Download or read book The Guide to Making Opportunity Zones Work written by Cohnreznick Llp and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the role each stakeholder plays in the Opportunity Zone ecosystem - one that can drive new investment, development, and job creation in left-behind communities across America.The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) brought to life the first new community development tax incentive in decades. Opportunity Zones (OZs) were created to spur economic development and job creation in distressed communities by offering tax incentives to those who provide new capital investments in these areas.As a growing marketplace takes shape around OZs, there's far more unknown than known about how they can and should be implemented. The rules released by the IRS over the course of 2018 and 2019 are complex and number in the hundreds of pages."The Guide to Making Opportunity Zones Work," co-edited by leading Opportunity Zone advisors Ira Weinstein, who oversees advisory, assurance and tax for stakeholders across the OZ landscape, and Steve Glickman, who helped architect the legislation behind the initiative.Inside you'll find: - Plain-English breakdowns of the various terms, tests, and other rules specific to the world of OZs (with graphics and examples)- Individual chapters offering insights for specific OZ stakeholderso Investorso Fund managerso Real estate developerso Entrepreneurs and business ownerso OZ community leaders- Plus, insights on how these groups fit together, and how they can collaborate to best drive new economic activity in struggling communities across America.Think of this guide as a tutorial that covers the nuts and bolts of OZ investing - one that provides advice and information for each of the key participant groups needed to create and support a healthy OZ ecosystem.
Download or read book The New Localism written by Bruce Katz and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work. In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges. Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation. This new locus of power—this new localism—is emerging by necessity to solve the grand challenges characteristic of modern societies: economic competitiveness, social inclusion and opportunity; a renewed public life; the challenge of diversity; and the imperative of environmental sustainability. Where rising populism on the right and the left exploits the grievances of those left behind in the global economy, new localism has developed as a mechanism to address them head on. New localism is not a replacement for the vital roles federal governments play; it is the ideal complement to an effective federal government, and, currently, an urgently needed remedy for national dysfunction. In The New Localism, Katz and Nowak tell the stories of the cities that are on the vanguard of problem solving. Pittsburgh is catalyzing inclusive growth by inventing and deploying new industries and technologies. Indianapolis is governing its city and metropolis through a network of public, private and civic leaders. Copenhagen is using publicly owned assets like their waterfront to spur large scale redevelopment and finance infrastructure from land sales. Out of these stories emerge new norms of growth, governance, and finance and a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive society. Katz and Nowak imagine a world in which urban institutions finance the future through smart investments in innovation, infrastructure and children and urban intermediaries take solutions created in one city and adapt and tailor them to other cities with speed and precision. As Katz and Nowak show us in The New Localism, “Power now belongs to the problem solvers.”
Download or read book High Growth Handbook written by Elad Gil and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.
Download or read book Real Estate Brokerage written by Dan Hamilton and published by Thomson South-Western. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to meet the requirements of a real estate brokerage course, this new book concentrates on successful and innovative recruiting and retention strategies - the main focus of any viable real estate enterprise. As an increasing number of salespersons want more of the commission and want more services provided by the brokerage firm, Hamilton addresses the issue of survival for the real estate brokerage. Real-life case studies, group discussions and analysis applications throughout help equip users establish and manage a successful real estate brokerage.
