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Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today
Ilana Gershon · University Of Chicago Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was easy.... |
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Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies
DANIELLE STEIN FAIRHURST · For Dummies
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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Make informed business decisions with the beginner's guide to financial modeling using Microsoft Excel Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies is your comprehensive guide to learning how to create informative, enlightening financial models today. Not a math whiz or an Excel power-user?... |
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
Clayton M Christensen · HarperBusiness
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator's Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity,... |
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
CHIP HEATH · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us - and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable... |
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Boomers 3.0: Marketing to Baby Boomers in Their Third Act of Life
Lawrence R Samuel · Praeger
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
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Capitalizing on what is arguably the most important social phenomenon of our time and place -- the aging of America -- this book shows organizations how to market specifically to baby boomers in their third act of life.* Identifies the 10 core values of the older middle class (cognitively... |
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Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street
Carmen Segarra · Nation Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A first-hand account of the oversight of the big banks in the wake of the financial crisis, from the Federal Reserve examiner who refused to be silencedIn 2011, Carmen Segarra took a job as at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York supervising for Goldman Sachs. It was an opportunity, she believed,... |
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Days of Slaughter: Inside the Fall of Freddie Mac and Why It Could Happen Again
Susan Wharton Gates · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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In September 2008, beset by mounting losses on high-risk mortgages and mortgage securities, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation teetered on the brink of insolvency. Fearing that confidence in the housing market would collapse completely if Freddie Mac and its competitor Fannie Mae failed,... |
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal · Penguin Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing An American... |
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Safe and Secure: 10 Essential Steps for Seniors to Protect Against Financial Abuse
Fran Tarkenton · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
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Thieves and scammers are on the prowl for easy targets who have significant exposed assets - and if you're a senior citizen who saved for retirement, you may be the perfect mark. Fran Tarkenton, the NFL Hall of Fame quarterback who became a succesful entrepreneur, has partnered with certified... |
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Accounting All-in-One For Dummies, with Online Practice
JOSEPH KRAYNAK · For Dummies
Pages: 744
Format: Paperback
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Your all-in-one accounting resource If you're a numbers person, it's your lucky day! Accounting jobs are on the rise - in fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a faster-than-average growth rate of 11% in the industry through 2024. So, if you're seeking long-term job security... |
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