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The experience economy : work is theatre & every business a stage / by Pine, B. Joseph.(CARDINAL)205935; Gilmore, James H.,1959-(CARDINAL)213570;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230) and index.
Subjects: Product management.; Diversification in industry.; Customer services.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The experience economy : competing for customer time, attention, and money / by Pine, B. Joseph,author.(CARDINAL)205935; Gilmore, James H.,1959-author.(CARDINAL)213570;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preview -- Welcome to the experience economy -- Setting the stage -- The show must go on -- Get your act together -- Experiencing less sacrifice -- Intermission: a refreshing experience -- Work is theatre -- Performing to form -- Now act your part -- The customer is the product -- Finding your role in the world -- Encore: exit, stage right."Twenty years ago, this seminal book on experience innovation by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore explored how savvy companies excel by offering compelling experiences for customers--resulting not only in customer allegiance but also in a more profitable bottom line. Translated into more than fifteen languages, The Experience Economy has become a must-read for leaders of enterprises large and small, for-profit and nonprofit, global and local. In a brand-new preface, Pine and Gilmore make an even stronger case for experiences as the critical link between a company and its potential audience. The authors take this enduring idea and broaden its application to the demands of today's increasingly distractible, time-starved world. Experiences and transformations are the basis for future business growth and prosperity, and The Experience Economy offers the script from which managers can continue to generate value in ways that are aligned with a strong customer-centric strategy"--
Subjects: Production management.; Marketing.; Diversification in industry.; Customer services.;
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Renewable energy as an airport revenue source / by Barrett, Stephen B.,author.(CARDINAL)308671; DeVita, Philip M.,author.(CARDINAL)308670; Whiteman, Adam(Adam J.),author.(CARDINAL)339396; Bannard, David Y.,author.(CARDINAL)339395; Smalinsky, Terri,author.; Korovesi, Iris,author.; Plante, Jake,author.; DeVault, Travis L.,1974-author.(CARDINAL)339394; United States.Federal Aviation Administration,sponsor.(CARDINAL)139906; Airport Cooperative Research Program,sponsor.(CARDINAL)307624; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board,issuing body.(CARDINAL)141287;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-164).Ch. 1. Introduction to renewable energy in the airport environment -- ch. 2. Applying evaluation factors to airport renewable energy -- ch. 3. Conducting financial assessments of airport renewable energy -- ch. 4. Implementing airport renewable energy projects -- ch. 5. Case summaries -- App. A. List of airport solar projects in the United States -- app. B. Biofuel feedstock propagation future opportunity -- app. C. Renewable energy funding matrix -- app. D. State renewable energy programs : example of North Carolina -- app. E. Solar feasibility assessment : Monterey Regional Airport -- app. F. Sample RFPs."TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 141: Renewable Energy as an Airport Revenue Source explores challenges airports may anticipate when considering renewable energy as a revenue source. These considerations include the airport's geography and terrain, infrastructure, real estate, energy costs, public policy, regulatory and compliance requirements, tax credits, sponsor assurances, ownership, impacts to navigation and safety, security, staffing issues, and many others. The guidebook also includes detailed financial information on the cost and performance of projects that have been implemented by airports. The guidebook also includes an appendix available online that provides sample a request for proposals." --Research sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration
Subjects: Technical reports.; Renewable energy sources; Energy industries; Diversification in industry; Airports;
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Commercial/industrial diversification, Landis, N.C. / by Rowan Municipal and County Planning Board (N.C.)(CARDINAL)192392; Landis Planning Board.; North Carolina.Department of Natural and Economic Resources.(CARDINAL)163786;
Subjects: Land use; City planning;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Corporate strategic analysis / by Bogue, Marcus C.(CARDINAL)186133; Buffa, Elwood S.(Elwood Spencer),1923-2005.(CARDINAL)140710;
Bibliography: pages 233-239.Objectives: why formulate strategy? -- Strategic analysis -- Industry and market structures -- Productivity/exchange-rate effects in global competition -- Product and activity structures -- Diversification and acquisitions -- Financial implications of strategic positions -- SCENSIM for strategic scenario analysis -- From analysis to plans and action.Examine recent corporate successes and failures. Analyze market structures comparing fragmented markets-characteristic of new industries such as computer software with consolidated markets such as mani. fold business forms.
