitative tools directly useful to solving fundamental business problems were to be included in the new course. To obtain this core of tools, we surveyed our business faculty to identify critical methods and concepts most needed by students in each major business areas. Next, we designed an entirely new course around this essential core of quantitative tools. Finally, a revolutionary textbook was developed that fosters quantitative learning through the four business competencies and emphasizes these core methods and concepts. After several years of classroom trials and student feedback, Fundamentals of Quantitative Business Methods is the end result of this process. This text, now in its third edition, helps students identify how each of the four competencies relates to mathematical and statistical reasoning and business modeling techniques. Some problems and cases may also be used to develop teamwork skills through cooperative learning. By working and studying in teams, students can better assess how well they understand the material and can help each other to learn critical problem-solving skills.
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Descriptive Theories of Bargaining: An Experimental Analysis of Two- And Three- Person Characteristic Function Bargaining (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)
Gerald R. Uhlich Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0387524835 |
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This book deals with two- and three-person bargaining games in characteristic function form and presents two new descriptive theories, the Negotiation Agreement Area and the Proportional Division Payoff Bounds (PDPB). The evaluation of data for two-person games leads to a new descriptive theory called Negotiation Agreement Area which combines the influence of power and justice norms. The main emphasis of the book is on a new descriptive theory for three-person games, the PDPB. Comparison with other theories on the basis of 3088 plays of different games shows that the PDPB are significantly more successful in prediction than other theories. The PDPB concept is a modification and extension of Selten's Equal Division Payoff Bounds. The determination of the bounds is based on general principles and not on the estimation of parameters. From aspiration levels which depend on power, justice norms, and other reasonable principles the negotiation process leads to a proportional division of the prize.
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Descriptive Accounting
Q. Vorster Manufacturer: International Specialized Book Services ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0702143677 |
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A methodology for analysing and evaluating narratives in annual reports: a comprehensive descriptive profile and metrics for disclosure quality attributes [An article from: Accounting Forum]
V. Beattie , B. McInnes , and S. Fearnley Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RQZDKO |
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This digital document is a journal article from Accounting Forum, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Pcps Peer Review Manual Including Descriptive Book
Manufacturer: Amer Inst of Certified Public ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0686904184 |
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Accountancy in its relation to the economic theory of value;: With classified & descriptive bibliography
Victor Branford ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0008CHMJW |
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Bid protests at GAO : a descriptive guide (SuDoc GA 1.14:97016286)
U.S. General Accounting Office Manufacturer: U.S. General Accounting Office] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010SORK |
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Bid protests at GAO a descriptive guide (SuDoc GA 1.14:B 47/995)
U.S. General Accounting Office Manufacturer: The Office The Office [distributor] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010RTH6 |
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Descriptive Accounting 3
Vorster , and et al Manufacturer: Juta & Co Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0702147451 |
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Income distribution and economic linkages in Botswana: A review of the social accounting matrix as a descriptive data framework (Discussion paper)
Carol G Hayden Manufacturer: Department of Economics, University of Warwick ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007B22JE |
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The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership: Over 250 Terms, Concepts, Strategies & Initiatives of the Legendary Leader
Jeffrey A. Krames Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071381406 |
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A comprehensive guide to the strategies and initiatives of legendary CEO Jack Welch
In his two decades as CEO, Jack Welch's principles, strategies, and tenets transformed GE into one of history's most dynamic and valuable corporations. As a result, executives in all industries are now eager to hear Welch's every pronouncementand implement his strategies in their own organizations.
The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership is the first alphabetically structured collection to place Welch's career in perspective, and trace the evolution of his key ideas and innovations. Intended to stand on its own as well as complement Welch's eagerly awaited upcoming memoir, this timely book provides readers with analysis and perspective on Six Sigmathe revolutionary program that "changed the DNA of GE"as well as dozens of other Welch concepts and initiatives (including Globalization, Work-Out, the E-Initiative, and others).
