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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 … services to other international firms; the divestment of a captive center to a private equity firm; and the migration 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

property ownership and corporate management are shaking up Russian firms at a breathtaking pace, creating powerful economic and …

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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

international, cross-sector, and transdisciplinary perspectives. They report on a variety of OI initiatives, offer theoretical …

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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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Open Economy Macroeconomics in Developing Countries

VŽgh, Carlos A. - The MIT Press

international finance increasingly relies, the book teaches the reader how to think in terms of simple models and grasp the … graduate courses in development economics, international finance, and macroeconomics. …

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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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The Business of Global Environmental Governance

Levy, David L. (contributor); Newell, Peter J. (contributor) - The MIT Press

business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors—from a range of disciplines including international … responses of business to major international environmental issues, the book illuminates the ways business activity shapes and is … international environmental governance. After developing a theoretical framework for understanding the role of business in …

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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 … viable to venture capitalists, or bridging the cultural gap between technical innovators and the managers who are being asked … context of business decision making and innovation policy. The topics addressed include the extent to which purely technical …

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