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At least eighty-five percent of all businesses in the United States are family-owned--with their own special problems, situations, issues, and family dynamics. This book is a practical guide for all professional practitioners who service the needs of family businesses. It provides a basic training manual for all providers--attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, insurance and health care providers, therapists, and others--who are specialists in their fields, but are unfamiliar with the unique psychology and dynamics that often control and influence family businesses. The authors detail how to deal with the special circumstances that arise when advising and consulting to family businesses that can make or break the process of consulting, advising, and planning.

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This book of readings, intended as a supplement to business financial management text and casebooks, includes 48 articles focusing on the theory, not the methodology, of finance.Features:* Beginning finance students will find the 48 articles readable and understandable. * Articles cover a broad range of business financial management topics, enabling instructors to use the book throughout the term and in different course structures. * Over 300 hundred questions are included, approximately seven questions appear at the end of each article.These questions help structure classroom interaction. * Ethical issues are highlighted in Part I and international issues in Part VII. * Articles were penned by such prominent financial names as Harry Markowitz, Jeremy Siegel, Stewart Myers, David Sharp, Sean Beketti, Michael Jensen, and Bruce Resnick.New to this edition: * Over 80 percent of the articles are EW TO THIS EDITION.Articles were chosen based on a number of criteria, including accessibility and how it builds on the ideas usually presented in introductory finance courses. * The 40 new articles were published in 1989 or later.The other eight, published between 1983 to 1987, were included in this edition because of their clear and concise messages. ... Read more

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As organizations struggle to create and sustain shareholder value, executives are continually challenged to deliver effective business processes. Increasingly today's market requires companies to standardize operations in order to remain competitive. And, an effective way of keeping costs down and improving efficiency is by moving certain functions to one central location.

An increasingly popular and effective way of meeting this challenge is to establish a shared service centre. This briefing explains how and why more and more organizations are turning to shared services solutions. It explains how organizations can tap into the wealth of opportunities that shared services provides by clearly outlining processes for evaluation, planning and implementation. It examines the structural diversity of shared service centres and the role that good centre design plays in the quest for really effective shared services.

Shared Service Centres considers the face of shared services today and tomorrow - and looks at the challenges posed by the market place, increased outsourcing, and the consulting boom. Providing practical, experience-driven examples and offering sample presentations, tools and templates for immediate use, this briefing offers expert advice on the process, tools, design and implementation of shared service centres.

Essential reading for those considering implementing SSCs, as well as those interested in revamping existing SSC operations. This briefing will help you to:

understand the shared services approach "
explore the strategic issues that inform the SSC decision "
become familiar with the management, technological, and process challenges "
develop a unique methodology or framework to support SSC deployment "
deploy a shared services culture which supports sustainable value creation "
employ best practice processes and systems "
investigate the opportunities for e-shared services and business process outsourcing ... Read more

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From the leading minds that have established Harvard Business Review as required reading for businesspeople around the globe.

What does it take to make a project succeed? This astute collection of articles helicopters managers above the day-to-day grind of project management to understand the big-picture reasons behind why projects fly-and why they fail. Why are some bad projects so hard to kill-and why do some good projects tank? This book will help managers make decisions that enable the right projects to succeed.

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The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.

With offerings ranging from the timeless classic "Management Time Who's Got the Monkey" to innovative, cutting edge ideas, this book provides busy managers with strategies for more effective time and stress management, and offers insights into what a manager's job really entails. This is a must read for any professional wanting to work more effectively and become a better manager.

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Customer Reviews (5)

Reliable seller
I am amazed that the seller of the book shipped within record time. Anytime, I will always look for the same seller and even refer my friends. The book was in the state that was described on the website. Thanks.

A must read for young professionals or new Managers
If you are a young manager or are new to management, check out the section on "Saving Rookie Managers from Themselves." I caught myself doing some of the rookie mistakes that they outline in here. It's difficult to make the transition from being an individual performer into someone that leads/directs others performance and it is also easy to alienate yourself from subordinates in the process. I found it to be insightful.