Download or read book Trading Binary Options for Fun and Profit written by José Manuel Moreira Batista and published by MORBAT Lda. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which one of the following two offers is more appealing to you? Making a 70% return on an easy to understand, short time investment;Joining a coin-tossing game in which when you loose you pay 1 euro and when you win you gain 70 cents. Most people take the first offer and stay away from the second one. And yet … they are basically the same! Welcome to the wonderful dual world of Binary Options! You can play binary options merely for entertainment and have great fun.You might even win a lot of money, provided that you get lucky and do not stay long, just like in Vegas… Or, you can trade binary options for fun and profit. This is what this book is about: it is a practical step-by-step guide that shows you how to trade systematically, how to identify profitable trading strategies, and how to select and use a sound money management system. In short, how to have fun and make money! Trading Binary Options for Fun and Profit: A Guide for Speculators walks you through what you need to know and do to trade binary options profitably. Since this it is not a work of fiction you will not be shown the magic formula that will make you rich in the blink of an eye. Rather you will gain the fundamental knowledge and tools needed to become a successful trader. You will learn to develop your own strategies for trading binary options profitably. Actually, a lot of what is covered here is easily adaptable to other types of trading such as the stock and Forex markets and even to sports betting. That said you do not need to have any prior knowledge of binary options, trading or math. Just start reading at the beginning and proceed sequentially. All what you will need to know is clearly spelled out. If you happen to have previous knowledge of a topic you can proceed directly to the next one without losing context. However if you are in doubt it is better to read through. This book is fluff free so it won’t waste your time. Trading Binary Options for Fun and Profit: A Guide for Speculators starts by defining what a binary option is and how it works, the main types of trades available and the criteria you may want to consider when selecting a binary options broker. Then it proceeds to explain why using trading strategies makes sense and where you can find ideas to create or adapt them. Ultimately you will want to know if your trading strategy makes money so it also shows you how to calculate the magic number that tells it all: its Expectancy. Since trading strategies are built upon technical indicators a very brief overview of Technical Analysis follows and some very common indicators are presented. Next explains the MetaTrader platform and shows you how it can serve as your own cost-free research assistant and trading signal provider. It then goes over the details of developing and improving a trading strategy using Excel and Expert Advisors (no programming knowledge needed). Money Management comes next: you will get to know several systems and in the process learn how easy it is to do a Monte Carlo simulation to test them (or to test anything else). The book ends with an overview of the complete methodology and leaves you with some final trading suggestions. Finally, in the Appendixes you will find several resources that are made available for free to the buyers of this book: Six spreadsheets containing templates for the Martingale, Paroli, D’Alembert, Fibonacci, Percentage of Bankroll and Kelly money management systems; Examples of trading strategies that backtested with winning percentages above 60%; An Expert Advisor that pops-out an alert window and plays a sound on MetaTrader each time a new trade is opened.
Download or read book Rural Wealth Creation written by John L. Pender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the role of wealth in achieving sustainable rural economic development. The authors define wealth as all assets net of liabilities that can contribute to well-being, and they provide examples of many forms of capital – physical, financial, human, natural, social, and others. They propose a conceptual framework for rural wealth creation that considers how multiple forms of wealth provide opportunities for rural development, and how development strategies affect the dynamics of wealth. They also provide a new accounting framework for measuring wealth stocks and flows. These conceptual frameworks are employed in case study chapters on measuring rural wealth and on rural wealth creation strategies. Rural Wealth Creation makes numerous contributions to research on sustainable rural development. Important distinctions are drawn to help guide wealth measurement, such as the difference between the wealth located within a region and the wealth owned by residents of a region, and privately owned versus publicly owned wealth. Case study chapters illustrate these distinctions and demonstrate how different forms of wealth can be measured. Several key hypotheses are proposed about the process of rural wealth creation, and these are investigated by case study chapters assessing common rural development strategies, such as promoting rural energy industries and amenity-based development. Based on these case studies, a typology of rural wealth creation strategies is proposed and an approach to mapping the potential of such strategies in different contexts is demonstrated. This book will be relevant to students, researchers, and policy makers looking at rural community development, sustainable economic development, and wealth measurement.
