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Innovation for Entrepreneurs presents a powerful but easy to apply
toolkit for innovation, based on Professors Meyer and Lee's decades
of experience as company founders and innovators for corporations
around the globe. This textbook includes guidance for developing
new product and service ideas with genuine impact, building teams
around these ideas, understanding customers' needs, translating
these needs into compelling product and service designs, and
creating initial prototypes. It also helps students learn how to
scope and size target markets and position an innovation
successfully relative to competitors. These methods are fundamental
for any new, impactful venture. The textbook is a series of
frameworks and methods that build upon one another to the final
deliverable - an innovation project developed by student teams,
solving problems for specific types of users and use cases. Each
chapter introduces readers to entrepreneurs and their stories of
innovation and venture development, across different sectors of the
economy and regions of the world. Going to a core theme of the
book, each of these entrepreneurs has tackled a societal-focused
problem and created economic value for themselves and their
investors. These are stories of inspiration and achievement - and
they illustrate the major frameworks provided in the book. Each
entrepreneur faced a problem or challenge solved by the methods
presented in that chapter. The authors' own entrepreneurial and
corporate innovation experiences then complement these examples
with additional industry applications of the method. Then, each
chapter concludes with exercises for students to apply their
newfound knowledge to their innovation projects. The book's final
chapter then shows students how to best integrate their work from
each chapter into a compelling presentation. Innovation for
Entrepreneurs is an essential book for all undergraduate students.
Entrepreneurship students in business schools will find it
addressing a missing link in many business school curriculums - how
to design a distinctive new product or service. At the same time,
the methods-based approach combined with its inspiring stories
makes this book a great learning platform for engineering and
science students thinking about starting their own ventures or
working for others upon graduation. Mindful, purposeful innovation
is the gift that we wish to share in this book, arming readers with
practical, powerful methods. Our students have started many
interesting, impactful companies, and with this, have gained the
deeper satisfaction of using creativity and technology to help
others.
Innovation for Entrepreneurs presents a powerful but easy to apply
toolkit for innovation, based on Professors Meyer and Lee's decades
of experience as company founders and innovators for corporations
around the globe. This textbook includes guidance for developing
new product and service ideas with genuine impact, building teams
around these ideas, understanding customers' needs, translating
these needs into compelling product and service designs, and
creating initial prototypes. It also helps students learn how to
scope and size target markets and position an innovation
successfully relative to competitors. These methods are fundamental
for any new, impactful venture. The textbook is a series of
frameworks and methods that build upon one another to the final
deliverable - an innovation project developed by student teams,
solving problems for specific types of users and use cases. Each
chapter introduces readers to entrepreneurs and their stories of
innovation and venture development, across different sectors of the
economy and regions of the world. Going to a core theme of the
book, each of these entrepreneurs has tackled a societal-focused
problem and created economic value for themselves and their
investors. These are stories of inspiration and achievement - and
they illustrate the major frameworks provided in the book. Each
entrepreneur faced a problem or challenge solved by the methods
presented in that chapter. The authors' own entrepreneurial and
corporate innovation experiences then complement these examples
with additional industry applications of the method. Then, each
chapter concludes with exercises for students to apply their
newfound knowledge to their innovation projects. The book's final
chapter then shows students how to best integrate their work from
each chapter into a compelling presentation. Innovation for
Entrepreneurs is an essential book for all undergraduate students.
Entrepreneurship students in business schools will find it
addressing a missing link in many business school curriculums - how
to design a distinctive new product or service. At the same time,
the methods-based approach combined with its inspiring stories
makes this book a great learning platform for engineering and
science students thinking about starting their own ventures or
working for others upon graduation. Mindful, purposeful innovation
is the gift that we wish to share in this book, arming readers with
practical, powerful methods. Our students have started many
interesting, impactful companies, and with this, have gained the
deeper satisfaction of using creativity and technology to help
others.
As a governor of the Federal Reserve Board from 1996 to 2002,
Laurence H. Meyer helped make the economic policies that steered
the United States through some of the wildest and most tumultuous
times in its recent history. Now, in A Term at the Fed, Governor
Meyer provides an insider's view of the Fed, the decisions that
affected both the U.S. and world economies, and the challenges
inherent in using monetary policy to guide the economy.
