A Short Guide to Operational Risk
Summary This comprehensive yet concise guide provides an accessible introduction to operational risk management for professionals across all industries and sectors. The renowned author defines operational risk and its crucial role within holistic enterprise-wide risk governance frameworks. In a highly practical manner, the book guides readers through the core processes of identifying, [...]
Accelerators in Silicon Valley
Building Successful Startups
Summary This comprehensive work provides a detailed analysis of the organizational models, operational approaches, and critical roles of leading technology accelerators within Silicon Valley. Drawing on extensive primary interviews conducted with founders and leaders from over 20 top accelerators, the author examines their structures, programming, funding mechanisms, mentorship philosophies, and track records [...]
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How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly
Summary This innovative book from the MIT Press provides a critical cultural analysis of how Amazon became the dominant global platform and ultimate service brand. Through an examination of Amazon’s diverse consumer offerings and relationship marketing techniques, the author investigates how it established pervasive influence across many aspects of daily life. Special [...]
Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python
Summary This beginner-friendly book teaches both cryptography concepts and Python programming through building cipher encoding and hacking programs. Readers learn programming logic and algorithms while gaining an appreciation for ciphering history and its modern uses. The hands-on approach makes technical topics engaging and builds confidence, even for complete beginners. Detailed Overview The [...]
Innovation matters
Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy
This openly accessible work proposes refocusing competition policy priorities towards innovation promotion over price effects, particularly for high-technology industries. Through analyses of frameworks such as Arrow's replacement effect and views of iterative technological advancement, the book evaluates how network impacts and cumulative innovation influence these sectors.
Principles of Knowledge Auditing
Foundations for Knowledge Management Implementation
Summary “Principles of Knowledge Auditing” provides clear guidance for understanding and successfully implementing knowledge audits within organizations. Knowledge audits assess knowledge assets and needs to improve organizations, but currently lack standards. The author addresses this by outlining principles for conceptualizing, planning, executing and reporting on knowledge audits based on in-depth case studies. [...]
Selling the American people
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
Summary This comprehensive open access book provides a deep-time perspective on the origins and evolution of data-driven digital advertising. Through a detailed historical analysis tracing back to the 1950s emergence of computerization, it examines how technical specialists in advertising and media progressively blended computation, quantitative methodologies, and calculative logics into a powerful [...]