Introduction -- So you want to run your own business -- How do you start? -- Buying and selling a business -- Staffing -- Taxes and vat -- Accounts -- Promoting your business -- Now that you've got a successful business " what's -- How it can go horribly wrong -- Retirement and succession --...

"As Yossi Sheffi began researching this book, he and his team noticed a gap: not only between companies that pay lip service to the idea of sustainability but do not change their practices, but also between consumers who say that sustainability is important to them but are unwilling to pay more...

Our troubled highway system -- How the private sector is reinventing America's freeways -- Where America's 20th-century highway model came from -- The rediscovery of toll road companies overseas -- Toll concessions return to America -- The benefits of long-term P3 concessions -- Critics and...

Introduction -- The development of modern advertising -- From traditional to industrial society -- Advertising in the transition from industrial to consumer society -- Advertising and the development of twentieth-century communications media -- The development of agencies in the bonding of...

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A growing share of the population was covered by ever more generous systems of social protection that dramatically...