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    • Valuing and Investing in Equities

      CROCI: Cash Return on Capital Investment
      • 1st Edition
      • Francesco Curto
      • English
      Valuing and Investing in Equities: CROCI: Cash Return on Capital Investment develops a common-sense framework for value investors. By distinguishing investors from speculators, it acknowledges the variety of styles and goals in the financial markets. After explaining the intuition behind due diligence, portfolio construction, and stock picking, it shows the reader how to perform these steps and how to evaluate their results. Francesco Curto illuminates the costs and opportunities afforded by valuation strategies, inflation, and bubbles, emphasizing their effects on each other within the CROCI framework. Balancing analytics with an engaging clarity, the book neatly describes a comprehensive, time-tested approach to investing. Annual returns from this investment approach demand everyone’s attention.

    • Valuing and Investing in Equities

      CROCI: Cash Return on Capital Investment
      • 1st Edition
      • Francesco Curto
      • English
      Valuing and Investing in Equities: CROCI: Cash Return on Capital Investment develops a common-sense framework for value investors. By distinguishing investors from speculators, it acknowledges the variety of styles and goals in the financial markets. After explaining the intuition behind due diligence, portfolio construction, and stock picking, it shows the reader how to perform these steps and how to evaluate their results. Francesco Curto illuminates the costs and opportunities afforded by valuation strategies, inflation, and bubbles, emphasizing their effects on each other within the CROCI framework. Balancing analytics with an engaging clarity, the book neatly describes a comprehensive, time-tested approach to investing. Annual returns from this investment approach demand everyone’s attention.

    • Handbook of the Economics of Marketing

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 1
      • English
      Handbook of the Economics of Marketing, Volume One: Marketing and Economics mixes empirical work in industrial organization with quantitative marketing tools, presenting tactics that help researchers tackle problems with a balance of intuition and skepticism. It offers critical perspectives on theoretical work within economics, delivering a comprehensive, critical, up-to-date, and accessible review of the field that has always been missing. This literature summary of research at the intersection of economics and marketing is written by, and for, economists, and the book's authors share a belief in analytical and integrated approaches to marketing, emphasizing data-driven, result-oriented, pragmatic strategies.

    • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities

      An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions
      • 9th Edition
      • Donald DePamphilis
      • English
      Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Ninth Edition, is the most current, comprehensive and cutting-edge text on M&A and corporate restructuring available. It includes many of the most up-to-date and notable deals and precedent setting judicial decisions, as well as new regulations, trends and tactics employed in M&As. The implications of recent developments such as negative interest rates on valuation and the backlash against globalization for cross-border M&As are discussed. More than 90% of the case studies are new for this edition, involving deals either announced or completed during the last several years. It is comprehensive in that nearly all aspects of M&As and corporate restructuring are explored from business plan development to target selection and valuation to negotiation and post-merger integration. It is cutting edge in that conclusions and insights are anchored by the most recent academic research, with references to more than 160 empirical studies published in leading peer-reviewed journals just since the release of the last edition in 2015.

    • Negotiating in the Leadership Zone

      • 1st Edition
      • Ken Sylvester
      • English
      Negotiating in the Leadership Zone expertly addresses the question: How do leaders become better negotiators? Much has been written about leadership, and negotiating skills have long been the subject of academics and business consultants. This book successfully brings negotiation and leadership together for the first time, building separate insights about them into practical, applied lessons and tools that can be used immediately. Leaders will find unique cases, examples, and insights for high-stakes and routine negotiations alike. Mixng a readable, non-jargon approach with real-world stories and wide applicability, the author's use of 50+ years of experience as a business owner, negotiation consultant, and teacher to convey the fundamental logic and strategies underlying negotiations. The results are more than convincing.