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THE BUSINESS BIBLE!.......2002-01-08
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A Jack Welch Primer/Thesaurus.......2001-11-25
Practical and Inspiring.......2001-11-14
Comprehensive in its coverage, this book takes you through all the phases of modern business yet it is timeless in its application. Truely, a book to be referred to over and over. A real gem that will age well, because the lessons learned here gain in depth and significance as time passes.
As a sales consultant and trainer, I find this content provides the reader a roadmap to success and enables them to control their destiny.
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El Vocabulario Del Liderazgo De Jack Welch/ The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership: Mas De 250 Terminos. Conceptos, Estrategias E Iniciativas Del Legendario ... Strategies & Initiatives of the Legendary L
Jeffrey A. Krames Manufacturer: Panorama Mexico ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9683811922 |
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The Leadership Lexicon
Rick Bellingham , and William O'Brien Manufacturer: HRD Press, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0874258553 |
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This handbook is perfect for busy leaders with little time on the job to devote to improving their effectiveness. Its packed with concrete behaviors for becoming the type of leader others followmore than 500 skills and 1,500 actionable suggestions that can be put to use immediately. The authors provide a new model of leadership based on five essentials that compel people to follow. To be effective, leaders must be able to: identify opportunities and threats build the programs and teams required to meet those challenges drive for results These three competencies must be grounded by two remaining essentials of leadership: Character Commitment Chapter one focuses on how to analyze conditions and possibilities, establish the right mind-set, develop the plan and priorities, and make hard decisions. Chapter two addresses the challenge of building individual, team, organizational, and customer competencies. Chapter three examines how to apply skills, manage for results, and achieve profitability. The book contains page after page of tips and strategies: over 100 competencies required for extraordinary leadershipfrom strategic thinking and resource planning to business writing, involving employees and beyond 510 skills required for proficiency in each competency 35 development suggestions for each skill that will improve the ability to lead
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The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership: Over 250 Terms, Concepts, Strategies and Initiatives of the Legendary Leader
Jeffrey A. Krames Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OG7QYI |
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Land Stewardship Through Watershed Management: Perspectives for the 21st Century
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306466988 |
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This volume highlights the need for enhancing the effectiveness of land stewardship and management of the world's natural resources to meet the need of the growing global population for conservation, sustainable development, and the use of land, water, and other natural resources. Ecosystem-based, multiple-use land stewardship is necessary when considering the present and future uses of land, water, and other natural resources on an operationally efficient scale. The chapters focus on global watershed management perspectives, problems, and programs; a retrospective survey of watershed management, lessons learned, emerging tools and technologies, and locally-led initiatives; the issues confronted when implementing a watershed management approach to land stewardship; the anticipated future contributions of watershed management to land stewardship; and the protocols necessary to realize the contributions of watershed management to land stewardship in practices, projects, and programs.
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Earth Ponds Sourcebook: The Pond Owner's Manual and Resource Guide
Tim Matson Manufacturer: Countryman Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0881503584 |
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In the sequel to his bestselling Earth Ponds, Tim Matson offers new ideas, advice, a wealth of resources, and his trademark wit in this sourcebook full of practical information for pond owners. Those who want to build a new pond today are likely to face tighter regulations on wetlands and complicated questions about building methods; those who already own ponds may wonder how to stock it with fish, how to cure an alga or weed problem, or how to cope with beavers. This book addresses all of these issues, and more.Topics covered include:
* Pond Building: a concise guide, A to Z
* Maintenance: symptoms of a dying pond and some basic and off-the-wall ideas about how to prevent, or reverse, this aging process
* Wildlife: how to attract those you want; how to repel those you don't.
* Activities and Use: skating, raising fish, saunas and hot tubs, kits for building rafts, docks, and gazebos, pumps for irrigation and pond protection,
* Garden ponds: goldfish, ornamental plants
* Details about the products on the market, where to buy supplies, and how to get the best for your buck.
