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Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
by Mark MetzlerThis book is the first full account of prewar international money power in Japan, and a dramatically different reading of international monetary history from that given in hitherto European-centered accounts.
Leverage
by Karl Denninger Charles Hugh SmithHow the wealthy and powerful abuse finance to skim immense profits Debasement of the dollar as a result of ill-use of leverage is destroying the global economy, and in Leverage, well known market commentator Karl Denninger follows the path of money throughout history to prove that currencies are debased when moneyed and powerful interests pull the levers of government and policy to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses. The result is ugly: the value of everything--including gold--falls, and even personal safety is at risk in a world where there is limited money even for essentials like food and fuel. History is littered with the collapse of monetary and economic systems from Rome to Germany to Zimbabwe. Presents an inside look at how moneyed and powerful interests debase the dollar through the willful and intentional failure to honestly represent short and long-term mathematical truths that underlie all economic systems Shows how, if imbalances are not corrected, financial crises will reoccur again and again Authored by Karl Denninger, who has been running the popular website The Market Ticker since 2007
Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results
by Robert W. JacobsFrustrated that change efforts you're leading take too long, are too difficult, or are too often ineffective? Discover eight powerful ways to make any change work faster, easier, and better—whether done by C-suite leaders or frontline workers.Organizations suffer from change fatigue. People are impatient and exhausted. They feel like too many initiatives are imposed from above or outside. They don't have time for more change and often don't even see the point in it. Wouldn't it be great if there were a systematic way to achieve your desired results in less time with fewer problems and more success? There is. It's called Leverage Change. These problems and more are resolved by what change expert Robert "Jake" Jacobs calls Levers: smart, strategic actions that create huge leverage and impact. Whether you have an existing change effort that could be turbocharged or you're launching one that's new, the Levers can help. Apply a Lever—even without a formal program—and your organization will experience positive changes. These powerful Levers, which can be used alone or in any combination that works for you, are straightforward and easy to apply:• Pay Attention to Continuity • Think and Act As If the Future Were Now! • Design It Yourself • Create a Common Database • Start with Impact, Follow the Energy • Develop a Future People Want to Call Their Own • Find Opportunities for People to Make a Meaningful Difference • Make Change-Work Part of Daily-WorkDrawing on thirty-five years of experience, Jacobs includes dozens of stories of the Levers in action with all kinds of organizations, teams, and individuals. He also provides specific directions on how you can apply them to your change work. Use the Levers, and improve your change work more than you ever imagined possible.
Leverage Ratios - The Balancing Act: Financial Leverage for Entreprenuers
by Karen Berman Joe KnightIn a small entrepreneurial company, debt can be a big part of what owners think (and worry) about. This chapter focuses on financial leverage (the extent to which a company's asset base is financed by debt) and two ratios: debt-to-equity, and interest coverage. This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers."
Leverage Ratios: The Balancing Act
by John Case Karen Berman Joe KnightLeverage ratios let you peer into how-and how extensively-a company uses debt. This chapter discusses debt-to-equity and interest coverage, two leverage ratios that are important for managers to understand.
Leverage Value Over Cost: Developing Customer and Employee Ownership
by James L. Heskett Joe Wheeler W. Earl Sasser Jr.Organizations that foster customer and employee ownership gain an edge on the competition by designing their operating strategies and systems to leverage value over cost. They carefully align all the elements of the strategic value vision to create a unified, self-reinforcing enterprise focused on ownership-and in the process they achieve enviable margins. They pay particular attention to what the authors call "deep indicators," or key value levers that most influence future performance.
Leverage Your Advantages: Generation Y--Shaping Your Personal Career Strategy
by Tamara EricksonAs a member of Generation Y, you have three big advantages: a tightening labor market, the ability to take some risks, and a distinct point of view. Each of these gives you a lot of power in the workplace - the key is learning to leverage them properly. If you can do that, then your strengths will allow you to find a career you love.
Leverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest: The Coaching Secrets Top Executives Depend On
by Madeleine Homan Scott BlanchardLeverage Your Best, Ditch the Rest eliminates the stupid stuff that distracts you and gets in your way. It shows you how to take full advantage of -- Leverage! -- your strengths and most positive qualities, while at the same time discarding or getting around -- Ditch! -- whatever gets in your way.Scott Blanchard and Madeleine Homan, co-founders of Coaching.com, share their groundbreaking program, honed by fourteen years of high-level executive coaching and consulting. They offer new perspectives on how to spend your precious and limited resources, time, emotions, passions, and energy to generate the best results.The three-part process begins with a twenty-five-question self-assessment, then moves on to the Three Perspectives -- major life queries that focus on how you are perceived, your own self-image, and self-imposed limitations. The final step, the Seven Leverage Points, offers fresh insight into the choices you make and how you conduct yourself in business and in life. You will find immediately applicable tools to appraise and manage your work environment and personal gifts. You will be guided to make tiny but crucial shifts in getting needs met and drawing boundaries.
Leverage of the Weak: Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea (Social Movements, Protest and Contention #42)
by Hwa-Jen LiuComparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation&’s development?Despite their apparent resemblance—a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and structural similarities—Taiwan and South Korea were opposites in their experiences with two key social movements. South Korea followed a conventional capitalist route: labor movements challenged the system long before environmental movements did. In Taiwan, pro-environment struggles gained strength before labor activism. Liu argues that part of the explanation lies in an analysis of how movements advance their causes by utilizing different types of power. Whereas labor movements have the power of economic leverage, environmental movements depend on the power of ideology. Therefore, examining material factors versus ideational factors is crucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.Leverage of the Weak is a significant contribution to the literature on social movements, to the study of East Asian political economies, and to the progress of the comparative-historical method. It enhances knowledge of movement emergence, investigates the possibilities and obstacles involved in forging labor–environment alliances, and offers the first systematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia.
Leveraged Betas and the Cost of Equity
by Paul AsquithThe objective is to delineate on methodology for measuring the risk associated with financial leverage and estimating its impact on the cost of equity capital.
Leveraged Buyouts
by Paul PignataroA comprehensive look at the world of leveraged buyoutsThe private equity industry has grown dramatically over the past twenty years. Such investing requires a strong technical know-how in order to turn private investments into successful enterprises. That is why Paul Pignataro has created Leveraged Buyouts + Website: A Practical Guide to Investment Banking and Private Equity.Engaging and informative, this book skillfully shows how to identify a private company, takes you through the analysis behind bringing such an investment to profitability--and further create high returns for the private equity funds. It includes an informative leveraged buyout overview, touching on everything from LBO modeling, accounting, and value creation theory to leveraged buyout concepts and mechanics.Provides an in-depth analysis of how to identify a private company, bring such an investment to profitability, and create high returns for the private equity fundsIncludes an informative LBO model and case study as well as private company valuationWritten by Paul Pignataro, founder and CEO of the New York School of FinanceIf you're looking for the best way to hone your skills in this field, look no further than this book.
Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds
by Tim Leung Marco SantoliThis book provides an analysis,under both discrete-time and continuous-time frameworks, on the price dynamicsof leveraged exchange-traded funds (LETFs), with emphasis on the roles ofleverage ratio, realized volatility, investment horizon, and tracking errors. This study provides new insights on the risks associated with LETFs. It alsoleads to the discussion of new risk management concepts, such as admissibleleverage ratios and admissible risk horizon, as well as the mathematical andempirical analyses of several trading strategies, including static portfolios,pairs trading, and stop-loss strategies involving ETFs and LETFs. The finalpart of the book addresses the pricing of options written on LETFs. Sincedifferent LETFs are designed to track the same reference index, these funds andtheir associated options share very similar sources of randomness. The authorsprovide a no-arbitrage pricing approach that consistently value options onLETFs with different leverage ratios with stochastic volatility and jumps inthe reference index. Their results are useful for market making of theseoptions, and for identifying price discrepancies across the LETF optionsmarkets. As the market of leveraged exchange-traded products become a sizeableconnected part of the financial market, it is crucial to better understand itsfeedback effect and broader market impact. This is important not only forindividual and institutional investors, but also for regulators.
