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The story of a friendship that started in law school and ended with the largest insider trading scandal in Canadian history, this eye-opening chronicle reveals for the first time how Gil Cornblum and Stan Grmovsek worked together to rip off Wall Street and Bay Street?the Canadian Wall Street equivalent?for over $10 million. Cornblum would scout around his law offices in the middle of the night, looking for confidential information on mergers or takeovers....
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"The aim of The Benefits of the New Economy is to point out the causes of today's economic turmoil and how it can be solved. The road toward solution lies not in any remedy from the past. Rather, it lies with a society where all support each other in mutual guarantee. This creates a social environment of care and consideration, and the understanding that we will rise or fall together, because we are all interdependent."--
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The key to American prosperity in this new era of populism is for moral people to make responsibility matter again by renewing personal virtue and form lasting, mediating institutions that will trump the elitist bogeymen and scapegoats for generations to come. If we fail as individual Americans to address this core crisis of responsibility, we have only ourselves to blame for what happens next.
4) Millennium Intelligence: Understanding and Conducting Competitive Intelligence in the Digital Age
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Information Today, Incorporated
Pub. Date
1999.
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1 online resource (276 pages)
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English
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"Competitive intelligence doesn't just mean a trip to the local store to see the competition's finished products-it means gathering business information to gain an advantage in a legal and ethical manner. This book teaches what competitive intelligence is, what a company needs to have a successful intelligence program, where to place an intelligence program, and what sources to use and not use for intelligence. Technology, analysis, and security issues...
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BarCharts, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (6 pages)
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English
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A bank for the "language of money" you need to know. Our author, expert and professor targeted the most important vocabulary for this critical subject in 6 laminated pages covering over 300 terms. Easy to access at a moments notice for reviewing core concepts before exams, as a professional resource, or for general knowledge of an area that affects business as well as personal lives every day. Suggested uses: * Students/Teachers - reference for any...
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AEI Press
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2012.
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1 online resource (400 pages)
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English
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"Roger Bate has spend years on the trail of counterfeit medicines in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, learning the anatomy of a nebulous, far-reaching black market that has resulted in countless deaths and injuries around the world. Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines is the culmination of Bate's research and travels-both a fascinating first hand account of the counterfeit drug trade and an incisive policy analysis with...
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Government Institutes
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1998.
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1 online resource (264 pages)
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English
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"Learn the project management skills you need to survive as an EH&S professional. This book presents a simple-to-use 18-step approach for effective project management. Each of the three phases are explained in detail, using case studies to illustrate the best tools to use and pitfalls to avoid. You'll learn how to identify project objectives and constraints, establish elements and resource needs, create project schedules, find ways to make up for...
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Green retraces the history of the global economy and its financial systems and argues that despite its recent lapses, the financial industry is more necessary than ever if business-people will look to their principles before their profit margins. By recognizing the precedence of moral and spiritual values over immediate profit, Green says, we have the opportunity to remake capitalism while also helping the less fortunate and finding meaning in our...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
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Companies shirk taxes while padding profits.
Firms foul the planet but keep raking in revenue.
Reckless greed on Wall Street goes largely unpunished.
More evidence that bad guys finish first in business?
No. A different story is unfolding.
Laurie Bassi and her coauthors show that despite the dispiriting headlines, we are entering a more hopeful economic age.
The authors call it the "Worthiness Era." And in it, the good guys are...
Firms foul the planet but keep raking in revenue.
Reckless greed on Wall Street goes largely unpunished.
More evidence that bad guys finish first in business?
No. A different story is unfolding.
Laurie Bassi and her coauthors show that despite the dispiriting headlines, we are entering a more hopeful economic age.
The authors call it the "Worthiness Era." And in it, the good guys are...
12) Company: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business. Lack of clarity, it turns out, is Zephyr's defining characteristic. The floors are numbered in reverse. No one has ever seen the CEO or glimpsed his office on the first (i.e., top) floor. Yet every day people clip on their ID tags, file into the building, sit at their desks, and hope that...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 46 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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"Controlling Interest" offered the first account on film of the growth of multinational corporations, their impact on people at home and abroad, and their influence on U.S. foreign policy. This is the film that helped kick-off the anti-globalization movement. Upon its release, Controlling Interest quickly became a standard "audio-visual text" for those concerned about the growing impact of multinational corporations on global affairs. The film examines...
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Impact Investing is now well-publicized, along with other categories of sustainable investment. Recognized as an asset class on its own right since 2010, impact investing has registered the fastest growth in all categories of investments. This remarkable performance is attracting increasing attention as well as raising questions on the realities and practices of impact investors.
Written by a practitioner, this book aims at offering some answers...
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In a world torn apart by alien invasion, humanity finds itself between the darkness of survival and the uncertain light of resistance. In this epic tale, the resistance takes refuge underground, facing a constant duality: protecting their sanctuary while preparing for the inevitable conflict.Anna, David, Nathan and a diverse team struggle to find a balance between defending their refuge and unraveling the mysteries of the threat that stalks them....
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 By the late 1990s, it was clear that PG needed to win in skin care. Skin care constitutes about a quarter of the total beauty industry and has the potential to be highly profitable. Oil of Olay was struggling. It wasn't PG's only skin-care brand, but it was by far the largest and best known.
#2 PG invested in the SK-II brand, Cover Girl, Pantene, Head Shoulders, and...
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Book Preview: #1 If you're the kind of high-achieving, goal-oriented person who reads books like this, you're probably used to running into obstacles. Most people quit, but they don't quit successfully.
#2 There are two things that make Hannah Smith a quitter: being extremely smart and focused, and also a lot of other things. You can't try to do everything, especially if you want...
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La formation en éthique soulève des questions importantes et nous oblige à revisiter nos classiques, ne serait-ce que pour savoir qui on forme : forme-t-on la personne ou le professionnel ? Forme-t-on cette personne en fonction de son milieu de travail et du type d'organisation o elle travaille ? La forme-t-on en fonction d'un idéal type de personne et de professionnel ? Peut-on proposer un modèle de formation à l'éthique clés en main,...
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Español
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El libro que el lector tiene entre sus manos es el resultado de más de cuarenta años de investigación y trabajo docente en América Latina, principalmente en el Perú. Ha sido desarrollado a partir de un análisis de la realidad que nuestros profesionales en las ciencias económicas y administrativas enfrentan en su vida diaria. Pretende responder a las inquietudes de los que desean respetar y hacer respetar valores y principios morales en el ejercicio...
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Book Preview: #1 When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.
#2 When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment...
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