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Rev. Georgiette Morgan-Thomas & The American Hat Factory
by Ariel Rogers Steven S. RogersOn a sunny Monday morning, Rev. Morgan-Thomas walked into her newly acquired hat factory thinking, "What have I gotten myself into? Things are worse than I imagined. Can I ever turn this company around given all of the known and unknown problems? Can I make it profitable?"
Revamping Your IT Funding Model: Extract More Value from Your IT Investments
by Jeanne W. Ross Peter WeillWith the average firm spending over two thirds of its IT budget just on maintaining operating systems, it's vital that companies begin rethinking how they track and manage their IT funds. In this chapter, Weil and Ross provide extensive guidelines on how companies can compose an effective IT funding model. They stress the importance of establishing IT priorities and monitoring the risks and rewards of current and past investments. This chapter was originally published as chapter 3 of "IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain."
Revealed
by John Taylor Adrian Furnham Janet BreezeIt is not always possible to interview or meet people face-to-face before significant negotiations or decisions have to be made. They may be business competitors or candidates for an important leadership role. Revealed is a book for those who need to assess others and make decisions about people, without being able to meet and interview them
Revealed Preference Approaches to Environmental Valuation Volumes I and II (The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy)
by Catherine L. KlingIn this two volume collection the editors have chosen a sample of some of the most essential and inspirational articles and papers for understanding revealed preference methods to value environmental amenities. The papers cover the gamut of methods that are typically classified as revealed preference approaches - including: recreation demand models, hedonic methods, and averting behavior methods, as well as efforts to combine stated and revealed preferences. While this collection is far from exhaustive, the editors have included papers they believe will represent the state of the art in the theory and application of revealed preference methods, contribute to development of the state of the art, or raise fundamental challenges and insights that will drive the research agenda in the coming years.
Revealed Preference Theory
by Christopher P. Chambers Federico EcheniquePioneered by American economist Paul Samuelson, revealed preference theory is based on the idea that the preferences of consumers are revealed in their purchasing behavior. Researchers in this field have developed complex and sophisticated mathematical models to capture the preferences that are 'revealed' through consumer choice behavior. This study of consumer demand and behavior is closely tied up with econometrics (especially nonparametric econometrics), where testing the validity of different theoretical models is an important aspect of research. The theory of revealed preference has a very long and distinguished tradition in economics, but there was no systematic presentation of the theory until now. This book deals with basic questions in economic theory, such as the relation between theory and data, and studies the situations in which empirical observations are consistent or inconsistent with some of the best known theories in economics.
Revealed: Using Remote Personality Profiling to Influence, Negotiate and Motivate
by Janet Breeze J. Taylor A. FurnhamIt is not always possible to interview or meet people face-to-face before significant negotiations or decisions have to be made. They may be business competitors or candidates for an important leadership role. Revealed is a book for those who need to assess others and make decisions about people, without being able to meet and interview them
Revealing and Concealing Gender: Issues of Visibility in Organizations
by P. Lewis R. SimpsonIssues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not only further develop current theoretical ideas around being seen and unseen within organizations, but will also provide us with the opportunity to problematize the concepts of visibility and invisibility.
Revela tu brillo
by Simon T. BaileyCada uno de nosotros nace brillante. Pero la vida, la gente y las circunstancias de a poco van enterrando ese brillo. Al final, olvidamos que alguna vez tuvimos genialidad y talentos especiales, y nuestro brillo se encierra muy profundamente, en una bóveda interna. Y así, nos conformamos con quienes somos, en lugar de esforzarnos por llegar a ser quiénes en realidad podríamos ser. Revela tu brillo te brinda el secreto para abrir esa bóveda interna y finalmente revelar tu brillo. Después de luchar por treinta y dos años contra la desilusión, el fracaso y la desesperación, Simon T. Bailey descifró la clave para la transformación personal, haciendo un giro en su vida y convirtiéndose en un empresario sumamente exitoso, un respetado hombre de familia y un líder en su comunidad. Todos somos diamantes en bruto. Con esta metáfora Simon comparte los cuatro pasos clave para cortar y pulir la gema que eres, para volver a despertar tu genialidad, encender nuevamente tu luz interior y revelar tu potencial. ¡Únete a Simon y los miles de individuos y organizaciones en todo el mundo que han aprendido a producir un cambio duradero y a revelar su brillo!