Good for Business Owners
What else is there to say, this is great for business owners. Want to learn how to be a manager, that is how to do it.

Not a recipe, but a collection of ideas
This review is supposed to tell the potential reader what to expect from this book, based on the confession that I highly recommend reading this book.

This book is NOT A RECIPE. If you look for a "recipe" as to how to become a high performance manager, I would recommend Stephen Covey's classic on the 7 habits of highly effective people.

This book IS a perfect checklist to compare your behvior as a manager to the recommendations of people who have given the topic "high performance management" much professional thought. The art of excellent delegation and time management is broadly discussed. Multiple warnings are placed concerning the "busy manager" - one of the most dangerous symptoms in management.

If you are one your way as a junior or senior manager, read this excellent checklist - the investment will pay off.

How to get more and better work done in less time, with fewer distractions

This is one in a series of several dozen volumes that comprise the "Harvard Business Review Paperback Series." Each offers direct, convenient, and inexpensive access to the best thinking on the given subject in articles originally published by the Harvard Business School Review. I strongly recommend all of the volumes in the series. The individual titles are listed at this Web site: www.hbsp.harvard.edu. The authors of various articles are among the world's most highly regarded experts on the given subject. Each volume has been carefully edited. Supplementary commentaries are also provided in most of the volumes, as is an "About the Contributors" section that usually includes suggestions of other sources that some readers may wish to explore.

In this volume, the reader is provided with eight articles whose authors provide a variety of perspectives on how to become a high performance manager. Given when they first appeared in the HBR (1982-2002), some but remarkably little of the material is dated. Here are some of the important business issues to which the contributors respond:

How to delegate effectively so that report-to's are personally accountable for fulfilling their obligations? ("Who's Got the Monkey?," William Oncken, Jr. and Donald L. Wass)

How to focus only on what is most important? ("Beware the Busy Manager," Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghosal)

How to decide what to do despite uncertainty and an enormous amount of potentially relevant information? ("What Effective General Managers Really Do," John P. Kotter)

What is the "performance pyramid" and how can this model increase professional performance and improve quality of life? ("The Making of a Corporate Athlete," Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz)

How can executives effectively organize day-to-day activities, improve their performance under pressure, and get subordinates to become more productive? ("Managers Can Avoid Wasting Time," Ronald N. Ashkenas and Robert H. Schaffer)

What are some of "the very real dangers of executive coaching" and how to avoid them? (Steven Berglas)

Note: In another article, "All in a Day's Work," Harris Collinwood and Julia Kirby co-moderate a discussion of various leadership issues by six experts from the corporate world, the non-profit sector, and academia.

Those who share my high regard for this volume are urged to check out the recently published Harvard Business Review on Making Smarter Decisions as well as other series title in the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series such as those on Change, Corporate Strategy, Decision Making, Effective Communication, the Innovative Enterprise, Leadership, Leadership at the Top, and Measuring Corporate Performance.

Also Michael George's Authentic Leadership and True North, Jack Welch and Suzy Welch's Winning, Michael Ray's The Highest Goal, Ram Charan's Know-How, and James O'Toole's The Executive's Compass. ... Read more

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Explains how an organization with strong character can more successfully adapt to change, develop new skills, and ensure a successful future without sacrificing established values or strengths. Offers step-by-step instructions on how to determine the readiness of an organization to change--and how to identify directions and strategies most likely to succeed.

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Small Business

"Self-Defense Finance for Small Businesses is an excellent reference for practitioners. The chapters on valuation and the sale/purchase of an existing business are alone worth the price of the book."—Dr. Robert Ronstadt, Professor of Entrepreneurship Pepperdine University author of Ronstadt's Financials

Keep your small business solvent with this hands-on financial troubleshooting guide

Here's everything you need to take financial control of your small business and keep your dream alive and growing. Wilbur Yegge shares the fruits of more than three decades as a business consultant and small business owner. He offers proven strategies and techniques for ensuring the financial well-being of your company, helps you to quickly pinpoint and resolve financial management issues, and arms you with an arsenal of financial tools for daily use. And that's not all!

