The best of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's articles on blue ocean strategy, all in one place. The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 3.6 million copies globally and is in print in 44 languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place. Piece by piece, these articles explain the process of creating "blue oceans"--uncontested market spaces, untainted by competition. Kim and Mauborgne introduce tools for exploring and exploiting these markets, such as the Value Curve, the Strategy Canvas, the Price Corridor of the Mass, and the Business Model Guide--tools that have come to make up the blue ocean strategy framework. This collection also features the authors' latest Harvard Business Review article, "Red Ocean Traps." Whether or not you're familiar with blue ocean strategy, this book will give you a new perspective on this important framework--and help you implement it in your organization.

CoCo-Bonds sind Anleihen, die beim Eintritt eines vordefinierten Ereignisses - in der Regel ein Krisenszenario - in Eigenkapital des Emittenten umgewandelt werden. Als Emittenten kommen insbesondere Banken in Betracht. Das Instrument wurde kreiert, um im Fall einer Bankenkrise oder -insolvenz durch Beteiligung bestimmter Glaubiger zur Stabilitat der Markte beizutragen. Dieses Ziel kann jedoch nur bei richtiger Ausgestaltung erreicht werden. Anderenfalls drohen gefahrliche Anreize fur verschiedene Marktteilnehmer. Auch die automatische Umwandlung erweist sich als juristisch sehr komplex. Die Publikation geht auf wichtige Ausgestaltungsparameter ein, entwickelt neue dogmatische Begrundungen der Umwandlung und ordnet CoCo-Bonds in das System des neuen Bankensanierungs- und Abwicklungsregimes ein.

Documenting important milestones in the epic journey traversed by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) over the last 50 years, 50 Years of Central Banking in Kenya puts into perspective the evolution of central banking globally and within the East African region, and contemplates future prospects and challenges. The volume is timely, mainly because within the last 50 years the global financial landscape has shifted. Central bankers have expanded their mandates, beyond the singular focus on inflation, and consider economic growth as their other important objective. Bank regulation has moved from Basel I, to Basel II, and some countries have fully migrated to Basel III while some are still at the cross-roads. 50 Years of Central Banking in Kenya captures the wide-ranging discussions on central banking, from a symposium to celebrate the 50 year anniversary on 13 September 2016 in Nairobi. The participants at the symposium included current and former central bank governors from Kenya and the East Africa region, high level officials from multilateral financial institutions, policy makers, executives of commercial banks in Kenya, private sector practitioners, civil society agents, executives and researchers from think tanks based in Kenya and the Africa region, leading academics in banking and finance, and university students. Beyond the symposium, the volume highlights the evolution of specific functions of CBK over the last 50 years (such as monetary policy, bank regulation, and payments system), as well as developments in Kenya's financial system which strongly relate to the functionality of CBK, such as financial innovation, the evolution of financial markets, and non-bank financial institutions in Kenya.

The key to rising to the top of your company lies in a simple message and philosophy. Radical Simplicity is the ultimate inspirational story for ambitious innovators, market-disruptors, and global business entrepreneurs.

Celebrating DHL’s fiftieth anniversary as a world-leading delivery company, global CEO Ken Allen tells the unique story of his journey to the top of the industry. In this business memoir, he shares the strategies and skills he has developed throughout his career, drawing on both his core values and extensive experience. This book is an inimitable guide to succeeding in any business, focusing on strategy and practical advice while revealing the simple lessons you need to learn to excel in life and work. It is an accessible read for entrepreneurs and managers at any stage of their career, packed with motivational material and no-nonsense tips.

This simple and honest book is a must-have for anyone looking to reach the top of their field.

The award-winning bestseller: "Stone's book, at last, gives us a Jeff Bezos biography that can fit proudly on a shelf next to the best chronicles of America's other landmark capitalists." -- "Forbes"""
Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.
Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. THE EVERYTHING STORE is the book the business world can't stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.

Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have relied on short-term share price increases to sustain their companies long term. Driven by a desire for prosperity, not posterity, these actions can doom any company. In The Activist Director, attorney Ira M. Millstein looks back at fifty years of counseling companies, nonprofits, and governments to actively govern their corporations and constituencies. From the threat of bankruptcy and the ConEd blackout of 1970s New York City, to the meltdown of Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s, to the turnaround of General Motors in the mid-1990s, Millstein takes readers into the boardrooms of several of the greatest catastrophes and success stories of America's best-known corporations. His solution lies at the top: a new breed of activist directors who partner with management and reject short-term outlooks, plan a future based on growth and innovation, and take responsibility for corporate organization, strategy, and efficiency. What questions should we ask of potential board members and how do we know they'll be active? Millstein offers pragmatic suggestions for recruiting activist directors to the boardroom to secure the future of the corporation.

