A thoroughly revised new edition of a leading textbook that equips MBA students with the powerful tools of economics This is a thoroughly revised and substantially streamlined new edition of a leading textbook that shows MBA students how understanding economics can help them make smarter and better-informed real-world management decisions. David Kreps, one of the world's most influential economists, has developed and refined Microeconomics for Managers over decades of teaching at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Stressing game theory and strategic thinking and driven by in-depth, integrated case studies, the book shows future managers how economics can provide practical answers to critical business problems. Focuses on case studies and real companies, such as Amazon, Microsoft, General Motors, United Airlines, and Xerox Covers essential topics for future managers--including price discrimination, Porter's five forces, risk sharing and spreading, signaling and screening, credibility and reputation, and economics and organizational behavior Features an online supplement for students that provides solutions to the problems in the book, longer caselike exercises, review problems, a calculus review, and more.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780691182698 20190114

• Bodie, Kane, and Marcus Investments 11ePART I Introduction1 The Investment Environment2 Asset Classes and Financial Instruments3 How Securities Are Traded4 Mutual Funds and Other Investment CompaniesPART II Portfolio Theory and Practice5 Risk, Return, and the Historical Record6 Capital Allocation to Risky Assets7 Optimal Risky Portfolios8 Index ModelsPART III Equilibrium in Capital Markets9 The Capital Asset Pricing Model10 Arbitrage Pricing Theory and Multifactor Models of Risk and Return11 The Efficient Market Hypothesis12 Behavioral Finance and Technical Analysis13 Empirical Evidence on Security ReturnsPART IV Fixed-Income Securities14 Bond Prices and Yields15 The Term Structure of Interest Rates16 Managing Bond PortfoliosPART V Security Analysis17 Macroeconomic and Industry Analysis18 Equity Valuation Models19 Financial Statement AnalysisPART VI Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives20 Options Markets: Introduction21 Option Valuation22 Futures Markets23 Futures, Swaps, and Risk ManagementPART VII Applied Portfolio Management24 Portfolio Performance Evaluation25 International Diversification26 Hedge Funds27 The Theory of Active Portfolio Management28 Investment Policy and the Framework of the CFA Institute.
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The integrated solutions for Bodie, Kane, and Marcus' Investments set the standard for graduate/MBA investments textbooks. The unifying theme is that security markets are nearly efficient, meaning that most securities are priced appropriately given their risk and return attributes. The content places greater emphasis on asset allocation and offers a much broader and deeper treatment of futures, options, and other derivative security markets than most investment texts.Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781259277177 20180403

• PART 1: INTRODUCTION
• 1. The Corporation
• 2. Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis
• 3. Financial Decision Making and the Law of One Price
• PART 2: TIME, MONEY, AND INTEREST RATES
• 4. The Time Value of Money
• 5. Interest Rates
• 6. Valuing Bonds
• PART 3: VALUING PROJECTS AND FIRMS
• 7. Investment Decision Rules
• 8. Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting
• 9. Valuing Stocks
• PART 4: RISK AND RETURN
• 10. Capital Markets and the Pricing of Risk
• 11. Optimal Portfolio Choice and the Capital Asset Pricing Model
• 12. Estimating the Cost of Capital
• 13. Investor Behavior and Capital Market Efficiency
• PART 5: CAPITAL STRUCTURE
• 14. Capital Structure in a Perfect Market
• 15. Debt and Taxes
• 16. Financial Distress, Managerial Incentives, and Information
• 17. Payout Policy
• PART 6: ADVANCED VALUATION
• 18. Capital Budgeting and Valuation with Leverage
• 19. Valuation and Financial Modeling: A Case Study
• PART 7: OPTIONS
• 20. Financial Options
• 21. Option Valuation
• 22. Real Options
• PART 8: LONG-TERM FINANCING
• 23. Raising Equity Capital
• 24. Debt Financing
• 25. Leasing
• PART 9: SHORT-TERM FINANCING
• 26. Working Capital Management
• 27. Short-Term Financial Planning
• PART 10: SPECIAL TOPICS
• 28. Mergers and Acquisitions
• 29. Corporate Governance
• 30. Risk Management
• 31. International Corporate Finance.
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• PART 1: INTRODUCTION
• 1. The Corporation
• 2. Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis
• 3. Financial Decision Making and the Law of One Price
• PART 2: TIME, MONEY, AND INTEREST RATES
• 4. The Time Value of Money
• 5. Interest Rates
• 6. Valuing Bonds
• PART 3: VALUING PROJECTS AND FIRMS
• 7. Investment Decision Rules
• 8. Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting
• 9. Valuing Stocks
• PART 4: RISK AND RETURN
• 10. Capital Markets and the Pricing of Risk
• 11. Optimal Portfolio Choice and the Capital Asset Pricing Model
• 12. Estimating the Cost of Capital
• 13. Investor Behavior and Capital Market Efficiency
• PART 5: CAPITAL STRUCTURE
• 14. Capital Structure in a Perfect Market
• 15. Debt and Taxes
• 16. Financial Distress, Managerial Incentives, and Information
• 17. Payout Policy
• PART 6: ADVANCED VALUATION
• 18. Capital Budgeting and Valuation with Leverage
• 19. Valuation and Financial Modeling: A Case Study.
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For MBA/graduate students taking a course in corporate finance. An Emphasis on Core Financial Principles to Elevate Individuals' Financial Decision Making Berk and DeMarzo's Corporate Finance uses a unifying valuation framework, the Law Of One Price, to present the core content instructors expect, the new ideas they want, and the pedagogy their students need to succeed. Corporate Finance: The Core fits programs and individual professors who desire a streamlined book that is specifically tailored to the topics covered in the first one-semester course. For programs and professors who would like to use a text in a two semester, or more, sequence, please see Corporate Finance, the 31-chapter book also by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo. Also Available with MyFinanceLab(TM) MyFinanceLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyFinanceLab does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyFinanceLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyFinanceLab, search for: 0134409272 / 9780134409276 Corporate Finance: The Core Plus MyFinanceLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: *0134202643 / 9780134202648 Corporate Finance: The Core*0134202910 / 9780134202914 MyFinanceLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Corporate Finance: The Core.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780134202648 20171002
For MBA/graduate students taking a course in corporate finance. An Emphasis on Core Financial Principles to Elevate Individuals' Financial Decision Making Using the unifying valuation framework based on the Law of One Price, top researchers Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo have set the new canon for corporate finance textbooks. Corporate Finance blends coverage of time-tested principles and the latest advancements with the practical perspective of the financial manager, so students have the knowledge and tools they need to make sound financial decisions in their careers. For a streamlined book specifically tailored to the topics covered in the first one-semester course, Corporate Finance: The Core is also available by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyFinanceLabTM does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyFinanceLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyFinanceLab, search for: 0134408896 / 9780134408897 Corporate Finance Plus MyFinanceLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: *013408327X / 9780134083278 Corporate Finance*0134099176 / 9780134099170 MyFinanceLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Corporate Finance.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780134083278 20171002

