Books by Cohen

Offers an applications-oriented treatment of parameter estimation from both complete and censored samples; contains notations, simplified formats for estimates, graphical techniques, and numerous tables and charts allowing users to calculate estimates and analyze sample data quickly and easily.

Discover What Makes Family Businesses Beat the Odds and Thrive over Generations Families are complicated; family businesses even more so. Like other companies, family-run enterprises must develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills. But they must also manage family dynamics that rarely mirror the best practices in the latest Harvard Business Review. Allan Cohen and Pramodita Sharma, scholars with deep professional and personal roots in family businesses, show how enterprising families can transmit the hunger for excellence across generations. Using examples of firms that flourished and those that failed, they describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice that can be tailored to your unique situation.

A detailed analysis of contemporary Jewish religious attitudes towards armed service in Israel, this volume draws on a range of classical and modern sources to illustrate the variety of current theological challenges to Israel's military cohesion.

Solitary Action presents a unique and engaging view of a vast range of day-to-day individual activities, from puzzles and games to independent tasks and memorization. While social science research has primarily centered on social interaction, the book argues that solitary action is equally prevalent in everyday life.

This special issue brings together studies that analyse the nature of retrieval failure for proper names and evaluate whether a common memory system can adequately account for the representation and retrieval of both proper and common names.

Offers an applications-oriented treatment of parameter estimation from complete and censored samples. This book contains notations, simplified formats for estimates, graphical techniques, and numerous tables and charts allowing users to calculate estimates and analyze sample data quickly and easily.

In Values-Driven Business, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen and Social Venture Network chair Mal Warwick team up to provide you with a way to run your business for profit and personal satisfaction. This practical, down-to-earth book details every step in the process of creating and managing a business that will reflect your personal values, not force you to hide them. It includes: A self-assessment tool to determine what it will take for you to start a values-based business or transform your company into one Hundreds of examples of business policies and practices that are both ethical and business-savvy Checklists crammed with practical suggestions you can put to work today in your own business Values-Driven Business outlines how virtually any business can be efficient, competitive, and successful while adhering to a “triple bottom line” of profit, people, and planet.