Wirtschaftliche Krisenzeiten koennen dem Management Anreize geben, die rechnungslegungsbasierte Kommunikation des Unternehmens zu beeinflussen. Die zunehmende Digitalisierung hat in den vergangenen Jahren neue Moeglichkeiten fur die Analyse und den Nachweis des eingesetzten bilanzpolitischen Instrumentariums eroeffnet. Der Autor fuhrt auf Basis eines triangulatorischen Ansatzes eine umfassende Analyse der mehrperiodigen bilanzpolitischen Einflussnahme mittelstandischer Unternehmen vor einer Insolvenz durch. Zu diesem Zweck erfolgt nach einer modelltheoretischen Potenzialanalyse eine qualitative und quantitative empirische Untersuchung der eingesetzten Bilanzpolitik. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit dienen Lehrenden und Forschenden wie auch Entscheidungstragern im deutschen Mittelstand.

An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices-from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day entrepreneurs Anita Roddick and Tom Chappell. Today's business leaders are increasingly pressured by citizens, consumers, and government officials to address urgent social and environmental issues. Although some corporate executives remain deaf to such calls, over the last two centuries, a handful of business leaders in America and Britain have attempted to create business organizations that were both profitable and socially responsible. In The Enlightened Capitalists, James O'Toole tells the largely forgotten stories of men and women who adopted forward-thinking business practices designed to serve the needs of their employees, customers, communities, and the natural environment. They wanted to prove that executives didn't have to make trade-offs between profit and virtue. Combining a wealth of research and vivid storytelling, O'Toole brings life to historical figures like William Lever, the inventor of bar soap who created the most profitable company in Britain and used his money to greatly improve the lives of his workers and their families. Eventually, he lost control of the company to creditors who promptly terminated the enlightened practices he had initiated-the fate of many idealistic capitalists. As a new generation attempts to address social problems through enlightened organizational leadership, O'Toole explores a major question being posed today in Britain and America: Are virtuous corporate practices compatible with shareholder capitalism?

In Verschmelzungen boersennotierter Gesellschaften nach den Regeln des deutschen UmwG weichen begutachtete Ertragswerte und Boersenkurse regelmassig voneinander ab. Ausgehend von bewertungsrelevanten Informationsunterschieden und widerstreitenden Interessen der Beteiligten beleuchtet diese Arbeit die Bestimmung, den Beschluss und die gerichtliche Beurteilung von Verschmelzungsverhaltnissen. Strategien zur Maximierung der Vermoegensposition werden theoretisch untersucht und mittels empirischer Daten der letzten 20 Jahre gewurdigt. Die Berucksichtigung von Synergien und baren Zuzahlungen werfen ein neues Licht auf die Angemessenheit des Transaktionspreises sowie die aus dem Spruchverfahren resultierende Vermoegensverteilung.

The core theme of the book is the importance of an independent state audit to ensure that the Executive is held accountable to Parliament. Instilling effective financial control and accountability for the use of public funds and the proper conduct of public business has been an incremental process that has taken centuries. This book provides a detailed history of the forces and personalities involved in the development of public sector audit, including the battles which extended well into the 20th century to establish a public sector audit that was constitutionally and in practice independent from the influence and control of the Executive. It identifies key themes that have emerged and re-emerged in these developments, and the challenges and obstacles faced and overcome over the years to arrive at today's modern audit framework and to establish current principles and practice in accountability to Parliament and the public. The book charts the movement of public sector audit from a focus on the presentation and accuracy of accounts to the introduction of the added dimension of ensuring that funds are spent only for purposes approved by Parliament and that resources have been used efficiently, effectively and with economy. It explores the seminal relationships of the NAO and its predecessors with the Treasury, spending departments and the Public Accounts Committee; and it deals with the impact of major changes still taking place in the objectives, management and delivery of government programmes and services, including the growing involvement of outside agencies and the private sector. The book reviews the NAO's current achievements, continuing challenges, developments in the range and nature of its work, and future priorities. Importantly, it provides an authoritative source of reference for professionals and academics, while remaining accessible to readers with a more general interest in the developments and issues examined.

Anhand unterschiedlicher Produktkategorien untersucht diese experimentelle Studie den wachsenden M-Commerce-Markt. Die Autorin fuhrt aus, wie der mobile Kommunikationskanal fur Unternehmen eine Vielzahl einzigartiger Eigenschaften bietet. Im Mittelpunkt des Interesses steht dabei, welchen Einfluss Mobile Marketing auf die Einstellungsbildung hat und wie mobile Verkaufsfoerdermassnahmen die Kaufentscheidung beeinflussen. Die Autorin fragt, welchen Einfluss QR-Codes, als pull-basierte mobile Verkaufsfoerdermassnahme, auf Einstellung und Verhalten haben und stellt fest, dass die Starke des Einflusses zwischen den Produktkategorien variiert.

