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Your Nationwide Network of Suppliers. Fast access to thousands of companies that are doing business nationally allow one to compare products, services, suppliers and prices all Toll-Free. With AT&T's best selling National Toll-Free Directories it's as simple as looking up a category to connect with Toll-Free 800 and 888 numbers of all the right stores and suppliers. Find everything from Computers, Travel and Florists, to the latest in Internet Services, Office Supplies and Corporate Gifts.

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This is the authoritative guide to corporate directors, duties, with citations to relevant court decisions of influential federal and state courts.

All the myriad developments relating to the business judgment rule; the fiduciary duties of care, loyalty, and disclosure; contests for corporate control; shareholder derivative litigation; indemnification; and directors' and officers' liability insurance are covered.

Chapter 1 addresses the historical origins of the business judgment rule, its rationale, the rule's presumption, the fairness standard governing board conduct not protected by the rule, the elements of the rule, and efforts to codify the rule in the Model Business Corporation Act and Principles of Corporate Governance: Analysis and Recommendations.

In Chapter 2, the authors discuss the duty of care, the duty of loyalty, the duty of disclosure, the fiduciary duties of directors of financially troubled corporations, and transactions involving corporate control-current law and strategies.

In Chapter 3, the authors provide extensive coverage of all of the major contests for corporate control and proxy contest cases.

In Chapter 4, the authors present a complete review of derivative litigation.

Finally, Chapter 5 addresses the latest developments in indemnification and directors' and officers' insurance.

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Managing through Incentives: How to Develop a More Collaborative, Productive, and Profitable Organization
Richard B. McKenzie , and Dwight R. Lee
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Incentives are the most powerful tools executives can use to improve worker performance. This is particularly true in today's empowered workplace, where incentives can ensure that workers apply their initiative toward company goals. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Richard McKenzie and Dwight Lee show how to select the right incentives and how to use them for best results. Generously illustrated with examples from business, industry, government, academia, and professional sports, this superb volume offers a comprehensive overview of incentives, both in theory and in practice, providing a wealth of ideas managers can use to get employees to work harder, smarter, and more cooperatively. Much of the book is quite eye-opening. For instance, while McKenzie and Lee recognize that money is the prime motivator, they urge managers not to overlook the power of non-monetary incentives, carefully evaluating such motivators as fringe benefits, psychological incentives, education, and training. And they examine a host of other issues, including how to take advantage of executive "overpayment" to increase profits; the limits of piece-rate and other pay-for-performance schemes; finding the right balance between current pay and a more generous pension plan; the value of tough bosses; and hostile takeovers as a form of managerial incentive. How workers are rewarded is often more important than how much they are rewarded, say the authors. The job of good managers is getting the incentives right. Managing Through Incentives shows managers how to apply proven motivators to help any size firm energize the work force, increase its profits, and meet the awesome challenges of today's fiercely competitive global economy.

Managing Through Incentives: How to Develop a More Collaborative, Productive, and Profitable Organization.(Review) (book review): An article from: Human Resource Planning

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Managing Through Incentives: How to Develop a More Collaborative, Productive, and Profitable Organization.(Review) (book review): An article from: Human Resource Planning
Ellen Ernst Kossek , and Paulette Grace Bender
Manufacturer: Human Resource Planning Society
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Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Human Resource Planning, published by Human Resource Planning Society on March 1, 2000. The length of the article is 555 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Managing Through Incentives: How to Develop a More Collaborative, Productive, and Profitable Organization.(Review) (book review)
Author: Ellen Ernst Kossek
Publication: Human Resource Planning (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2000
Publisher: Human Resource Planning Society
Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Page: 45

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Cooking With the Horse & Buggy People II
Henry Mast , and Amanda Mast
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Very disappointed.......2005-01-20

I recently purchased this cookbook on a visit home, and I am very disappointed. The Amish/Mennonite women are wonderful cooks, but this book is a terrible representation of their cooking. The recipes in this book are heavily dependent on Jello, instant pudding, canned pie filling, canned soup, cake mixes, and Velveeta. Furtermore, many recipes give no pan size, cooking time, or yield.

