Profit From the Core : Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence
Spawned by a 10-year study of 2,000 firms conducted at Bain & Company, a global consultancy specializing in business strategy, Profit from the Core is based on the fundamental but oft-ignored maxim that prolonged corporate growth is most profitably achieved by concentrating on a single core business. To help companies identify this true essence, narrow their focus accordingly, and move forward in a manner that builds upon existing structure, Bain director Chris Zook and former Bain director James Allen present "a set of practical and proven principles, diagnostic tests, and questions for management teams to use as tools for reexamining or revising their strategies in search of the next wave of profitable growth."

Living on the Fault Line : Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet
Geoffrey Moore's first two books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, were gospel to a generation of high-tech managers. The challenge those books addressed was how to market and sell according to what he called the "Technology Adoption Life Cycle." In Living on the Fault Line, Moore takes his message to a very different group of execs, those who have never had to worry about marketing technology but who now face the biggest and most disruptive technology life cycle of all--the Internet.

Edison in the Boardroom: How Leading Companies Realize Value from Their Intellectual Assets
This book provides an easy-to-understand model of how management can use their corporate intangible assets--the firm's intellectual assets--to increase shareholder value. Unfortunately, most corporate executives and senior managers have no frame of reference for managing those assets because traditional accounting and budgeting processes are not geared to assigning value to such intangibles as ideas and skills. This book presents a conceptual framework and a set of sophisticated tools for identifying, valuing, and managing the bottom-line value of a company's intellectual assets. The practices presented in the book were developed by the experts at Arthur Andersen and have been proven to work at leading corporations in North America and Europe.

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking.

Eva and Value-Based Management: A Practical Guide to Implementation
Economic Value Added (EVA) and Value Based Management (VBM) are today's hottest management buzzwords. But written information has often been biased and clouded by the authors' hidden agendas. EVA and Value-Based Management is the first book to unflinchingly discuss the pros and cons of EVA and VBM. Covering both implementation and conceptual issues, with a strong emphasis on performance measurement, value drivers, and management compensation, it allows readers to come to their own informed conclusions.

Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
Swensen has been the chief investment officer for the past 14 years at Yale University, where he is responsible for managing and investing more than $6 billion of the university's endowment assets and investment funds. Realizing an annual return of more than 16 percent on his investments, Swensen has added more than $2 billion to Yale's coffers, and his consistent track record has attracted the notice of Wall Street portfolio managers. Here Swensen provides a brief history of endowment funds and explains the purpose of endowment accumulation and the goals for institutional portfolios. One of the strategies behind his success has been to diversify asset classes and move beyond a reliance on domestic marketable securities. He distinguishes between traditional and alternative asset classes, looks at performance evaluation issues and tools, and considers the investment decision-making process.

Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives with Disk
Widely-adopted for its comprehensive coverage, exceptionally clear explanations of difficult material, and avoidance of nonessential math, this text bridges the gap between the theory and practice of derivatives, and helps students develop a solid working knowledge of how derivatives can be analyzed. It deals with a wide range of derivative products and provides complete coverage of key analytical material.

Project Management for the 21st Century, Third Edition
The challenge of managing projects is to combine the technology of the future with lessons from the past. In the Third Edition of Project Management for the 21st Century, noted authors Bennet Lientz and Kathryn Rea provide a modern, proven approach to project management. Properly applied without massive administrative overhead, project management can supply structure, focus, and control to drive work to success.

Venture Capital and Private Equity : A Casebook
Over the past fifteen years, there has been a tremendous boom in the private equity industry. Despite this growth, many questions about private equity remain unanswered, and many of its features continue to be mysterious. This volume, divided into four modules, explores these exciting and important questions. The first module examines how private equity funds are raised and structured; the second considers the interactions between private equity investors and the entrepreneurs that they finance; the third examines the process through which private equity investors exit their investments; and the last reviews many of the key ideas developed in the volume.