Mit der Einfuhrung des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodex (DCGK) im Jahr 2002 sind die Anforderungen an die Aufsichtsratsmitglieder deutlich erhoeht worden. Auch der Gesetzgeber hat mit dem Gesetz zur Kontrolle und Transparenz im Unternehmensbereich (KonTraG), dem Gesetz zur Transparenz und Publizitat (TransPubG) und dem Gesetz zur Modernisierung des Bilanzrechts (BilMoG) die Messlatte fur gute Unternehmensfuhrung weit nach oben gelegt. Daraus resultiert ein erhebliches Konfliktpotential zur Unternehmensmitbestimmung, das sich insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit der Qualifikation, der Kommunikation und der Unabhangigkeit der Arbeitnehmervertreter im Aufsichtsrat zeigt. Die Arbeit behandelt ausfuhrlich diese Konfliktfelder in der Aktiengesellschaft und in der deutschen Societas Europaea. Sie folgt dabei einem prozeduralen Verstandnis des Unternehmensinteresses.

Dollar Shave Club and its hilarious marketing. Casper mattresses popping out of a box. Third Love's lingerie designed specifically for each woman's body. Warby Parker mailing you five pairs of glasses to choose from. You've seen their ads. You (or someone you know) use their products. Each may appear, in isolation, as a rare David with the bravado to confront a Goliath, but taken together they represent a seismic shift in a business model that has lasted more than a century. As Lawrence Ingrassia - former business and economics editor and deputy managing editor at the New York Times - shows in this timely and eye-opening book, a growing number of digital entrepreneurs have found new and creative ways to crack the code on the bonanza of physical goods that move through our lives every day. They have discovered that manufacturing, marketing, logistics, and customer service have all been flattened - where there were once walls that protected big brands like Gillette, Sealy, Victoria's Secret, or Lenscrafters, savvy and hungry innovators now can compete on price, value, quality, speed, convenience, and service. Billion Dollar Brand Club reveals the world of the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and corporate behemoths battling over this terrain. And what fun it is. It's a massive, high-stakes business saga animated by the personalities, flashes of insight, and stories behind the stuff we use every day.

A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global power Conspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the nineteenth century, when America was convulsed by a financial panic essentially every twenty years, Brown Brothers quietly went from strength to strength. By the turn of the twentieth century, Brown Brothers was unquestionably at the heart of the American Establishment. As America's reach extended, Brown Brothers worked hand in glove with the State Department, notably in Nicaragua in the early twentieth century, where the firm essentially took over the country's economy. To the Brown family, the virtue of their dealings was a given; their form of muscular Protestantism, forged on the playing fields of Groton and Yale, was the acme of civilization, and it was their duty to import that civilization to the world. When, during the Great Depression, Brown Brothers ensured their strength by merging with Averell Harriman's investment bank to form Brown Brothers Harriman, the die was cast for the role the firm would play on the global stage during World War II and thereafter, as its partners served at the highest levels of government to shape the international system that defines the world to this day. In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former financial executive Zachary Karabell offers the first full and frank look inside this institution against the backdrop of American history. Blessed with complete access to the company's archives, as well as a deep knowledge of the larger forces at play, Karabell has created an X-ray of American power--financial, political, cultural--as it has evolved from the early 1800s to the present. Today, Brown Brothers Harriman remains a private partnership and a beacon of sustainable capitalism, having forgone the heady speculative upsides of the past thirty years but also having avoided any role in the devastating downsides. The firm is no longer in the command capsule of the American economy, but, arguably, that is to its credit. If its partners cleaved to any one adage over the generations, it is that a relentless pursuit of more can destroy more than it creates.

Empirische Untersuchungen belegen einen mittlerweile auch in Deutschland erhoehten Verbreitungsgrad der Due Diligence bei Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). Differenziert wird bei den Untersuchungen zwischen einzelnen Teilreviews (Financial, Tax, Legal etc.) allerdings wurden bislang keine breiten empirischen Erkenntnisse zur Durchfuhrung der Due Diligence gewonnen. Die Fragestellung bei dieser Untersuchung lautet, in welchen Determinanten die Due Diligence tatsachlich durchgefuhrt wird. Determinanten der Due Diligence sind die Dauer der Due Diligence und Terminierung im Akquistitionsprozess, die Groesse und Zusammensetzung des Due Diligence-Teams, die Informationsquellen wahrend der Due Diligence, die eingesetzten Instrumente wie Checklisten u.a., die wirtschaftliche und wirtschaftsrechtliche Relevanz der Due Diligence sowie die Dokumentation und Berichterstattung uber die Due Diligence.