• Chapter 1 - The Economic and Institutional Setting for Financial Reporting
• Chapter 2 - Accrual Accounting and Income Determination
• Chapter 3 - Additional Topics in Income Determination
• Chapter 4 - Structure of the Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows
• Chapter 5 - Essentials of Financial Statement Analysis
• Chapter 6 - The Role of Financial Information in Valuation and Credit Risk Assessment
• Chapter 7 - The Role of Financial Information in Contracting
• Chapter 8 -Receivables
• Chapter 9 -Inventories
• Chapter 10 -Long-Lived Assets
• Chapter 11 -Financial Instruments as Liabilities
• Chapter 12 - Financial Reporting for Leases
• Chapter 13 - Income Tax Reporting
• Chapter 14 - Pensions and Postretirement Benefits
• Chapter 15 -Financial Reporting for Owners' Equity
• Chapter 16 -Intercorporate Equity Investments
• Chapter 17 - Statement of Cash FlowsAppendix -Time Value of Money.
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For the first time, Revsine's Financial Reporting & Analysis will feature Connect, the premier digital teaching and learning tool that allows instructors to assign and assess course material. Financial Reporting & Analysis (FR&A) by Revsine/Collins/Johnson/Mittelstaedt emphasizes both the process of financial reporting and the analysis of financial statements. This book employs a true "user" perspective by discussing the contracting and decision implications of accounting, helping readers understand why accounting choices are so important and to whom they matter. Revsine, Collins, Johnson, and Mittelstaedt train their readers to be good financial detectives by enabling them to read, use, and interpret the statements. Most importantly, FR&A helps students understand how and why managers can utilize the flexibility in GAAP to adapt the numbers for their own purposes.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781259722653 20170731

• Finding practice partners and bonus resources
• Study guides for coveted tech firms
• Abbreviations, terms and concepts
• Frequently asked questions
• Analytics: estimation
• Analytics: data science
• Analytics: pricing new products
• Analytics: pricing existing products
• Analytics: ROI
• Product design: customer journey map exercises
• Product design: pain point exercises
• Product design: brainstorm exercises
• Product design: putting it together
• Metrics: brainstorming exercises
• Metrics: prioritization exercises
• Metrics: diagnose exercises
• Metrics: putting it together
• Hypothetical: opinion
• Hypothetical : problem solving
• Strategy: new market entry
• Strategy: launch plan
• Strategy: other
• Technical
• Traditional
• Behavioral.

• Introduction
• The interview
• Case questions
• The Ivy case system
• Practice cases
• Final analysis
• Partner case charts.

"Cosentino demystifies the consulting case interview. He takes you inside a typical interview by exploring the various types of case questions and he shares with you a system that will help you answer today's most sophisticated case questions"--Page 4 of cover.