Throughout the book, the author has woven the real-life case histories of two small businesses—a start-up service business and an established manufacturing firm. These examples, along with numerous vignettes and lessons drawn from Mr. Yegge's personal experience, illustrate and reinforce the significance of each point covered.

No small business person can afford to be without Self-Defense Finance for Small Businesses. You'll learn how to:

• Write business plans that work
• Produce cash-flow and income statements
• Perform capital budgeting
• Do financial statement analysis and break-even analysis
• Conduct long-range planning
• Deal with banks
• Produce forecast statements
• Buy or sell a business
• Solicit and work with professional financial advisors

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The latest edition of this market leading text has adopted a supply chain approach, one of the latest developments in logistics management. Its managerial focus blends logistics theory with practical applications and includes updated material of latest transportation regulations and carrier pricing. ... Read more

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The Management of Business Logistics Textbook
I found this to be a great book at a very good price.It covers the fundamentals of Business Logistics through the Supply Chain functions completely.Check this one out.

Very Thorough
The book is very thorough, it covers all the major topics and then some of business logistics

would not recommend
we are in the logistics business and I reviewed this book as a potential teaching tool for management. The book is unfortunatley of little to no value. Most concerning is that the mathematics for inventory management, a critical factor in understanding logistics, are simply wrong. Even a quick look by anyone familiar with inventory management would find this concerning.

Immediate delivery
The book was in great condition for being used amd I received it in half the time!

This book has been dramatically improved in the 7th edition
The book takes the reader progressively from the most simple concepts to the complexities of logistics. It is true that this is not a quantitive book, but it is a very conceptual and didactic logistics book with many cases and graphs. An internet site provided by the publisher with transparencies, internet site references, and other supports to this book makes it an excellent tool. There is a lot of value in the package offered. ... Read more

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A must-read guide for every budding entrepreneur, Release Your Inner Entrepreneur provides fascinating and practical insights, hands-on activities and the experience of proven entrepreneurs.With its questioning style, high-quality enrichment materials, and real-life experiences, this book will help readers learn through its use of exercises, case studies, checkpoints and coaching support. The book is supported by on-line resources and downloadable pod-casts. ... Read more

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Not a book for entrepreneurs
This book highlights what you should do as a small business owner or what you should do if you would like to start a business.Just because you are a small business owner does not necessarily mean that you are an entrepreneur.

The book was filled with typos and the graphics were severely pixilated.

I read a lot of business books and a lot of books on entrepreneurship.This was one of the few books that I gave to Goodwill after reading the first few chapters and scanning the rest.

Comprehensive entrepreneurial guide
This is the best Entrepreneurial guide I have ever read. It is filled with handy coaching tips and points to ponder. The book does not just focus on business development but it also deals with the self analysis of the individual. There is an interesting section on idea development with various practical and real life examples. The book highlights pitfalls on choices that will guide the entrepreneur through the daunting maze of business options. The book does not stop at the business plan development but also gives a unique insight to family businesses and succession planning, covering the whole life cycle of the business not just the start-up. A must read for everyoe thinking of developing a business idea. ... Read more

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Growth is at the top of every company's agenda, and managers are expected to deliver regardless of external factors like the economy or the competition. This guide addresses pressing growth challenges today's CEOs and senior managers face, and offers insights and strategies for how to find new opportunities in customer segments, partnerships and acquisitions, and more. ... Read more

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This is truly an interdisciplinary book for knowledge workers in business, finance, management and socio-economic sciences based on fuzzy logic. It serves as a guide to and techniques for forecasting, decision making and evaluations in an environment involving uncertainty, vagueness, impression and subjectivity. Traditional modeling techniques, contrary to fuzzy logic, do not capture the nature of complex systems especially when humans are involved. Fuzzy logic uses human experience and judgement to facilitate plausible reasoning in order to reach a conclusion. Emphasis is on applications presented in the 27 case studies including Time Forecasting for Project Management, New Product Pricing, and Control of a Parasit-Pest System. ... Read more

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Security personnel are being asked to justify their existence in a corporate environment.They must prove their worth in dollars and cents by showing the return on investing in loss prevention.This means security departments are being forced to contribute more to the business as a whole.This book will show security managers and personnel how to go about this, and how to achieve quality in their departments.



