Product Description: The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It's provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market, and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that...read more

Product Description: In the tradition of Kabul Beauty School and Start Something That Matters comes an inspiring story of social entrepreneurship from the co-founder of Kiva, the first online microlending platform for the working poor. Featuring lessons learned from successful businesses in the world’s poorest countries, Jessica Jackley’s Clay Water Brick will motivate readers to more deeply appreciate the incredible entrepreneurial potential that exists in every human being on this planet—especially themselves...read more

Offers information on vitamin and mineral intake, physical symptoms, and psychological concerns for preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum, and includes recipes and sample menus

Product Description: The first book to look at innovation/entrepreneurship from an international perspective, Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Global Perspective provides a step-by-step process for managing innovation and entrepreneurship in an organization in both turbulent and stable economic times...read more

Product Description: How do you turn a good idea into a great business?Lots of us have ideas we think would make great businesses. Most of us never do anything with those ideas. Maybe it's because we're really happy with our jobs, maybe it's because we're not confident that our idea would really work...read more

Product Description: The early years of the 21st Century could well be called the 'decade(s) of the entrepreneur'. Entrepreneurship is an often-featured topic in magazine and newspaper articles, popular television shows and major films. Universities have added courses, departments, and even schools of entrepreneurship to their catalogs, and governments at all levels are competing to develop programs to encourage entrepreneurship...read more

Product Description: This book presents and discusses information in the study of business and finance. Topics discussed include partner selection, market orientation and performances of international joint ventures in Taiwan; project management; Asian stock markets; consolidation and determinants of bank efficiency; the changing face of international HRM and business; empire-building; the link between microfinance and well-being and the Microcluster Value Chain Analysis...read more

Product Description: The indispensible handbook every manager needs by their side. This complex subject is broken down into clear and accessible sections covering everything from managing your own job and career to managing people and information, Brilliant Checklists for Managers will ensure you never leave anything to chance again! This book tells you everything you need to know, everything you need to think about, and everything you need to do to be a successful manager – before you even know it yourself...read more

Product Description: Is an entrepreneur's previous experience relevant in predicting the success or otherwise of a new business venture? Common sense would suggest that this undoubtedly be the case. Current research suggests otherwise, however. As elucidated in this volume, a business founder's prior experience can have either a positive or a negative impact on the performance of any given start-up venture...read more

Product Description: This unique textbook on entrepreneurship, aimed primarily at undergraduate students, provides the reader with a broad overview of the entrepreneurship phenomenon. It focuses on the emergence, evaluation and organizing of entrepreneurial opportunities in various organizational contexts...read more

Integrating the latest health and medical information, this updated handbook for pregnant women offers information on vitamin and mineral intake, physical symptoms, and psychological concerns for preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum, and includes a variety of healthful recipes and sample menus. Original. (view table of contents)