Well-known Harvard Business School authors cover the retailing challenges faced each and every day from the perspective of senior management in this case-oriented text. 
From marketing to finance to human resources and information systems, readings and cases cover all aspects of a business to give readers a broad picture of the central dilemma faced by managers--finding a way to operate efficiently while satisfying the customer. The cases identify and provide information about critical and contemporary issues confronting retailers. Because many of the companies are well-known, students already possess prior knowledge.

Strategic Retail Management: Texts & Cases

Business & Money

Bell, David E.

Salmon, Walter J.

Management & Leadership

South-Western Pub.

Introduction to Retailing: Text and Cases

Distinguished international experts evaluate in this volume how health and nutrition in poor countries have been affected by economic adjustments made in response to external shocks. They explore the origins, magnitude, and future outlook of the adjustments required of developing countries; discuss the impact on health and nutritional services; consider what policies would be most effective in minimizing the adverse effects on food and nutrition; and examine what can be done to achieve the best possible health services in the face of economic constraints and crisis.

Health, Nutrition, and Economic Crises: Approaches to Policy in the Third World

Economics

Praeger

A Market Share Theorem

Keeney, Ralph L.

Little, John D. C

History

Legare Street Press

This book contains many classic Harvard cases and offers contemporary concept development. Its low cost makes it an ideal bundle with other Duxbury titles. It is appropriate for short courses in MBA-level statistics and as a supplement in more comprehensive courses. Emphasizing the practice of data analysis, the authors teach the methodology needed to solve a variety of commonly occurring real-world problems that managers encounter daily. Readers learn how to make inferences from limited data, forecast sales in appropriate ways, and avoid potentially disastrous errors of caustic reasoning.

Data Analysis, Regression and Forecasting

Schleifer, Arthur

South-Western College Pub.

This book is designed to help readers analyze, make economic tradeoffs and choose wisely in complex decision problems where uncertainty, for all practical purposes, can be ignored. The authors focus on decisions involving relevant costs and revenues, pricing, constraints, the time value of money, and the use of scenarios, or "what if" analysis.

Decision Making Under Certainty

Schleifer, Jr, Arthur

These authors draw on nearly 50 years of combined teaching and consulting experience to give readers a straightforward yet systematic approach for making estimates about the likelihood and consequences of future events--and then using those assessments to arrive at sound decisions.

Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Schleifer, Arthur, Jr.

Duxbury Pr

Presents a collection of cases that span the spectrum of risky situations. Along with each case, readers are introduced to risk-reducing strategies such as hedging portfolio diversification, insurance, and derivative market mechanisms such as futures and options. Trains the reader in relevant methodologies such as exposure analysis, the capital asset pricing model, dynamic programming, and the use of preference curves.

Risk Management (Managerial Decision Analysis Series)

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