When Governor Meyer was appointed by President Clinton to serve
on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 1996, the United
States was entering one of the most prosperous periods in its
history. It was the time of "irrational exuberance" and the fabled
New Economy. Soon, however, the economy was tested by the Asian
financial crisis, the Russian default and devaluation, the collapse
of Long-Term Capital Management, the bursting of America's stock
bubble, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
In what amounts to a definitive playbook of monetary policy,
Meyer now relives the Fed's closed-door debates -- debates that
questioned how monetary policy should adapt to the possibility of a
New Economy, how the Fed should respond to soaring equity prices,
and whether the Fed should broker the controversial private sector
bailout of LTCM, among other issues. Meyer deftly weaves these
issues with firsthand stories about the personalities involved,
from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan to the various staffers,
governors, politicians, and reporters that populate the world of
the Fed.
Since the end of his term, Meyer has continued to watch the Fed
and the world economy. He believes that we are witnessing a
repetition of some of the events of the remarkable 1990s --
including a further acceleration in productivity and perhaps
another bull market. History does not repeat itself, yet Meyer
shows us how the lessons learned yesterday may help the Fed shape
policy today.
Calls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines
around the world. People dispute the degree to which justice should
be concerned with righting past wrongs, with some arguing that
justice should be primarily focused on claims arising from present
disadvantage. Proponents and sceptics of restitution, compensation,
and other forms of historical redress have engaged with the thesis
that historical injustice can be superseded, the idea that changing
circumstances following historical injustices can alter what
justice later requires. The "supersession thesis," developed by
legal and political philosopher Jeremy Waldron, has been
challenged, both conceptually and in terms of its possible
application and implications. This is the first book to critically
assess how the supersession thesis might be reconstructed,
challenged, or applied to empirical cases, with an eye toward
larger questions surrounding the temporal orientation of justice.
Cases examined include Indigenous peoples, linguistic injustice,
and climate change. The edited volume includes contributions by
established and junior scholars from philosophy, law, American
Indian Studies, and political science, who draw from Indigenous
thought, settler colonial theory, liberalism, theories of
historical entitlements, and structural injustice theories. It
concludes with a reply by Jeremy Waldron. The chapters in this book
were originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy.
Separation of Variables for Partial Differential Equations: An
Eigenfunction Approach includes many realistic applications beyond
the usual model problems. The book concentrates on the method of
separation of variables for partial differential equations, which
remains an integral part of the training in applied mathematics.
Beyond the usual model problems, the presentation includes a number
of realistic applications that illustrate the power and usefulness
of the ideas behind these techniques. This complete, self-contained
book includes numerous exercises and error estimates, as well as a
rigorous approximation and computational tool.
Adopting the view common in the finite element analysis, the
authors of Separation of Variables for Partial Differential
Equations: An Eigenfunction Approach introduce a computable
separation of variables solution as an analytic approximate
solution. At the heart of the text, they consider a general partial
differential equation in two independent variables with a source
term and subject to boundary and initial conditions. They give an
algorithm for approximating and solving the problem and illustrate
the application of this approach to the heat, wave, and potential
equations. They illustrate the power of the technique by solving a
variety of practical problems, many of which go well beyond the
usual textbook examples. Written at the advanced undergraduate
level, the book will serve equally well as a text for students and
as a reference for instructors and users of separation of
variables. It requires a background in engineering mathematics, but
no prior exposure to separation of variables. The abundant worked
examples provide guidance for deciding whether and how to apply the
method to any given problem, help in interpreting computed
solutions, and give insight into cases in which formal answers may
be useless.
TheaSchool Leader's Guide to RestorativeaSchool Discipline provides
a research-based and field-tested model for school discipline that
supports and augments the principalAEs primary duty: to support the
education of all students, including those who exhibit behavioral
challenges. The authors introduce and explain the latest research
on educative discipline, provide a comprehensive discipline plan
for secondary schools, and outline how this plan should be
supported and sustained through teacher support teams. Whether a
principal is aiming to develop a school discipline plan from the
ground up or augment their existing model, this book will help
administrators develop a cohesive and effective discipline program
that promotes and facilitates student learning.
This volume investigates who can be considered responsible for
historical emissions and their consequences, and how and why this
should matter for the design of a just global climate policy. The
authors discuss the underlying philosophical issues of
responsibility for historical emissions, the unjust enrichment of
the earlier developed nations, and questions of transitional
justice. By bringing together a plurality of perspectives, both in
terms of the theoretical understanding of the issues and the
political perspectives on the problem, the book also presents the
remaining disagreements and controversies in the debate. Providing
a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and
climate change, this book provides an unbiased and authoritative
guide for advanced students, researchers and policymakers in
climate change justice and governance, and more widely, for anyone
interested in the broader issues of global justice.