• PART I The Founder
• Chapter 1 The Global Entrepreneurial Revolution for a Flatter World
• Chapter 2 The Entrepreneurial Mind: Crafting a Personal Entrepreneurial Strategy PART II The Opportunity
• Chapter 3 he Entrepreneurial Process
• Chapter 4 lean Commerce and Sustainable Enterprise Movements Are an Opportunity Sea Change
• Chapter 5 Opportunity Recognition
• Chapter 6 Opportunities for Social Entrepreneurship
• Chapter 7 The Business Plan PART III The Founder and Team
• Chapter 8 The Entrepreneurial Leader and the Team
• Chapter 9 Ethical Decision Making and the Entrepreneur PART IV Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
• Chapter 10 Resource Requirements
• Chapter 11 Franchising
• Chapter 12 Entrepreneurial Finance
• Chapter 13 Obtaining Venture and Growth Capital
• Chapter 14 The Deal: Valuation, Structure, and Negotiation
• Chapter 15 Obtaining Debt Capital PART V Start-up and Beyond
• Chapter 16 Leading Rapid Growth, Crises, and Recovery
• Chapter 17 The Family as Entrepreneur
• Chapter 18 The Harvest and Beyond.
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New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century is about the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. The book presents the substantial body of knowledge about the entrepreneurial process in a pragmatic way - through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises - to help readers compress their learning curves, reduce their ultimate risk and pain, and allow them to gain more from their subsequent entrepreneurial experiences.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780077862480 20160618

Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a product management role in a startup or bigger tech company. Learn how the ambiguously-named "PM" (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what experience you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great PM resume and cover letter look like, and finally, how to master the PM interview questions (estimation questions, behavioral questions, case questions, product questions, technical questions, and the super important "pitch").

• Chapter 1Introduction Chapter 2The Process View of the Organization Chapter 3Understanding the Supply Process: Evaluating Process Capacity Chapter 4Estimating and Reducing Labor Costs Chapter 5Project Management Chapter 6The Link between Operations and Finance Chapter 7Batching and Other Flow Interruptions: Set-up Times and the Economic Order Quantity Model Chapter 8Variability and Its Impact on Process Performance: Waiting Time Problems Chapter 9The Impact of Variability on Process Performance: Throughput Losses Chapter 10Quality Management, Statistical Process Control, and Six Sigma Capacity Chapter 11Lean Operations and the Toyota Production System Chapter 12Betting On Uncertain Demand: The Newsvendor Model Chapter 13Assemble-to-order, Make-To-Order and Quick Response with Reactive Capacity Chapter 14Service Levels and Lead Times in Supply Chains: The Order Up-to Inventory Model Chapter 15Risk-Pooling Strategies to Reduce and Hedge Uncertainty Chapter 16Revenue Management with Capacity Controls
• Chapter 17 Supply Chain Coordination Chapter 18Sustainable Operations Chapter 19Business Model Innovation Appendix A: Statistics Tutorial B: Tables C: Evaluation of the Loss Function D: Equations and Approximations E: Solutions to Selected Practice Problems Glossary References Index of "How to" exhibits Summary of key equations Index.
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Gerard Cachon and Christian Terwiesch, Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management, 3e is the most authoritative, cutting-edge book for operations management MBAs. The book demands rigorous analysis on the part of students without requiring consistent use of sophisticated mathematical modeling to perform it. When the use of quantitative tools or formal modeling is indicated, it is only to perform the necessary analysis needed to inform and support a practical business solution. The guiding principle in the development of Matching Supply with Demand has been "real operations, real solutions." "Real operations" means that most of the chapters in this book are written from the perspective of a specific company so that the material in this text will come to life by discussing it in a real-world context. "Real solutions" means that equations and models do not merely provide students with mathematical gymnastics for the sake of an intellectual exercise.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780073525204 20160610

• List of Illustrations vii
• Part I: Introduction and Pre-founding
• 1 Chapter One: Introduction
• 3 Chapter Two: Career Dilemmas
• 27
• Part II: Founding Team Dilemmas
• 69 Chapter Three: The Solo-versus-Team Dilemma
• 73 Chapter Four: Relationship Dilemmas: Flocking Together and Playing with Fire
• 89 Chapter Five: Role Dilemmas: Positions and Decision Making
• 117 Chapter Six: Reward Dilemmas: Equity Splits and Cash Compensation
• 145 Chapter Seven: The Three RsSystem: Alignment and Equilibrium
• 186
• Part III: Beyond the Founding Team: Hires and Investors
• 205 Chapter Eight: Hiring Dilemmas: The Right Hires at the Right Time
• 209 Chapter Nine: Investor Dilemmas: Adding Value, Adding Risks
• 249 Chapter Ten: Failure, Success, and Founder-CEO Succession
• 297
• Part IV: Conclusion
• 329 Chapter Eleven: Wealth-versus-Control Dilemmas
• 331 Acknowledgments
• 387 Appendix A: Quantitative Data
• 391 Appendix B: Summary of Startups and People
• 403 Notes
• 425 Bibliography
• 451 Index 467.
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Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can suffer. Bad decisions at the inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. "The Founder's Dilemmas" is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals the common pitfalls founders face and how to avoid them. He looks at whether it is a good idea to cofound with friends or relatives, how and when to split the equity within the founding team, and how to recognize when a successful founder-CEO should exit or be fired. Wasserman explains how to anticipate, avoid, or recover from disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between controlling the startup and attracting the best resources to grow it, and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long term. "The Founder's Dilemmas" draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative data on almost ten thousand founders. People problems are the leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780691149134 20160608