This is the definitive sourcebook for collecting information required for corporate merger and acquisition research. A particular strength of the Guide is its focus on time-sharing online databanks for information retrieval. Readers can learn which databanks can be used for M&A research, and search examples and techniques are described. The authors use their research expertise to identify appropriate strategies, provide database tips and techniques, and point out unique features of the many M&A research tools discussed in the Guide. In addition, they discuss issues such as database cost and comprehensiveness and the currency of information delivery by identifying those databases offering current awareness capabilities. Examples of search sessions in electronic databases are provided to illustrate the creation and use of current awareness profiles.

Monitoring M&A activity, researching specific deals, using Securities and Exchange Commission filings, researching with specialized M&A transaction databases, using electronic databanks to find acquisition candidates, tracking complex corporate relationships and international M&As are the primary subjects of coverage. The database categories--both print and electronic sources--include: filings databases, transaction databases, directory databases, monitoring databases, financial databases, legal databases and bibliographic databases. The Guide is a tool for the users of corporate change information that include economists, accountants, attorneys, financial analysts and officers, managers, academics, and students of business.

This essential handbook features overviews of sexual harassment in kindergarten through high school, college and universities, and public and private sector workplaces. The contributors to this volume come from diverse backgrounds; their disciplines include psychology, sociology, law, English literature, and management. Through teaching about this issue, conducting research, creating policies and procedures, working with administrative agencies (such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office for Civil Rights), litigating cases, testifying as expert witnesses in Title VII and Title IX cases and working with state legislatures, the various authors have gained much knowledge of sexual harassment.

School administrators, teachers, human resources professionals, and managers and supervisors in any workplace will greatly benefit from the insights in this volume. It is a unique compilation of findings from the social science, business, and legal fields. One of the truly unique features of this work is its emphasis on multicultural perspectives. It also reviews legal cases and presents actual tools for sexual harassment policies, procedures, and training programs in educational institutions and workplaces alike.

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Most decision-making methods in use today are flawed and result in less than optimal results. Choosing By Advantages (CBA) is a tested and effective system for determining the best decision by looking at the advantages of each option. It is an easy to use process that will be valuable to businesses, government agencies, engineers, and individuals.

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Looks at six main bias barriers women face at work and how leaders, allies, and women can overcome them. Gender bias is a powerful but hidden force that holds women back, keeping them from achieving their full potential and limiting organizations from achieving the creativity, problem solving, and growth that are possible with a gender diverse workforce. But you can’t fix what you can’t see—and you can’t solve a complex problem unless you truly understand and properly define its component parts. In this revealing new book, Amy Diehl, Ph.D. and Leanne Dzubinski, Ph.D. shine a new light on the barriers that form the structure of gender bias in the workplace. Through their original research, they have discovered six core factors, and even more subfactors (some of which they have given name to for the first time in the gender bias literature). They describe each of the six overarching barriers women face; illustrate each with real-world examples and stories shared by women in their study; and explain the consequences of that specific barrier. To better understand all that causes gender bias, Drs. Diehl and Dzubinski created a survey instrument, the Gender Bias Scale for Women Leaders, comprised of scale questions derived from the authors’ previous research. Using factor analysis, they discovered underlying themes behind workplace barriers, revealing the six primary barriers. Next, they conducted qualitative content analysis of women’s stories from public sources to confirm their six-barrier model and identify the many subcomponents of each. Their findings and analysis present a new, important, and richly detailed blueprint of gender bias. Based on their research findings, Drs. Diehl and Dzubinski document, describe, and explain: • How male privilege results in a workplace built by men and for men • How women encounter disproportionate constraints in that workplace, expected to play supportive roles to men. • The surprising ways in which women have experienced insufficient support, based solely on gender. • The concept of devaluation, and its consequences for both the target and the organization. • How women face overt hostility at work merely by virtue of their gender. • How the above barriers lead to acquiescence, which occurs when women internalize the obstacles and adapt to the limitations.

