Companies must either properly manage the complex world of legal and corporate risk or suffer the consequences. Author Bryan E. Hopkins, the former general counsel of Samsung Electronics America, identifies the numerous areas of legal and corporate risk that managers and their company counsel face daily. More importantly, he provides concrete examples that demonstrate how to minimize or mitigate legal and corporate risk. He provides case studies, practical information, and insights to help you conduct an initial legal risk assessment; establish a compliance program; retain records that minimize risk; transfer risk;and navigate the discovery process. Legal counsel must take an active effort in developing strategies, systems, and processes that minimize the legal risks faced by the company on a daily basis. Managers must also be involved to ensure the company develops a successful legal risk management program. Many companies don't think about risk management until they're confronted with class-action lawsuits, product liability claims, government investigations, shareholder actions, and fines. Take a proactive approach to protecting your company with Legal Risk Management for In-House Counsel and Managers.

Seven Seconds or Less is a book about applied intuition for mergers and partnerships, human resource management, new product development, and other important aspects of business.

Companies and leaders have relied on intuition or "gut feeling" since the beginning of time. The proper use of intuition is a liberal art, not an occult one. This book demystifies the process of learning to use intuition on demand in the world of business. Through the use of intuitive techniques and qualified professionals, companies can have the benefit of hindsight now. They can find out in advance how actual or potential decisions play out in the future and adjust those decisions to avoid undesirable outcomes, while increasing desirable ones. The result is greater productivity, higher morale, lower costs, and better service The techniques are lighthearted and fun, and yet the implications are significant. Decision making in seven seconds or less may signal a new era in business development.

Competition in today's global economy has become more complex due to the adoption of digitization and advanced methods of performance. Firms are compelled to adapt to new challenges that are altering the economic scope while maintaining a competitive edge. Empirical research is needed that highlights innovative and dynamic strategies that will allow corporations to maintain a level of sustainability and remain competitive in the global market. Dynamic Strategic Thinking for Improved Competitiveness and Performance provides emerging research exploring the innovative methods organizations have implemented in order to improve their overall effectiveness. This book analyzes novel strategies companies are using to adjust and respond to modern challenges including globalization and digitization. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as digital business, social media, and human capital, this book is ideally designed for researchers, policymakers, managers, practitioners, executives, government officials, students, and academicians seeking research on modern strategic performance methods for improving corporate sustainability and competitiveness.

This book is about Data Analytics. In that respect, it is like others. What distinguishes it from the rest is the variety of open-source tool applications. This book incorporates the use of R Studio, Python, SAS Studio (University Edition), and KNIME. This book is also about manipulating Big Data. Apache Hadoop on Hortonworks Sandbox is introduced and we manage, move, handle, and transform data using Apache Hive, Apache Spark, MapReduce and TEZ, with terminal shell commands and Ambari. We show you how to set up a virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. We then use the data in later chapters for modeling. We cover Descriptive Modeling and Predictive. The content includes Support Vector Machines, Decision Tree learning, Random Forests, Naive and Empirical Bayes, Gradient Boosting, Cluster Modeling, Generalized Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Artificial Neural Networks. Every chapter includes completely worked examples using one or more open-source tools.

With changing economic and social environmental conditions and diversified consumer attitudes, national and international competition has increased among retailers. Private label brands have started to follow a dynamic structure in order to adapt themselves to developing environmental conditions. Today, private label products are often mentioned as a mechanism for reaching differentiation in the market and for helping retailers to strengthen consumer loyalty. Improving Marketing Strategies for Private Label Products is a collection of innovative research that examines how some markets are successful and what other markets can do to increase their market share in terms of private label products. It supports in the development of marketing strategies that can help make a private label product more successful. While highlighting topics including e-commerce, national branding, and consumer behavior, this book is ideally designed for marketing professionals, managers, executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, business practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students.

While the population continues to grow and expand, many people are now making their homes in cities around the globe. With this increase in city living, it is becoming vital to create intelligent urban environments that efficiently support this growth, and that simultaneous provide friendly, progressive environments to both businesses and citizens alike. The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation within Smart Cities is a comprehensive reference source that discusses social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding the evolution of smart cities. It provides insightful viewpoints on a range of topics such as entrepreneurial ecosystems, competitive tourism, city efficiency, corporate social responsibility, and smart destinations. This publication is ideal for all researchers, academics, and practitioners that wish to expand their knowledge on the emerging trends and topics involving smart cities.