Revelations and Story: Narrative Theology and the Centrality of Story (Routledge Revivals)
by John Barton Gerhard SauterThis title was first published in 2000. From the work of Hegel and Schelling to the dialectical theology of Barth, Bultmann and Gogarten, "Revelation" has developed a long, rich tradition of diverse thought, as well as many misunderstandings. Meaning, first and foremost, "God's encounter with those to whom God wishes to communicate God's own self", Revelation seeks to be recounted and communicated to others. As a theological expression, Revelation aims to direct our attention to the modes and areas in which we have a basis for expecting encounter with God - through stories, nature, the world as creation. From a rediscovered emphasis on "story", narrative theology has emerged - a concept the English-speaking world has welcomed for its neutrality between history and imaginative fiction and stress on narrative rather than doctrinal dimension of biblical text. This volume brings into relationship a concern with theology of revelation and an interest in the theology of story or narrative theology.
Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native-American Tribe Created the World's Most Profitable Casino
by Kim Isaac EislerIn the mid-1970s, the Mashantucket Pequot tribe had only one member -- an elderly woman who pleaded with her grandson to come live on the impoverished reservation and save it from falling into government hands upon her death. In Revenge of the Pequots, journalist Kim Isaac Eisler tells the remarkable story of how Richard "Skip" Hayward, then an unemployed ship-worker, granted his grandmother's dying wish, revived the moribund clan, and transformed the Pequots into the richest and most influential band of Native Americans in history. Established in 1992, Foxwoods Resort and Casino is the world's most profitable gambling establishment, grossing over $1 billion a year at its sprawling complex in the backwoods of Ledyard, Connecticut. Making use of arcane laws and court decisions never intended to benefit Native Americans as they have, Hayward brilliantly laid the groundwork for this staggering economic empire. In a story rife with drama, he challenged a succession of Connecticut governors and such worthy adversaries as casino moguls Steve Wynn and Donald Trump, while forming alliances with Malaysian industrialist Lim Goh Tong, renegade Seminole chief James Billie, and President Bill Clinton. As a result of Hayward's strategizing, for one of the few times in history -- and in a truly ironic reversal -- the bizarre legal structure governing Native Americans actually worked to their advantage in a mainstream enterprise. But the Pequots' meteoric rise to fortune has left many wondering: Is this turnabout fair play? In this riveting rags-to-riches tale, Eisler deftly explores the wide-ranging issues that have framed the great Native American casino debate and the ramifications of the Native American casino boom in a nation still uneasy about its roots.