Leveraged Finance
by Frank J. Fabozzi Stephen J. Antczak Douglas J. LucasA timely guide to today's high-yield corporate debt markets Leveraged Finance is a comprehensive guide to the instruments and markets that finance much of corporate America. Presented in five sections, this experienced author team covers topics ranging from the basics of bonds and loans to more advanced topics such as valuing CDs, default correlations among CLOs, and hedging strategies across corporate capital structures. Additional topics covered include basic corporate credit, relative value analysis, and various trading strategies used by investors, such as hedging credit risk with the equity derivatives of a different company. Stephen Antczak, Douglas Lucas, and Frank Fabozzi present readers with real-market examples of how investors can identify investment opportunities and how to express their views on the market or specific companies through trading strategies, and examine various underlying assets including loans, corporate bonds, and much more. They also offer readers an overview of synthetic and structured products such as CDS, LCDS, CDX, LCDX, and CLOs. Leveraged Finance has the information you need to succeed in this evolving financial arena.
Leveraged: The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility
by Moritz SchularickAn authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century. Published in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking. The 2008 financial crisis was a seismic event that laid bare how financial institutions’ instabilities can have devastating effects on societies and economies. COVID-19 brought similar financial devastation at the beginning of 2020 and once more massive interventions by central banks were needed to heed off the collapse of the financial system. All of which begs the question: why is our financial system so fragile and vulnerable that it needs government support so often? For a generation of economists who have risen to prominence since 2008, these events have defined not only how they view financial instability, but financial markets more broadly. Leveraged brings together these voices to take stock of what we have learned about the costs and causes of financial fragility and to offer a new canonical framework for understanding it. Their message: the origins of financial instability in modern economies run deeper than the technical debates around banking regulation, countercyclical capital buffers, or living wills for financial institutions. Leveraged offers a fundamentally new picture of how financial institutions and societies coexist, for better or worse. The essays here mark a new starting point for research in financial economics. As we muddle through the effects of a second financial crisis in this young century, Leveraged provides a road map and a research agenda for the future.
Leveraged: The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility
by Moritz SchularickAn authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century. Published in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking. The 2008 financial crisis was a seismic event that laid bare how financial institutions’ instabilities can have devastating effects on societies and economies. COVID-19 brought similar financial devastation at the beginning of 2020 and once more massive interventions by central banks were needed to heed off the collapse of the financial system. All of which begs the question: why is our financial system so fragile and vulnerable that it needs government support so often? For a generation of economists who have risen to prominence since 2008, these events have defined not only how they view financial instability, but financial markets more broadly. Leveraged brings together these voices to take stock of what we have learned about the costs and causes of financial fragility and to offer a new canonical framework for understanding it. Their message: the origins of financial instability in modern economies run deeper than the technical debates around banking regulation, countercyclical capital buffers, or living wills for financial institutions. Leveraged offers a fundamentally new picture of how financial institutions and societies coexist, for better or worse. The essays here mark a new starting point for research in financial economics. As we muddle through the effects of a second financial crisis in this young century, Leveraged provides a road map and a research agenda for the future.
Leveraging
by David M. AndersonThis book considers the current domestic and global political and economic landscape and will show that there are three different but related kinds of leverage that together have emerged as the dominant strategy in economics, politics and international relations. The economic crisis of 2008-09 was called by most economists a crisis of "over-leverage. " Yet no one has argued that there has also been a leverage crisis or at least a "leverage challenge," in other aspects of life. The This book argues that there is a "leverage mean" in between the extremes of too little leverage and too much leverage that provides the basis for resolving the various crises and challenges. This book, which grows out of a Brookings Institution paper "The Age of Leverage," will analyze bargaining leverage, resource leverage and economic investment leverage and should draw the attention of students and teachers in political and economic philosophy.
