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The Haute Banque, an elite form of private or merchant banking,
emerged in France in the early 19th century, reached its peak
around 1850-1860 before declining in the early 20th century and
almost disappearing in the 1960s-1980s. Often characterized by
their religious origins and family networks, these banking houses
escape a clear definition. Their expansion is not limited to
France, as banks with similar features can be found in Europe and
throughout the world. This book, which brings together some of the
best specialists in the field, examines the legacy of the Haute
Banque. How and until when did it influence other banking
establishments, through its managers, its practices, and its
values? What business lines have these bankers helped to shape,
right up to wealth management and asset management of today? What
was the resilience of these finance companies? Is there a
resurgence in the 21st century of the houses or the spirit of Haute
Banque?
The role of design in the formation of the Silicon Valley ecosystem
of innovation. California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest
concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices
at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs;
global design consultancies and boutique studios; research
laboratories and academic design programs. Together they form the
interconnected network that is Silicon Valley. Apple products are
famously "Designed in California," but, as Barry Katz shows in this
first-ever, extensively illustrated history, the role of design in
Silicon Valley began decades before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
dreamed up Apple in a garage. Offering a thoroughly original view
of the subject, Katz tells how design helped transform Silicon
Valley into the most powerful engine of innovation in the world.
From Hewlett-Packard and Ampex in the 1950s to Google and Facebook
today, design has provided the bridge between research and
development, art and engineering, technical performance and human
behavior. Katz traces the origins of all of the leading
consultancies-including IDEO, frog, and Lunar-and shows the process
by which some of the world's most influential companies came to
place design at the center of their business strategies. At the
same time, universities, foundations, and even governments have
learned to apply "design thinking" to their missions. Drawing on
unprecedented access to a vast array of primary sources and
interviews with nearly every influential design leader-including
Douglas Engelbart, Steve Jobs, and Don Norman-Katz reveals design
to be the missing link in Silicon Valley's ecosystem of innovation.
Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM) emerged from the liquidation of
Successori Andrea Rioda in November 1931. The new factory placed a
very personal accent on contemporary artistic glass production on
Murano: while designs prior to the Second World War were generally
still the responsibility of master glassblowers themselves, after
the war designers and freelance artists increasingly determined
production. Giulio Radi began experimenting in 1940, obtaining the
company's signature chromatic effects by superimposing mould-blown
layers of glass, often opaque and transparent in alternation, and
inlaying them with gold and silver foil. This latest volume of Marc
Heireman's ongoing Murano manufactory books features over 800
design drawings, numerous archive images and new photos of AVEM
masterpieces, making this anthology of the company's history
indispensable for all Murano glass lovers.
This study analyzes the influence of big business on the economic,
political, and social structure of twentieth-century America. The
author examines the development of a mass production and
consumption economy and argues that the corporation became a key
institutional force in the United States.
*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art
History, 2022* A spectacular new biography of the great designer,
entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution,
from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert
Museum, Tristram Hunt Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English
potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his
kilns and workshops in Stoke-on-Trent, he revolutionized the
production of ceramics in Georgian Britain by marrying technology
with design, manufacturing efficiency and retail flair. He
transformed the luxury markets not only of London, Liverpool, Bath
and Dublin but of America and the world, and helping to usher in a
mass consumer society. Tristram Hunt calls him 'the Steve Jobs of
the eighteenth century'. But Wedgwood was radical in his mind and
politics as well as in his designs. He campaigned for free trade
and religious toleration, read pioneering papers to the Royal
Society and was a member of the celebrated Lunar Society of
Birmingham. Most significantly, he created the ceramic
'Emancipation Badge', depicting a slave in chains and inscribed 'Am
I Not a Man and a Brother?' that became the symbol of the
abolitionist movement. Tristram Hunt's hugely enjoyable new
biography, strongly based on Wedgwood's notebooks, letters and the
words of his contemporaries, brilliantly captures the energy and
originality of Wedgwood and his extraordinary contribution to the
transformation of eighteenth-century Britain.
The disciplines of strategic intelligence at the governmental level
and competitive business intelligence constitute accepted methods
of decision-supporting to prevent mistakes and strategic surprise.