Do states or individuals stand under duties of international
justice to people who live elsewhere and to other states? How are
we to assess the legitimacy of international institutions such as
the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations Security
Council? Should we support reforms of international institutions
and how should we go about assessing alternative proposals of such
reforms? The book brings together leading scholars of public
international law, jurisprudence and international relations,
political philosophers and political theorists to explore the
central notions of international legitimacy and global justice. The
essays examine how these notions are related and how understanding
the relationships will help us comparatively assess the validity of
proposals for the reform of international institutions and public
international law.
International human rights have been an important matter for study,
policy, and activism since the end of World War II. However, as
William H. Meyer observes, global governance is not only a
relatively new topic for students of interational relations but
also a widely used yet often contested concept. Despite the
conflicting and often politicized uses of the term, three key
dimensions of global governance can be identified: the impact of
diplomatic international organizations such as the International
Criminal Court, the importance of nonstate actors and global civil
society, and global political trends that can be gleaned from
empirical observation and data collection. In Human Rights and
Global Governance, Meyer defines global governance generally as the
management of global issues within a political space that has no
single centralized authority. Employing a combination of
historical, quantitative, normative, and policy analyses, Meyer
presents a series of case studies at the intersection of power
politics and international justice. He examines the global campaign
to end impunity for dictators; the recognition, violation, and
protection of indigenous rights; the creation and expansion of
efforts to ensure corporate social responsibility; the interactions
between labor rights and development in the Global South; just war
theory as it applies to torturing terrorists, war crimes in
Afghanistan and Iraq, and the drone wars; and the global strategic
environment that best facilitates the making of human rights
treaties. Meyer concludes with an evaluation of the successes and
failures of two exemplary models for the global governance of human
rights as well as recommendations for public policy changes and
visions for the future.
It is believed that the major countries of the former Soviet
Union-specifically Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine (KRU region)-are
the part of the world with the most potential to increase food
supplies and strengthen world food security. This book examines the
future of the KRU countries in global agricultural markets and will
examine a number of agricultural sectors, including meat, dairy,
fruits, and vegetables. However particular attention is paid to the
region's potential expansion of the grain sector and why the KRU
region emerged during the 2000s as a major grain exporter, and its
potential to further expand grain production and exports. It also
examine the issues of environmental constraints and trade-offs for
agriculture, sustainability, and the possible effects of climate
change
Structured around the idea that innovation is at the core of
successful entrepreneurship, this insightful guide by Meyer and
Crane establishes innovation as a necessary first step before
writing a business plan or developing a financial model. With a
focus on pragmatic methods for gaining industry and customer
insight and translating this insight into innovative product and
service solutions, Meyer and Crane help students design robust
business models, financial projections, business plans, and
investor presentations. New Venture Creation is devoted to helping
students develop compelling business ideas. This is based not only
on the authors' well-known research in product and service
innovation, but also on their extensive experience as successful
entrepreneurs and investors. In the updated Second Edition, part I
guides students through six elements that comprise a clearly
defined and focused venture: defining your target industry;
defining your target customers; defining the needs and wants of
those customers; defining winning product and service solutions;
carefully designing a strong business model; determining
competitive positioning, and then testing the entire concept
against a small population of target customers-all before writing
the plan. Think, design, test, and learn are the guiding
principles. Part II then focuses on different types of investors
and the process for raising capital, creating realistic financial
projections, writing a concise but powerful business plan,
organizing the venture team, and creating a compelling pitch that
speaks to the needs and concerns of investors. The book also
includes a number of independent case studies that focus on
product, service, and business model innovation-all from recent
ventures by students as well as recent college or master's level
graduates.
The essays selected for this volume show how relations between
past, current and future generations have become a major subject of
philosophical research since the 1970s. The relations between
people alive today with people who may exist in the future and
people now deceased, differ from relations between contemporaries
and in ways that raise new conceptual, logical and substantive
questions. Among the questions addressed in this volume are: what
is the status of people now deceased and people who may exist in
the future? Can the latter be harmed by the actions of people alive
today? What duties of justice do we have towards people with whom
we can neither interact nor co-operate, and can people who are
indirect victims of past injustices legitimately claim
compensation? Answers to these questions are relevant in a number
of policy areas, most notably in issues regarding reparations for
historical injustice and responding to climate change and its
consequences.
This product provides a well-rounded summary of the relevant
accounting areas from basic financial statements to complex
earnings-per-share ratios and corporate finance and valuation.
Learn how to recognize revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities.
It reviews accounting principles for many different areas,
including acquisitions, investments, long-term debt, leases,
stocks, and partnerships. It also discusses recent developments
such as adoption of new requirements to place most operating leases
on the lessee's balance sheet, a new principles based approach to
accounting for revenue, and refinements in the accounting for stock
options.
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