The Amish Cook:Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family and Cooking from Quilt Country: Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens are wonderful. Buy them instead

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Good book but should be more detailed

Absolute Beginers book

a bit dated and rushed.

Excellent for it's purposes.

A good place to start.

All About Commodities: From Inside Out
Russell R. Wasendorf , and Thomas A. McCafferty
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All About Commodities is the essential primer for anyone interested in trading commodities as well as an invaluable study aid for the National Commodity Futures Exam. This book enables the reader to form a solid understanding of the markets and their participants, complete with explanations of trading rules, regulations and terms. Practice examinations enable readers to test their knowledge. Topics include: Hedging basics; Clearinghouse operations; Introduction to fundamental and technical analysis; Trading rules and regulations; Money management.

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Good book but should be more detailed.......2006-03-30

After I read the whole book, I would say it is not a bad book for a beginner. The biggest problem with this book is that it does not explain everything clearly or in details. I must it read this book several times before I can understand the concepts.

Absolute Beginers book.......2005-08-02

i have purshased this book after i have read "all about hedge funds" which is extremely advanced and useful book, "all about commodities" is very helpful and covering a lot of issues regarding the topic, however, its for beginers only if you have a single idea about commodities, futures & options, then this book is not for you

a bit dated and rushed........2002-08-08

All About Commodities was helpful to me, but it is dated, having no knowledge of internet trading, and it seems rushed considering that 2 other books that summarize ALL types of investments gave better introductions to the basic concepts of commodities trading. These other two books are: "Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures" by the staff of the New York Institute of Finance and "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Markets" by Richard Saul Wurman. These other two both introduce the term "mark to the market" (and other terms) very well, but this book only mentions it in passing on page 108. When discussing trading software, they mention, something called "neutral network" software, which obviously should be "neural network". Not at typo because they spelled it that way 3 or 4 times! Although the book has a glossary, neither of these two terms end up in it.

The book provided a lot of helpful info that is well-written and clear; I was especially appreciative of the excercises at the end of each chapter since there is a bit of math involved with commodities trading and one needs to practice at it. I was NOT appreciative of the chapter dedicated to studying for the NCFE. It was just a filler where they stuffed in a sample exam, answers, and some commentary. Something like that should be put in an appendix, but better yet, made into a separate booklet. I would recommend this book, but even more highly if the authors put out an updated second edition where they improve the introductory chapter, devote a new chapter to internet trading, and make sure the glossary covers ALL the terms.

Excellent for it's purposes........2000-06-13

I just started a job as a reporter for the New York Cotton Exchange and knew next to nothing about commodities and futures. After reading this book I felt I had a solid foot in the door and now feel ready to dive further into the complicated subject of commodity trading. Excellent choice for a thorough introduction to the subject. In fact, I just purchased McCafferty's All About Options: From the Inside Out. Recommended read.

A good place to start........2000-02-07

Warsendorf and McCafferty have written a well organized primer for the beginning commodities trader. As a rank beginner myself, I truly appreciated the glossary of terms. The nomenclature of this subject is considerable; however, the authors introduce the subject on a level that most will be able to understand.

The title is somewhat misleading as this is not "all" there is to know about commodities, but the authors do not profess to have covered the subject in its entirety. They even give a fairly extensive list of books for further reading. What they have done is to cover the major aspects of commodities trading in a comprehesive, well-written manner. Though even as a beginner, I would have liked to have had a more thorough explanation of the various trading systems (many are covered). Or, perhaps just more examples showing how the systems work in actual practice. This is about my only criticizm.

Warsendorf and McCafferty's philosophy on developing your own trading system was refreshing to me. Instead of saying that one should follow their system, they say that you should study many trading systems and then develop your own. It reminded me of Bruce Lee's "Tao of Jeet Kune Do." Much of the book is filled with this sort of sound, common sense advice.

All in all, it was a good read. I feel well grounded in the subject and ready to tackle more detailed books.

