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Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel and JMP: Basics, Model Building, Simulation, and Cases
by Cynthia FraserThis book is the latest title of the popular Excel textbook; redesigned, while including interactive, user-friendly JMP to encourage business students to develop competitive advantages for use in their future careers. How can performance outcome drivers be identified? How can performance outcomes be forecast? Use of regression, conjoint analysis, Monte Carlo simulation provide answers and solutions for specific scenarios. Students learn to build models, produce statistics, and translate results into implications for decision makers.The text features new and updated examples and assignments, and each chapter discusses a focal case from the business world which can be analyzed using the statistical strategies and software provided in the text. Paralleling recent interest in climate change and sustainability, new case studies concentrate on issues such as the impact of drought on business, automobile emissions, and sustainable package goods.The book continues its coverage of inference, Monte Carlo simulation, contingency analysis, and linear and nonlinear regression. A new chapter is dedicated to conjoint analysis design and analysis, including complementary use of regression and JMP.
Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2019 and JMP: Basics, Model Building, Simulation and Cases
by Cynthia FraserThe revised Fifth Edition of this popular textbook is redesigned with Excel 2019 and the new inclusion of interactive, user-friendly JMP to encourage business students to develop competitive advantages for use in their future careers. Students learn to build models, produce statistics, and translate results into implications for decision makers. The text features new and updated examples and assignments, and each chapter discusses a focal case from the business world which can be analyzed using the statistical strategies and software provided in the text. Paralleling recent interest in climate change and sustainability, new case studies concentrate on issues such as the impact of drought on business, automobile emissions, and sustainable package goods. The book continues its coverage of inference, Monte Carlo simulation, contingency analysis, and linear and nonlinear regression. A new chapter is dedicated to conjoint analysis design and analysis, including complementary use of regression and JMP.For access to accompanying data sets, please email author Cynthia Fraser at cfg8q@virginia.edu.
Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2010: Basics, Model Building, Simulation and Cases
by Cynthia FraserExceptional managers know that they can create competitive advantages by basing decisions on performance response under alternative scenarios. To create these advantages, managers need to understand how to use statistics to provide information on performance response under alternative scenarios. This updated edition of the popular text helps business students develop competitive advantages for use in their future careers as decision makers. Students learn to build models using logic and experience, produce statistics using Excel 2010 with shortcuts, and translate results into implications for decision makers. The author emphasizes communicating results effectively in plain English and with compelling graphics in the form of memos and PowerPoints. Statistics, from basics to sophisticated models, are illustrated with examples using real data such as students will encounter in their roles as managers. A number of examples focus on business in emerging global markets with particular emphasis on China and India. Results are linked to implications for decision making with sensitivity analyses to illustrate how alternate scenarios can be compared. Chapters include screenshots to make it easy to conduct analyses in Excel 2010 with time-saving shortcuts expected in the business world. PivotTables and PivotCharts, used frequently in businesses, are introduced from the start. Monte Carlo simulation is introduced early, as a tool to illustrate the range of possible outcomes from decision makers' assumptions and underlying uncertainties. Model building with regression is presented as a process, adding levels of sophistication, with chapters on multicollinearity and remedies, forecasting and model validation, autocorrelation and remedies, indicator variables to represent segment differences, and seasonality, structural shifts or shocks in time series models. Special applications in market segmentation and portfolio analysis are offered, and an introduction to conjoint analysis is included. Nonlinear models are motivated with arguments of diminishing or increasing marginal response, and a chapter on logit regression models introduces models of market share or proportions. The Second Edition includes more explanation of hypothesis tests and confidence intervals, how t, F, and chi square distributions behave. The Data Files, Solution Files, and Chapter PowerPoints: The data files for text examples, cases, lab problems and assignments are stored on Blackboard and may be accessed using this link:https://blackboard.comm.virginia.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp Instructors can gain access to the files, as well as solution files and chapter PowerPoints by registering on the Springer site: http://www.springer.com/statistics/business%2C+economics+%26+finance/book/978-1-4419-9856-9?changeHeader Business people can gain access to the files by emailing the author cfg8q@virginia.edu. https://blackboard.comm.virginia.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp Instructors can gain access to the files, as well as solution files and chapter PowerPoints by registering on the Springer site: http://www.springer.com/statistics/business%2C+economics+%26+finance/book/978-1-4419-9856-9?changeHeader Business people can gain access to the files by emailing the author cfg8q@virginia.edu.
