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In a book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success, Kim and Mauborgne argue that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and 30 industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors, but from creating "blue oceans"--Untapped...
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Chronicling the past fifty years of American economic and social upheaval, an award-winning economics writer examines what happened, viewing events through the experiences of two historic figures: Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve Chairwoman, and Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and her husband, George Akerlof, an imaginative Nobel prize-winning economist.
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"Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. But disruption is destructive-displacing jobs, companies, and even entire industries. Are we missing better, and even bigger, opportunities to innovate and grow? With three decades of research, the number one global-bestselling authors of Blue Ocean Strategy W. Chan Kim and Renaee Mauborgne reveal another way to innovate and grow-nondisruptive creation. Just as Blue Ocean Strategy redefined the...
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THE BOLD SECRET TO SUCCESSFUL STARTUPS
Veteran venture capitalist Uri Adoni shares the secrets to Israel's incredible track record of success in this new guide that will help make any startup unstoppable.
More than half of all startups fail-often during the crucial early stages of development when they need to prove their viability on a limited budget. But when it comes to startup success, one country stands out: Israel. Even though it is a relatively...
6) The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
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Right now, the number of people living on $2 or less a day is more than the entire population of the world in 1950. These 2.7 billion people are not just the world's greatest challenge; they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. By learning how to serve them ethically and effectively, businesses can earn handsome profits while helping to solve one of the world's most intractable problems. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based...
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic...
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Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle disruption, assess the toll of their technologies on our well-being and democracy, and outline policy changes to take power away from big tech and return it to entrepreneurs.
Silicon Valley's genius combined with limited corporate regulation promised a new age of technological innovation in which entrepreneurs...
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Ce livre captivant plonge le lecteur dans l'univers des entreprises les plus riches du monde, révélant les coulisses de leur succès financier et leur impact considérable sur l'économie mondiale. À travers des chapitres détaillés sur des entreprises emblématiques telles que Saudi Aramco, Apple, Microsoft, et d'autres, l'auteur offre une analyse approfondie des facteurs qui ont propulsé ces géants vers les sommets de la richesse et de l'influence.Le...
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"Angus Deaton, Winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2013 William G. Bowen Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University" "One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2015, chosen by John Snow" "One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Christopher L. Eisgruber (president of Princeton University)" "One of Forbes Magazine's Best Books of 2013" "Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Economics,...
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Technology-based startup enterprises are an increasingly important part of the business landscape in Asia and the Pacific. By applying innovative technologies to create new products and services, they can make a significant contribution to economic development while generating social and environmental benefits. However, to survive and then thrive, tech startups require an enabling ecosystem that includes supportive government policy, adequate access...
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Entire industries are being transformed, consumers have more power than ever before, and people are finding new ways to earn a living-even in today's slow economic recovery. All of these improvements stem from the rise of the so-called sharing economy. Even in the face of these benefits, innovation is in danger of being suppressed because of overzealous government regulation that protects existing businesses-all behind the façade of consumer safety....
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Daniel Cohen (1953–2023) was director of the Economics Department at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and a founding member of the Paris School of Economics. His many books include The Inglorious Years: The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society (Princeton), Globalization and Its Enemies, and The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics.
Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realistic
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China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa.
It's Africa's largest trade partner, the largest infrastructure financier, and the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding into the continent, investing in long-term assets such as factories and heavy equipment.
Considering Africa's difficult history of colonialism, one might suspect that China's activity there is another instance of a foreign power...
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This book is about what Mark Carney has called 'the social licence for financial markets' and how it can point us towards a more sustainable future. Author David Rouch argues that what it reveals contrasts sharply with the usual portrayals of markets as places of unrestrained financial self-interest. Drawing attention to a more complex reality and the presence of justice-focused aspirations in finance can positively impact individual, institutional,...
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En ésta edición del libro sobre Asociatividad Empresarial, queremos destacar, además de la gran aceptación que ha tenido en los sectores académico, público y empresarial nacional, la importancia que tiene como pionero en la generación de una nueva cultura empresarial basada en la cooperación interempresarial no limitándose ésta exclusivamente a las firmas privadas, sino conteniendo en dicho concepto también la colaboración y las alianzas...
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Marcelo Paladino y Héctor Rocha son los dos autores que más han contribuido en la Argentina, y muy probablemente también en América Latina, a analizar y difundir la importante cuestión de la cooperación público-privada. Como ellos señalan esa tarea requiere "contar con otro modelo de motivación, racionalidad y relación, donde la cooperación deje de ser sólo un medio y pase a ser un fin en sí mismo, bajo un objetivo intrísicamente necesario...
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Los ventajas de los negocios online respecto a los tradicionales.
Internet es nuestro presente y sobre todo nuestro futuro. Podemos definir negocio online como todo aquel comercio que se efectúa en internet. Poco a poco se diluye la idea que identifica a un negocio con un local físico donde pagar la renta, luz, empleados, artículos exhibidos en estanterías y/o escaparates, clientes que entran por la puerta, un almacén, una red de distribución......
20) How to Start a Business for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Building a Successful & Profitable Busine
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A lot of people are afraid of failure. Although they know that they can gain financial independence from starting and growing a business, they don't want to try because they know some people who failed in their businesses. They fear that their fate will also happen to them. What they don't realize is that each person is unique. The experience of others may not necessarily be his experience also. His success may not be the success of others.
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