Leveraging AI for Freelancing: Current and Future Prospects
by Richard Boateng Thomas Anning-Dorson Sheena Lovia Boateng Joseph Budu Obed Kwame Adzaku Penu Emmanuel Awuni Kolog John Serbe MarfoIn recent years, the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on fostering new forms of entrepreneurship has become increasingly evident. Entrepreneurs worldwide are harnessing the capabilities of AI to develop innovative solutions and create businesses that address pressing challenges.Despite the growing recognition of AI’s potential, there exists a crucial need to deepen understanding and awareness surrounding how individuals are leveraging AI to establish novel ventures. Many entrepreneurs are pioneering initiatives that deploy AI technologies to tackle complex problems. This challenge revolves around the imperative to explore, document, and comprehend the diverse ways in which AI is driving the emergence of new businesses, solving real-world problems, and reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape. It underscores the necessity for entrepreneurs, researchers, and the wider community to grasp the transformative role of AI in fostering innovation and enabling the creation of businesses dedicated to addressing societal issues. Addressing this challenge will contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the synergy between AI and entrepreneurship, paving the way for informed and impactful ventures that leverage the full potential of AI technologies.In this respect, the purpose of this book is to offer an in-depth exploration of the intersection between AI and entrepreneurial ventures. The book aims to provide a contemporary and thorough analysis of how AI is playing a pivotal role in shaping new forms of entrepreneurship across various industries. It seeks to illuminate the ways in which entrepreneurs are leveraging AI technologies to drive innovation, address challenges, and create businesses that contribute to societal progress.Through the compilation of diverse perspectives, case studies, and practical insights, the book endeavors to serve as a valuable resource for professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals seeking to understand and navigate the dynamic landscape of AI-driven entrepreneurship.
Leveraging Advanced Technologies: ICBT 2024, Volume 3 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1574)
by Allam Hamdan Bahaaeddin AlareeniThis book examines how next-generation tools such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things are transforming not only the way companies operate, but also how they create value, define strategy, and drive growth. As emerging technologies reshape the business landscape, innovation has become a necessity rather than a choice. It offers an in-depth exploration of the evolving business model innovation landscape, combining diverse methodologies and real-world industry cases to illustrate the powerful intersection of technology and strategic transformation. Through practical insights, evidence-based analysis, and compelling case studies, this book equips decision-makers to adapt, innovate, and lead in a rapidly evolving digital environment. What You&’ll Discover: · The role of AI, blockchain, and IoT in reinventing business models · Frameworks and strategies for leveraging disruptive technologies · Policy and managerial insights to guide innovation in practice &
Leveraging Brands in Sport Business
by Mark P. Pritchard Jeffrey L. StinsonThis edited text compiles advanced material relating to strategy and marketing in the field of sports business. Featuring contributions from experts across the sports business field, the book approaches strategy from the standpoint of managing and marketing a brand. With integrated current-day examples highlighting practices and issues, as well as ‘real-world’ applied video cases, this book is ideal for marketing students and sports business practitioners looking to gain strategic insights into the industry.
Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage
by Hubert Saint-Onge Debra WallaceHow can you build a successful community of practice that is integrally linked to your company's strategic vision? Learn from the first-hand experience of Hubert Saint-Onge, recognized by Fortune magazine as a leader in the field of knowledge capital, and co-author Debra Wallace, the people responsible for a recent project to establish a community of practice for independent agents at Clarica Life Insurance Company— voted one of the most admired knowledge enterprises in the world by practitioners and researchers. 'Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage' combines theory and practice to outline a model for developing successful communities of practice and proposes a direction for establishing communities of practice as an integral part of the organizational structure. Saint-Onge and Wallace relate what worked, what didn't, and why as they tell the story from inception through implementation to assessment. Whether you're developing communities of practice or want to learn how to leverage existing communities for strategic gain, this book provides you with everything you need to launch successful communities of practice in your organization.
