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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

successful reformers must recognize privatization as a process of depoliticizing firms in the face of massive opposition: making … detail the process of coalition building and compromise that ultmately shaped privatization. The main elements of the Russian …

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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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