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Stealing Myspace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
by Julia AngwinAngwin offers a fast-paced and deeply reported look at the unlikely success of MySpace and the drama surrounding one of the biggest business deals of the Internet age.
Stealing Time: America’s Disruption of the Swiss Watch Industry
by Eric Van Den Steen Aaron Stark"After years of growth and expanding exports, the Swiss watch industry—widely regarded as the world’s premier watchmakers—was facing an existential crisis. Exports to the U.S., their primary market, had dropped by more than two-thirds over the past five years. Despite their sterling reputation as luxury watches, Swiss watches were being disrupted by high-quality and affordable American products. The Swiss had to figure out how to respond to the American threat, but were faced with an almost impossible set of choices. No matter the outcome, the year 1876 would prove to be pivotal."
Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL
by Alec KleinWhy the concept failed.Why the concept failed.
Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner
by Alec KleinIn January 2000, America Online and Time Warner announced the largest merger in U. S. history, a deal that would create the biggest media company in the world. It was celebrated as the marriage of new media and old media, a potent combination of the nation's No. 1 Internet company and the country's leading entertainment giant, the owner of such internationally renowned brands as Warner Bros. , HBO, CNN, andTimemagazine. But only three years later, nearly all the top executives behind the merger had resigned, the company had lost tens of billions of dollars in market value, and the U. S. government had begun two investigations into its business dealings. How did the deal of the century become an epic disaster?Alec Klein has covered AOL Time Warner forThe Washington Postsince the merger. His reporting on the company led to investigations by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission. InStealing Time,he takes readers behind the scenes to show how a clash of cultures set the stage for a spectacular corporate collapse. AOL's Steve Case knew it was only a matter of time before the Internet bubble of the late 1990s would burst, grounding his high-flying company. His solution: Buy another company to keep his own aloft. Meanwhile, Time Warner's Jerry Levin was enamored of new technology but frustrated by his inability to push his far-flung media empire into the Internet age. AOL and Time Warner seemed like a perfect match. But the government forced the two companies to make concessions, and during the yearlong negotiations technology stocks tumbled. AOL executives lorded it over their Time Warner counterparts, who felt they were being acquired by brash, young interlopers with inflated dollars. The AOL way was fast, loose, and aggressive, and Time Warner executives -- schooled in more genteel business practices -- rebelled. In the midst of clashing cultures and conflicting management styles, AOL's business slowed and then stalled. Worse yet, AOL came under government scrutiny, and when the company conducted its own internal investigation, it admitted that it had improperly booked at least $190 million in revenue. The Time Warner rebellion gathered momentum. This is a riveting story of ambition, hubris, and greed set amid the boom-and-bust years of the technology bubble. It is filled with outsized personalities -- Steve Case, Jerry Levin, Bob Pittman, Ted Turner, and many more. Based on hundreds of confidential company documents and interviews with key players in this unfolding drama,Stealing Timeis a fascinating tale of the swift rise and even swifter fall of AOL Time Warner.
Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies they'll Never Teach you in Business School
by Brendan ReidStealing the Corner Office is mandatory reading for smart, hardworking managers who always wonder why their seemingly incompetent superiors are so successful. Its controversial, but highly effective tactics for middle managers and aspiring executives who want learn the real secrets for moving up the corporate ladder.
Stealth KM
by Niall SinclairStealth KM presents an innovative way to drive successful knowledge management initiatives in the public sector. Niall Sinclair, a well-known, former high-level official in the Canadian Government, proposes a technique that has been proven to work in his own governmental area of 20,000 employees, and that enables executives and professionals, especially those in government and public institutions, to implement KM programs successfully.