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
by Malcolm GladwellTwenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with &“curiosity and humor&” in this New York Times bestseller that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light (Shannon Carlin). Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world&’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell&’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It&’s time we took tipping points seriously. Most Anticipated in:AARP| Associated Press| Time Magazine | Oprah Daily | Chicago Tribune | Literary Hub | Publishers Weekly | Publishers Lunch
Revenu Passif Pas À Pas: Guide éprouvé pour commencer à gagner de l'argent
by Jonathan S. WalkerCommencez à gagner un revenu passif avec ce guide étape par étape incroyable pour les débutants! Êtes-vous malade et fatigué de travailler comme un chien, de courir la course aux rats comme tout le monde là-bas? Échanger du temps pour gagner de l'argent jour après jour, sacrifier du temps de qualité avec vos amis et votre famille et ne jamais avoir assez à dépenser avec vos proches? Êtes-vous malade d'être sous-estimé au travail ou d'avoir à faire face à la politique de bureau toute la journée. Passive Income Step By Step vous apprendra les cordes pour vous emmener du novice à l'expert. Dans ce livre, vous apprendrez: 5 sources rentables pour créer des flux de revenus passifs en ligne, comment un débutant peut créer une entreprise de revenu passif à six chiffres, créer des blogs rentables et générateurs de revenus élevés, construire un empire commercial et vendre avec FBA, créer un revenu passif Sans affecter votre travail, comment gagner de l'argent en vendant des livres électroniques sur la boutique, comment créer une chaîne Youtube rentable, résultats de la création de revenus passifs en ligne: être capable de voyager dans le monde Réalisez vos rêves Ayez la sécurité financière, soyez financièrement stressé Gratuit, achetez tout ce que vous voulez à tout moment, vous obtiendrez toutes ces stratégies incroyables détaillées parfaitement pour vous étape par étape. Avec toutes ces connaissances à portée de main, feriez-vous le saut de la foi et deviendriez-vous quelqu'un qui est financièrement libre, qui a, un revenu passif, qui coule dans ses poches chaque jour? Quelqu'un qui est à la retraite avant l'âge de 40 ans et qui a le temps de vivre pleinement sa vie avec ses proches? Si c'est vous, vous voudrez obtenir le guide ÉTAPE PAR ÉTAPE DU REVENU PASSIF dès aujourd'hui Commencez votre voyage à travailler à domicile avec ces incroyables stratégies étape par étape et vous me remercierez plus tard. Cliquez su
Revenue - The Issue is Recognition: Entrepreneurs Need to Understand the Possibilities and Pitfalls
by Karen Berman Joe KnightThe issue of when a sale can be recorded is one of the more artful aspects of the income statement that entrepreneurs need to learn. This chapter explains the often murky guidelines accountants use for recording and recognizing a sale and identifies some areas you should keep an eye on where manipulation of the numbers sometimes occurs. This chapter is excerpted from "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs."
Revenue Administration Handbook
by Cristian Óliver Lucas-Mas Raúl Félix Junquera-VarelaRevenue Administration Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the structure and management of tax and customs administrations, covering topics such as tax policy design considerations that impact tax administration, institutional setup and strategic planning, analyticalcapacities and maturity models, core business processes, and tax sanctions. It also presents pioneering work in the field of digital transformation and how to build data science capabilities, including a roadmap for policy makers and tax officials on how to incorporate and manage disruptive technologies, such as machine learning, into building modern revenue administrations while taking into account their respective maturity levels. This practical manual provides examples from real-life World Bank projects so that policy makers, tax officials, information technology experts, and information and communication technology providers can better understand the needs of revenue administrations to design and implement the most appropriate technology solutions. This reference work is intended to serve as a tool to facilitate the progress and modernization of tax and customs administrations worldwide, and to reach not only tax experts and policy makers, but also other government officials, businesses and academic communities, as well as the larger public, since all are relevant stakeholders with an active role in day-to-day revenue administration operations. ------------------------- “This is a very timely and useful reference for tax practitioners and stakeholders, coming at a time when tax administrators continue to grapple with the challenge of how to accelerate the modernization of technology systems to remain effective in a rapidly advancing and technologydriven business environment.†? MOSES WASIKE, Senior financial management specialist, World Bank “This is an impressive piece of work that pulls together many different strains on tax administration.†? JEFFREY OWENS, Director, Global Tax Policy Center, Vienna University “Applying several technologies discussed in this handbook in an innovative manner will definitely help leapfrog countries to pursue a digital transformation agenda, especially in the areas of efficiency, productivity, and citizen satisfaction.†?
Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers
by Eric PriezkalnsThis cutting-edge reference represents a new phase in the talkRA project-an initiative dedicated to improving the discipline of revenue assurance (RA) for communication providers. From blog to podcasts and now a book, the project offers a platform for a select group of RA experts to share ideas and best practices in revenue assurance, revenue manag
Revenue Disruption: Game-Changing Sales and Marketing Strategies to Accelerate Growth
by Phil FernandezStrategies for any company to transform its sales and marketing efforts in a way that truly accelerates revenue growth Revenue Disruption delivers bold new strategies to transform corporate revenue performance and ignite outsized revenue growth. Today's predominant sales and marketing model is at best obsolete and at worst totally dysfunctional. This book offers a completely new operating methodology based on a sales and marketing approach that recognizes the global technological, cultural, and media changes that have forever transformed the process of buying and selling. The dysfunctional state of today's corporate revenue creation model results in trillions of dollars in lost growth opportunities. Revenue Disruption examines the problems of the current model and offers real-world solutions for fixing them. It lays out a detailed plan that businesspeople and companies can use to fundamentally transform their sales and marketing performance to win this century's revenue battle.
