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Open Economy Macroeconomics in Developing Countries
VŽgh, Carlos A. - The MIT Press
This rigorous and comprehensive textbook develops a basic small open economy model and shows how it can be extended to answer many important macroeconomic questions that arise in emerging markets and developing economies, particularly those regarding monetary, fiscal, and exchange rate issues....
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America's Assembly Line
Nye, David E. - The MIT Press
The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin’s little tramp...
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Operations Forensics: Business Performance Analysis Using Operations Measures and Tools
Lai, Richard - The MIT Press
Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm’s operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and influence the valuation of a firm. It is the first to present these...
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Leading Open Innovation
Huff, Anne Sigismund (contributor) - The MIT Press
In today’s competitive globalized market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). Organizations including Siemens, Nokia, Wikipedia, Hyve, and innosabi may launch...
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Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
Sheffi, Yoss - The MIT Press
logistics clusters--geographically concentrated sets of logistics-related business activities. In this book, supply chain …
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Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Managers, and Investors Manage Risk in High-Tech Innovations
Branscomb, Lewis M.; Auerswald, Philip E. - The MIT Press
How do technology innovators, business executives, and venture capitalists manage the technical elements of business … context of business decision making and innovation policy. The topics addressed include the extent to which purely technical …
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Offshoring Strategies: Evolving Captive Center Models
Oshri, Ilan - The MIT Press
evolve to meet different business needs. The case studies, all based on the Fortune Global 250, include the development of a …
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Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice
Dalkir, Kimiz - The MIT Press
The ability to manage knowledge has become increasingly important in today’s knowledge economy. Knowledge is considered a valuable commodity, embedded in products and in the tacit knowledge of highly mobile individual employees. Knowledge management (KM) represents a deliberate and systematic...
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Privatizing Russia
Boycko, Maxim; Shleifer, Andrei; Vishny, Robert W. - The MIT Press
Privatizing Russia offers an inside look at one of the most remarkable reforms in recent history. Having started on the back burner of Russian politics in the fall of 1991, mass privatization was completed on July 1, 1994, with two thirds of the Russian industry privately owned, a rapidly rising...
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The Business of Global Environmental Governance
Levy, David L. (contributor); Newell, Peter J. (contributor) - The MIT Press
The Business of Global Environmental Governance takes a political economy approach to understanding the role of … business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors—from a range of disciplines including international … interplay of economic structures, business strategies, and political processes. By providing comparative insights to the …
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