Suggests security should be a valued resource within the corporation that can contribute to bottom line performance.
Teaches security managers to approach their jobs as 'business managers who specialize in security'.
Written by Security Magazine's 1987 Executive Achievement Award recipient. ... Read more

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Many of today’s companies struggle with the task of delivering products customers when and where they want them. Using tactics from articles in this volume, any company can learn how to beat the competition, and stripping waste from each step in their value-delivery process. ... Read more

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Excellent, but a bit repetetive
The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series, as the "Paperback" in the name implies, are not written for academics and researchers like me, but for the professional manager seeking hands-on real-life executive perspectives and solutions.

To me, the first article on why so many partnerships fail, and the article about Zara's legendarily agile supply chain, along with the final chapter on aligning incentives and collectively sharing risks and rewards are the best parts of this book.

A whole three articles on Toyota? I think that's pushing the envelope a bit. While those are good and valid examples of excellent supply chain management, for a paperback handbook like this, more variety should have been sought. Just my two cents. But perhaps, there are no better examples? That may very well be...

Great to generate strategies
The book gives good strategies, which the reader can find more literature if they would like to pursue.If you are looking for a quick read to stimulate ideas, choose this book.If you are seasoned in modern supply chain strategies, you may want to find something with a little more meat.

Great Read...
I'm a 25 year Supply-Chain Manager in the USAF.I enjoyed reading this and relating to the changes in mind-sets in supply chain management.Logistics, Supply-Chain and Distribution managers have contributed to companies and the militaries success's or failure's...

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Can't say much about this Because it wasn't for my personal use. It did arrive in timely manner though. Good job to the seller!

Good Read
This book is for an MBA class and as Harvard Business Cases are concerned there are some interesting factual articles in this Supply Chain Management review by Harvard.

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BUSINESS FINANCE presents finance from a business point of view. This text covers finance fundamentals, long-term and short-term funding sources, business risk management, use of technology, and international finance. Business Finance combines fundamental concepts with a strong lesson-based instructional design, weaving in interesting real-world features, creative methods of assessment, research opportunities, financial calculations, case studies, and academic connections. Examine the financial side of running a business, keeping records, protecting against loss, offering credit, and making strategic decisions. ... Read more

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Modeling is a tool used by savvy business managers to understand the processes of their business and to estimate the impact of changes. Dynamic Modeling for Business Management applies dynamic modeling to business management, using accessible modeling techniques that are demonstrated starting with fundamental processes and advancing to more complex business models. Discussions of modeling emphasize its practical use for decision making and implementing change for measurable results. Readers will learn about both manufacturing and service-oriented business processes using hands-on lessons. Then will then be able to manipulate additional models to try out their knowledge and address issues specific to their own businesses and interests. All of the models used in the book and a run-time version of the ithink software are included on a CD-ROM included with the book. Some of the topics covered include workflow management, supply- chain management, and strategy. ... Read more

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Good book but poor choice of modeling software.
Interesting approach to modeling but it's all dependent on ithink, which is an absolutely old software program with a user interface from the Win 3.1 era.You'll be banging your head against the wall at the archaic nature of the program.Would've been a great program ten+ years ago but today I can't imagine anyone seriously wanting to learn this software.And in all honesty, the financial modeling section is hokey, as the manipulations are much easier done with excel.

Great Book on Business Systems and Simulation
Dynamic Modeling for Business Management is an excellent reference book for business and industrial engineer students and practitioners. The book provides explanations and examples for adding dynamics to some of the basic business systems and processes.The mathematical models introduced in operations research and management science courses have very restrictive assumptions.Simulation allows exploring more realistic models and enables the reader the appreciation the value of adding more realism of systems by having the capability of more realistic properties and feedback mechanisms.An example is waiting lines.In most real situations, the service rate is affected by the current length of the waiting line.Queuing models ignore this. Using simulation, you can model the results of these interdependencies.