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
by Robert SpaldingChina expert Robert Spalding reveals the shocking success China has had infiltrating American institutions and compromising our national security.The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America's economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure--and they're winning. It's almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese. In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West. Chronicling how our leaders have failed to protect us over recent decades, he provides shocking evidence of some of China's most brilliant ploys, including: • Placing Confucius Institutes in universities across the United States that serve to monitor and control Chinese students on campus and spread communist narratives to unsuspecting American students. • Offering enormous sums to American experts who create investment funds that funnel technology to China. • Signing a thirty-year agreement with the US that allows China to share peaceful nuclear technology, ensuring that they have access to American nuclear know-how.Spalding's concern isn't merely that America could lose its position on the world stage. More urgently, the Chinese Communist Party has a fundamental loathing of the legal protections America grants its people and seeks to create a world without those rights. Despite all the damage done so far, Spalding shows how it's still possible for the U.S. and the rest of the free world to combat--and win--China's stealth war.
Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
by Robert NeuwirthThousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel. Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil. Scores of laid-off San Franciscans, working without any licenses, use Twitter to sell home-cooked foods. Dozens of major multinationals sell products through unregistered kiosks and street vendors around the world. When we think of the informal economy, we tend to think of crime: prostitution, gun running, drug trafficking. Stealth of Nations opens up this underground realm, showing how the worldwide informal economy deals mostly in legal products and is, in fact, a ten-trillion-dollar industry, making it the second-largest economy in the world, after that of the United States. Having penetrated this closed world and persuaded its inhabitants to open up to him, Robert Neuwirth makes clear that this informal method of transaction dates back as far as humans have existed and traded, that it provides essential services and crucial employment that fill the gaps in formal systems, and that this unregulated market works smoothly and effectively, with its own codes and unwritten rules. Combining a vivid travelogue with a firm grasp on global economic strategy--along with a healthy dose of irreverence and skepticism toward conventional perceptions--Neuwirth gives us an eye-opening account of a world that is always operating around us, hidden in plain sight.
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom: Race and Class in Modern Society
by Robert H. GudmestadThe arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity.In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefited slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.This technology literally put people into motion, and travelers developed an array of unique cultural practices, from gambling to boat races. Gudmestad also asserts that the intersection of these riverboats and the environment reveals much about sectional identity in antebellum America. As federal funds backed railroad construction instead of efforts to clear waterways for steamboats, southerners looked to coordinate their own economic development, free of national interests.Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.
Stedman Place: Buy or Rent?
by David S. Scharfstein Andre F. PeroldA couple has to decide whether to continue renting a townhouse or buy the one next door. Allows for a discussion of net present value, internal rate of return, and the costs and benefits of homeownership.
Steel City: Hamilton and Region
by J. J. Drake L. G. Reeds M. J. DearFrom its establishment nearly 200 years ago as a village at the centre of an agricultural district, Hamilton has grown into one of Canada's biggest industrial centres, at the heart of a highly developed regional municipality. The story of its changing landscapes, both physical and human, is presented in the nineteen essays that make up this volume, all by geographers associated with Hamilton's McMaster University. Change is the essence of the story. Each contributor focuses on one aspect of the past, present, or future landscapes of Hamilton, and places it within the context of change in the region. The first series of essays explores physical landscapes – geology and relief, climate, soils, vegetation, and hydrology – and shows how human activity has moulded them. The second group charts the evolution of human landscapes in the region, paying special attention to contemporary Hamilton with its rich and diverse combination of people and cultures, and also to the political intrigue that surrounded the introduction of regional government to the area. Finally a third series focuses on the functioning of the Hamilton region. Within a highly complex system, the city and region balance a broad range of often contradictory trends and activities. The contributors examine the difficulties facing agriculture in a rapidly urbanizing region; the importance of Hamilton in caring for welfare-dependent populations; the future of steel in Steel City; the challenges posed by energy requirements in the region; and the hard choices facing policy-makers. The last two essays discuss the role played by McMaster University in the life of the region, and the landscape of Hamilton today: a remarkable complex of historical interest, great natural beauty, and modern city life.