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From Reclamation to Sustainability: Water, Agriculture, and the Environment in the American West
Lawrence J. MacDonnell Manufacturer: University Press of Colorado ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0870815334 |
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From Reclamation to Sustainability tells the story of four places in the West--the Arkansas Valley and the Grand Valley of Colorado, the Truckee-Carson basins of California and Nevada, and the Yakima Basin in Washington--where development and use of water, primarily for irrigated agriculture, have been central to economic and social development. In these places (and many others), the reclamation vision that helped settle the West now competes with a vision of a sustainable West.All four regions tell of the essential role water has played in western agriculture and the importance of this agriculture for settlement of much of the West. They also exemplify the many difficulties of turning prairie and desert into productive croplands, and MacDonnell describes the sometimes extraordinary human committment and effort that made this possible.
Now, however, western water resources have been developed beyond their sustainable capacity in an attempt to irrigate as much land as possible, and MacDonnell illustrates the consequences of this overdevelopment, including declining rural communities, dewatered streams incapable of supporting native species, and degraded water quality. He also provides examples of efforts to repair some of the damages and of the challenges involved in such restoration.
MacDonnell argues that sustainable use of the West's water resources depends on reducing the gap between diverted water and used water, restoring the functional ecological integrity of water sources, allowing uses of developed water to change, and effective collaborative public/private processes that help reconcile competing interests in water. He concludes that the manner in which the West moves toward sustainable use of its limited water resources--particularly as it affects irrigated agriculture--matters at least as much as achieving sustainable use. It matters because the choices we make will have important consequences for the future West.
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Acid Waters in Wales (Monographiae Biologicae)
R.W. Edwards , A.S. Gee , and J.H. Stoner Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792304934 |
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African Water Resources: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development (World Bank Technical Paper, No 331)
Torbjorn Damhaug , Edeltraut Gilgan-Hunt , David Grey , Valentina Okaru , and Daniel Rothberg Manufacturer: World Bank Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0821337114 |
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Agricultural Use of Groundwater: Towards Integration between Agricultural Policy and Water Resources Management (Economics, Energy and Environment)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792368053 |
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Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways. Conservation and better management of this invisible resource should be a key ingredient of sustainable water policies. This is especially true in areas, such as many Mediterranean regions, which are already exposed to scarcity problems and which are likely to experience increasing competition between freshwater uses and users. Agriculture is an important user of groundwater not only in terms of abstractions, but also in terms of generation and release of pollutants. Agricultural policies, traditionally directed towards other objectives, are beginning to pay more attention to environmental considerations. However more effective initiatives are required to reduce the pressure upon groundwater resources and to achieve a better integration between agricultural and environmental policies.
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Agriculture and Water Quality: International Perspectives
John B. Braden , and Stephen B. Lovejoy Manufacturer: L. Rienner Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1555871836 |
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Competition Scarce Groundwater
Mohamm Al-Hamdi Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9054104260 |
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Crop-Water Relations
I. D. Teare Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471046302 |
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Effective Use of Water in Irrigated Agriculture (Report Council for Agricultural Science and Technology No 113)
Manufacturer: Council for Agricultural ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9998061865 |
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Astronomical Phenomena for the Year (Astronomical Phenomena)
Nautical Almanac Office Manufacturer: Stationery Office Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 011886503X |
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Astronomical Phenomena for the Year 1998 (Astronomical Phenomena)
Nautical Almanac Office Manufacturer: Bernan Assoc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0118873008 |
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Astronomical Phenomena for the Year 1999 (Astronomical Phenomena)
Tso Manufacturer: Bernan Assoc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0118873059 |
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Astronomical Phenomena for the Year, 1990 (Astronomical Phenomena for the Year)
Manufacturer: U.S. Government Printing Office ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0160021065 |
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Astronomical Phenomena for the Year 1994
Nautical Almanac Office Manufacturer: Bernan Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0118869469 |
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