Business Statistics
by Robert DonnellyRobert Donnelly's Business Statistics eliminates the intimidation factor from learning statistics for business. The Second Edition maintains Donnelly's successful straightforward, conversational approach that explains each concept and why it is important directly to students. Through an abundance of comments that clarify specific topics, a variety of applications, and Your Turn practice throughout each chapter, students see business statistics in action-both in the classroom and in the world around them.
Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach (8th edition)
by David F. Groebner Patrick W. Shannon Phillip C. Fry Kent D. SmithA direct approach to business statistics, ordered in a signature step-by-step framework. Business Statistics uses a direct approach that consistently presents concepts and techniques in way that benefits readers of all mathematical backgrounds. This text also contains engaging business examples to show the relevance of business statistics in action. The eighth edition provides even more learning aids to help readers understand the material.
Business Statistics: Communicating With Numbers
by Sanjiv Jaggia Alison KellyThe third edition of Business Statistics: Communicating with Numbers provides a unique, innovative, and engaging learning experience for students studying Business Statistics. It is an intellectually stimulating, practical, and visually attractive textbook, from which students can learn and instructors can teach. Throughout the book, the authors have presented the material in an accessible way by using timely business applications to which students can relate. Although the text is application-oriented, it is also mathematically sound and uses notation that is generally accepted for the topic being covered.
Business Statistics: A First Course
by David M. Levine Kathryn A. Szabat David F. StephanStatistics is essential for all business majors, and Business Statistics: A First Course helps students see the role statistics will play in their own careers by providing examples drawn from all functional areas of business. Guided by the principles set forth by major statistical and business science associations (ASA and DSI), plus the authors’ diverse experiences, the 8th Edition continues to innovate and improve the way this course is taught to all students. With new examples, case scenarios, and problems, the text continues its tradition of focusing on the interpretation of results, evaluation of assumptions, and discussion of next steps that lead to data-informed decision making. The authors feel that this approach, rather than a focus on manual calculations, better serves students in their future careers. This brief offering, created to fit the needs of a one-semester course, is part of the established Berenson/Levine series.
Business-State Relations in Brazil: Challenges of the Port Reform Lobby (Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics)
by Mahrukh DoctorIn recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure—for example, on its capacity to deal with the high demand expected during the World Cup and the Olympics. However, neither competitiveness nor infrastructure concerns are new for Brazil. In the 1990s, Brazilian policy-makers adopted a series of liberalizing economic reforms that exposed the poor condition of logistics infrastructure and inadequate investment in Brazilian ports, roads, railways and airports. Over twenty years later, the implications of those reforms still colour Brazil’s prospects for development. Mahrukh Doctor’s book evaluates the political economy of reform in Brazil and the difficulty of implementing institutional modernization in the context of opposition from vested interests originating in the state and civil society. It focuses specifically on the Port Modernization Law, which aimed to augment the country's competitiveness by creating efficient and low cost ports. Based on primary research carried out over a period of twenty years using original qualitative data, Doctor’s analysis focuses on the difficulties in implementing this law and how those difficulties are symptomatic of the wider issues associated with lack of sufficient investment in infrastructure in Brazil. Using the case of the business lobby for port reform, the book examines the evolving nature of business-state relations and the process of institutional change in Brazil. Doctor particularly examines the building of consensus for reform and policy formulation in the port sector and the challenges of reform implementation and institutional modernisation. The analysis provides extensive insights and lessons related to the prospects for boosting competitiveness of Brazilian ports. The book concludes by suggesting a likely path for the evolution of corporatist institutions as well as the provision of adequate logistics infrastructure to support business success in Brazil. A unique work on the subject of port reform in Latin America that uses a hybrid analytical framework to understand reform in Brazil, this book is pertinent for a variety of subjects from Latin American Studies to political economy to economic-policy making.