Subjects: Strategic planning.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. by Cobb, James C.(James Charles),1947-(CARDINAL)161410; Walker, Melissa,1962-(CARDINAL)280909; University of Mississippi.Center for the Study of Southern Culture.(CARDINAL)167359;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Agricultural cooperatives -- Antebellum agricultural societies -- Apples -- Aquaculture -- Boll weevil -- Cattle -- Christmas tree farming -- Citrus -- Communal farms -- Corn -- Cotton culture -- Dairy industry -- Farm Security Administration -- Fence/stock laws -- Fertilizer -- Forage crops -- Garvey movement -- Hog production -- Home extension services -- Horses and mules -- Insects and insecticides -- Seaman A. Knapp -- Migration labor -- Peaches peanuts -- Pecans -- Clarence Hamilton Poe -- Poultry -- "Progressive Farmer" -- Rice culture -- Rural Electrification Administration -- Rural free delivery -- Sears Roebuck Catalog -- Soybeans -- Sugar industry -- Flue-cured tobacco culture -- Truck farming -- Viticulture --AGRICULTURE. Agriculture and rural life -- African American landowners -- Agribusiness -- Agricultural education -- Colonial farming -- Consumption and consumers -- Country stores -- Crops -- Diversification -- 19th century farm organizations -- Women's roles in foods and markets -- Garden patches -- Agriculture in the Southern global economy -- Good Roads Movement -- Mechanization -- Native American agriculture -- New Deal-era farmer organizations -- Part-time farming -- Plantations -- Rural life -- Rural-urgan migration -- Sharecropping and tenancy -- Soil and soil conservation -- Sustainable agriculture -- Women and agriculture --INDUSTRY. Industry and commerce -- Antebellum industry -- Black business -- Civil rights and business -- South as "Colony" -- Expositions and World's Fairs -- Globalization -- Resistance to Industrialization -- Industrialization and change -- Industrialization in Appalachia -- Industrialization in the Piedmont -- Military and economy -- New South myth -- Sunbelt South -- Airline industry -- Atlanta as commercial center -- Automobile industry -- Banking -- Bulldozer revolution -- Casino gambling -- Chain and specialty stores -- Coal mining -- Coca-cola -- "De Bow's Review" -- Delta Airlines -- James B. Duke -- Henry Flagler -- Foreign industry -- Furniture industry -- Henry W. Grady -- William Gregg -- Insurance -- Liquor industry -- Mobile home industry -- Music industry -- Naval Stores -- Nuclear industry -- Oil industry -- Radio industry -- Railroad industry -- Research Triangle Park -- Savannah River site -- Southern Growth Policies Board -- J. P. Stevens and Company -- Textile industry -- Timber industry -- Tobacco industry -- Trucking industry -- Wal-Mart -- Walton, Sam M.With separate sections on agriculture and industry, entries in this volume examine the economic culture of the South.9-12
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Agriculture; Agriculture; Industries;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 19
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Securities Industry Essentials exam with online practice / by Rice, Steven M.,author.(CARDINAL)552946;
Part 1. Getting started with the SIE exam. Introducing the SIE (Securities industry essentials) exam -- Preparing for the SIE exam -- Examining and mastering question types -- Surviving test day -- Part 2. Mastering basic security investments. Underwriting securities -- Corporate ownership : equity securities -- Debt securities : corporate and U.S. government loans -- Municipal bonds : local government securities -- Part 3. Delving deeper : security investments with a twist. Delivering diversification with packaged securities -- Working with direct participation programs and REITs -- Options : the right to buy or sell at a fixed price -- Part 4. Playing nicely : serving your customers and following the rules. Serving your customers : customer accounts -- Doing a little market research : securities analysis -- Going to market : orders and trades -- Making sure the IRS gets its share -- No fooling around : rules and regulations -- Part 5. Putting your knowledge to good use: practice exams. Bring it out: practice exam 1 -- Answers & explanations to practice exam 1 -- Nothing but net : practice exam 2 -- Answers & explanations to practice exam 2 -- Part 6: The part of tens. Ten SIE exam traps to avoid -- Ten ways to start your career off right.You're on your way to a lucrative career in the securities field, but one things stands in your way: the Securities Industry Essentials exam. "Securities Industry Essentials Exam for Dummies with Online Practice" contains everything you need to score well on the exam and launch your career with confidence, including two practice tests in the book, plus two bonus tests online. -- From publisher's description.
