Top Industries eBooks

Business Knowledge for IT in Prime Brokerage eBook by Essvale Corporation Limited

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Prime brokerage is booming .As their hedge fund clients cast their net over a wider geographical area in search of superior returns by opening offices in new territories , prime brokers are forced to broaden their service offerings. At the same time, the battle for talent is intensifying among the top firms. "Business Knowledge for IT in Prime Brokerage" provides the platform for IT professionals to grasp the concepts of prime brokerage from both a business and an IT perspective and to snap up some of plum roles in the prime brokerage arena. The chapters in this book cover the following topics: overview of the Private Brokerage business; the relationship between Hedge Funds and Prime Brokers; core service offerings of Prime Brokerage; fee structures in Prime Brokerage; technology used in Prime Brokerage; and, the future of Prime Brokerage, and much more.Contributors to this book include Ann Logue (author of "Hedge Fund for Dummies"), Paladyne Systems, Sungard and more.

Airport Planning & Management eBook by Wells, Alexander

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Customer Review: The authors coverage is a very comprehensive on numerous aspects of airport operations and management. I have been in aviation as a pilot, A&P mechanic and student for many years and learned a great deal about airport environments from this book. This is also used by airport personnel as a reference when working towards accreditation through the American Association of Airport Executives' (AAAE). I would highly recommend anyone interested in any aspects of airports to use it as reference.

All the Rave eBook by Menn, Joseph

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

At age seventeen, Shawn Fanning designed a computer program that transformed the Internet into an unlimited library of free music. Tens of millions of young people quickly signed on, Time magazine put Fanning on its cover, and his company, Napster, became a household name. It did not take long for the music industry to declare war, one that has now engulfed the biggest entertainment and technology companies on the planet.

For All the Rave, top cyberculture journalist Joseph Menn gained unprecedented access to Fanning, other key Napster and music executives, reams of internal e-mails, unpublished court records, and other resources. The result is the definitive account of the Napster saga, for the first time revealing secret take-over and settlement talks, the unseen role of Shawn’s uncle in controlling Napster, and hidden agendas and infighting from Napster’s trenches to the top ranks of the German media giant Bertelsmann.

All the Rave is a riveting account of genius and greed, visionary leaps and disastrous business decisions, and the clash of the hacker and investor cultures with that of the copyright establishment. Napster left a generation of music fans feeling that paying the recording industry close to twenty dollars for a CD was a foolish and unnecessary extravagance, which provoked a still-growing backlash against digital media consumers that might leave them with less control than ever. Here is the inside story of the young visionary and the company that made it happen.

From the Hardcover edition.

Costco's Dirty Little Secrets eBook by Klein, Peter, F.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Customer Review: I terrorized the Dallas employees and now I am fired. I got what I deserve.

Adventure Tourism: The New Frontier eBook by Swarbrooke, John / Beard, Colin / Leckie, Suzanne

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism, Adventure Tourism: the new frontier examines the product, the adventure tourist profile, and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability. International case studies are used to illustrate these issues, including: Gorilla watching holidays,Trekking on Mount Everest, Diving holidays, and Outward Bound packages.Analysis of the development and nature of adventure tourism accompanies these studies, ensuring that the title is useful both for undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises.There is also a companion website with additional cases, which can be found at www.bh/com/companions/0750651865.

Business of IT, The: How to Improve Service and Lower Costs eBook by Ryan, Robert / Raducha-Grace, Tim

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

Drive More Business Value from IT…

and Bridge the Gap Between IT and Business Leadership

Apply business practices throughout IT to optimize budgets and improve ROI
Create higher satisfaction and more realistic expectations for IT throughout the business
Written by two leading IBM experts on bringing business discipline to IT

IT organizations have achieved outstanding technological maturity, but many have been slower to adopt world-class business practices. This book provides IT and business executives with methods to achieve greater business discipline throughout IT, collaborate more effectively, sharpen focus on the customer, and drive greater value from IT investment. The book focuses on four specific areas of business practices related to improving IT service management, managing services’ cost and value, measuring IT performance with a goal of improving service and lowering cost, and improving customer alignment. Drawing on their experience consulting with leading IT organizations, Robert Ryan and Tim Raducha-Grace help IT leaders make sense of alternative ways to improve IT service and lower cost, including ITIL, IT financial management, balanced scorecards, and business cases. You’ll learn how to choose the best approaches to improve IT business practices for your environment and use these practices to improve service quality, reduce costs, and drive top-line revenue growth.