The authors include Little's Law and serial workflow processes along with material flows, supply chains, repair systems, batching and tradeoffs among quality, speed and costs.This is the dynamic example of the old adage: "You can have it good, fast, cheap; pick two."

This book serves as an introduction to the simulation language ithink by iseesystems, formally High Performance Systems.The advantage of using this continuous language is in its simplicity, which also makes it both easy to learn and very adaptable.Good for readers that are not familiar with the language.This book is part of the Springer series on Modeling Dynamic Systems.

Excellent text for applies dynamic modeling
This is an excellent textbook for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate course in business simulation modeling.It might also be useful in an engineering course on simulation modeling, especially in more applied areas like industrial engineering.

I find the book more accessible, if not as complete, than Sterman's text.By adopting a "hand's on" approach and using the i-Think modeling software, I believe students will also find the concepts more accessible. For users of i-Think, this text has some excellent examples of how the software can be used to model specific manufacturing and supply chain business problems.Even if you aren't an i-Think user (it isn't my first choice) you will still find a lot of practical modeling advice.The math is solid, and there is an interesting twist on Little's Law.For those new to stochastic modeling, the section on modeling random variation is priceless.It takes the reader through the most useful modeling distributions and is a wonderful blend of mathematics and applied modeling.

My only negative comments relate to the meager section on Economic Value Added (which should have been more fully developed and moved into the main body of the text--in my opinion), and the selection of software (no offense to the i-Think users, but I think there are better tools for general business simulation modeling.Though maybe not for dynamic modeling--so I temper my criticism.)

In short, this is an excellent entry point for the reader who wants a solid introduction to dynamic systems and their specific application to business.

Good Book and Can Easily Be Put into Practice...
I read this after Sterman's 'Business Dynamics'. While 'Business Dynamics' is a graduate level text book, this book is more aligned to the requirements of practitioners like consultants and managers. MDS have a series of books on use of dynamic modeling, each focusing on a specific area like biological systems, economics, health sciences, environmental systems etc. ... Read more

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Managing Business Finance offers a concise and analytical introduction to the basics of financial management. The text is based on The Essence of Financial Management, and the general flavour and aims of the original book remain unchanged, focusing on core issues in finance and their relationship to the business world.Aimed at MBA students, or those taking short courses in financial management. This is a broad based and concise introduction to the key concepts and practical aspects of financing and investment decisions, illustrated with examples and a glossary of key terms. ... Read more

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A collection of reflective articles walks readers through tough career challenges--from effective time management to part-time arrangements to launching a new career. Softcover. ... Read more

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Manage your Career
The subject and content is nice and helpful. I prefer more simple book like DK publishers management series. DK publishers book provide more general information. ... Read more

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Small Business Management, with its loyal following and great package, is far and away the market leading text in small business and has been for many years.It is a proven text, comprehensive in its approach, with the best fully integrated content, graphics, and resources devoted to business plan development.SBM has always been a step ahead of the competition (first to cover family businesses and first to integrate computer technology for small business) and continues to provide innovative coverage in each new edition. Increasingly adopted in hybrid courses that combine small business management and entrepreneurship and in standalone entrepreneurship courses, SBM shows aspiring business owners not only how to start a business but how to grow one. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (9)

No CD rom included
I am giving this a fair rating because the book came with no CD rom. The seller did not include this in the product details.It would have been helpful to know that. Therefore, it was misleading information that I was given. I am highly disappointed.

Small Business Management
As always I was very pleased with the timely manner that my book shipped.The condition that I was told that the book would be in was just what I expected.Thanks for your prompt service with this order.

Very good resources
I am going to give this book a solid 4 stars. Tremendous resources that were very useful. Very easy to read and understand. I recommend.

Great information for someone wanting to start a business
This book gives you the truth. If you ever wanted to start any business, read this book carefully. The topics are informative and give great business fundamentals and a foundation of what to expect. I would say it is like a MBA crash course.

Good Product
Great shape, quick shipping. Too expensive, but that is what this product normally runs unfortuantly. Overall good experience ... Read more