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|  | The Development Factory by Gary P. Pisano
When the pharmaceuticals giant Merck reports promising results for a potential blockbuster drug, the story makes the evening news. Now, at a time when new product development has become critical to success in so many industries, The Development Factory proves that process innovation - not just product innovation - can be the key to competitive edge. In this multiyear study of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, Gary Pisano explores the dynamics of superior product and process development in a highly competitive industry that lives and dies by its R&D and depends heavily on rapid time to market. His work reveals that behind the success of many new product introductions lies the development of novel process technologies that provide lower costs, higher quality, and increased flexibility. Pisano challenges the widely held product-process life cycle view of competition, which suggests that industries tend to emphasize either product innovation or process innovation. He also questions the notion that there is a conflict between pursuit of product innovation and pursuit of lower costs, arguing that product development and process development capabilities are complementary. Extending the lessons to a wide variety of manufacturing industries, The Development Factory will guide companies toward unlocking the potential of process development and understanding the patterns of organizational behavior and managerial actions that help create and implement new capabilities over time. AUTHOR: Gary P. Pisano
PUBLISHER: Harvard Business School Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business 
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 | 101 Ways to Promote Yourself by Raleigh Pinskey
Ralph Pinskey offers readers a crash course on how to get the attention they need. This book reveals the insider secrets learned from years of experience and how these low-cost, high powered techniques can carry them to the top of their market and beyond. AUTHOR: Raleigh Pinskey
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Valuing A Business by Robert F. Reilly, Robert P. Schweihs, Pratt
First published in 1981, Valuing a Business is today the world's most widely followed valuation reference. As more professional associations than ever offer valuation education and credentials, this Fourth Eidtion - with 10 new chapters that significantly expand the book's scope - promises to appeal to an even broader market. This easy-to-use reference features increased emphasis on vlauation court cases and decisions; new information on arbitration and mediation; updated data on stock option valuation; and much more. AUTHOR: Robert F. Reilly, Robert P. Schweihs, Pratt
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Disclosing New Worlds by Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores, Hubert L. Dreyfus
Disclosing New Worlds calls for a recovery of a way of being that has always characterized human life at its best. The book argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture -- that is, when they are making history. History-making, in this account, refers not to wars and transfers of political power, but to changes in the way we understand and deal with ourselves. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the creation of solidarity as the three major arenas in which people make history, and they focus on three prime methods of history-making -- reconfiguration, cross-appropriation, and articulation. AUTHOR: Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores, Hubert L. Dreyfus
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | M & A Integration by David M. Schweiger
Global M & A activity continues at a blistering pace. However, a recent study of Fortune 500 executives found that postmerger integration issues--such as culture clashes, style, ego, and change management--are the most common pitfalls that can derail otherwise successful mergers or acquisitions. M & A Integration meets that trend head-on, providing a practical framework for integrating acquisitions while helping managers direct each step in the volatile postmerger integration process. AUTHOR: David M. Schweiger
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Unofficial Guide to Online Investing by William Arnold, Robb
Description not available.A new guide to this hot new investment practice assists readers in the basics of online trading, covering hardware and software issues, web sites, choosing and online broker, monitoring investments, evaluating investment clubs and bulletin boards, and much more. Original. AUTHOR: William Arnold, Robb
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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