BLACK BOX: What's under Your Hood? eBook by Kowalick, Thomas, M.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

BLACK BOX: What's Under Your Hood? Describes in simple everyday language, the newest accessory on-board passenger motor vehicles - the Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorder (MVEDR). This automotive equivalent of an airplane's flight recorder or "black box" is intended to solve the mysteries of car crashes and improve the safety of our roads. How we came to have them on-board our vehicles and how it actually works may amaze you. There's no need to be an electronics engineer or automotive technician to understand current and future plans for black boxes. The reader is taken inside the automotive industry and the government highway safety establishment to foster an understanding of the politics and the positions on all sides of this safety debate. The author takes an unbiased approach, topically presenting each argument and uncovering the agendas and mandates of each of the stakeholders. Kowalick, an expert on automotive EDR technologies, discloses where to find data recorders in your vehicle. He explains how events are triggered and which data gets captured to provide a post-crash analysis. The book is useful to attorneys, public safety advocates, public policy administrators, engineers, automotive professionals, journalists, insurance executives, and consumers. The twelve chapters cover background and evolution of on-board vehicle devices, the USDOT/NHTSA Regulatory proposal, and responses from the world's leading Automakers, Alliances and Associations, Safety and Privacy Advocates, Insurance Industry, Global Standards Developers, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the public. The information needed to understand the technology and to answer motorists' questions and concerns about the widespread use of MVEDRs are provided, including: Detailed bibliography and glossary Examination of the unique legal and privacy issues List of vehicles that have automatic recording capabilities Chronological summary of key events Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations Millions of motorists' crash - few realize that most vehicles record crash data! This is the first and only book that explains what on-board "black box" technologies actually do during a crash. You many wonder: What is an EDR? What is the difference between and EDR and a "black box"? Why are manufacturers installing EDRs in modern vehicles? Why do safety advocates believe we need these emerging technologies? What do privacy advocates fear about them? What crash data do EDRs record and for what duration? Can the EDR record where a vehicle was -- or how fast it was going at any given time? Under what circumstances will people have access to EDR data? How do various end-users analyze EDR data -- what special equiment do they use? How do EDRs function in pre-crash, crash and post-crash mode? Under what circumstances can third parties, such as law enforcement, download data from the EDR? How do parties, such as insurance companies collect and handle electronically recorded event data? Who has access to the data? What is the U.S. government proposal for EDRs? What's in your vehicle? What's recording capability will be iin the next new vehicle that you will drive -- maybe a rental car? How is it possible to balance safety and privacy?

Careers in Oil and Gas eBook by Staff, Wetfeet

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

The oil and gas industry is enormous and complex. Its reach extends well beyond the normal scope of industry into geopolitics, national security, and environmental issues. And though it literally fuels the economy, the industry remains something of a mystery to many people outside of it. For those on the inside, the industry provides challenging and rewarding, if somewhat unheralded, careers. This guide offers a blue print of the oil and gas industry, as well as tips for landing a job. You'll learn about the following topics: Who are the top players in the industry, and what do they do? What are the opportunities for undergrads and MBAs in both technical and non-technical areas? What are the latest trends in the oil and gas industry, and what does that mean for my interviews? What travel and live-abroad opportunities are available to those in oil and gas? What can I expect from the recruiting process?

Call of the Mall: The Author of Why We Buy on the Geography of Shopping eBook by Underhill, Paco

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

"The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy -- praised by The New York Times as ""a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves"" -- now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about. Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping, has run hundreds of research assignments in malls across the country (and in Tokyo and European capitals). He has visited them, observed his fellow mall-ers, looked long and hard for his car in mammoth parking lots, chatted up the staffers, gone hunting for jeans with adolescent girls and anniversary shopping with guys. The result is a bright, ironic, funny, and shrewd portrait of the mall -- America's gift to personal consumption, its most powerful icon of global commercial muscle, the once new and now aging national town square, the place where we convene in our leisure time. Call of the Mall is about desire and buying lingerie, about why the same camel hair coat costs twice as much in the women's department as it does in the boys'. It's about why shoes, handbags, and cosmetics are clustered, why Cartier is next to cut-rate, and why the movie theater is hard to find. It's about the shopping mall as an exemplar of our commercial and social culture, the place where our young people have their first taste of social freedom, and where the rest of us compare notes. Call of the Mall examines how we use the mall, what it means, why it works when it does, and why it sometimes doesn't. Visiting the mall with Paco Underhill is a surprising and insightful tour through the American crossroads. Why We Buy changed the way we watch ourselves shop. Call of the Mall will deepen our understanding of how we live, work, play, and spend."

Casino Operations Management eBook by Kilby, Jim / Fox, Jim / Lucas, Anthony F.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

"Complete guidance to the ins and outs of gaming operations

Management personnel need a thorough understanding of the business side of the casino industry to ensure profits''and to avoid losses. It's a sure bet that Casino Operations Management, Second Edition will help current and future gaming management professionals better serve any casino.