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MAKING HARD DECISIONS WITH DECISIONTOOLS« is a special version of Bob Clemen's best-selling text, MAKING HARD DECISIONS. This straight-forward book teaches the fundamental ideas of decision analysis, without an overly technical explanation of the mathematics used in management science. This new version incorporates and implements the powerful DecisionTools« by Palisade Corporation, the world's leading toolkit for risk and decision analysis. At the end of each chapter, topics are illustrated with step-by-step instructions for DecisionTools«. This new version makes the text more useful and relevant to students to business and engineering.

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Update on the Decison Tools Suite.......2004-02-22

Dr Clemen has provided an excellent text for Decision Analysis instruction. I have continuously surveyed the field and have yet to find a text that comes up to the standard that Dr Clemen set with his first publication "Making Hard Decisions"

I have used "Making Hard Decisions with Decision Tools Suite" as well as the predecessor text "Making Hard Decisions."

Richard D Hofler

Hard Decisions Basics.......2004-01-25

Used this book in a "Making Decisions under Uncertainty" graduate class at the Business School of the University of São Paulo. This book brings all the basics for decision making theory, specifically quantitative aspects of it and comes along with the Decision Tools software that has some bugs but works ok. Using the book together with the software you will get a very good basic idea of what decision making is all about. If decision theory is important for your studies buy this book!!! I also recommend Max Bazerman's "Judgment in managerial decision making" as a complement to it because this one focuses more on the subjective piece of decision making (decision biases, uncertainty, etc, etc) which is not really covered well by Clemen & Reilly. With both, you have a very good toolset for starting to study Decision Making Theory.

Book is OK. Spend extra $20 if you buy used book........2003-03-12

There is a software with the book, which has to be used for working on the problems.(The book has no use without the software).
You can register the software only once.
If you buy a used book, you have to pay another $20 to get a new serial # to use the software.
My seller mburns1000 didn't mention about this when I bought the book and I ended up spending another $20.

The authors know how to write a textbook!.......2002-10-08

This exceptional book is worth reading regardless of readers' specialization. A big surprise for those who don't like probability and statistics! This book could be a good introduction to Probability and Statistics with Bayesian approach. Although I cannot point out bad sections, here are some of the topics that could be improved.

Influence Diagram examples are much fewer than Decision Tree diagrams. I'd love to see more complex and elaborate decision model examples for practitioners implementing their own models.

In probability chapter, the authors implicitly assume that Pr(A,B) means Pr(AB) or Pr(A and B) where Pr() is "probability of" and A and B are some events. This is never mentioned in the book (as far as I recall), so it should be fixed for clarity. Also in the same chapter, chain rules and marginalization are not covered explicitly, yet a reader needs to use these general rules in exercises and in some of main contents. These rules are very important in manipulating probability and conditional probability terms.

Although there are few selected answers for exercises, most of the answers are not too hard and they are self-explanatory. So self-study readers shouldn't worry too much.

A curious person who might wonder what decision science and analysis is about, I recommend reading "Smart Choice" by John Hammond, et al. Less math and more compact exposition.

For further study in Influence Diagrams and Bayesian Belief Nets (BBN), a good introduction is "Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs" by Finn Jensen, et al. There are numerous good sites for BBN on web so search them online. For probability and statistics, "Probability and Statistics" by Degroot, et al. or Feller's Volume 1 are good, which are mentioned in the textbook.

Note: I recommend this blue cover version rather than green one as the former comes with Palisade Decision Tools Suite and is published later.

Understanding Hard Decisions.......2000-10-20

Understanding Hard Decisions

So that you know where I am coming from: I found this book while selecting a new text for my senior "Decision & Risk Analysis" course. There are numerous books on this subject, but none are perfect: either the presentation of the subject is hard, talking way above the heads of the audience, or too theoretical, or requiring a high level of math skills, or the presentation is at a too low level, or too narrow in focus, or not covering the whole spectrum of Decision Analysis. I chose this book for various advantages it has. The technical level of math that it requires is low, yet the analysis is high. It is written in a very easy way to read, follow and understand manner. It can be used both as a textbook for a course as well as a reference. It makes use of the most common generic tool for calculating and solving problems, the Excel spreadsheet for the suite of software that comes with the book (Palisades Decision tools) are integrated with it. The book offers a rather complete presentation of decision analysis concepts and techniques: there is a whole chapter on the important topic of sensitivity analysis, another chapter on simulation; and risk and forecasting are also presented.