Business, The State and Economic Policy: The Case of Italy (Routledge Advances In European Politics Ser. #Vol. 16)
by G Grant AmyotThe framework sketched in this new book explains the relationship between state and capital in Italy as well as some of the major directions in macroeconomic theory. These fields encompass both Italy's entry to EMU in 1999 and the impact of Silvio Berlusconi on Italian politics and economics.
Business Start Up For Dummies Three e-book Bundle: Starting a Business For Dummies, Business Plans For Dummies, Understanding Business Accounting For Dummies
by Colin BarrowThis eBook bundle is the one stop shop to all your business start-up needs! Starting a Business For Dummies is the bestselling guide from business start-up expert Colin Barrow, covering everything budding entrepreneurs need to know to get their business up and running. Whether readers are just starting out, planning a new venture, setting up at home or extending a current business online, this book is all they need to succeed. Business Plans For Dummies maps out a realistic business plan from scratch — so your business vision can become a reality. This fully updated guide leads you through all aspects of business planning, from clarifying objectives and finding funding, to researching customer behaviour and developing an e–presence. Understanding Business Accounting For Dummies takes you through all the key elements of UK business accounting, covering everything from evaluating profit margins and establishing budgets to controlling cash flow and writing financial reports.
The Business Solution to Poverty
by Paul Polak Mal WarwickThe nearly three billion people living on $2 a day are not just the world's greatest challenge--they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based Design: starting from scratch to create innovative products and services tailored for the very poor, armed with a thorough understanding of what they really want and need and driven by what Polak and Warwick call "the ruthless pursuit of affordability." Polak has been doing this work for years, and Warwick has extensive experience in both business and philanthropy. Together, they show how their design principles and vision can enable unapologetic capitalists to supply the very poor with clean drinking water, electricity, irrigation, housing, education, health care, and other necessities at a fraction of the usual cost and at profit margins comparable to those of businesses in the developed world. Promising governmental and philanthropic efforts to end poverty have not reached scale because they lack the incentives of the market to attract massive resources. This book opens an extraordinary opportunity for nimble entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate executives that will result not only in vibrant, growing businesses but also a better life for the world's poorest people. "One of the most hopeful propositions to come along in a long time. Paul Polak and Mal Warwick's approach is original, ambitious, and practical--and it just may be the key to reducing the number of people in poverty on a very large scale. Polak and Warwick lay out a practical and systematic way to work on a global scale, transforming the lives of hundreds of millions of poor people." --President Bill Clinton
Business Software Lock-In: Eine empirische Untersuchung von Anbieterbindung bei Software-Plattformen
by Paul F. LangerDie Verbreitung digitaler Technologien ist ein Phänomen, das tiefgreifende Veränderungen in Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Staat mit sich bringt. Je länger dieser Prozess andauert, desto mehr finden Integrations-, Differenzierungs- und Gewöhnungsprozesse statt, die den Wechsel oder die Ablösung digitaler Systeme erschweren. Insbesondere große und am Markt etablierte Unternehmen befinden sich nach langjähriger Nutzung von Unternehmenssoftware in einer Phase der Post-Adoption. Die Lieferbeziehungen zwischen Softwareanwendern und -anbietern basieren folglich auf einer historisch gewachsenen Softwareausstattung. Insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit der zunehmenden Nutzung von Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics und Machine Learning ist der Markt für Unternehmenssoftware gleichzeitig von dynamischen Anpassungen geprägt. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage, ob sich Unternehmen von etablierten Softwaresystemen trennen sollten, um auf eine neuartige Software umzusteigen. Für solche Entscheidungen werden in einer Phase, in der die bestehende Software bereits im Einsatz ist, alternative Softwareoptionen nicht nur hinsichtlich ihrer Vor- und Nachteile verglichen, sondern auch der Aufwand und das Risiko eines Wechsels berücksichtigt. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde in der vorliegenden Untersuchung der Frage nachgegangen, welche Faktoren und Wirkungszusammenhänge die Weiternutzung in der Post-Adoptionsphase bestimmen. Anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung und der Anwendung des Verfahrens der Strukturgleichungsmodellierung wird gezeigt, dass insbesondere strukturelle Barrieren die Weiternutzung von Unternehmenssoftware determinieren.