    • Connector Industry

      A Profile of the European Connector Industry - Market Prospects to 1999
      • 6th Edition
      • Andrew Fletcher
      • English
      New sixth edition of the market report - a complete analysis of industry status and condition, pinpointing market trends and opportunities, highlighting emerging technologies, tracking industry developments. Market figures and forecasts are provided for the period 1994-1999 by product and region and a survey of the major connector suppliers in Europe includes a league table and profiles of the top 20 market leaders in Europe. Products covered include: circular, rectangular, PCB, IDC, coaxial and fibre optic connectors. Country coverage: Germany, UK, France, Italy, Benelux, Scandinavia, Rest of Europe.Profile of the European Connector Industry is one of a series of studies conducted by Elsevier Advanced Technology's market research unit as part of its ongoing research in the electronics industry. All profile reports are the result of a programme of personal interviews with the key manufacturers, suppliers and other industry experts, supplemented by telephone interviews, questionnaires, literature searches and desk research of trade and industry statistics.

    • On the Development of China's Information Technology Industry

      • 1st Edition
      • Jiang Zemin
      • English
      In the early 1980’s, Jiang Zemin, then Minister of Electronics Ministry of China, assessed the IT industry as ‘the strategic high ground in international competition.’ He "perceived the discrepancy between China’s level and the world's advanced level was so great that we had to do our utmost to catch up." Since then through numerous articles and frequent speeches he has drawn up a detailed technological and policy roadmap for doing exactly that. This volume collects over 25 pieces written over more than 20 years. It demonstrates the former president of China’s authority and insight into the development of China’s IT industry since the introduction of reforms, and the cutting-edge issues experienced throughout the global IT industry. Jiang’s ambitious goal is the transformation of China into a leader in the global IT industry by 2020. This volume offers IT industry analysts, China watchers, policy makers and advisors, IT researchers, and investors a singular and authoritative view on how China should get there.

    • Plastics China: Technologies, Markets and Growth Strategies to 2008

      • 1st Edition
      • Donald V Rosato
      • English
      'Plastics China: Technologies, Markets and Growth Strategies to 2008' outlines the structure of the Chinese industry, assesses market and technological trends, offers market figures and forecasts to 2008 and identifies the major players.Contents include:* Market figures and forecasts to the year 2008* Assessment of the Chinese plastics market including enduse plastics analysis* Plastic technology and growth strategies in China* Comprehensive directories of Chinese plastics suppliers, fabricators and endusers, state contracts, trade associations, trade journals and trade shows* Includes numberous tables, diagrams, charts and graphics.

    • Profile of the International Valve Industry: Market Prospects to 2009

      • 1st Edition
      • Graham Weaver
      • English
      This revised and updated 3rd edition outlines the structure of the global industry and future trends, highlights issues facing the industrial valve industry, assesses market and technological trends, offers market figures and forecasts to 2009 and identifies the major players.The report also provides a detailed overview of merger and acquisition activity in the industrial valve industry since 2000.

    • Profile of the International Fluid Sealing Industry - Market Prospects to 2008

      • 3rd Edition
      • K Sutherland
      • English
      The definitive guide to the international fluid sealing industry to help you make the right business decisions. Will help you to keep track of the major issues affecting the market Will enable you to identify new business opportunities Includes Market forecasts, commentary and analysis sup.ported by primary research Completely revised and updated, the 3rd edition of Profile of the International Fluid Sealing Industry - Market Prospects to 2008 reviews the markets, technological trends and major manufacturers of fluid seals on a global basis. We have drawn on the expertise from our existing portfolio, Sealing Technology newsletter and World Pumps magazine to bring you vital information, analyses, forecasts that cannot be found anywhere else. The study deals with items and materials used, very largely, in the mechanical engineering sector, to effect hermetic closures or the separation of fluids. It therefore covers gaskets and packings, O-rings and mechanical and bellows seals. Profile of the International Fluid Sealing Industry covers the structure of the industry, highlighting developments, identifying future trends, and looking at recent mergers and acquisitions in the sector. Market estimates and forecasts to 2008, by region and seal type, are presented along with an analysis of the main end-user markets for fluid seals, as well as a technology overview. Forty leading international fluid sealing manufacturers are profiled. A directory of seal manufacturing companies is also included.