Revenue Implications of Trade Liberalization
by Liam P. Ebrill Reint Gropp Janet Gale StotskyA report from the International Monetary Fund.
Revenue Management
by Ian Yeoman Una Mcmahon-BeattiePricing is about deciding your market position whereas revenue management is the strategic and tactical decisions firms take in order to optimize revenues and profits. This book offers insights into research, theories, applications and innovations and how to makes these work in different industries.
Revenue Management
by Robert G. CrossFrom the man the Wall Street Journal hailed as "the guru of Revenue Management" comes revolutionary ways to recover from the after effects of downsizing and refocus your business on growth.Whatever happened to growth? In Revenue Management, Robert G. Cross answers this question with his ground-breaking approach to revitalizing businesses: focusing on the revenue side of the ledger instead of the cost side. The antithesis of slash-and-burn methods that left companies with empty profits and dissatisfied stockholders, Revenue Management overturns conventional thinking on marketing strategies and offers the key to initiating and sustaining growth.Using case studies from a variety of industries, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations, Cross describes no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech methods that managers can use to increase revenue without increasing products or promotions; predict consumer behavior; tap into new markets; and deliver products and services to customers effectively and efficiently. His proven tactics will help any business dramatically improve its bottom line by meeting the challenge of matching supply with demand.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Revenue Management and Pricing Analytics (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science #279)
by Guillermo Gallego Huseyin Topaloglu“There is no strategic investment that has a higher return than investing in good pricing, and the text by Gallego and Topaloghu provides the best technical treatment of pricing strategy and tactics available.” Preston McAfee, the J. Stanley Johnson Professor, California Institute of Technology and Chief Economist and Corp VP, Microsoft.“The book by Gallego and Topaloglu provides a fresh, up-to-date and in depth treatment of revenue management and pricing. It fills an important gap as it covers not only traditional revenue management topics also new and important topics such as revenue management under customer choice as well as pricing under competition and online learning. The book can be used for different audiences that range from advanced undergraduate students to masters and PhD students. It provides an in-depth treatment covering recent state of the art topics in an interesting and innovative way. I highly recommend it." Professor Georgia Perakis, the William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research and Operations Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. “This book is an important and timely addition to the pricing analytics literature by two authors who have made major contributions to the field. It covers traditional revenue management as well as assortment optimization and dynamic pricing. The comprehensive treatment of choice models in each application is particularly welcome. It is mathematically rigorous but accessible to students at the advanced undergraduate or graduate levels with a rich set of exercises at the end of each chapter. This book is highly recommended for Masters or PhD level courses on the topic and is a necessity for researchers with an interest in the field.” Robert L. Phillips, Director of Pricing Research at Amazon“At last, a serious and comprehensive treatment of modern revenue management and assortment optimization integrated with choice modeling. In this book, Gallego and Topaloglu provide the underlying model derivations together with a wide range of applications and examples; all of these facets will better equip students for handling real-world problems. For mathematically inclined researchers and practitioners, it will doubtless prove to be thought-provoking and an invaluable reference.” Richard Ratliff, Research Scientist at Sabre “This book, written by two of the leading researchers in the area, brings together in one place most of the recent research on revenue management and pricing analytics. New industries (ride sharing, cloud computing, restaurants) and new developments in the airline and hotel industries make this book very timely and relevant, and will serve as a critical reference for researchers.” Professor Kalyan Talluri, the Munjal Chair in Global Business and Operations, Imperial College, London, UK.
