Finance Industry

With In the Black, T. Dallas Smith identifies the centrality of honest and open relationships to success within the world of high-dollar commercial real estate deals. His advice to “build relationships before you need them” is complemented by personal stories highlighting the importance of identifying one’s advocates.

If you listen to the tech crowd, they'll tell you that the insurance world is slow to adapt and needs to be disrupted. If you listen to the insurance crowd, they'll tell you that insurance goes hand in hand with technological advancement. The truth is that the insurance world is slow to react to change, especially in adopting new technologies. Barry Rabkin tells the story about how the insurance industry appears to have an awkwardly intimate relationship with technology.

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts are beginning to understand the potential dangers of these substances, there are still more than 80,000 synthetic compounds that have not been sufficiently tested to interpret their effects on human health.

Take your real estate career to the next level. Whether you’re just starting out in the business or have been at it for decades, your real estate career is about to take off. In his much-anticipated publishing debut, Do You Have a Minute?, John Giffen draws on his seasoned experience as an award-winning managing real estate broker, to help agents just like you with all the questions you’ve wanted to ask.

For more than 30 years, Hank Cardello was an executive and adviser to some of the largest food and beverage corporations in the world. For more than 30 years, he watched as corporate profits - and America's waistlines - ballooned: fattening consumers meant fattening profits. Now, in this fascinating and timely book, Cardello offers a behind-the-scenes look at the business of food.

In Crash Course, Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit's self-destruction inevitable? What were the key turning points? Why did Japanese automakers manage American workers better than the American companies themselves? Ingrassia also describes dysfunctional corporate cultures (even as GM's market share plunged, the company continued business as usual) and Detroit's perverse system of "inverse layoffs" (which allowed union members to invoke seniority to avoid work).

Inside the Chinese Wine Industry takes you on a thrilling adventure through the past, present, and future of wine in China. The wine business is one of the world’s most compelling industries, and China is considered the rising star. A hidden secret, the Chinese wine production continues to grow at an amazing pace. It is poised to soon enter the top five producing nations, supplanting long-established countries such as Australia.

Nel settore della sanità sono in gioco forti interessi economici. Per questo, imparare a riconoscere le condizioni di conflitto di interesse è la base per avviare una seria politica di prevenzione, o di identificazione precoce, delle situazioni di rischio che possono arrecare danno alla salute delle persone o compromettere la fiducia dei cittadini nelle istituzioni.

Whether you are a PharmD, PhD, MD, DPT, DC, or DNP, you likely have a credit card, student loan, and/or mortgage debt you would like to pay down. While your professors worked hard to teach you the ins and outs of clinical practice, it's unlikely they talked about personal finance as often making money is an anathema to being a good clinician and an unwelcome conversation. While debt prevention isn't as sexy as the person who overcame hundreds of thousands of student loan debt, the principles that the authors follow can help you find yourself in a much better financial place.

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality.

This book is different. Why? Because in short, bite-size chapters I will show you how the asset management industry works. Most other books on asset management focus on portfolio management. I will instead show you a 360-degree view of the industry, covering topics including: the industry's main asset managers, who the main types of clients are, and most importantly, how people within the money management industry look at themselves.

Achieving homeownership is a life goal for most but it can be scary and unbearably stressful. This book is your answer to destroying your biggest obstacles in buying a house and taking your first step towards financial freedom. Did you know that 90 percent of the world’s millionaires have created their wealth through real estate? You deserve to be set up with the same life skills that the smartest people in the world have.

Consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader praised Solved! Curing Your Medical Insurance Problems: “Who hasn’t been bewildered and outraged by lengthy, inscrutable medical bills and the tricky ways of the health insurers? …. Learn what to watch out for in this volume by authors who know the inside ways of sellers who try to take you to the cleaners.” Some say, “You get what you pay for.” If only this were true! Too often, consumers find themselves paying much more than they expected, getting much less than they bargained for. Medical care is no exception.

In Medicare Decoded: Shocking Facts to Help You Save Money and Get the Most from Medicare, elder advocate and Medicare expert Rick Solofsky guides you through the twists and turns of Medicare to get to the heart of what you need to know. Easy to understand and filled with essential information and strategies, Medicare Decoded answers your questions.

Hello, and welcome to The Art of Home Staging! Here, you will be taken on a comprehensive walkthrough of every “stage of staging” in preparation of putting your home on the market. Home staging is, in fact, an art form. Every element of the staging process works together synergistically to create the perfect aesthetic for you and your beautiful house. Staging, though, is definitely not art for art’s sake; it has a specific, important function in the home-selling process and must be done with careful consideration of many factors.

In this up to the minute account of the current financial crisis, Dan Gross goes step by step through the timeline leading up to the October 2008 bail-out and explains what exactly happened. Using information and statistics only weeks old, he offers a thorough and enlightening analysis of where we all go from here.

Are you planning to buy a property as a source of additional income? Discussing about the financial concerns will definitely give lots of questions and headache. It is very important that you are equipped with reliable ideas rather than mere fantasies. Curiosity must lead to search for answers, not further questioning without effort to solve ignorance.

Rental properties are a great way for anyone wanting to add a second stream of income or investment to put money in your pocket today, along with setting you up for a retirement later. Whether you are just looking to pad a savings account or turn it into a full-time passive income, discover how in this guide.

Discover the hidden world of high-end watch collecting and investing with this comprehensive guide. Written by an expert in the field, this book takes you on a journey through the history, technology, and market trends of the luxury watch industry. With insider tips and insider knowledge, you'll learn how to navigate the complex and exciting world of high-end watch investment.

Over the past decade financial service innovations have contributed to a completely new way in which customers can bank, threatening the status quo of traditional retail banks, and redefining a banking model which has been in place for generations. These new technological advancements have facilitated the rapid emergence of digital banking firms and FinTech companies, leading to established banks being forced to swiftly increase their pace of digital adoption.