I find the reference section in each chapter excellent, for it helps the reader tie the literature to the concepts presented. The last chapter which gives an annotated decision analysis reading list is also very helpful. All textbooks need to have these two ingredients. It is true that numerous of the references given in the book are fairly old, but the topic is not in the fast changing computer science field, and many of the original articles and books in the decision analysis area are classics and need to be looked at carefully. (Maybe there is a lesson to learn here for those who give a minus when "old" references are included in a scholarly work.)

The book is very modern for the concepts it presents (influence diagrams - a relatively newcomer in decision analysis, issues of recent interest, such as assessment, ecology and AIDS) and because it also ties with the web. The reader is directed to the web page of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS and this gives an important tool for keeping the knowledge presented in the book constantly updateable and broadening the spectrum of the interested reader. Another advantage: the book emphasizes structuring decision problems rather the more traditional approach to stress modeling of uncertainty and preference.

I like both the structure of the book (that follows the decision analysis process) and that of each chapter which consist of an introduction, presentation of concepts and techniques, a summary section, challenging case studies accompanied by questions referring to the concepts just presented, references, and an epilogue.

Best qualities of the book: clarity, good structure, interesting real or realistic fictitious case studies - extremely important to keep the student interested in a topic which other books present in a dry way and with just "toy" problems.

Yes, the book is rather expensive, but do not disregard the fact that it comes with a set of software tools which although a student version (with limited-size problems and expiring after a while) it can be time-unlocked for a cost. Most importantly the software does not represent a separate school-only tool, for there exist commercial standard and professional versions that the student will be able to use on real-life problems without the need to go through an additional learning curve, if willing to pay the larger, but non-prohibitive cost. Clear instructions for how to use the software is given in the appropriate sections of the book.

What I would add? A glossary of decision analysis terms, either for each chapter or, with preference, a global one at the end of the book.

A special touch: most chapters end with an epilogue. Each epilogue has a different flavor (a game, a comment on a debated case, etc.) The epilogue does not directly summarize the main "action" of the chapter. It is more like the conclusion section of a musical composition - it brings some additional intriguing element that will keep the interest of the student aroused. This is as artistic in nature as decision science must be!

Review by Ileana Costea, Ph.D. Professor of Engineering, California State University, Northridge Email: icostea@csun.edu

October 18, 2000 Los Angeles

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The prospect of simultaneously achieving a 'greener' environment, increased tax revenues and lower levels of unemployment has made ecological taxes an increasingly popular proposition. This volume examines the possibility of ecological tax reform in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The potential for ecological tax reform is investigated on a theoretical and an empirical level. The social costs associated with environmental taxes are analyzed and the impacts of a Swedish carbon tax are calculated by means of a static numerical model. Taxes on carbon, nitrogen and fertilizers are also examined. The authors find that the level of unemployment cannot be decreased by revenue neutral environmental taxes without any social costs and conclude that there are no easy ways to achieve full employment, a budget surplus and environmental sustainability. They conclude that further understanding of the functioning of the labor market, household decisions and the link between change in pollutant emissions and environmental damage is needed in order to make more concrete suggestions concerning ecological tax reforms. Green Taxes will be of immense use to academics and practitioners in the field of environmental economics.

Green Taxes: Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence from Scandinavia.(Review) (book review): An article from: National Tax Journal

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Green Taxes: Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence from Scandinavia.(Review) (book review): An article from: National Tax Journal
Gilbert E. Metcalf
Manufacturer: National Tax Association
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This digital document is an article from National Tax Journal, published by National Tax Association on December 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2842 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Green Taxes: Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence from Scandinavia.(Review) (book review)
Author: Gilbert E. Metcalf
Publication: National Tax Journal (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
Publisher: National Tax Association
Volume: 53 Issue: 4 Page: 959

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Macroeconomic Decision Making in the World Economy: Text and Cases
Michael G. Rukstad
Manufacturer: Dryden Press
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Macroeconomic Decision Making in the World Economy: Text and Cases
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