Subjects: Study guides.; Examinations.; Stockbrokers; Securities; Stocks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Securities Industry Essentials exam with online practice / by Rice, Steven M.,author.(CARDINAL)552946;
Part 1. Getting started with the SIE exam. Introducing the SIE (Securities industry essentials) exam -- Preparing for the SIE exam -- Examining and mastering question types -- Surviving test day -- Part 2. Mastering basic security investments. Underwriting securities -- Corporate ownership : equity securities -- Debt securities : corporate and U.S. government loans -- Municipal bonds : local government securities -- Part 3. Delving deeper : security investments with a twist. Delivering diversification with packaged securities -- Working with direct participation programs and REITs -- Options : the right to buy or sell at a fixed price -- Part 4. Playing nicely : serving your customers and following the rules. Serving your customers : customer accounts -- Doing a little market research : securities analysis -- Going to market : orders and trades -- Making sure the IRS gets its share -- No fooling around : rules and regulations -- Part 5. Putting your knowledge to good use: practice exams. Bring it out: practice exam 1 -- Answers & explanations to practice exam 1 -- Nothing but net : practice exam 2 -- Answers & explanations to practice exam 2 -- Part 6: The part of tens. Ten SIE exam traps to avoid -- Ten ways to start your career off right.You're on your way to a lucrative career in the securities field, but one things stands in your way: the Securities Industry Essentials exam. "Securities Industry Essentials Exam for Dummies with Online Practice" contains everything you need to score well on the exam and launch your career with confidence, including two practice tests in the book, plus two bonus tests online. -- From publisher's description.
Subjects: Study guides.; Examinations.; Stockbrokers; Securities; Stocks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Guinness : the 250-year quest for the perfect pint / by Yenne, Bill,1949-(CARDINAL)176251;
Includes bibliographical references.Origins -- Arthur Guinness, brewer -- A family business -- Generations and dynasties -- Bottlers and the export trade -- Building sales while building rails -- A public company -- The Guinness world travellers -- To the ends of the earth, and Manchester too -- War at home and abroad -- Trouble, triumph and the toucan -- Brewed in Britain, and America too -- World war II -- The postwar years -- Great men and great ideas -- A family business at two hundred -- Nitrogenation, the really great idea -- A lager called Harp -- Into Africa, Malaysia and beyond -- Diversification and expansion -- The watershed decade -- A widget in the pint -- A growing company and the perfect pint -- Guinness in the twenty-first century -- Inside the gate with the master brewer -- Epilogue : the world's greatest beer.
Subjects: Guinness family.; Guinness (Firm); Brewing industry;
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Buffett beyond value : why Warren Buffett looks to growth and management when investing / by Jain, Prem,1950-(CARDINAL)498637;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The thrill of investing in common stocks -- 1965-2009 : lessons from significant events in Berkshire history -- Value investing : it's like buying Christmas cards in January -- Growth investing -- Intrinsic value -- Buffett investing = value + growth -- Insurance : other people's money -- Reinsurance : more of other people's money -- Tax deferment : interest-free loans from the government -- If you don't know jewelry, know your jeweler -- Compete like Mrs. B -- Why invest in utility companies? -- High profits in honest-to-goodness manufacturing companies -- Risk and volatility : how to think profitably about them -- Why hold cash : liquidity brings opportunities -- Diversification : how many baskets should you hold? -- When to sell -- How efficient is the stock market? -- Arbitrage and hedge funds -- M = Monopoly = Money -- Who wins in highly competitive industries? -- Property, plant, and equipment : good or bad? -- Key to success : ROE and other ratios -- Accounting goodwill : is it any good? -- How much psychology should you know? -- How to learn from mistakes -- Dividends : do they make sense in the day and age? -- Should you invest in companies that repurchase their own shares? -- Corporate governance : employees, directors, and CEOs -- Large shareholders : they are your friends -- B = Baseball = Buffett."A detailed look at how Warren Buffett really invests." "In this engaging new book, author Prem Jain extracts Warren Buffett's wisdom from his writings, Berkshire Hathaway financial statements, and his letters to shareholders and partners in his partnership firms-thousands of pages written over the last fifty years. Jain uncovers the key elements of Buffett's approach that every investor should be aware of." "With Buffett Beyond Value, you'll learn that, contrary to popular belief, Warren Buffett is not a pure value investor, but a unique thinker who combines the principles of both value and growth investing strategies. You'll also discover why understanding CEOs is more important than studying financial metrics; and why you need an appropriate psychological temperament to be a successful investor." "With this book as your guide, you'll learn how to successfully invest like Warren Buffett."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Buffett, Warren, 1930-; Investments.; Investment analysis.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 6
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