Business & economics

Summary: Crush it! - Gary Vaynerchuk

by Must Read Summaries

This work offers a summary of the book “CRUSH IT!: Why Now is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion” by Gary Vaynerchuk.

Crush it! is all about enabling you to live your passion. Author and wine entrepreneur...

The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You'll Ever Need: The Good, the Flawed, the Bad, and the Ugly

by Larry E. Swedroe & Jared Kizer

The rewards of carefully chosen alternative investments can be great. But many investors don’t know enough about unfamiliar investments to make wise choices.   For that reason, financial advisers Larry Swedroe...

Reverse Mergers: And Other Alternatives to Traditional IPOs

by David N. Feldman & Steven Dresner

In good markets or bad, reverse mergers play a key role for companies that want to avoid the IPO route for going public. Since the successful first edition of Reverse Mergers was published in 2006, the economic...

Credit Derivative Strategies: New Thinking on Managing Risk and Return

by Rohan Douglas

In the decade since the credit derivatives market started, financial professionals have become increasingly sophisticated. Most books on the subject have not kept pace. Credit Derivative Strategies closes the...

Value Maps: Valuation Tools That Unlock Business Wealth

by Warren D. Miller

Praise for VALUE MAPS

"Equivocator, Explorer, Experimenter, Exploiter, Extender—Chapter 12 might be well served as mandatory reading for all subject matter experts! SPARC is not a valuation, per se, but rather...

Powerlines: Words That Sell Brands, Grip Fans, and Sometimes Change History

by Steve Cone

Powerlines, the exceptional slogans that people remember long after the campaign ends, stand out from the barrage of marketing messages consumers face each day. A product, service, company, candidate, or an...

Handbook for Muni-Bond Issuers

by Joe Mysak & Michael R. Bloomberg

From Bloomberg, the authority on municipal bond valuation, this is the first book to give issuers (municipalities and their officers, attorneys, and other advisers) step-by-step tips on (1) lowering the cost...

Preventing and Detecting Employee Theft and Embezzlement: A Practical Guide

by Stephen Pedneault

"If you don't think that some employees have figured out ingenious ways to steal from businesses, read this book. The real-life examples will change your mind." —Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA, founder and Chairman,...

Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America

by Philip C. Meyer, William M. Isaac & Paul A. Volcker

The 1980s opened with the prime interest rate at an astonishing 21.5 percent, leading to a severe recession with unemployment reaching nearly 11 percent. Depression-like conditions befell the agricultural sector,...

Conquer the Chaos: How to Grow a Successful Small Business Without Going Crazy

by Scott Martineau, Clate Mask & Michael E. Gerber

Create the business you want without sacrificing the lifestyle you deserve

The majority of new entrepreneurs (and even those with a little more experience) are finding themselves trapped, controlled, and consumed...

Investing 101

by Kathy Kristof

People wanting basic advice about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, retirement planning, and tax strategies are often frustrated by information overload. Picking the right book seems as daunting as deciding what...

Working With Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

Do you have what it takes to succeed in your career?

The secret of success is not what they taught you in school. What matters most is not IQ, not a business school degree, not even technical know-how or years...

Start with No: The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know

by Jim Camp

Think win-win is the best way to make the deal? Think again. It’s the worst possible way to get the best deal. This is the dirty little secret of corporate America.

For years now, win-win has been the paradigm...

Teach Your Team to Fish: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork

by Laurie Beth Jones

Laurie Beth Jones has given hundreds of thousands of business readers insight into how the ideas of Jesus can be used to enhance performance. One of the most critical work areas for anyone, whether a manager...

Innovations in Investment Management: Cutting Edge Research from the Exclusive Joim Conference Series

by H. Gifford Fong & Martin L. Leibowitz

Founded by Gifford Fong in 2003, the Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM) is a premier publication that bridges the theory and practice of investment management. The JOIM Conference Series showcases the leading...

The Open Innovation Revolution: Essentials, Roadblocks, and Leadership Skills

by Stefan Lindegaard & Guy Kawasaki

Life is not exactly a bed of roses for most innovation leaders and intrapreneurs—those assertive, innovative, corporate risk-takers who passionately turn ideas into profitable products. They take on corporate...

I Wish I'd Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics

by Jane Horan

The must-read guide to understanding corporate politics in order to get ahead

Designed to provide the reader with an understanding of corporate politics from a positive perspective, I Wish I'd Known That Earlier...

Fundamentals of Financial Instruments: An Introduction to Stocks, Bonds, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives

by Sunil Parameswaran

The essential guide to financial instruments, logically presented

Fundamentals of Financial Instruments deals with the global financial markets and the instruments in which they trade. While most books on finance...

You Can't Take It With You: Wills and Estate Planning for Australians

by Andrew Simpson

We all face an inescapable truth: whether we like it or not, we will one day die -- and we can't take anything with us when we do. Many Australians spend a great deal of their lives actively creating wealth,...

Structured Credit Products: Credit Derivatives and Synthetic Securitisation

by Moorad Choudhry

Updated coverage of structured credit products with in-depth coverage of the latest developments

Structured credit products are one of today's fastest growing investment and risk management mechanisms, and a...