Written by experts with over 65 years of combined experience in the field, this Second Edition offers all the critical skills and know-how to equip gaming and casino operators with the knowledge needed for the management office, cage operations, and table game and slot operations.

This updated edition features detailed coverage of:

Current high-roller marketing tactics and their effect on profitability
The effect of popular money management systems on casino profits
The initial development process of an Indian casino
Studies designed to identify the patronage motives of gamblers, including those of riverboat customers
Slot club design: player rating issues, point accumulation schemes, and more
Principles of casino floor design: managing table game and slot location
Studies designed to measure the profit contribution of popular slot promotions

Casino Operations Management, Second Edition uses simplified mathematics and statistics throughout, and provides readers with a thorough understanding of all aspects of the casino industry business. It is a must-have reference for students and casinos that develop managers internally. "

25 Top Consulting Firms (2005 Edition): WetFeet Insider Guide eBook by WetFeet

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Want to work for a top consulting firm? You're not alone: Consulting firms are traditionally among the largest employers of top MBA and college graduates. But you'll need to work hard to pin that plumb position. Start out by doing your due diligence and research the top firms. And lucky you, since WetFeet's career experts have already done a lot of the legwork for you.

In this WetFeet Insider Guide, you'll explore

Profiles of companies from Accenture and A.T. Kearney to McKinsey and Mercer.
Recent milestones for each-ranging from mergers and acquisitions to global expansion.
The inside scoop on what it's like to work for these companies.
Hiring information-how to make contact and with whom, as well as what's involved in the recruiting process.
Interviewing tips and key numbers.

Booz Allen Hamilton (2005 Edition): WetFeet Insider Guide eBook by WetFeet

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Prestigious, innovative, and diverse, combining management strategy with technological expertise, Booz Allen is among the most respected consulting firms in the industry and a top choice for recent graduates and MBAs. Insiders consistently laud the firm's open, supportive culture and commitment to employee development, as well as their colleagues' distinct backgrounds and personalities. The firm's long-term commitment to its clients keeps the work not only interesting, but also fulfilling. If you think you're ready to take on challenging assignments, Booz Allen may be the place to be.

Turn to this WetFeet Insider Guide to learn

How Booz Allen has fared in the challenging economy of recent years.
How the firm is organized, from top to bottom.
About typical responsibilities and day-to-day life for analysts and consultants.
What employees love most and like least about working at Booz Allen.
About the workplace at Booz Allen, including the lifestyle, hours, culture, compensation, travel, and training.
What the recruiting process entails, what recruiters are looking for, and tips from Booz Allen insiders for acing the interview.

Ace Your Case V: Return to the Case Interview eBook by WetFeet

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Thousands of wannabe consultants have turned to WetFeet's best-selling Ace Your Case series for practical advice on the dreaded case interview. The fifth Insider Guide in this series offers you 15 new cases, from real consultants, to help you hone your case-interviewing skills to a razor-sharp edge.

Each book in the Ace Your Case series offers

An introduction to the case interview-its role in the recruiting process for consulting firms.
An explanation of the most common case question types, from market-sizing to resume questions.
Tips for handling each kind of question.
Insight into consulting recruiters' interview objectives: how they're evaluating prospective employees.
Practice questions you can complete on your own.
Detailed examples of good and bad answers for each practice question, along with tips for improving your own answers and recovering from mistakes.

Cruise Operations Management eBook by Gibson, Philip

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Cruise Operations Management provides a comprehensive and contextualised overview of hospitality services for the cruise industry. As well as providing a background to the cruise industry, it also looks deeper into the management issues providing a practical guide for both students and professionals alike. A user-friendly and practical guide it discusses issues such as: The history and image of cruising How to design a cruise and itinerary planning Roles and responsibilities on a cruise ship Customer service systems and passenger profiles Managing food and drink operations onboard Health, safety and security Cruise Operations Management presents a range of contextualised facts illustrated by a number of case studies that encourage the reader to examine the often complex circumstances that surround problems or events associated to cruise operations. The case studies are contemporary and are constructed from first hand research with a number of international cruise companies providing a real world insight into this industry. Each case study is followed by questions that are intended to illuminate issues and stimulate discussion.The structure of the book is designed so the reader can either build knowledge cumulatively for an in-depth knowledge of managerial practices and procedures onboard a cruise ship, or they can 'dip in' and make use of specific material and case studies for use within a more generic hospitality or tourism learning context.

Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business eBook by Robichaux, Mark

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 47:11:32 GMT

Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business