Business, Society, and Government Essentials: Strategy and Applied Ethics
by Robert N. Lussier Herbert ShermanUnderstanding the interrelationship of business, society and government is vital to working at any level in a company of any size. This text uses a case analysis approach to explore this interrelationship in today’s high-tech global community. The authors crystallize the complex array of issues that business leaders, managers, and employees face in market and nonmarket environments, from balancing stakeholder interests and dealing with government regulations to managing crises and making socially responsible and ethical decisions. Technical concepts come to life through a variety of cases and case questions, thought-provoking personal and professional applications, ethical dilemmas, and practical exercises. Furthermore, an appendix offers approaches to case analysis and includes a case analysis table that serves as a model for students and professors. With its thorough coverage of relevant issues and skill-building elements to stimulate critical thinking, this text will prepare students to understand and confront real-world business concerns.
Business, Society and Government Essentials: Strategy and Applied Ethics
by Robert N. Lussier Herbert ShermanUnderstanding the interrelationship of business, society and government is vital to working at any level in an organization of any size. This text develops strategic management skills using an applied ethics approach primarily through a case study analysis pedagogy to develop and implement ethical strategies in today’s high-tech global community. The authors crystallize the complex array of issues that business leaders, managers, and employees face in market and nonmarket environments, from balancing stakeholder interests and dealing with government regulations to managing crises and making socially responsible and ethical decisions. Technical concepts come to life through a variety of cases and case questions, thought-provoking personal and professional applications, ethical dilemmas, and practical exercises. Furthermore, an appendix offers approaches to case analysis and includes a case analysis table that serves as a model for students and professors. Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition includes discussions on the influence of globalization and technology, the impact of COVID-19, and greater focus on developing ethical strategies. With its thorough coverage of relevant issues and skill-building elements to stimulate critical thinking, this text will engage and prepare students to understand and confront real-world business issues by developing and implementing ethical strategies through case analysis of companies and analysis of organizational ethical dilemmas.
Business, Society and Global Governance: A Skills Approach
by Anna Ya Ni Montgomery Van WartBusiness, Society and Global Governance is a thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Building Business–Government Relations: A Skills Approach to ensure this successful book continues to be the go-to textbook introducing US business–government relations in the institutional context of the United States. Written from a practitioner’s perspective, it provides historical, descriptive, and comparative accounts of the public and private sectors, the different roles government plays with business (including several conceptual models to contextualize the two sectors), and various economic policies associated with business. Business–government relations are considered through three different social economic contexts: the socio-political arena, local economic development, and the global market. This new edition includes: Extended coverage of the role of nonprofits The Trump "era" and effect of the Biden presidency The positive and negative effects of technology in society and the increasing role of disinformation COVID and the role of government in crises. In the course of discussion, a set of skills, such as searching government jobs, starting a business, analyzing stakeholders, ethical reasoning, advancing a business agenda, leveraging public resources, contracting with government, interpreting global trends, doing business abroad, and leveraging international resources, are introduced and exercised.