Steel Production: Processes, Products, and Residuals (RFF Policy and Governance Set)
by Clifford S. Russell William J. VaughnThe authors address the problems of determining the implications of different environmental standards and public policies by investigating their effect on industrial costs and resource use within linear-programming framework. Originally published in 1976
Steel Street
by William J. Poorvu Arthur I Segel Ben Creo Justin GinsburghThe case involves repositioning an old 6-story warehouse in Pittsburgh and many of the issues of rehabilitation and selecting and managing the development team especially in a world of capital market uncertainty. The case also demonstrates the alignment of interests of the players, the construction process and the various methods available to contract with the general contractor including lump sum, cost-plus and guaranteed maximum price.
Steel Toes and Stilettos: A True Story of Women Manufacturing Leaders and Lean Transformation Success
by Shannon Karels Kathy MillerThis book is about meaningful culture change, individual and organizational learning, leadership humanity and resilience, and organizational excellence. It documents a long, challenging, but totally inspirational account of multiple plants’ transformations, but also provides a unique window into a boss-subordinate relationship that is textured, real, and uplifting. Women in leadership (way beyond manufacturing) will be interested in this account of gifted, yet humble leadership. I am challenged to convey how much I loved the content and style of this book. Jane Dutton, Professor of Business Administration and Psychology at the University of Michigan Cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizations Kathy and Shannon are systems-based thinkers which makes their Lean Enterprise implementation successful and sustainable. Understanding their journey and challenges makes this book a must read for both new lean thinkers and seasoned lean professionals. Rick Harris, President of Harris Lean Systems, Inc. The authors joined forces professionally when Kathy hired Shannon to be a member of her leadership team. This book describes the transformation they led to convert operations from traditional manufacturing to a lean enterprise. Kathy (executive leader responsible for profitability) and Shannon (transformation leader) share the finer points of a comprehensive change process, the challenges and triumphs, and the real emotion involved during their quest for success. Each describes the professional journey from their unique perspective and the highlights of an endearing friendship that was formed along the way. This story will inspire female leaders in any organization, showcasing an example of high-performing women thriving in an intense and fast-paced world. Kathy and Shannon are role models for those juggling intense, fulfilling careers, alongside life’s complexities such as dual-career marriages and raising children. Their story provides a powerful case study of women supporting each other in the workplace to drive positive culture and significantly improved business results by leading with authenticity and inclusivity.
Steel: The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron & Steel Industry, 1852–1902
by Dale Richard PerelmanA lively portrait of the &“Steel City&” and its millionaires and workers during the late nineteenth century. Steel portrays the growth of iron and steel in smoke-filled Pittsburgh during America&’s industrial age, and what it meant for the people who lived there. This history shares the fast-paced saga of millionaire barons Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin Jones, Henry Clay Frick, Henry Phipps, and Charles Schwab, who often plotted and schemed against each other—as well as the story of the underpaid and undervalued immigrant workforce whose desire to unionize united their bosses against them. Here, author Dale Richard Perelman recounts this dramatic struggle and the bloody battles it spawned throughout Western Pennsylvania&’s plants, mines, and railroad yards.
Steeling the Mind
by Todd C. Helmus Russell W. GlennCombat stress casualties are not necessarily higher in city operations than operations on other types of terrain. Commanders and NCOs need to have the skills to treat and prevent stress casualties and understand their implications for urban operations. The authors review the known precipitants of combat stress reaction, its battlefield treatment, and the preventive steps commanders can take to limit its extent and severity.
