When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could juggle the demands of her position in Washington, D.C., with the responsibilities of her family life in suburban New Jersey. Her husband and two young sons encouraged her to pursue the job; she had a tremendously supp...(展开全部)

In Shadow Family, Miyuki Miyabe draws readers into the amorphous world of Internet chat rooms-a world of people from all walks of life attracted by the possibility of being whomever they want to be. Police investigating the murder of a middle-aged office worker discover e-mail correspondence on the victim's computer that indicates he had been a regular participant in an Intern...(展开全部)

After the downsizing, re-engineering and streamlining trend of the past two decades, there has been a renewed interest in growth. Mergers and acquisitions are playing a key role in the battle for market share, but share alone cannot secure a company's future. This text argues that truly sustained growth can only be achieved through a new way of thinking. The author's set out a ...(展开全部)

From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at GE and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common...(展开全部)

A managerial approach to understanding business intelligence systems. To help future managers use and understand analytics, Business Intelligence provides a solid foundation of BI that is reinforced with hands-on practice. The second edition features updated information on data mining, text and web mining, and implementation and emerging technologies.

Once a lacklustre organisation, BP became one of the world's biggest, most successful and most admired companies in the new millennium. John Browne, the company's CEO for 12 years, invented the oil 'supermajor' and led the way on issues such as climate change, human rights and transparency. In BEYOND BUSINESS, Browne brings to life what he learned about leadership in a tough in...(展开全部)