Business Skills for the 21st Century
by Marc G. BaaijThis new student textbook draws authoritatively on a wide range of actionable, conceptual, practical, case and visual material to help develop vital business skills for the 21st century within the organizational and societal contexts of problem-solving, identifying opportunities and finding solutions. Skills and competencies covered include: communication; co-operation; creative/critical thinking; and data-driven decision-making. These are essential skills needed in workplace and social environments that are increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA). They are integral to solving not just business problems but largescale societal challenges including global injustices and sustainability, and the author draws accordingly on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout the text to help emphasise and impart the role of business skills in balancing prosperity and purpose. Includes short videos from the author to provide overviews of each chapter. Marc G. Baaij is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Business Skills for the 21st Century
by Marc G. BaaijThis new student textbook draws authoritatively on a wide range of actionable, conceptual, practical, case and visual material to help develop vital business skills for the 21st century within the organizational and societal contexts of problem-solving, identifying opportunities and finding solutions. Skills and competencies covered include: communication; co-operation; creative/critical thinking; and data-driven decision-making. These are essential skills needed in workplace and social environments that are increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA). They are integral to solving not just business problems but largescale societal challenges including global injustices and sustainability, and the author draws accordingly on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout the text to help emphasise and impart the role of business skills in balancing prosperity and purpose. Includes short videos from the author to provide overviews of each chapter. Marc G. Baaij is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Business Skills Exercises
by Loretta BarkerBUSINESS SKILLS EXERCISES is the perfect tool to prepare you for any entry-level business position. Designed to provide realistic experiences, this text provides exercises with a stated goal and follows up with a unit test to ensure you understand everything you need to succeed.
The Business Skills Collection: 30 Minute Reads
by Nicholas BateIntroducing the 30 minute reads e-book series! You're half an hour away from a pain free working life! So why not fill your down-time with some up-skilling? The average commute to work is 30 minutes. Why not kick start your New Year good intentions by using your commuting time to skill-up?! And with five books in the series you could have the most productive week of your life!Digitally native content optimized to be read on-screen Each book contains 10 short, sharp and to-the-point chapters, finishing with an 'Action Plan' with clear, super-structured, super-easy steps to no more pain!Brand new series of short form e-booksEach can be read in just 30 minutes!Covering core business skills and problems to make your work life more productive, less painful and more successful
Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies
by Kate BurtonFulfil your workplace potential with this indispensable handbook.Written by a team of experts, Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies is your complete guide to perfecting your communication, management and organizational skills. Inside you'll find simple techniques for improving your performance at work - everything from presentation skills, project management, persuading and influencing people, motivating (yourself and others!), managing your workload, managing a team and much more. No other book offers you this much in one volume. It's like having a whole team of business, communication and management experts sitting on your bookshelf...but much less crowded!Inside you'll find 4 books in 1:Book I: Communicating Effectively (covering communication, presentations, body language, confidence, persuasion & influence)Book II: Building Your Commercial Acumen (covering accounting and budgeting, technology, selling, negotiation)Book III: Managing and Leading Others (recruiting, working in teams and groups, dealing with ethics and office politics, coaching, leadership)Book IV: Increasing Productivity and Performance (time management, project management, achieving goals, motivation, managing stress, organising time, managing meetings and dealing with emails).
Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies
by Consumer DummiesFind workplace success There are some things that will never go out of style, and good business skills are one of them. With the help of this informative book, you’ll learn how to wear multiple hats in the workplace no matter what comes your way—without ever breaking a sweat. Compiled from eight of the best Dummies books on business skills topics, Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies offers everything you need to hone your abilities and translate them into a bigger paycheck. Whether you’re tasked with marketing or accounting responsibilities—or anything in between—this all-encompassing reference makes it easier than ever to tackle your job with confidence. Manage a successful operation Write more effectively Work on the go with Microsoft Office 365 Deal with marketing, accounting, and projects with ease If you’ve ever dreamed about being able to juggle all your work responsibilities without ever dropping the ball, the book is for you.