Steering Clear
by Peter G. Peterson"Despite clear danger and explicit warnings, the United States of America--distracted by short-term challenges and its own political dysfunction--is steaming toward its own collision, one with long-term debt."Philanthropist, businessman, and former secretary of commerce Peter G. Peterson argues that we can no longer ignore the long-term debt challenges facing our country, because our economic future depends on it. The gross federal debt now exceeds $17 trillion and it is expected to rise rapidly in the decades to come. If the growing gap between projected spending and revenues continues to widen, our federal debt is projected to soar to the highest levels in our nation's history--more than four times its average over the past forty years. This growing debt and the associated interest costs divert resources away from important public and private investments that are critical to our global competitiveness, threatening our future economy.Peterson has made it his life's work to bring awareness to America's key economic and fiscal challenges. He makes clear that if we continue to ignore America's long-term debt, we will diminish economic opportunities for future generations, weaken our ability to protect the most vulnerable, and undermine the competitive strength of our businesses globally.The drama-filled, economically damaging budget battles of the last few years have focused almost entirely on the short term--putting aside the more difficult, but much more important, long-term issues. Peterson offers nonpartisan analysis of our economic challenges and a robust set of options for solving our long-term debt problems. He looks at the impact of aging baby boomers, growing healthcare costs, outdated military spending, a flawed tax code, and our divided political system. And he offers hopeful, durable, and achievable solutions for improving our fiscal outlook through a mix of progrowth reform options that would reduce government spending and increase revenue, and could be phased in gradually in the years to come.There's still time to restore the United States as a land of opportunity. Peterson's diagnosis and recommendations can help us confront our fiscal reality, address our long-term debt, and steer the country safely toward a more secure and dynamic economic future.
Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises
by David Moss Cole BoltonIn early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In fact, figures for the month of March revealed that inflation had reached an annualized rate of 3.5%, Europe's highest level since 1992. On top of these broad economic problems, the European financial sector-indeed, the financial sector worldwide-was in turmoil. By April 2008, global financial institutions had written down the value of their mortgage-related investments and other assets by at least $230 billion, and businesses around the world were complaining that it was ever more difficult to secure credit. In America, meanwhile, consumer confidence was falling, consumer spending had slowed to a near halt, and inflation had crept above 4%. In reaction to these dismal economic conditions, the Federal Reserve had steadily cut interest rates over a seven-month period, most recently lowering its key rate to 2.25% on March18. In sharp contrast to the Fed, the European Central Bank (ECB) had long held its key rate at 4%, where it stood when the ECB's Governing Council reconvened on April 10, 2008. Given both the market turmoil and the evident inflationary pressure, members of the ECB's Governing Council would have to weigh the available data extremely carefully as they decided whether to raise, lower, or maintain their benchmark interest rate. The significance of this decision could hardly be overstated, since it had the potential to send a strong signal about the nature of European monetary policy and the priorities of the ECB going forward.
Steht unsere Versorgung auf dem Spiel?: Über terroristische Bedrohungen entlang der Supply Chain (essentials)
by Wolfgang LehmacherDieses essential gibt Hinweise auf das aktuelle Risikopotenzial von Menschen, Immobilien, Best#65533;nden und Transportg#65533;tern, Verkehrs- und Transportmitteln entlang der Lieferkette. Wolfgang Lehmacher diskutiert vor dem Hintergrund der Anschl#65533;ge in Br#65533;ssel und Paris anhand vieler praktischer Beispiele m#65533;gliche Risiko-Szenarien terroristischer Bedrohungen sowie Sicherheitsstrategien entlang der Supply Chain. In Zeiten, in denen die Terrorgefahr auch in Europa wieder zum Alltag geh#65533;rt, m#65533;ssen bestehende Sicherheitskonzepte gepr#65533;ft und potenzielle Schwachstellen behoben werden. Der Autor zeigt zudem auf, dass staatliche Sicherheitsma#65533;nahmen durchaus auch Nebenwirkungen haben k#65533;nnen und betont die Notwendigkeit der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.
Steigerung der Anlagenproduktivität durch OEE-Management: Definitionen, Vorgehen und Methoden (essentials)
by Markus Focke Jörn SteinbeckIn diesem essential wird anhand von praktischen Beispielen erläutert, wie die Anlagenproduktivität von produzierenden Unternehmen durch Einführung des OEE-Managements gesteigert werden kann. Es bietet eine leicht verständliche und in allen Branchen anwendbare Definition der Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Die Autoren geben umsetzungsorientierte Vorgehensvorschläge für die Einführung des OEE-Managements in Unternehmen sowie konkrete Hinweise zur Erfassung der Kennzahl, den Verlustursachen der Anlagenproduktivität sowie den Möglichkeiten zur Senkung der Verluste. Dabei gehen sie auch auf die steigende Wichtigkeit automatisierter Anlagendatenerfassung und digitaler Auswertung ein. Das Buch schließt mit einem Vorgehen zur finanziellen Bewertung erzielter OEE-Steigerungen.