Revenue Management in Manufacturing
by Danilo ZattaThis book focuses on the application of revenue management in the manufacturing industry. Though previous books have extensively studied the application of revenue management in the service industry, little attention has been paid to its application in manufacturing, despite the fact that applying it in this context can be highly profitable and instrumental to corporate success. With this work, the author demonstrates that the manufacturing industry also fulfills the prerequisites for the application of revenue management. The book includes a summary of empirical studies that effectively illustrate how revenue management is currently being applied across Europe and North America, and what the profit potential is.
Revenue Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Towards Ethical and Responsible Price Management in Air Transport, Tourism and Hospitality (ISTE Invoiced)
by Sourou MeatchiToday, Revenue Management is a key practice in the air transport, tourism and hotel industries. Originally known as Yield Management, Revenue Management has gradually evolved into an integral revenue optimization strategy for businesses characterized by capacity constraints and fluctuating demand. Revenue Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence explores, through numerous case studies and concrete examples, the principles, models and applications of Revenue Management, while addressing the ethical challenges and prospects offered by digital technology and artificial intelligence. This book is aimed at professionals, students, researchers and anyone wishing to understand the dynamics of price management in a constantly changing economic environment. It highlights the importance of transparency and fairness in maintaining consumer confidence, while demonstrating that Revenue Management is much more than a simple pricing technique: it is an essential strategic tool for many service companies.
Revenue Management in the Lodging Industry: Origins to the Last Frontier (Management for Professionals)
by Ben VinodThis book provides an end-to-end view of revenue management in the hospitality industry. The book highlights the origins of hotel reservations systems and revenue management, challenges unique to hotels, revenue management models, new generation retailing, and personalization and steps required to remain competitive in the marketplace. This book is intended for practitioners to understand the basics and have a comprehensive view of the impacts of revenue management on product distribution, reservations, inventory control, including the latest advances in the field of attribute-based room pricing and inventory control.There are several aspects of revenue management that are not covered in books and journal articles such as hotel pricing, hotel fully allocated costs, content parity, impact of Online Travel Agencies on hotels, competitive revenue management and attribute-based room pricing and inventory control which represents the last frontier in hotel revenue management with intelligent retailing. Leveraging emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain and the future state of revenue management, are also addressed.
Revenue Management: Hard-core Tactics for Market Domination
by Robert G. CrossRemember growth? That's what companies do when they're healthy, when they're focused on the revenue side of the ledger instead of the cost side. But in the recent frenzy of downsizing and re-engineering, much of corporate America lost sight of the need for real growth, and revenue generation stagnated or declined. Now, in this eye-opening book, Robert G. Cross reminds us that cutting costs is not enough, and he shows how a powerful new strategy called Revenue Management can help any business dramatically improve its bottom line. Revenue Management--also known as RM--enhances a company's performance through a combination of attitude, sophisticated technology, and state-of-the-art marketing techniques. Cross, whose consulting company has invigorated some of the world's largest airlines and hotel chains, draws on numerous case studies to present profit-making tactics that work in today's fast-moving marketplace. In describing how a one-chair barbershop, a regional opera company, and a medium-size airline all benefited enormously from the RM approach, he explains how no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech Revenue Management applications can revolutionize the way businesses make money. The RM-driven company has one overriding goal: to sell the right product to the right customer at the right time for the right price. Cross clearly explains the concepts at the heart of Revenue Management, exploding a number of existing myths about contemporary business strategy. He shows how market-based pricing, not cost-based pricing, is one key to profitability. He demonstrates why companies must learn to save their products for their most valuable customers. And he reveals the crucial importance of understanding the value-cycle of a product and then making dynamic decisions at the micromarket level. The Wall Street Journal recently declared that Revenue Management is "poised to explode" and called Robert Cross "the guru of Revenue Management." For any company that aims to dominate its chosen markets and achieve lasting growth, this groundbreaking book provides invaluable advice, tactics, and strategy.
Revenue Mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges from Globalization
by Michael Keen Mario MansourA report from the International Monetary Fund.