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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
David Packard Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060845791 Release Date: 2006-01-03 |
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In a dry fashion, Packard tells the true story of the mighty Hewlett-Packard Company: Two college buddies begin a partnership by producing an audio oscillator in a Palo Alto garage in 1938 and wind up 60 years later with a $25-billion-dollar electronics company on their hands. He wraps the book up tidily with a timeline of the company's development milestones. Packard chalks up success to many things, including government contracts during wartime, but mostly to the company's management outlook ("The HP Way"), which champions openness, honesty, and flexibility throughout the organization. Entrepreneurs and technologists alike will be interested in this journey of an American giant. Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified.Book Description
Much more personal than standard corporate histories, David Packard's The HP Way provides insights into managing and motivating people and inspiration for would–be entrepreneurs. This bestselling classic joins the Collins Business Essentials line–up with a new Note from Steve Jobs.
From a one–car–garage company to a multibillion–dollar industry, the rise of Hewlett–Packard is an extraordinary tale of vision, innovation and hard work. Conceived in 1939, Hewlett–Packard earned success not only as a result of its engineering know–how and cutting–edge product ideas, but also because of the unique management style it developed – a way of doing things called 'the HP way'.
Decades before today's creative management trends, Hewlett–Packard invented such strategies as 'walk–around management', 'flextime', and 'quality cycles'. Always sensitive to the needs of its customers and responsive to employee input, Hewlett–Packard earned massive steady growth that far outshone its competitors' vacillating fortunes, even with radically different products from those responsible for its initial boom.
For entrepreneurs and managers alike, the wisdom found in these pages is invaluable if they want their businesses to gain steady growth and consistent success.
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A must read classic because of the importance of HP to world business.......2007-10-09
A decent book but could have told more about the company.......2006-12-21
Nice guys sometimes win...........2006-10-17
What Happened?.......2006-10-05
Hewlett Packard's Rise to the Top.......2006-05-26
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The Hp Way How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
Manufacturer: Recorded Books, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 0788703420 |
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In 1939, two college friends named Bill Hewlett and David Packard decided to start their own company out of a one car garage in Palo Alto, California. Now, Bill Hewlett and David Packard's wildly successful approach to business is immoralized in The HP Way. Listen to this book and learn how they used the openness to change, the virtue of sustained hard work, and working environments that foster intense individual creativity to create one of America's largest companies. Managers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders will find The HP Way a fascinating - and enlighting - addition to the shelves of business literature.
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THE HP WAY: HOW BILL HEWLETT AND I BUILT OUR COMPANY (ED. BY DAVID KIRBY WITH KAREN LEWIS).
David. Packard Manufacturer: Publisher Unknown ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WAW3IA |
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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
David Packard Manufacturer: HarperBusiness ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NV899A |
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HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
David Packard Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OF3QNE |
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THE HP WAY: HOW BILL HEWLETT AND I BUILT OUR COMPANY (ED. BY DAVID KIRBY WITH KAREN LEWIS).
David. Packard Manufacturer: NY, HarperCollins, 1995. 212 pp., illus. Fine copy of first edition in dust jacket. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000UDUVWY |
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Knowledge Assets Professional's Guide to Valuation and Financial Management
Mark K. Clare , and Arthur W. Detore Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0156070006 |
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This book is a practical guide to an investment-oriented approach to the valuation of knowledge management (KM) strategies and projects. It is not a how-to book on the accounting, appraisal-oriented, or intellectual capital approaches to the valuation of intangible assets. Instead, it focuses on how best to leverage knowledge assets to create real economic value. Most managers are interested in results. This book shows how to demonstrate those results by driving knowledge assets more directly and visibly into the financial statements of the organization.The purpose of the book is to provide a rigorous financial framework for analyzing the value that can be created and protected by investing in the knowledge assets of an organization. The valuation methodology presented in this book provides the tools you need to get the most from your firm's investment in knowledge management. Specifically, we will combine selected tools from value-based management and financial economics with proven and unique models from knowledge management to create a method for valuing knowledge strategies, KM programs, and specific KM projects.
The book is written in four parts. Part I focuses on essential background material in knowledge management, finance, economics, and organizational theory. Part II uses the background material to develop a formal treatment of knowledge management and the KM valuation methodology. In Part III, the KM methodology is applied to over a dozen real-world valuation challenges in knowledge products, intellectual property, and knowledge work. Even though we use our own firm as an extended case study, care is taken to show how the examples we give (e.g., knowledge products and services, corporate libraries, communities of practices, enterprise-wide knowledge sharing systems, and patents) can be generalized and applied to other types of businesses. Part IV focuses on active research challenges in knowledge management and KM valuation.