Leveraging Constraints for Innovation: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA
by Abbie Griffin Sebastian Gurtner Jelena SpanjolProvides managers with actionable insight into a select set of innovation constraints and how to best deal with them This PDMA Essentials Book, the third in this series, provides a framework of individual, organizational, and market and societal constraints that guides managers in identifying specific constraints related to their innovation activities and provides them with corresponding tools and practices to overcome and leverage those constraints. Written by a team of international innovation experts, Leveraging Constraints for Innovation: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA is presented in three parts. The first part, Individual Constraints, provides insights into how to: simultaneously solve social and commercial needs for greater creativity; apply a multi-stage approach to overcome knowledge sharing in teams; and anticipate and account for psychographic differences among customers during product launch. In the second part, Organizational Constraints, insights emerge that provide guidance on how to: identify and solve for sources of innovation constraints within the company; implement and manage virtual NPD teams; and effectively organize new service development in professional services. The last part, Market Constraints, examines how to: adapt firm capabilities to overcome constraints preventing consumers in low-end and under-resourced markets from purchasing new products; implement inclusive innovation strategies to address markets constrained by underdeveloped infrastructures; develop solutions for women and other disadvantaged market traders in emerging markets. This book: Is a single comprehensive volume that covers the full spectrum of constraint-related strategies and techniques in a coherent, integrated fashion Provides a set of frameworks, techniques, and tools that can be immediately implemented by individuals across firms Offers how-to knowledge on specific tools and methods as applied to innovating products and services when facing constraints as well as for the development of new business models Integrates problem- and solution-based knowledge to enable companies to develop sustainable growth strategies by leveraging constraints and restrictions toward innovation strategies, processes and offerings Leveraging Constraints for Innovation: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA is an ideal book for all product development professionals, including marketers, engineers, project managers, and business managers in both startups and well-established firms, and from a broad range of industries from heavy manufacturing to the service sector.
Leveraging Corporate Responsibility: The Stakeholder Route to Maximizing Business and Social Value
by Sankar Sen C. B. Bhattacharya Daniel KorschunThe corporate social and environmental responsibility movement, known more generally as corporate responsibility (CR), shows little sign of waning. Almost all large corporations now run some form of corporate responsibility program. Despite this widespread belief that CR can simultaneously improve societal welfare and corporate performance, most companies are largely in the dark when it comes to understanding how their stakeholders think and feel about these programs. This book argues that all companies must understand how and why stakeholders react to such information about companies and their actions. It examines the two most important stakeholder groups to companies - consumers and employees - to comprehend why, when and how they react to CR. Armed with this insight, it shows how companies can maximize the value of their CR initiatives by fostering strong stakeholder relationships to develop, implement and evaluate compelling social responsibility programs that generate value for both the company and its stakeholders.
Leveraging Cultural and Political Authority: A Cultural Model of Brand Equity
by Douglas B. HoltFor iconic brands, the brand is a symbol so equity is a collective phenomenon rather than a product of a brand's hold on individual customers. The brand becomes renowned for telling certain kinds of stories that are useful in addressing certain social desires and anxieties. Therefore, identity brands succeed when their managers draw on two important assets: cultural authority and political authority.
Leveraging Culture for Innovation and Competitive Advantage
by Michael L. Tushman Charles A. O'ReillyTo manage organizational culture effectively, managers need to be clear about the type of culture and the specific norms and values that will help the organization reach its strategic goals. This chapter guides managers through the process of diagnosing organizational culture and learning how to use culture as a social control system.
Leveraging Data Science for Global Health
by Maimuna S. Majumder Leo Anthony Celi Patricia Ordóñez Juan Sebastian Osorio Kenneth E. Paik Melek SomaiThis open access book explores ways to leverage information technology and machine learning to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on digital disease surveillance through the application of machine learning to non-traditional data sources. Developing countries are uniquely prone to large-scale emerging infectious disease outbreaks due to disruption of ecosystems, civil unrest, and poor healthcare infrastructure – and without comprehensive surveillance, delays in outbreak identification, resource deployment, and case management can be catastrophic. In combination with context-informed analytics, students will learn how non-traditional digital disease data sources – including news media, social media, Google Trends, and Google Street View – can fill critical knowledge gaps and help inform on-the-ground decision-making when formal surveillance systems are insufficient.