Primarily analytical rather than descriptive, this text uses numerous case studies featuring real-world illustrations to reinforce the application of key concepts. Features: * Both authors have outstanding credentials, are well-known in the finance community and bring years of experience to this exciting new text. * The concept of "the use of information" provides a strong theoretical unification to analysis of financial intermediation and also links the text to contemporary research. * Numerous case studies feature real-world illustrations which reinforce the application of key concepts. * Boxes covering advanced material are incorporated throughout to accomodate students interested in more in-depth explanations. * Chapter 7 contains superior, detailed coverage of commercial bank contingent claims. * "Securitization and Loan Sales" (Chapter 8) is a topic absent in most competitive texts. * Numerous practice problems reinforce intuitive understanding of theoretical concepts. * Strong pedagogy includes: chapter glossaries, end-of-chapter review questions, real-world examples and cases.

Contemporary Financial Intermediation

Business & Money

Thakor, Anjan

Greenbaum, Stuart I.

Finance

Harcourt College Pub.

Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose--something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line. What does a lofty notion like purpose have to do with business basics like the bottom line? Robert E. Quinn and Anjan J. Thakor say pretty much everything. Leaders and managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant, so they create systems of control to combat these expectations. Workers resent these systems, and performance suffers. To address the performance issues, managers double down on the coercion, creating a vicious cycle and a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there is a better way. Quinn and Thakor show that when an authentic higher purpose permeates business strategy and decision-making, the cycle is broken. Employers and employees see themselves as working together toward an inspiring goal, not just trying to hit quarterly targets. They fully engage, become proactive contributors, and, ironically, easily exceed those quarterly targets. Based on their widely acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, Quinn and Thakor offer eight sometimes surprising steps for shifting from a transaction-oriented mind-set focused on constraints to a purpose-oriented mind-set focused on possibility. This iconoclastic book will help any organization discover its authentic purpose and weave it into the fabric of everything it does, leading to unprecedented levels of personal satisfaction, service and product innovation, and economic growth.

The Economics of Higher Purpose: Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization

Quinn, Robert E.

Business Culture

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

What does a lofty notion like purpose have to do with business basics like the bottom line? Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor say pretty much everything. Leaders and managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant, so they create systems of control to combat these expectations. Workers resent these systems, and performance suffers. To address the performance issues, managers double down on the coercion, creating a vicious cycle and a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there is a better way. Quinn and Thakor show that when an authentic higher purpose permeates business strategy and decision-making, the cycle is broken. Employers and employees see themselves as working together toward an inspiring goal, not just trying to hit quarterly targets. They fully engage, become proactive contributors, and, ironically, easily exceed those quarterly targets. Based on their widely acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, Quinn and Thakor offer eight sometimes surprising steps for shifting from a transaction-oriented mindset focused on constraints to a purpose-oriented mindset focused on possibility. This iconoclastic audiobook will help any organization discover its authentic purpose and weave it into the fabric of everything it does, leading to unprecedented levels of personal satisfaction, service and product innovation, and economic growth.

Dreamscape Media

This book, written in story narrative form, traces the development of a company from a start-up to a global enterprise. It develops the key concepts related to this evolution -- corporate strategy, raising external finance, capital budgeting, dividend policy, mergers and acquisition, globalization, marketing and human resource management. The focus is on topics in corporate strategy and corporate finance, and each topic is developed in depth with problem sets and reflection questions within the context of the organization's evolution.The Power Point slides, practice problems and solutions, as well as intervention exercises for executive education teaching is available upon request for all instructors who adopt this book as a course text. Please send your request to sales@wspc.com.

VALUE SPHERE, THE: THE CORPORATE EXECUTIVES' HANDBOOK FOR CREATING AND RETAINING SHAREHOLDER WEALTH (4TH EDITION)

Boquist, John A.

Milbourn, Todd

World Scientific Publishing Company

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