Succession Planning for the Family Owned Business represents a comprehensive strategy for ensuring that your family business is passed successfully to the next generation. Within these pages, you will find everything you need to plan for the future of your small business as well as your family.

Building public sector image and trust in Africa requires judicious use of appropriate marketing communications tools and platforms. Contributing authors to this second volume of a two-volume work offer insights into how the selection and strategic utilisation of marketing tools will facilitate interactions between the government and the citizens, improve inter-governmental and inter-agency collaboration, and boost a citizen-oriented public sector. Traditional marketing communications tools continue to play a key role in citizen and public sector relationships; however, given mega-trends of demographic change, urbanisation, and digitalisation in Africa, it is important to consider how public institutions, including government agencies, local government, universities, and football associations, respond and adapt to these changes. The digital revolution presents an opportunity for public sector institutions to align their communication plans with new technologies, particularly leveraging social media platforms. Together with the first volume, which focuses on public relations and brand communication perspectives, this collection fills an existing information gap evident in Africa’s public sector literature. The text serves as a decision making, teaching, and learning guide for practitioners, faculty, and students interested in applying marketing principles and practices to the public sector.  

How can businesses around the world incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their models, policies and practices? The editors of Business in the 21st Century help answer this by bringing together scholars from around the world with chapters examining various industries ranging from finance, hospitality, aviation, tourism, food production and more. With international perspectives, business concepts such as HRM, employee wellbeing, leadership and digitalisation are also researched within the framework of the SDGs. Insights from how to implement such policies in a post-pandemic world are introduced to help businesses navigate the biggest disruption they have faced in decades. Business in the 21st Century provides a valuable framework for scholars, managers, leaders and business stakeholders to help navigate the incorporation of SDGs into the business world, shape strategy, improve practices and create a better business future.

What is the social licence to operate, and what are its ethical risks and promises? This collection explores these questions from a range of perspectives. Since its first key uses in the late 1990s in application to operational risks for extraction industries, the idea of the ‘social licence to operate’ has proliferated. It has since been applied to myriad industries—including tourism, paper milling, banking, and aquaculture—and even to the work of scientists and government agencies. Yet what is the ethical status of this concept? It is easy to assume that the social licence to operate is a welcome tool to improve the ethics of profit-seeking enterprises, forcing them to genuinely respond to community and stakeholder concerns, or face operational risk if they do not. No doubt the social licence sometimes—perhaps even often—works in this way. Yet there is ethical risk as well as promise in the social licence. For the concept can be weaponised by stakeholders, taking operational legitimacy out of the hands of settled law and democratic institutions, and wedding it to shifting community attitudes. Conversely, the concept can be used as a rhetorical shield by industry, who can insist they possess a social licence even when engaging in fraught ethical practice. These conflicting uses give rise to a separate worry: that the social licence is too ambiguous to function as anything but a meaningless buzzword, a distraction from high ethical standards and strong governance regimes. This Collection interrogates these challenges, exploring in a range of contexts whether and how the social licence’s ethical promise can be secured, and its risks mitigated.

Politicians and the mass media have taken an amorphous view of the financial woes that our nation faces. Frustrated by the lack of facts and political finger pointing Mike Gearhardt and Will Gates felt compelled to research and write The Financial Tsunami. This book offers insightful discussion on what is driving the United State's annual deficits and the national debt to record and unprecedented levels. The Financial Tsunami delves into why the economic problems that our nation faces today are unlike any other financial crisis in the history of America. The book offers a non-political perspective of the fiscal irresponsibility that our country has experienced for the last 40 years. The interrelationships of spending and taxation, is detailed and presented in clear and understandable terms. The book exposes the fallacy in ignoring the $5 trillion intergovernmental debt. The authors detail how intergovernmental debt will become public debt and how it will worsen an already fragile economy. The options that many are advocating to solve our economic problems simply are not feasible and the authors clarify why. How do we survive the tsunami? Mike Gearhardt and Will Gates have developed a well thought out plan to lead our nation toward fiscal responsibility. If there is one book you want to read to understand the economic woes of our nation and what can be done, this is the book.

