China's Disruptors - How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business (Tse Edward)(Paperback / softback)

China's Disruptors - How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business (Tse Edward)(Paperback / softback)

In 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world's biggest ever initial public offering. Since then, investors have pondered a fundamental question: what's really going on with the new wave of China's disruptors? This book takes a look at rapidly emerging Chinese

Sustainable Champions - How International Companies are Changing the Face of Business in China (Jia Fu)(Paperback / softback)

Strong competitive pressure and a dynamic market mean multinational companies in China must innovate with extraordinary pace. Environmental sustainability is a key driver for the best companies. This book shows how major household names have transformed their practices, and the impact this is

Reinventing the Organization: How Companies Can Deliver Radically Greater Value in Fast-Changing Markets (Yeung Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

Based on in-depth, inside experience at Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei, DiDi, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Supercell, two experts on organization and leadership reveal what some of the most innovative organizational models in the world really look like and how they work, and provide leaders with the

The Platform Paradox: How Digital Businesses Succeed in an Ever-Changing Global Marketplace (Guilln Mauro F.)(Paperback)

Digital platforms are changing the rules of competition in the global economy. Until recently, it took Fortune 500 companies an average of 20 years to reach billion-dollar market valuations. Successful platforms now reach that milestone in an average of four years. In The Platform Paradox: How

Money and Power - How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World (Cohan William D.)(Paperback / softback)

Goldman Sachs are the investment bank all other banks - and most businesses - want to emulate; the firm with the best talent, the best strategy. But is their success just down to the gilded magic of the 'Goldman way'? This book is a story of clashing egos, backstabbing, sex scandals, private

Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy (Ezrachi Ariel)(Paperback)

'A fascinating book about how platform internet companies (Amazon, Facebook, and so on) are changing the norms of economic competition.'--Fast CompanyShoppers with a bargain-hunting impulse and internet access can find a universe of products at their fingertips. But is there a dark side to internet

New Local Economy: How the Future's Big Businesses Will Grow Out of Small Communities (Elmark Nils)(Paperback)

Apple, Starbucks, Amazon, Zara, McDonald's - these are some of the brands and companies that are at the forefront of today's global economy. They are embedded in virtually every city and town. But when the global economy goes wrong (as in 2008), it can leave local communities vulnerable in the form

Mastering Digital Business: How Powerful Combinations of Disruptive Technologies Are Enabling the Next Wave of Digital Transformation (D. Evans Nicholas)(Paperback)

Today, companies worldwide are applying digital transformation to redesign traditional business models and strategies in the context of new disruptive technologies, digitally-savvy consumers, and our globally connected society. This strategic guide for business and IT executives focuses on how

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Kuang Cliff)(Paperback)

AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICKFORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICKUser Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting.--EDWARD TENNER, The New York Times Book ReviewIn User

Intelligent Entrepreneur - How Three Harvard Business School Graduates Learned the 10 Rules of Successful Business (Murphy Bill)(Paperback / softback)

Written with the cooperation of Harvard Business School, this is an instructive and inspiring book for anyone who dreams of starting a successful business. The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells how three HBS graduates turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves and

Blockchain Revolution - How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies is Changing the World (Tapscott Don)(Paperback / softback)

Wisdom Of Crowds - Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and Nations (Surowiecki James)(Paperback / softback)

* Subtitle: 'Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Society and

The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart (Maslin Mark)(Paperback)

Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth

Dynamic Growth of Chinese Firms in the Global Market: Challenges, Strategies and Implications (Tse David K.)(Paperback)

How have Chinese multinationals benefited from China's economic boom to enable their international expansion? This book is based on many years of original research tracing the emergence, growth and future of Chinese firms in the world economy. The authors seek to provide new perspectives and

Making Work Human: How Human-Centered Companies Are Changing the Future of Work and the World (Mosley Eric)(Pevná vazba)

How do you keep your employees engaged, creative, innovative, and productive? Simple: Work human From the pioneers of the management strategy that's transforming businesses worldwide, Making Work Human shows how to implement a culture of performance and gratitude in the workplace--and seize a

Unscaled - How A.I. and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future (Taneja Hemant)(Paperback / softback)

The most successful startups of the present and future are turning the old rule on its head - bigger is not always

The Behaviour Business: How to Apply Behavioural Science for Business Success (Chataway Richard)(Paperback)

If you are in business, you are in the business of behaviour - and unless a business influences behaviour, it will not succeed. In the last 50 years we have learnt more about how we behave than over the previous 5,000. This book shows how behavioural science has revolutionised our understanding of

Creative Economy - How People Make Money from Ideas (Howkins John)(Paperback / softback)

Creativity is the fastest growing business in the world. Companies are hungry for people with ideas - and more and more of us want to make, buy, sell and share creative products. But how do you turn creativity into money? This book shows what creativity is, how it thrives and how it is changing in

Do Build: How to Make and Lead a Business the World Needs. (Moore Alan)(Paperback)

The world of business is changing. The single pursuit of 'profit at any cost' has been replaced by a desire to build companies that create a better future -- and enjoy commercial success. In Do Build, Alan Moore draws on his years of research into some of the most pioneering and progressive

Coders - Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World (Thompson Clive)(Paperback / softback)

From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive study of one the most powerful tribes in the world today, computer programmers - where they come from, how they think, what makes for greatness in their world, and what should give us

The Science and Business of Drug Discovery: Demystifying the Jargon (Zanders Edward D.)(Pevná vazba)

Dedication Acknowledgements Preface 1 Introduction Part I How drugs are discovered and developed in the pharmaceutical industry 2 Introduction to drugs and drug targets 3 Background to chemistry of small and large molecules 4 Laying the foundations- Drug discovery from antiquity to the

Complete Nonsense and Other Verse (Lear Edward)(Paperback / softback)

'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. Gently pointing out human follies and the absurdities of the conventional Victorian society in which he lived, Lear's nonsense has

Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication Are Changing Our Lives (Graham Mark)(Paperback)

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key readings for students, scholars, and those interested in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society. This

Aid and Other Dirty Business - How Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor (Bolton Giles)(Paperback / softback)

Do you know why Africa is so poor? What really happens to your charity money? Why do trade rules fail African countries and yet cost you too? We've heard it all before: the corrupt leaders, heartless global corporations, the wicked World Bank. But the answers are much closer to home... and so are