This research discovered that many researchers in the intelligence
field feel that intelligence methodology in both contexts has
reached a "glass ceiling." Thus far, research has focused
separately on national intelligence and intelligence in business,
without any attempt to benchmark from one field to the other. This
book shows that it is possible to use experience gained in the
business field to improve intelligence practices in national
security, and vice versa through mutual learning. The book's main
innovation is its proposition that mutual learning can be employed
in the context of a model distinguishes between concentrated and
diffused surprises to provide a breakthrough in the intelligence
field, thereby facilitating better prediction of the surprise
development. We Never Expected That: A Comparative Study of
Failures in National and Business Intelligence focuses on a
comparison between how states, through their intelligence
organizations, cope with strategic surprises and how business
organizations deal with unexpected movement in their field. Based
on this comparison, the author proposes a new model which can
better address the challenge of avoiding strategic surprises. This
book can contribute significantly to the study of intelligence,
which will become more influential in the coming years.
'A fast-paced, highly readable history of one of the defining
companies of our time. If you're interested in Snapchat, or just
plain mystified by it, you must read this book' -- Brad Stone Would
you turn down three billion dollars from Mark Zuckerberg? When he
was just twenty-three years old, Evan Spiegel, the brash CEO of the
social network Snapchat, stunned the world when he and his
co-founders walked away from a three-billion-dollar offer from
Facebook: how could an app teenagers use to text dirty photos dream
of a higher valuation? Was this hubris, or genius? In How to Turn
Down a Billion Dollars, Billy Gallagher takes us inside the rise of
one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups. Snapchat began as a
late-night dorm room revelation before Spiegel went on to make a
name for himself as a visionary CEO worth billions, linked to
celebrities like Taylor Swift and his fiancee, Miranda Kerr. A
fellow Stanford undergrad and fraternity brother of the company's
founding trio, Billy Gallagher has covered Snapchat from the start.
His inside account offers an entertaining trip through the excess
and drama of the hazy early days with a professional insight into
the challenges Snapchat faces as it transitions from a playful app
to one of the tech industry's preeminent public companies. In the
tradition of great business narratives, How to Turn Down a Billion
Dollars offers the definitive account of a company whose goal is no
less than to remake the future of entertainment.
After the Berlin Wall tells the inside story of an international
financial institution, the European Bank for Development and
Reconstruction (EBRD), created in the aftermath of communism to
help the countries of central and eastern Europe transition towards
open market-oriented democratic economies. The first volume of a
history in two parts, After the Berlin Wall charts the EBRD's life
from a fledgling high-risk, start-up investing in former socialist
countries from 1991 to become an established member of the
international financial community, which (as of April 2020)
operates in almost 40 countries across three continents. This
volume describes the multilateral negotiations that created this
cosmopolitan institution with a 'European character' and the
emergence of the EBRD's unique business model: a focus on the
private sector and a mission to deliver development impact with
sustainable financial returns. The author recounts the challenges
that 'transition' countries faced in moving from a defunct to a
better economic system and maps the EBRD's response to critical
events, from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, to the safe
confinement of the Chernobyl disaster site, the debt default in
Russia and the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008.
Es ist branchenubergreifend ein zunehmendes Streben nach Agilitat
erkennbar. Agile Arbeitsweisen loesen sich von klassischen
Hierarchien und setzen auf Kooperation und Kommunikation.
Zahlreiche Softwareentwickler wenden sich mittlerweile von einer
Programmierung nach dem sogenannten Wasserfallmodell ab und
entscheiden sich fur eine agile Programmierung. Rechtlich wirft
eine agile Programmierung jedoch zahlreiche Fragen auf.
Rechtsdogmatische Unklarheiten und fehlende Rechtsprechung wirken
sich unmittelbar auf die Vertragsgestaltung der Unternehmer aus.
Der Autor greift die praktisch relevanten und besonders
klarungsbedurftigen Problemstellungen einer agilen Programmierung
(insbesondere durch den Einsatz von SCRUM) auf und zieht Parallelen
zum privaten Baurecht und den dort ausgearbeiteten
Loesungsansatzen.