Download or read book Open Services Innovation written by Henry Chesbrough and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The father of "open innovation" is back with his most significant book yet. Henry Chesbrough’s acclaimed book Open Innovation described a new paradigm for management in the 21st century. Open Services Innovation offers a new approach that demonstrates how open innovation combined with a services approach to business is an effective and powerful way to grow and compete in our increasingly services-driven economy. Chesbrough shows how companies in any industry can make the critical shift from product- to service-centric thinking, from closed to open innovation where co-creating with customers enables sustainable business models that drive continuous value creation for customers. He maps out a strategic approach and proven framework that any individual, business unit, company, or industry can put to work for renewed growth and profits. The book includes guidance and compelling examples for small and large companies, services businesses, and emerging economies, as well as a path forward for the innovation industry. "Whether you are managing a product or a service, your business needs to become more open and more inclusive in order to be more innovative. Open Services Innovation will be an invaluable guide to intrepid managers who commit to making that journey." —GARY HAMEL, visiting professor, London Business School; director, Management Lab; and author, The Future of Management "I tore out page after page to share with my leaders. Chesbrough has pioneered an entire rethink of business innovation that’s rich in concept, deeply explained, with tools ready to use in every industry." —SCOTT COOK, founder and chairman of the executive committee, Intuit "Focusing on core competence often tempts managers to keep continuing what succeeded in the past. A far more important question is what capabilities are critical in the future, and Chesbrough shows how to ask and answer these issues." —CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN, Robert & Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and author, The Innovator's Dilemma "To thrive, businesses will need to master the lessons of open service innovation. Here is their one-stop guidebook with important lessons clearly and compellingly presented." —JAMES C. SPOHRER, director, IBM University Programs World-Wide "Open Innovation pioneer Henry Chesbrough breaks new ground with Open Services Innovation, a persuasive argument for the power of co-creation in the world of services." —TOM KELLEY, general manager, IDEO, and author, The Ten Faces of Innovation, The Art of Innovation "With his trademark style of beautifully explained examples, Henry Chesbrough shows how open service innovation and new business models can help you escape this product commodity trap and bring you to the next level of competition." —ALEX OSTERWALDER, author, Business Model Generation "Open Services Innovation shows how a business can redefine itself as a service organisation and tap into faster growth through shared innovation." —SIR TERRY LEAHY, chief executive, Tesco "Chesbrough shows how innovating openly with a services mindset can make you a market leader." —CHARLENE LI, author, Open Leadership, and founder, Altimeter Group
Download or read book Keys to Investing in Common Stocks written by Barbara Apostolou and published by Barrons Educational Series. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written mainly for average consumers outside the business world, Barron's Business Keys take the mystery out of business practices and terminology and make doing business understandable to everyone. Updated to reflect current market trends, this book defines common stocks and mutual funds, describes stock markets, and explains market-related terms and practices, including price-earnings ratios, dividend reinvestment plans, financial leverage, market timing, and much more.
Download or read book Business and Society written by Anne T. Lawrence and published by McGraw-Hill College. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and Society: Stakeholder Relations, Ethics and Public Policy by Lawrence/Weber/Post, has continued through several successive author teams to be the market-leader in its field. For over thirty years, Business and Society has been updated and reinvented in response to society’s relationship to business. Business and Society, 11e highlights why government regulation is sometimes required as well as new models of business-community collaboration. Business and Society, 11e is a book with a point of view. Lawrence, Weber and Post believe that businesses have social (as well as economic) responsibilities to society; that business and government both have important roles to play in the modern economy; and that ethics and integrity are essential to personal fulfillment and to business success. The book is designed to be easily modularized; an instructor who wishes to focus on a particular portion of the material may select individual chapters or cases to be packaged in a Primis custom product.
Download or read book Careers and Jobs in Travel and Tourism written by Verité Reily Collins and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise and Reviews `The Tourism Society is delighted to be associated with this publication.` - Adrian Clark, Director, The Tourism Society Travel and tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the United Kingdom. Budget airlines, the Internet and the growth of specialist holidays have all helped create new opportunities for anyone wanting to work in the travel and tourism industry. Whether it's to work as a holiday rep, a specialist tour guide or with an online travel company, Careers and Jobs in Travel and Tourism provides practical advice on how to gain entry, what qualifications are required and the numerous career possibilities on offer. Illustrated by real life case studies, this book provides: job descriptions and entry routes; training and qualifications; examples of recruitment tests regularly used by the industry; where to look for further information. Complete with listings of useful addresses and helpful Web sites, this book is an ideal starting point for anyone considering a career in travel and tourism.
Download or read book Guide to Financial Markets written by Marc Levinson and published by The Economist. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and updated 7th edition of this highly regarded book brings the reader right up to speed with the latest financial market developments, and provides a clear and incisive guide to a complex world that even those who work in it often find hard to understand. In chapters on the markets that deal with money, foreign exchange, equities, bonds, commodities, financial futures, options and other derivatives, the book examines why these markets exist, how they work, and who trades in them, and gives a run-down of the factors that affect prices and rates. Business history is littered with disasters that occurred because people involved their firms with financial instruments they didn't properly understand. If they had had this book they might have avoided their mistakes. For anyone wishing to understand financial markets, there is no better guide.
