"Capital Rising" looks at globalization in a new way, namely, through the lens of global capital flows. These flows create new opportunities and threats for business-- compelling them to rethink fundamental strategic choices such as where to perform activities, which growing industries to invest and how to manage mature businesses. Based on dozens of case studies, interviews with practitioners and drawing on extensive academic literature, the authors extract best practices and use analytical tools and methodologies that will enable businesses to understand the impact of the global economy and capitalize on the wave of globalization.http: //www.petercohan.com/ Check out Peter Cohan's blog on AOL DailyFinance:
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Follow America's High-Tech Leaders to Sustained Growth and Profitability

?With forceful and engaging style, Cohan describes what makes technology companies like Hewlett-Packard so successful....Any executive aspiring to market leadership should read The Technology Leaders.?
-- Dean O. Morton, retired executive vice president, COO and director, Hewlett-Packard Company

As organizations emerge from an era of epochal downsizing, managers are beginning to realize that repeated cost-cutting is no longer the path to sustained profitable growth. Clearly, a new strategy is called for. In this landmark work, Peter Cohan details the practices of today's most vital, prosperous companies -- America's high-tech leaders -- and demonstrates how other companies can follow their remarkable example and thrive in a hypercompetitive marketplace driven by rapid product innovation.