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Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe - and as financial bubbles, crashes, and crises suggest. This is one of the biggest debates in economics, and the value or futility of investment management and financial regulation hang on the outcome. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew W. Lo cuts through this debate with a new framework.

In the Age of AI, the constraint has shifted from producing outputs to delivering outcomes. As AI automates knowledge work at unprecedented scale, most organizations remain trapped measuring the wrong things—lines of code, features delivered, and other outputs that AI can now produce almost for free. The real constraint has shifted to organizational structure and the ability to turn strategy into measurable business outcomes.

The proud owner of a sprawling £14 million estate in the Cotswolds, boasting a stable of eventing horses, a fleet of supercars and neighbouring the royal family, Neil Woodford was the most celebrated and successful British investor of his generation. But, in 2019, after a stream of poorly judged investments, Woodford's asset management company collapsed, trapping hundreds of thousands of rainy-day savers in his flagship fund and hanging £3.6 billion in the balance.

What can a one-time mob boss teach you about how to run a business? I'll Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse, written by a former member of the Colombo crime family, promises an insider's view of the mob that will change the way you do business forever. The first thing you'll learn? Get a plan...

When was the last time you faced a high-stakes communication moment?Perhaps it was a critical client proposal, a key quarterly business review, a fund-raising pitch, a boardroom briefing, or a townhall talk to thousands of expectant employees.In that moment, how did you do?Did you seize the...

El Dr. Simi se ha instalado en la cultura popular y, desde luego, en el corazón y la memoria de la gente, representado en botargas y peluches, llegando a muchos países y a las manos de personajes muy exitosos. ¿Qué sucede detrás de este gran acontecimiento? ¿Cómo Farmacias Similares...

Aprende a desarrollar ideas y a distinguir cuáles son verdaderamente innovadoras para llevar a tu equipo a otro nivel. Jeremy Utley y Perry Klebahn pertenecen al reconocido Hasso Plattner Institute of Desing de la Universidad de Stanford, uno de los más prestigiosos laboratorios de ideas...

كي تبقى وتنجح الشركات يجب أن تضع إستراتيجيات ابتكارية باستمرار؛ وبوصفك مديراً أنت مسؤول عن تخطيط تلك الإستراتيجية وتنفيذها بصورة فاعلة. «إستراتيجية تنفيذية لتحقيق النجاح في الأعمال» يقدم لك عدداً كبيراً من الأفكار من أجل إتقان مهاراتك الإستراتيجية.

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place. From gen AI to EVs to advanced digital collaboration tools, new tech innovations are reshaping organizations from the factory floor to the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing right now to take advantage of the...

Compliance can be a burden… but it can also be your secret weapon! If you want to turn regulatory challenges into something that gives you a competitive edge, helps you protect your brand and outsmart your competitors, you need to use them to your advantage. The Compliance Edge empowers disruptive founders with the tools, strategies and insights to take on the compliance giant and win.

The remarkable inside story of how Instagram became the hottest website on Earth. With astonishing access to all the key players, she recounts the fateful meeting of the Instagram founders in 2010. She explores the company’s unlikely acquisition by Facebook and the internal clashes over whether it could retain its autonomy. And she reveals how when Facebook entered a tailspin brought about by data misuse and fake news, it was Instagram that came to the rescue. But this is not just a Silicon Valley story. No Filter reveals how Instagram has transformed global society.

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Research. Together, they outline an innovative plan that urges businesses to create disruption rather than fleeing from it. Named one of 2003's Best Business Books by Business Week, this book is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best seller.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tim Cook written by Leander Kahney, read by Jonathan Cowley. The first biography of Apple's CEO, Tim Cook 'A rich narrative with chapters covering values and Apple's progress under Cook' Wall Street Journal In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task -...

Brought to you by Penguin. If you ask the average person who an entrepreneur is, they’ll probably say people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. But the truth is, you don’t need to know how to code or raise VC money to start a business. There are hundreds of millions of small...

From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he...

What’s the difference between your competitor and your enemy? You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter. They’re the haters and the doubters who said...

Multiple Shingo Award-winning management and operations expert Jeffrey K. Liker provides a deep dive into Toyota's world-changing processes, showing how you can learn from it to develop your own improvement program that fits your conditions. Thanks in large part to this book, managers across the globe are creating workforces and systems that produce the highest-quality products and services, establish and retain customer loyalty, and drive business profitability and sustainability.  

This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. It clearly explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Peter Drucker, the most influential and widely-read thinker and writer on modern organizations, gives us a superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures have to know, have to learn, and have to do in today's economy and marketplace.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Insanely Simple, written and read by Ken Segal. 'Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple'. -Steve Jobs The obsession with Simplicity is what separates Apple from...

Powered by Projects offers a bold new blueprint. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows listeners how to embrace the deep changes in leadership style and organizational structures necessary for projects and initiatives to flourish.