'International Project Management' provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success. It is the result of 15 years of work on international projects by the authors across various project areas and industries. The authors address a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to international projects. They offer lessons learned from failures and problems in international projects, and suggest alternative solutions for project issues. Industry examples include manufacturing, distribution, communications, media, transportation, government, IT, marketing, energy, medical care, tourism, and others in forty countries across five continents.

This book is intended to present a new pedagogical approach to stochastic calculus and its applications in finance. Prof. Sondermann makes an easy to follow introduction to quadratic variation, Ito's formula etc. using only basic tools from real analysis. After he introduces the Ito calculus and Girsanov theorem, he presents some applications in finance, like the risk neutral valuation, the currency options and the HJM model.

The book has the advantage that it introduces the stochastic calculus without relying on very heavy background. However, by doing this, it loses most of the precision of statements, and makes the book more suitable for bed-time reading. The book has no index term(!!), which is quite surprising for a mathematical book these days. Exercise problems are presented only for the introductory chapter on real analysis, none though for the material dealing with stochastic calculus. I do not see the reason why Prof. Sondermann decided on having exercises on the preliminaries and none on the main material, stochastic calculus. The book has also its share of typos, so be careful.

On the nice features, I liked the careful discussion of the currency options paradox (Siegel-Paradox), and the change of numeraire.

I think that Prof. Sondermann succeeded in presenting stochastic calculus in an easy way, and now readers might feel more comfortable to start reading a more advanced book on stochastic calculus.

Lots of owner managers have one or two areas of knowledge and specialism - perhaps operations or sales. This book covers all the main areas, and goes into sufficient depth to be helpful, but isn't too academic. I personally found the Finance chapter really helpful, as it explains how to create and use a P&L account to help you understand what is really going on in your business. It also has sections on Personnel, Marketing and Strategy. Fairly easy to read- I took it on holiday and got through most of it.

First published in hardback in 1994 and selected by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Book, the revised and updated paperback edition includes the Barings crisis and the report by the Bank of England on Barings Bank; up-to-date information on the state of Japanese banking; changes in the financial scene in the United States; the UK housing market and the problem of negative equity. The paradox of why more coins than ever before are required in an increasingly cashless society is clearly explained, as is the role of the new Euro coin as the lowest common denominator in Europe's controversial single-currency system. The final section provides evidence to suggest that for most of the world's richer countries, the era of persistent inflation may well be at an end. This new edition is updated and takes account of important recent developments such as the independence of the Bank of England, the introduction of Euro notes and coins from January 1 2002, and developments in electronic money.

This volume presents mathematical formulas and theorems commonly used in economics. It includes both formulas like Roy`s identity that are peculiar to economics and formulas like Leibniz's rule that are common to many areas of applied mathematics. The volume is meant to be a reference work, to be used by students in conjunction with a textbook and by researchers in need of exact statements of mathematical results. The volume is the first grouping of this material for a specifically economist audience.

The comprehensive, well-organized and carefully written introductory text includes all of the major subjects of modern econometrics. The book relies on concepts rather than alegbra, and the authors have a real gift for selection of the right level of computation in nonlinear models, of generalized method of moments, and of random number generation. One unique feature of this book will be discussion of the bootstrap in a number of chapters. The bootstrap provides a way to make inferences in a wide variety of econometric models. A good introduction of bootstrap inference will aid students in understanding inference based on exact and asymptotic distributions as well.

Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams stemmed from a conference held at the Kellogg School of Management in June 2003 covering creativity and innovation in groups and organizations. Each chapter of the book is written by an expert and covers original theory about creative processes in organizations. The organization of the text reflects a longstanding notion that creativity in the world of work is a joint outcome of three interdependent forces--individual thinking, group processes, and organizational environment.

Part I explores basic cognitive mechanisms that underlie creative thinking, and includes chapters that discuss cognitive foundations of creativity, a cognitive network model of creativity that explains how and why creative solutions form in the human mind, and imports a ground-breaking concept of "creativity templates" to the study of creative idea generation in negotiation context. The second part is devoted to understanding how groups and teams in organizational settings produce creative ideas and implement innovations. Finally, Part III contains three chapters that discuss the role of social, organizational context in which creative endeavors take place.

The book has a strong international mix of scholarship and includes clear business implications based on scientific research. It weds the disciplines of psychology, cognition, and business theory into one text.

The advice and concepts outlined in Automatic Wealth are best suited for those in their 30s-50s who recognize that their current job will never afford them true financial independence. Rather than encourage readers to quit their day jobs today and launch into a new scheme tomorrow, Masterson shows how to turn your skills and experience into significantly more money within seven to fifteen years. For those just getting by, he details how to get the biggest pay raises now and how to move into more lucrative ventures in the near future. For those with some savings, he offers specific advice on building equity and increasing net worth significantly and quickly. Since Masterson made his millions starting and developing small businesses, he encourages people to become entrepreneurs themselves and discusses which kinds of ventures to invest in and which ones to avoid. He also stresses the importance of developing multiple income streams, offering chapters on real estate, stocks and bonds, consulting, direct mail, and other opportunities.

As products become increasingly similar, companies are turning to branding as a way to create a preference for their offerings. Branding has been the essential factor in the success of well-known consumer goods such as Coca Cola, McDonald's, Kodak, and Mercedes. Now it is time for more industrial companies to start using branding in a sophisticated way. Some industrial companies have led the way... Caterpillar, DuPont, Siemens, GE. But industrial companies must understand that branding goes far beyond building names for a set of offerings. Branding is about promising that the company's offering will create and deliver a certain level of performance. The promise behind the brand becomes the motivating force for all the activities of the company and its partners. Our book is one of the first to probe deeply into the art and science of branding industrial products. We provide the concepts, the theory, and dozens of cases illustrating the successful branding of industrial goods.