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Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing
This book provides readers with a basic understanding of sustainable finance and impact investing including history, definitions of impact, current trends and drivers, future challenges, and an overview of the key players in the global impact ecosystem.The term impact investing first appeared in 200.... -
Transforming Towards Life-Centered Economies
Author Sandra Waddock
Transforming Towards Life orients change agents, policy makers, activists, business leaders, ecologists, economists, and thoughtful people everywhere to the values and practices needed to build a world where all can flourish, where ‘all’ includes all humanity and all of l....
Release Date 2020/10 -
Author Tom Russell
Tom Russell is Co-Founder and Director of The Facilitation Partnership (TFP) and Inky Thinking. He has 20 years’ experience in a variety of large, well known, complex organisations. More recently he has been facilitating meetings across the globe, partnering with clients to achieve breakthrough resu....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Master Your Next Move, with a New Introduction
Author Michael D. Watkins
Your next professional move can make or break your career. Are you ready?In business, especially today, you are only as successful as your next career transition. Do well, and you'll be on the fast track to even more challenging roles. Fail, and you could irrepara....
Release Date 2019/03 -
Author Jeff Levitan , Greg S. Reid
The Tokens tells the fascinating story of Eric, a skilled craftsman and builder. During the course of his business journey, Eric struggles to take his burgeoning company to the next level. A chance encounter introduces him to Carl, a retired multimillionaire. Carl ....
Release Date 2019/01 -
Modeling of Next Generation Digital Learning Environments
Author Marc Trestini
The emergence of social networks, OpenCourseWare, Massive Open Online Courses, informal remote learning and connectivist approaches to learning has made the analysis and evaluation of Digital Learning Environments more complex. Modeling these complex systems makes ....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Global Women in the Start-up World
Author Marta Zucker
Global Women in the Startup World: Conversations in Silicon Valley is a selection of interview-driven stories told by the Polish female founders who successfully made it to Silicon Valley. This book is written with the focus on female founders because although wome....
Release Date 2018/08 -
HBR Guide to Changing Your Career
Author Harvard Business Review
Your next act starts now.You're ready for something new, but it's hard to start over. Just the idea of trading the security you have now for the unknown or throwing away the education and time you've invested in your current career can plunge you into a swirl of....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author Sir Richard Branson , Sheryl Sandberg , Marc Kielburger , Holly Branson , Craig Kiel
Your guide to ‘Business with Benefits'... for All!Purpose and profit are powerful human motivators. Combined, this power can change the world.WEconomy is your guidebook to the greatest evolution in business since the assembly line. Discover the secret to achievi....
Release Date 2018/03 -
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
Author Tim O'Reilly
Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future—what he calls the "next economy."Tim O'Reilly's genius is to identify and explain emerging technologies with world shaking pote....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Author Margaret Pugh O'Mara
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next....
Release Date 2015/02 -
No One of Us is as Strong as All of Us: Services, catalogs and portfolios
Author Dan McLean
Stories in transforming ITIL® best practice into operational success – the second book of the series has arrived! Fresh from tackling incidents, changes and problems in The ITSM Iron Triangle , Chris is back in this fantastic follow-up title. High-performing IT orga....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Author Charles Perrow
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to ....
Release Date 2011/02 -
Author Harold T. Shapiro
Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates. Not anymore. Today's universities have evolved into multifaceted organizations with complex connections to government, business, and the community. This th....
Release Date 2009/02