Steigerung der Anlagenproduktivität durch OEE-Management: Definitionen, Vorgehen und Methoden – von manuell bis Industrie 4.0 (essentials)
by Markus Focke Jörn SteinbeckIn diesem essential wird anhand von praktischen Beispielen erläutert, wie die Anlagenproduktivität von produzierenden Unternehmen durch Einführung des OEE-Managements gesteigert werden kann. Markus Focke und Jörn Steinbeck bieten eine leicht verständliche und in allen Branchen anwendbare Definition der Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Die Autoren geben umsetzungsorientierte Vorgehensvorschläge für die Einführung des OEE-Managements in Unternehmen. Der Leser erhält konkrete Hinweise zur Erfassung der Kennzahl sowie den Verlustursachen der Anlagenproduktivität, dabei wird sowohl auf die manuelle Erfassung als auch die Anwendung von Industrie 4.0-Technologie eingegangen. Abschließend erfolgt ein Vorgehen zur finanziellen Bewertung der erzielten OEE-Steigerungen.
Steigerung der Intelligenz mechatronischer Systeme (Intelligente Technische Systeme – Lösungen aus dem Spitzencluster it’s OWL)
by Ansgar Trächtler Jürgen GausemeierDas Buch beschreibt die Ergebnisse des Querschnittsprojekts „Selbstoptimierung“ des vom BMBF geförderten Spitzencluster-Projekts „Intelligente Technische Systeme OstWestfalenLippe“ (kurz: it’s OWL).Die Entwicklung der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik eröffnet neue Perspektiven für intelligente technische Systeme, die hohen Kundennutzen stiften. Diese Systeme sind in der Lage, sich ihrer Umgebung und den Wünschen ihrer Anwender im Betrieb anzupassen. Für den Innovationssprung von der Mechatronik hin zu selbstoptimierenden Systemen wird Expertise aus den Gebieten Maschinelles Lernen, mathematische Optimierungsverfahren, Regelungstechnik und Condition Monitoring benötigt.Zielsetzung des Cluster-Querschnittsprojekts Selbstoptimierung war ein Instrumentarium zur Planung und Entwicklung von selbstoptimierenden Produkten und Produktionssystemen. Dieses soll die Entwickler in den Unternehmen bei der Realisierung von Ansätzen der Selbstoptimierung praxisgerecht unterstützen. Das vorliegende Buch stellt das erarbeitete Instrumentarium mit den entsprechenden Schwerpunkten im Detail vor. Dabei werden die wesentlichen Grundlagen der jeweiligen Fachgebiete gezeigt und die methodische Umsetzung anhand von Praxisbeispielen aus dem Spitzencluster erläutert.
Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball
by Bill MaddenNo owner has changed the landscape of sports more than New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball
by Bill Madden“Having covered the Yankees for thirty years, and with access to previously unavailable material, Madden provides a definitive and captivating biography.” —Kirkus Reviews2010 Winner of the Baseball Hall of Fame J. G. Taylor Spink AwardIf you love the New York Yankees, arguably the most storied franchise in all of sports—or even if you’re just a fan of baseball history, or big business bios—this biography of the larger-than-life team owner for the past four decades is a must for your bookshelf. For more than thirty years Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News, and he brings all his insights and inside connections to Steinbrenner: the definitive biography of one of New York’s most intriguing and long-standing sports figures, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.“Riveting . . . Reading the book feels like the literary equivalent of passing a traffic accident; it is all but impossible to turn away.” —The New York Times“Definitive, indispensable . . . A vivid and entertaining portrait.” —Sports Illustrated“[Madden] offers an insider’s look at how Steinbrenner has run his team, even finding unexpected—certainly underpublicized—humanity in his subject.” —Booklist