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Finally, a Very Practical Guide.......2000-08-23
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Knowledge Assets Professional's Guide to Valuation and Financial Management
Mark K.; Detore, Arthur W. Clare Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OJY9T0 |
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Virtual Justice: The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America
H. Richard Uviller Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0300064837 |
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In this fascinating book a distinguished legal authority and former prosecutor examines the flaws, contradictions, and weaknesses in the American justice system. The gripping stories he tells about the investigation and trial of criminal cases - from evidence gathering to jury selection to plea bargaining - reveal what`s really going on and demonstrate how the system often delivers virtual-rather than actual-justice.Customer Reviews:
Awful.......2007-05-29
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Virtual Justice: The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America-
H. Richard Uviller- Manufacturer: Yale University Press- ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000OM96AY |
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Virtual Justice: The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America. (book reviews): An article from: Criminal Justice Ethics
Donald A. Dripps Manufacturer: Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00097OI7U Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Criminal Justice Ethics, published by Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics on January 1, 1997. The length of the article is 7847 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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Virtual Justice: The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America. (book reviews): An article from: Yale Law Journal
Jessie K. Liu Manufacturer: Yale University, School of Law ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00097LM8S Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Yale Law Journal, published by Yale University, School of Law on April 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3206 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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Virtual Justice: The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America-
H. Richard Uviller- Manufacturer: Yale University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OS0KAI |
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Forgotten Texas Census: First Annual Report of the Agricultural Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, Insurance, Statistics, and History 1887-88 (The ... Ella Mae Moore Texas History Reprint Series)
L. L. Foster Manufacturer: Texas State Historical Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0876111835 |
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Climate Change and Its Biological Consequences
David Murray Gates Manufacturer: Sinauer Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0878932240 |
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Climate Change and Its Biological Consequences
D Gates Manufacturer: Sinauer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000IWZYQA |
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Ancient Environments and Interpretation of Geologic History
Lynn S. Fichter , and David J. Poche Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0023371455 |
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Ancient Environments and the Interpretation of Geologic History
Manufacturer: Burgess Intl Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0808706691 |
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Ancient Environments and the Interpretation of Geologic History (3rd Edition)
Lynn S. Fichter , and David J. Poche Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound Similar Items: ASIN: 013088880X |
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This manual presents the knowledge and skills used by geologists to interpret the earth's ancient environments and reconstruct geologic history. It integrates and incorporates the theoretical models and analysis of empirical data that will provide readers with a holistic understanding of these challenging tasks. It contains an introduction to rocks, tectonics, and ancient environments; a look at igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks; material on depositional environments and the evolution of sedimentary rocks; an interpretation of geologic history from facies maps; emphasis on tectonic and sequence theories; and much more. For individuals interested in historical geology.
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Ancient Environments and Interpretation of Geologic History
David J. Poche Lynn S. Fichter Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8VLUQ |
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Quantum Physics in One Dimension (The International Series of Monographs on Physics, 121)
Thierry Giamarchi Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0198525001 |
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This book presents in a pedagogical yet complete way correlated systems in one dimension. Recent progress in nanotechnology and material research have made one dimensional systems a crucial part of today's physics. After an introduction to the basic concepts of correlated systems, the book gives a step by step description of the techniques needed to treat one dimension, and discusses the resulting physics. Then specific experimental realizations of one dimensional systems such as spin chains, quantum wires, nanotubes, organic superconductors etc. are examined. Given its progressive and pedagogical approach, this book should satisfy both graduate students who want to learn the tools of the trade and become professionals in the field as well as more advanced researchers who want to know more about the physics of a specific one dimensional system without unnecessary technicalities.Customer Reviews:
Quantum Physics in One Dimension.......2005-08-02
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Quantum Many-Body Systems in One Dimension (Series on Advances in Statistical Mechanics, Vol 12)
Zachary Nyong-Chol Ha Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9810222750 |
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The main theme of the book is focused on the intimate connection between two families of exactly solvable models: the inverse-square (ISE) and the nearest-neighbor exchange (NNE) models. The NNE models are Bethe-Ansatz solvable and include the Heisenberg spin chain, t-J models and Hubbard models. The ISE Calogero-Sutherland family of models are simple to solve and contain essentially the same physics as the NNE family. The author introduces and discusses current topics, such as the Luttinger liquid concept, fractional statistics, and spin-charge separation, in the context of the explicit models.
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Elementary Quantum Mechanics in One Dimension
Robert Gilmore Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0801880157 |
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One of the key components of modern physics, quantum mechanics is used in such fields as chemistry, electrical engineering, and computer science. Central to quantum mechanics is Schrödinger's Equation, which explains the behavior of atomic particles and the energy levels of a quantum system. Robert Gilmore's innovative approach to Schrödinger's Equation offers new insight into quantum mechanics at an elementary level.
Gilmore presents compact transfer matrix methods for solving quantum problems that can easily be implemented on a personal computer. He shows how to use these methods on a large variety of potentials, both simple and periodic. He shows how to compute bound states, scattering states, and energy bands and describes the relation between bound and scattering states. Chapters on alloys, superlattices, quantum engineering, and solar cells indicate the practical application of the methods discussed.
Gilmore's concise and elegant treatment will be of interest to students and professors of introductory and intermediate quantum courses, as well as professionals working in electrical engineering and applied mathematics.
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Lectures on relativistic physics in one space and one time dimension, (Matscience report)
D. A Dubin Manufacturer: Institute of Mathematical Sciences ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007IKO8I |
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QUANTUM PHYSICS IN ONE DIMENSION
THIERRY (DPMC, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) GIAMARCHI Manufacturer: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000N5F1WE |
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Quantum Physics in One Dimension
Thierry Giamarchi Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKT732 |
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Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Stories
Poppy Z. Brite Manufacturer: Borderlands Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1880325055 |
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Five stars are not enough.......2005-07-04
Still In Print Under Another Title.......2000-03-12
This is an excellent book of short stories by the amazing Ms. Brite. THese short pieces do a great job in showing how Poppy thinks and writes, and give you a good grasp of her style. They do not hold up to the very high standards of her novels though. If you are to read her short stories and dislike them, don't give up and discredit her until you've read a novel of hers (I suggest starting with Lost Souls.)
Ms. Brite's True Form.......1999-10-19
THE BEST EVER from Poppy Z. Brite.......1999-10-08
dark beauty.......1999-08-08
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