In Masters and Servants, Scott P. Stephen reveals startling truths about Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) workers. Rather than dedicating themselves body and soul to the Company's interests, these men were hired like domestic servants, joining a "household" with its attendant norms of duty and loyalty. The household system produced a remarkably stable political-economic entity, connecting early North American resource extraction to larger trends in British imperialism. Through painstaking research, Stephen shines welcome light on the lives of these largely overlooked individuals. An essential book for labour historians, Masters and Servants will appeal to scholars of early modern Britain, the North American fur trade, Western social history, business history, and anyone intrigued by the reach of the HBC.

Dieses Buch beschaftigt sich mit der Fuhrung von homogenen und multikulturellen Gruppen und der Arbeit in diesen aus der Sicht von BerufseinsteigerInnen. Ziel ist es, einerseits kulturelle Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen Nationen aufzuzeigen und andererseits aus der Untersuchung kulturubergreifender Zusammenarbeit in unterschiedlichen Settings innerhalb der Gruppen und zwischen Gruppenmitgliedern und Nachwuchsfuhrungskraften Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Dazu wurde ein Experiment durchgefuhrt, in dem die Wahrnehmungen und Zuschreibungen von BerufseinsteigerInnen und Graduierten aus OEsterreich, der Turkei, China und den USA erforscht wurden.

In this absorbing narrative, Barry E.C. Boothman traces the history of Abitibi Power & Paper Limited alongside the rise and fall of the newsprint industry and the advent of Canadian corporate capitalism. In the first half of the twentieth century, Abitibi was Canada's biggest manufacturer - an apparent success story after the Wall Street crash of 1929 and a company deemed "too big to fail" - but the company eventually ended up at the centre of the longest and most controversial bankruptcy in Canadian history. Moving from the frontier areas of northern Ontario to the heart of the continental economy, Corporate Cataclysm shows how competitive strategies, industrial organization, corporate finance, and law combined with the empire-building dreams of entrepreneurs and the concerns of politicians to generate an economic disaster. It then chronicles the disputes and intense strife that plagued Abitibi's fourteen-year receivership.

Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations-liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal-of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers' rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism's imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits.

This book examines the role that European employee representatives play in the restructuring of firms. In a globalized economy, company internationalization and transnational restructuring are of growing concern for employees and trade unions. In the European Union, the still rather new institution of European works councils provides basic rights for employees. Using examples of eight large automotive manufacturers like Volkswagen, GM or Toyota, the volume analyzes the internationalization strategies of the companies and the effects of European works councils, pointing to a high degree of variation in strategies and effectiveness of cross-border employee representation.

Mit diesem Band reagiert die Arbeits- und Organisationsforschung auf die zunehmende Bedeutung, weicher' Faktoren in der beruflichen Praxis. Gerade die Realisierung erfolgreicher Innovationen erfordert ein vertrauensvolles Klima zwischen den beteiligten Akteuren und Unternehmen. Inwieweit und auf welche Weise aber lasst sich Vertrauen positiv gestalten? Kann dabei auch ein gesundes Misstrauen foerderlich sein? Welche Rolle spielen bei diesen Prozessen die Dynamiken innerhalb der sozialen Netzwerke? Aktuelle Befunde der interdisziplinaren Forschung aus funf gefoerderten Verbundprojekten werden zu dieser Thematik vorgestellt. Ferner werden die in den Projekten entwickelten Instrumente zur konkreten Gestaltung von Vertrauen prasentiert.

Selten hat ein wettbewerbspolitischer Fall so viel Interesse und Kontroversen hervorgerufen wie der E-Book-Fall rund um Amazon, bei dem fuhrende Verlage und grosse Unternehmen wie Apple involviert sind. Doch dieser spiegelt nur eine von vielen unternehmerischen Vorgehensweisen Amazons wider. Der Kern dieses Werkes stellt die wettbewerbspolitischen Vorwurfe gegenuber Amazon systematisch dar und wurdigt diese auf der Basis oekonomisch-theoretischer UEberlegungen. Die Analysen offenbaren dabei die oekonomischen Besonderheiten von Onlinemarkten und berucksichtigen die wachsende oekonomische Bedeutung mehrseitiger Markte. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse geben eine Antwort auf die sich aus der aktuellen Medienbrisanz um Internetplattformen ergebende Frage, ob "Amazon as the Next Google" einzuordnen ist. Daruber hinaus bewertet die Autorin Ansatze zur Ausgestaltung einer wettbewerbspolitischen Regulierung von Internetplattformen wie den More Technological Approach oder die Implementierung einer eigenen Regulierungsbehoerde.