Best Books

" A well written and comprehensive journey into M& A...an essential reference for any M& A practitioner...this isn’ t just a book about great thoughts and process, but rather how to turn insight into deals, and deals into lasting value." – From the Foreword by Joseph R. Perella Chairman, Institutional Securities and Investment Banking Group, Morgan Stanley " Bob Bruner’ s Applied Mergers and Acquisitions is a masterful and comprehensive treatment of the topic of M& A. The book is remarkably complete, discussing economic valuation, legal considerations, deal structure, ethics, accounting, post-merger integration– and more. It blends material from practice and from academia in an easy-to-read style, making it a must-read, and want-to-read, for anyone interested in this subject." – Peter Tufano Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management, Harvard Business School " Preeminent scholar Robert Bruner has combined the best insights from theory with proven lessons from industry to produce the definitive resource on mergers and acquisitions. Bruner’ s renowned teaching skills and keen intellect are evident throughout, rendering a must-read for finance students, investors, and corporate executives into a remarkably enjoyable read." – Mark Kritzman Managing Partner, Windham Capital Management Boston and Research Director, The Research Foundation of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) " How many books really succeed in teaching M& A practitioners to distinguish among deals that should be avoided, deals that are promising but can’ t be executed by the teams involved, and deals where significant value can be achieved? We should start the count with Bruner’ s Applied Mergers and Acquisitions. Bruner is the ultimate teacher for practitioners who want to improve performance." – Edward A. Snyder Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business " Bob Bruner has achieved the impossible: covering in one book all relevant economic, financial, accounting, legal, and tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions and illustrating each concept with case studies. Impressive!" – Theo Vermaelen Professor of Finance, INSEAD " Bob Bruner’ s book combines the best of academic thinking and business practice on one of the most fascinating and challenging topics in all of business. The area of mergers and acquisitions stretches executives and scholars to consider the whole realm of management practice– from strategy, to finance, to law, to negotiations, to integration planning, to human behavior." – Robert S. Harris Dean, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia

Written in a conversational tone, Business English at Work 2e by Jaderstrom and Miller is a four-color text that takes a totally new learning approach to relating Business English to the workplace. Telecommunications, customer service, online references, and a host of other real-world topics connect directly to activities and exercises in grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, spelling, word division, and sentence writing/revising.

An exploration and analysis of grafting e-business strategies onto successful brick-and-mortar businesses. Shows how to achieve political and cultural goals, direct and manage outsourcing, avoid failure in e-business implementation, and overcome resistance to e-business. Softcover.

Features of this text include: a conversational tone that helps make the text easy to follow and understand Hints and worked-out examples that help increase comprehension of the material Practical applications that help users apply the information to real-world situations Practice exercises that give users opportunities for review and practice Calculator information that helps users solve math problems with a calculator

In just 14 chapters, Jerald Greenberg offers up-to-date coverage of the major organizational behavior topics! This new edition of Managing Behavior in Organizations helps students understand organizational behavior, its current theories and their value to modern organizational practice. Look for these features in the new edition: 'Making the Case for...' are brief opening cases in each chapter that illustrate the importance of the particular topic in an organization. Two new chapters including Chapter 3-'Personality, Feelings, and Stress' and Chapter 6-'Interpersonal Behavior in the Workplace' 'Winning Practices' is a box included in each chapter that describes how organizational behavior principles were applied in a way that helped an organization improve. End of chapter elements including self-assessment exercises, group exercises, and ' You Be the Consultant ' mini cases.

Discover the Ideal Investment Strategy for Yourself and Your Clients 'To enhance investment results and boost creativity, Jim Ware replaces the maxim know your investments with know yourself. And he gives us specific testing tools to do the job.'–Dean LeBaron, Founder, Batterymarch Financial Management, Chairman, Virtualquest.company, and investment author and commentator 'Many investment firms fail, even though they are run by intelligent, qualified professionals, because they lack creativity. This book can rescue you. Jim Ware explains how to organize your business to encourage creative thinking. In five years, your customers will be working with an advisor who read this book, so make sure you are the one who did.'–Ralph Wanger, President, Acorn Investment Trust, CFA and author of A Zebra in Lion Country: Ralph Wanger’s Guide to Investment Survival 'Jim Ware has a great knack for understanding people and successful investing. This unusual combination of skills creates a rare find: useful insights to improve investment performance through helping people work together better. Jim’s wit and humor make this a fun read as well!'–Dee Even, Senior Investment Officer, Allstate Insurance Company, Property & Casualty 'The Psychology of Money represents a major step toward development of a portfolio theory that recognizes human dynamics and differences among people. Jim’s content is solid, and his presentation is engaging. This book ought to be on every practitioner’s bookshelf.'–Kenneth O. Doyle, University of Minnesota, Author, The Social Meanings of Money and Property: In Search of a Talisman 'Finally, an insightful look at the human side of investing. A step-by-step guide to enhancing management performance to increase returns.'– Abbie Smith, PhD, Professor of Accounting.University of Chicago Business School