Download or read book Fake Heritage written by John Darlington and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first survey of the many redesigned and imitation historical landmarks and objects that dot the globe "John Darlington shows . . . it is not just written history that is malleable; it is also history on the ground, heritage in brick and stone, wood and metal."--Simon Jenkins, Times Literary Supplement What happens when the past--or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage--is fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the world to Saddam Hussein's reconstructions of ancient cities, examples of forged heritage are widespread. Some are easy to dismiss as blatant frauds (the Piltdown Man), while others adhere to honest copying or respectful homage (the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee). This compelling book examines copies of historic buildings, faux archaeological sites, and other false artifacts, using them to explore the ethics and consequences of reconstructing the past; it also tackles the issues involved with faithful, "above-board" re-creations of ancient landmarks. John Darlington probes questions of historical authenticity, seeking the lessons that lurk when history is twisted to tell an untrue story. Amplified by stunning images, the narrative underscores how the issue of duplicating heritage is both intriguing and incredibly complex, especially in the twenty-first century--as communication and technology flourish, so too do our opportunities to be deceived.
Download or read book The Kitchen Table Millionaire written by Patrick Cochrane and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great introductory book for aspiring entrepreneurs, this user-friendly and down-to-earth guide offers preparation tips for starting and running a business and gives suggestions on the best types of home-based businesses to operate.
Download or read book Gravel Roads written by Ken Skorseth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.
Download or read book Creating Shared Value to get Social License to Operate in the Extractive Industry written by Cesar Saenz and published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Shared Value to get Social License to Operate in the Extractive Industry presents techniques and models that will enable you to actually formulate, implement, and evaluate strategies to shared value to earn SLO.
Download or read book Zone to Win written by Geoffrey A. Moore and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 25 years, Geoffrey Moore has established himself as one of the most influential high-tech advisors in the world—once prompting Conan O’Brien to ask “Who is Geoffrey Moore and why is he more famous than me?” Following up on the ferociously innovative ESCAPE VELOCITY, which served as the basis for Moore’s consulting work to such companies as Salesforce, Microsoft, and Intel, ZONE TO WIN serves as the companion playbook for his landmark guide, offering a practical manual to address the challenge large enterprises face when they seek to add a new line of business to their established portfolio. Focused on spurring next-generation growth, guiding mergers and acquisitions, and embracing disruption and innovation, ZONE TO WIN is a high-powered tool for driving your company above and beyond its limitations, its definitions of success, and ultimately, its competitors. Moore’s classic bestseller, CROSSING THE CHASM, has sold more than one million copies by addressing the challenges faced by start-up companies. Now ZONE TO WIN is set to guide established enterprises through the same journey. “For any company, regardless of size or industry, ZONE TO WIN is the playbook for succeeding in today’s disruptive, connected, fast-paced business world.” —Marc Benioff, CEO, Salesforce “Once again Geoffrey Moore weighs in with a prescient examination of what it takes to win in today’s competitive, disruptive business environment.” —Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft "With this book, Geoffrey Moore continues to lead us all through ever-changing times...His work has changed the game of changing the game!" —Gary Kovacs, CEO, AVG “ZONE TO WIN uses crystal-clear language to describe the management plays necessary to win in an ever-disrupting marketplace. Regardless of your level of management experience, you will find this book an invaluable tool for building long-term success for your business.” —Lip-Bu Tan, President and CEO, Cadence Design Systems
Download or read book Corporate Explorer written by Andrew Binns and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Explorers Transform Disruption Into Opportunity With This Proven Framework Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from inside even the largest organizations. Corporate Explorers are part entrepreneurs, using innovation disciplines to jump start cutting-edge ideas, and part change leaders, capable of creating support for investment. They see that corporations already own the ideas, resources, and—critically—the talent to build new ventures. Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Bosch, LexisNexis, and Analog Devices enable managers to put these assets to use and gain an upper hand over startups that threaten to disrupt them. Corporate Explorer is a guidebook to the practices that enable these managers to go from idea into action. It demonstrates how success is not only possible but may offer entrenched companies better odds than venture-capital backed startups. This actionable and proven framework explains how managers can become successful corporate innovators; it includes tools to: Learn how to apply innovation practices with greater discipline Turn great ideas into a full-time job as an innovation leader Experiment with and scale original business models Transform innovation programs into a thriving source of new business Attract, retain, and motivate entrepreneurial talent Energize employees by creating a realistic way to innovate These lessons come from the trailblazers of corporate innovation—Andrew Binns (Change Logic), Charles O'Reilly (Stanford Graduate School of Business), and Michael Tushman (Harvard Business School)—who have decades of experience helping entrepreneurial-minded executives activate employees to become Corporate Explorers. Entrepreneurs take notice—it's time for Corporate Explorers to set the pace and chart the course for disruption.