Business Simulations, Games, and Experiential Learning in International Business Education
by Erdener Kaynak Joseph Wolfe J Bernard KeysIf you find traditional lectures and course material ineffective for teaching students how to develop a sensitivity to cultural differences and apply “home grown” technologies to foreign situations, Business Simulations, Games and Experiential Learning in International Business Education is the guide to help you remedy this predicament! Helpful and easy-to-use, this text teaches you how to use computer-based games and experiential learning exercises to teach international business. You’ll learn how to place students in realistic situations where they can experiment with new behaviors and receive immediate, constructive feedback and then take what they have learned beyond the classroom.Business Simulations, Games and Experiential Learning in International Business Education helps you introduce students to global competition and business cultures as you explore important ethical, political, and social issues with them. You can better prepare your students for the challenges of international business if you pay particular attention to the book’s discussions of: different levels of power-sharing alternatives to traditional international business course materials and methods changing the norms and behaviors of organizations and institutions the role gender plays in effective gaming environments simulating a European Works Council within a classroom environment promoting decisionmaking and flexibility in management style understanding business rules and regulations of different countriesAcademics teaching and researching in international business will find Business Simulations, Games and Experiential Learning in International Business Education an immensely useful tool as you struggle with the challenges of readying students for the international work environment. As you know, it is not enough that students be schooled in the latest developments and technologies. Use this book’s games and learning techniques to emphasize to your students that international businessmen and women must not only know their field, but also be respectful of others’cultures and values, be linguistically flexible, and be aware of foreign business rules and regulations.
Business Simplified: Serving people, becoming better stewards, creating value
by Michel A. BellIn Business Simplified, former business executive, Michel A. Bell de-mystifies business with simple, helpful ideas from his experience and research. Business is about people. The right people unified in the correct positions, headed in the proper direction to delight customers and create value for stakeholders. Straightforward, practical solutions from Michel’s vast global business experience and research will enable cooperation, pinpoint suitable paths to gain customers for life, and build shareholder value. Further insights to design and implement strategies for a competitive edge appear throughout the book. Michel cautions against so-called five-yearly strategic plans, which usually excludes tough choices—the essence of strategy—necessary to steer the entity to its mission. Business Simplified includes several case studies, explains strategic and operations management, entrepreneurship, governance models, solution-driven marketing, capital and operating budgeting, and proposes a government accountability model, and business and personal tax reforms. As well, Michel offers his easily understood bucket accounting ideas—the lay person’s guide to interpreting financial statements. Whether you are a CEO, student, or a young entrepreneur, you will glean valuable insights from Business Simplified.
The Business Side of Creativity: The Complete Guide To Running A Small Graphics Design Or Communications Business (Norton Books For Architects And Designers Ser.)
by Mark Bellerose Cameron S. FooteHailed by one reviewer as the creative business "bible," and considered the authoritative book on the subject for over ten years, The Business Side of Creativity is back, updated and revised to include even more invaluable facts, tips, strategies, and advice for beginning creatives. Every year the market for creative services expands, but the competition is increasing even faster. Today, success hinges not on talent alone, but on a thorough understanding of the business side of creativity. The Business Side of Creativity is the most comprehensive business companion available to freelance graphic designers, art directors, illustrators, copywriters, and agency or design-shop principals. Cameron S. Foote, a successful entrepreneur and editor of the Creative Business newsletter, guides you step-by-step through the process of being successfully self-employed - from getting launched as a freelancer to running a multiperson shop to retiring comfortably, and everything in between. Sample business forms and documents to help put the information into practice are included in the appendixes, and are available for downloading at www.creativebusiness.com/bizbook.html. How should you organize? What should you charge? What marketing techniques yield the best returns? How do you know when it's right to expand? What are the most effective strategies for managing employees? How can you build salable equity? The Business Side of Creativity delves into these questions and hundreds more and gives you practical, real-world answers and invaluable expert advice.
The Business Side of Agriculture (Routledge Revivals)
by Arthur, G.L. RogersFirst Published in 1906, this book discusses farming in Britain, as well as exploring the business interests and concerns of the farmer whilst debating the future of traditional farming methods.