Investment bankers were known as the "masters of the universe" during the 1980s. In the 1990s, that title has been usurped by the major consulting firms: McKinsey, the Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, CSC Index, Gemini, Deloitte Touche and Andersen Consulting. All exercise enormous power and influence in international business and ...
The first detailed evaluation of the business of management consulting, this "BusinessWeek" and "New York Times" bestseller is certain to make the reader ask the critical question: What is the true price of advice, and who pays?
O'Shea's tale of sex, sin and corruption--which earned him the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award in 1988 when it ran as a six-part series in the Chicago Tribune--comes alive for readers in this new release. He describes Newsweek has called "the biggest financial mess in U.S. history".
The authors share their novel insights into five parenting techniques that active fathers are actually better at than active mothers. They emphasize men's special contributions to the family unit and set up the core elements of "fatherstyle" as a desirable model to be emulated by men and women alike.
The is the account of how 250 billion dollars was stolen and squandered in a scandal described by "Newsweek" as "the biggest financial mess in US history". In 1981, a Texan real estate developer, Don Dixon, bought a Savings & Loan bank in the small, hard-working town of Vernon (population 12,500) in Northern Texas. This is the story of what ...
The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic conceptions, such as the logical space of reasons, the myth of the given, and the manifest and ...
How did the U.S. allow $250 billion to be stolen, squandered and finally sucked down the drain in one of the biggest financial scandals in U.S. history? The uproariously entertaining answers lie in this prize-winning account of how the cleanest little S&L in Texas became the government's black hole once Big Bad Don Dixon rode into town.
The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic conceptions, such as the logical space of reasons, the myth of the given, and the manifest and ...
A reprint of a nineteenth-century novel recounting the conflict between a teenage boy and his father when the former commits what he thinks is a charitable act.
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