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1) The dream society: how the coming shift from information to imagination will transform your business
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Pub. Date
1999
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English
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How the shift from information to imagination will transform YOUR business. Futurist Rolf Jensen's intriguing and indispensable new guide, The Dream Society, shows you how to understand the marketplace of tomorrow and create the company of the future, developing products and services that appeal to hearts rather than heads. This blueprint for the successor to the Information society helps you explore our basic emotional needs—for adventure,...
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Princeton University Press
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English
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"One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics" "One of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2017" "One of Project Syndicate's Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kermal Dervi )" "Winner of the 2019 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia Business School" Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Economics...
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Basic Books
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English
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"In Three Billion New Capitalists, the acclaimed international trade expert Clyde Prestowitz explains why this belief is a mirage. He describes the powerful trends whose convergence is rapidly shifting wealth and power to Asia - and why geopolitical clout will follow economic strength. These trends include America's increasingly unsustainable trade deficits and the equally unsustainable buildup of massive dollar reserves in places like Japan and China;...
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Publisher
Wiley
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English
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A guide for Western companies to understand how their new competitors from China do business and how they can change their game to win in global markets. The China Factor offers Western businesses a practical framework based on first-hand experience leading a competitive program at a high-tech multinational. It suggests how they can succeed in this new global paradigm by changing the way they do business.
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University of Chicago Press
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English
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"William W. Lewis here draws on extensive microeconomic studies of thirteen nations over twelve years to counter virtually all prevailing wisdom about how best to ameliorate economic disparity. Lewis's research, which included studying everything from state-of-the-art auto makers to black-market street vendors and mom-and-pop stores, conclusively demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, providing more capital to poor nations is not the best...
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English
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"In 'How the World Ran Out of Everything,' . . . journalist Peter S. Goodman reveals the fascinating innerworkings of our supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant, dangerous vulnerability. His reporting takes readers deep into the elaborate system, showcasing the triumphs and struggles of the human players who operate it--from factories in Asia and an almond grower in Northern California, to a group of striking railroad workers in...
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English
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"An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in conflict. You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil--the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything--from missiles to microwaves,...
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Harvard Business School Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
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New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, whose much-revered thinking has already engendered a new language of strategy. In this book, they develop a coherent model for how today's executives can identify and accomplish no...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
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"Honorable Mention for the 2011 Best Book, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association" Charles L. Glaser is professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of Analyzing Strategic Nuclear Policy (Princeton).
Within the realist school of international relations, a prevailing view holds that the anarchic structure of the international system invariably forces...
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Harvard business review paperback volume no. 90079
Publisher
Harvard Business School Press
Pub. Date
©1991
Language
English
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Series
Report / 102d Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 102-134
Publisher
U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
1991]
Language
English