Accounting: Information for Business Decisions offers an integrated approach to teaching managerial and financial accounting course topics for the Introductory or Principles of Accounting course. This new text, written by an experienced author team, is designed to help students understand how to use both managerial and financial accounting information to make decisions. Class-tested for three years across the United States, its student-friendly approach has already earned it rave reviews. The text provides an introduction to business in Chapter 1 and is the only introductory accounting book to have an entire chapter (Chapter 2) devoted to creative and critical thinking. A non-technical approach makes learning accounting accessible for majors and non-majors, focuses students on using accounting information for decision making, and conforms with AECC guidelines for teaching accounting. A full-chapter length appendix on the accounting cycle (debits/credits) allows instructors to implement this portion of the course anywhere they desire.

Today's investment markets can be daunting for anyone, but especially for those in the early stages of financial careers. 'The Fundamentals of the Securities Industry removes the guesswork, providing a broad-ranging introduction to how the securities industry works and how its components interact. Concepts presented in the book build upon each other, helping readers gain a fuller understanding of each element and financial instrument that is vital to the securities industry.

How Teamwork Works is the most comprehensive book on work team dynamics to date. It makes explicit how to create and develop effective teamwork. Syer and Connolly show how a team discovers its identity, becomes self-regulating, and evolves to maximize its potential. They address: Relationships - how heightening the quality of relationships between team members optimizes performance. Complexity - how teams are complex systems. A project team of 20 members has 190 relationships and each member has a relationship to each other relationship. Contribution - how a conscious contribution to a shared purpose enhances motivation. Process - how interaction shapes the structure of the team's work life. Performance - how developing the team's identity improves and sustains high levels of performance.

Electronic commerce companies can be the darlings of Wall Street -- or the dogs. Several firms call themselves key players, but in such a new and fast-changing industry it's tough for most investors to evaluate such claims. Enter Bill Burnham, an e-investment expert, with the first comprehensive guide to researching and investing in e-commerce. He delivers four commandments that individual and professional investors must know, plus eight essential guidelines for investigating various sectors such as security-related products and financial software. Readers will come away knowing how to develop their own e-commerce investment strategy -- and will be better positioned to make a killing, rather than be killed, in this hot but volatile area.

Contains clear steps for determining the e-business characteristics to match any company, offering numerous tools for implementing a competitive e-business strategy. Shows how to coordinate management and workforce to ensure they are headed in the right direction, and how to set and enforce acceptable standards of e-business. DLC: Electronic commerce.

What are the root causes of bureaucratic creep? Why do costs grow faster than revenues? Why does it take so long to introduce and lock in even a simple change? Why don't people in product design, marketing, sales, and manufacturing talk - much less listen - to each other? Why does the budget process exhaust managers, strangle innovation, and sub-optimize productivity and profits? In short, what on earth has gone wrong with the way American companies are being run today? The answer, says famed corporate turnaround specialist John O. Whitney, is institutionalized mistrust - the internal blight that's strangling virtually every aspect of corporate vitality and profitability. In his words, 'Mistrust doubles the cost of doing business. An enterprise that is at war with itself will not have the strength or focus to survive and thrive in today's competitive environment'. Now, in this groundbreaking book that is nothing less than a wake-up call for senior managers everywhere, Whitney explores how and why corporate mistrust evolves ... the large and small ways in which it poisons the corporate culture ... how it might be eliminated ... and the prognosis for the American economy if it is not! Among the subjects analyzed in detail are such root causes of mistrust as information that is biased, useless, or wrong; incompetence or the presumption of incompetence - whether in bosses, peers, or subordinates; the misalignment of measurements and rewards - an all-too-common state of affairs that pits people against one another and against the organization; an imperfect understanding of systems; and finally, a lack of integrity - whether it's caused by an individual violator or internal conditions thatneed to be changed. Drawing on first-hand experience with a wide range of American companies, Whitney offers concrete proposals on how to dismantle mistrust-breeding hierarchies and revamp the ways of recognizing, measuring, and rewarding performance. He also suggests radical changes for rooting out waste and complexity, while unleashing trust in everything from hiring to budgeting to streamlining the chain of command. The result is a book that is sure to be studied in the boardrooms of all forward-looking organizations in America today - a landmark blueprint for corporate teamwork, mobilization, and renewal.