Praise for The Lean Six Sigma guide to Doing More with Less "At Frito Lay, we have applied many of the concepts and tools in this book, and we are realizing a five to seven times return on our annual Lean Six Sigma investment." -Tony Mattei, Lean Six Sigma Director, Frito Lay "Ecolab has...

Global Trends in Human Resource Management draws on twenty years of data collected by the Center for Effective Organizations to chart the changing nature of HR practice, and show how it can meet the demands of an evolving global marketplace.

Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King's Fed Power is the first sustained examination of the Fed as a potent political institution that systematically provides concealed advantages to a privileged few. The authors trace the Fed's historic development from the fiery tug-of-war over monetary policy...

The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and puts forward bold...

"Although the live-work concept is now accepted among progressive urban design and planning professionals, the specifics that define the term, and its application, remain sketchy. This encyclopedic work is sure to change that, providing the critical information that is needed by architects,...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- An Accident? -- This Book -- Financial Regulation Matters -- Some Final Introductory Remarks -- Road Map -- Chapter 2. Regulating Finance Is Hard to Do -- Introduction -- Shareholders versus Debt Holders: The Essence...

Americans as a whole view themselves as reasonably prudent and sober people when it comes to matters of money, reflecting the puritan roots of the earliest European settlers. Yet as a community, we also seem to believe that we are entitled to a lifestyle that is well-beyond our current income, a...

The US forced the EU to liberalize the Lomé Conventions, but the EU fired back with the EPAs, characterized by supposedly free market policies but which in reality yokes the ACP countries trade to the EU and excludes the US.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I History and Scope of the Nonprofit Sector -- Part II Nonprofits and the Marketplace -- Part III Nonprofits and the Polity -- Part IV Key Activities in the Nonprofit Sector -- Part V Who Participates...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue: You Don't Have Jack -- Section One: Nobody's Working -- Chapter 1: The Curse of the Overwhelmed -- Hey, I'm Doing My Job -- Chapter 2: It's Not Their Fault -- More Valuable Than Cash -- Chapter 3: Tools of Our Tools --...