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HOW TO UNDERSTAND people so you can increase your sponsoring rate and develop the skills to be an effective leader? WHY YOU NEED A DREAM, how to discover and build it, and set goals to achieve it? HOW TO INCREASE your enthusiasm and develop the attitudes and habits of a winner, so you'll be an example for others? HOW TO BLAST - THROUGH your obstacles and accomplish your goals, so you get free and live your dream? HOW TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE, not just busy, and Inspire others to take action, so your group can grow? Inside You is the Reason Why --- Your Dream. When people take total responsibility for their own success and stop making and accepting excuses, their business can really start to blossom.

Scott Rosen's book, Wisdom at the Top, features exclusive interviews with 35 of the Greater Philadelphia area's elite CEOs. Through candid conversations, they share inspiring stories of how they achieved success while overcoming personal and professional challenges. Readers will gain invaluable knowledge and wisdom from seasoned professionals who have made it to the top. Yet these stories also offer lessons on life and leadership that transcend the business world. Wisdom at the Top will resonate with all who aspire to leadership positions and want to make important contributions to our economy, as well as the greater good.

Carefully review the decision-making process of business leaders today and discover common threads behind ethical challenges in Jennings' best-selling BUSINESS ETHICS: CASE STUDIES AND SELECTED READINGS, 10E. The latest cases, new examples and intriguing readings drawn from pop culture, business and history introduce today's ethical issues, the consequences and societal costs. You learn how to recognize and resolve ethical issues to become a stronger business leader. Probing questions prompt you to evaluate situations like actions of the NBA in China or the NFL’s Taking-a-Knee issue. You learn how specific behaviors can lead to ethical or legal breaches as you work through real examples of business decisions gone awry. You study patterns and choices in examples such as how behaviors have changed during the pandemic, how employees gamed fitness devices for insurance discounts or how parents cheated to get their children into top universities.

Climate change is real. Time to spring into action. Introducing: The Time is Now, a toolkit for serious change. Use this timely card game to challenge, inspire, pitch and get serious results for positive impact. The kit consists of 60 tool cards that trigger questions and inspire possible solutions by fellow players. Questions like: what can you do to stay out of a polluting hospital? What would your holiday look like with zero CO2 emissions? How do you co-travel to the office? With whom would you work together for a healthier living and working environment? Invite your colleagues, friends and family and move to a more sustainable planet one step at a time. In three rounds you'll discover new options, practical solutions, and put these in the simplest plan of approach, you have ever seen. Share your plans, stick them to the wall or on your companies' message board and create real change. With the workshop version the game ends in making a canvas with things you can start doing tomorrow, next week and this year. Use the The Time is Now toolkit to grow ideas and start changing the world around you and inspire to make changes. Make a difference, one step at a time. The Time really is Now! * From the authors of The Startup Game * Challenge, inspire, pitch and get serious results for positive impact. * Translate complex and scientific models and tools into everyday professional and private life. * Inspired by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). * Generate more effective ideas than any other toolbox in just 45 minutes.

Retirement income is very dependent upon retirement planning. After the global economic meltdown, retirement plans suffered great losses in equities. To recover the loss, the author decided to take control of his own financial future and dedicate more time to managing his retirement investment. Relying on just the government retirement benefits for seniors is not an option.

Are You Retired or Retiring Soon? shows retirees, the soon-to-be retired, and all others how to enhance retirement income by trading stocks. The author wrote about his personal experience of going into retirement during this economic meltdown and why he decided not to postpone his retirement, already planned at sixty. He shares critical information about how he managed to rescue his sinking portfolios from falling further and how he traded stocks and gained an average of $4700 in cash per month between December 2008 and August 2009.

He shares these experiences and also his philosophy of life. In trading stocks, he follows his own simple rules and trading techniques, and shares these how-to tips as well as divulging what does not work. He illustrates that by applying the rules and techniques explained here, one can consistently make profit by the frequent trading of big cap stocks only.