This business book-cum-political and cultural memoir, which gives a
behind-the-scenes look at the revolution of one of the great retail
dynasties of the world, will resonate with readers questioning our
current malaise. As a fourth generation Sainsbury, Tim was the
director responsible for the company's development programme from
1962 to 1974, a key period during which the radical change from
counter service to self-service supermarkets took place. His retail
insight and reflections, including on competition, management and
remuneration, and the role of Government, will be especially
relevant as we witness a new retail revolution and crisis on our
high streets. Sainsbury's second calling was as a politician. This
book has a foreword by Michael Heseltine, in which he writes that:
'Of particular interest to the political student will be Tim's
reflections on the changes he lived through in Parliament itself.
The working conditions there are unacceptable, there are too many
MPs, and the increasing social pressures particularly from the
internet are making it increasingly difficult to attract men and
women of the calibre ministerial responsibility demands.' In Among
the Supporting Cast, Sainsbury tells this story with warmth, wisdom
and a self-deprecating sense of humour.
'An inspiring success story.' Baroness Rona Fairhead, CBE A
RINGSIDE SEAT ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST DEALS AND BIGGEST
PERSONALITIES IN BUSINESS AND GLOBAL POLITICS. They are just four
letters on an electronic ticker tape, but FTSE has become a byword
for money, power, influence and - crucially, after numerous
financial crises - trust. How this organisation, FTSE
International, brought order to the financial system over several
decades, is a story of how capitalism globalized and a data
revolution transformed the investment industry. It is a story of
how a team of innovators seized an opportunity to build a business
that today leads its field and guides the fortunes of an
astonishing $16 trillion of funds. It is a story that Mark
Makepeace, founding Chief Executive of FTSE International, knows
better than anybody. FTSE is a ringside seat on some of the biggest
deals and biggest personalities in business and global politics,
chronicling how the FTSE 100 was born, behind-the-scenes rows with
chief executives of some of the world's largest companies,
political in-fighting, diplomatic incidents, and the ferocious
dealmaking that followed over 35 years of market boom and bust.
'FTSE is a story which should inform and fascinate anyone
interested in capital markets.' Sir Donald Brydon, CBE
Der Band untersucht die Auswirkungen des
Bilanzrechtsmodernisierungsgesetzes (BilMoG) auf den
gesellschaftsrechtlichen Kapital- und Glaubigerschutz. Das BilMoG
verfolgt das Ziel, den Informationswert von Jahresabschlussen unter
Beibehaltung des Glaubigerschutzniveaus zu steigern. Der
Gesetzgeber fuhrte eine ausserbilanzielle Ausschuttungssperre ein,
die unsichere Vermoegensgegenstande bei der Ermittlung des
ausschuttungsfahigen Vermoegens eliminiert. Trotz dieser
minimal-invasiv wirkenden Massnahme wurde ein Paradigmenwechsel
eingelautet: Der ausschuttungsfahige Gewinn ist fortan nicht mehr
aus der Bilanz ersichtlich, sondern nur noch in Zusammenschau mit
Angaben im Anhang ermittelbar. Das Vorsichtsprinzip hat zulasten
der Informationsfunktion eine Schwachung erfahren.
A compelling argument for a new set of attitudes toward human
capital to sharpen our competitive edge and to fuel the creative
sparks in any environment This timely book challenges conventional
business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and
creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the
law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of
counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many
regions and companies. Lobel asks how innovators, entrepreneurs,
research teams, and every one of us who experiences the occasional
spark of creativity can triumph in today's innovation ecosystems.
In every industry and every market, battles to recruit, retain,
train, energize, and motivate the best people are fierce. From
Facebook to Google, Coca-Cola to Intel, JetBlue to Mattel, Lobel
uncovers specific factors that produce winners or losers in the
talent wars. Combining original behavioral experiments with sharp
observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets, and
skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships, and mobility as
the most important ingredients for successful innovation. Yet many
companies embrace a control mentality-relying more on patents,
copyright, branding, espionage, and aggressive restrictions of
their own talent and secrets than on creative energies that are
waiting to be unleashed. Lobel presents a set of positive changes
in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and
national laws that will incentivize talent flow, creativity, and
growth. This vital and exciting reading reveals why everyone wins
when talent is set free.
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