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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.
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
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.
A shocking expose of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times
reporter who covered the scandal. Updated with a New Afterword by
the Author. When news of Volkswagen's clean diesel fraud first
broke in September 2015, it sent shockwaves around the world.
Overnight, the company long associated with quality, reliability
and trust became a universal symbol of greed and deception.
Consumers were outraged, investors panicked, the company
embarrassed and facing bankruptcy. As lawsuits and criminal
investigations piled up, by August 2016 VW had settled with
American regulators and car-owners for $15 billion, with additional
fines and claims still looming. In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack
Ewing rips the lid off the scandal. He describes VW's rise from
"the people's car" during the Nazi era to one of Germany's most
prestigious and important global brands, touted for being "green."
He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech
and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that their
unremitting ambition drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit
of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. With unprecedented
access to key players and a ringside seat during the course of the
legal proceedings, Faster, Higher, Farther reveals how the
succeed-at-all-costs culture prevalent in modern boardrooms led to
one of corporate history's farthest-reaching cases of fraud-with
potentially devastating consequences. As the future of one of the
world's biggest companies remains uncertain, this is the
extraordinary story of Volkswagen's downfall.
Land Rover Freelander - The Complete Story recounts the history of
the Land Rover Freelander, and its popular successor, the
Freelander 2. This new book covers the original Freelander, from
its design and development to its launch and reception in 1997. In
2006 , the innovative Freelander 2 was launched, with its
pioneering technology in fuel efficiency. Also covered are the
Freelander variants from across the world, and its use in UK law
enforcement. This is an indispensable guide to the history of both
generations of Freelander.
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Winner, Governor General's Award for PoetryShortlisted, Governor
General's Award for TranslationAn elegant testimony to the
beautiful and the good, Serge Patrice Thibodeau's One pays homage
to the vibrancy and vigor of life, backdropped against the
precarious immediacy of the everyday. From the tiny trunk of
opening lines taken from Paul Valery, Thibodeau unpacks a vision of
human consciousness that exists in a state of singular wonder,
creating a universe that is at once faithful and ever-changing like
the tidal bore -- the landscape of mascaret. Thibodeau boldly
blends anecdotes, pop-ups, leitmotifs, ecological awareness, and
the inner world in variations on the theme of wholeness.
This casebook tells the story of Xiecheng, a hugely successful
hotel chain in China, with a clear focus on the forming and
creation of its powerful and successful management team. Who they
are, and the part they played in Xiecheng's impressive growth and
performance. The reader will benefit from a clear insight into how
a company expands and ideas to help overcome challenges and
pitfalls along the way. This book is an intimate portrayal of how
the idea for a business is conceived one evening over a meal and
then goes on to become a success story in modern China. The
management philosophies and strategies are revealed in a very
reader friendly way. Many foreign businesses want to develop and
succeed in China. A useful way of doing this is to observe the
lessons of how Chinese enterprises succeed in China. Part of the
practical Cases in Modern Chinese Business Series which offer
revealing insights and analysis on how business is done in China.
They offer case studies on how companies in China get started and
how they succeed and fail. Clear and practical, each book explores
how Chinese companies are expanding and thriving in the
international market. All titles were written in China and give the
real flavour of the Chinese business arena and some of the key
players. To understand the economic and financial success of modern
China it helps to get to know the business environment and some of
the leading protagonists. These revealing new books show you how.
This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written
account of the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP
is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it. The
US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and
its openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses,
is prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees,
suppliers, and sometimes share-holders. The JLP represents a
contrast to this model - one that has implications beyond the small
niche of mutually-owned firms. The JLP has lessons for
organizations that are unlikely to move towards the Partnership's
distinctive shared ownership. This book identifies these lessons.
The key questions addressed include: how does the JLP work in
practice? What is the link between co-ownership, the JLP employment
model, and the performance of the businesses? What is the role of
management in the success of John Lewis and Waitrose? Are
mutuality, co-ownership and business performance at odds? What is
the significance of democracy within the JLP? And probably most
significantly: what are the implications, for policy-makers and for
economic agents of the JLP? This book is based on detailed
knowledge of the JLP and its constituent business gathered by the
authors over a fifteen year period. Their conclusion: that the JLP
is more complex, even more impressive, and more interesting than
its admirers realise.
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