Management & Strategy

"Financing the Race to Space is a masterful work that challenges and inspires. Armen V. Papazian's book is a must-read for policymakers, investors, and anyone with a keen interest in the future of space exploration. It is a testament to the power of visionary thinking and a significant contribution to the discourse on sustainable space development."-Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of London, City of London Corporation "Financing the Race to Space is an inspiring and ground-breaking blueprint for the future of space exploration. Blending visionary thinking with practical financial innovation, it offers transformative insights into funding sustainable space ventures and provides the tools and guidance needed to propel humanity's most ambitious space endeavors. Papazian redefines the financial paradigm necessary for our leap into the cosmos. Essential and enlightening, a must-read for C-suite executives, investors, and policymakers."- Karlton D. Johnson, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Governors, National Space Society "Investors, wisely advised by our members who understand the precepts that Dr Papazian covers so well in his work, stand to reap the responsible rewards."- Tracy Vegro OBE, CEO, The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment "An extraordinary book that serves us and future generations with realism and optimism."- Adrian Webb, Founder and Director, Space Value Foundation "A thought provoking and fresh way to look at finance and economics with a set of ideas that deserve wider debate."-Dr. Gillian Tett OBE, Provost, King's College Cambridge University, Editorial Board Member, Financial Times This seminal book examines the monetary and financial foundations necessary for outer space exploration, development, and settlement. It addresses the shortcomings of our financial value framework, financial mathematics, and monetary architecture, and introduces the transformations required to unlock the massive investment programs needed to invent, manufacture, deploy, and maintain the new habitats of the future.Armen V. Papazian is a financial economist (PhD, University of Cambridge) and the author of Hardwiring Sustainability into Financial Mathematics and The Space Value of Money.

The U.S. health care system is dominated by private and public (governmental) insurance which makes it difficult for many Americans to imagine access to health care without it. The health care system in the United States is sometimes mistakenly referred to as market-based, partly because of the previous lack of compulsory insurance.

It is divided in four parts - supply chain management, production planning and inventory management, signal processing and social sciences in such a way that researchers can follow up to date progress in the field while observing various applications with large datasets.

Quantum Computing in Logistics and Supply Chain Management discusses the transformative potential of quantum computing in reshaping the landscape of supply chain management.

The book examines the unique challenges and opportunities that emerged because of the pandemic. It provides a comprehensive roadmap for healthcare institutions seeking to leverage digital solutions for improved patient care, public health, and crisis response. It offers a balanced blend of theoretical insights and practical applications.

The book examines the unique challenges and opportunities that emerged because of the pandemic. It provides a comprehensive roadmap for healthcare institutions seeking to leverage digital solutions for improved patient care, public health, and crisis response. It offers a balanced blend of theoretical insights and practical applications.

This book explores the ethical challenges of the fourth industrial revolution-mass unemployment, new colonialism, and pervasive surveillance-while acknowledging its benefits to productivity and quality of life.

Discourses around research excellence and quality are predominant within the economic sciences, with various forms of ranking playing a central role. They make "excellence" in research and teaching visible, but they also create hierarchical orders between researchers, institutions, publication outlets and countries.

Andragogy in Practice is a timely book of case studies, which offers readers the opportunity to see andragogy in practice solving real-world challenges in a variety of adult learning contexts. It brings a variety of diverse and inspiring extended cases together from a range of experienced teaching and learning specialists.

Andragogy in Practice is a timely book of case studies, which offers readers the opportunity to see andragogy in practice solving real-world challenges in a variety of adult learning contexts. It brings a variety of diverse and inspiring extended cases together from a range of experienced teaching and learning specialists.

Blockchain for Good: The Transformative Impacts on Industry, Community, and the Planet explores how blockchain technology can drive ethical, social, and environmental advancements.

4 Steps to Supercharged Sales Teams is a revised and updated version of Serve, Lead, Succeed! It's a how-to book for successful sales management, showing how servant leaders across the nation have transformed sales teams from mediocre to exemplary. It includes real-life sales stories as well as research illustrating the effectiveness of servant leadership in sales team success. The book is all about supercharging sales performance, bringing the joy of selling to your team, and becoming a leader that people respect and remember. It shows how supportive leaders use empathy, humility and teamwork to empower sales teams that are accountable and passionate to succeed.

In this book, leading academics, researchers and practitioners in the field of CSR, management, leadership and human resources offer their latest cutting-edge research to explore how both employees and their organisations can reach win-win agreement in the working relationship.

Now in its 8th edition, the philosophy at the heart of Bob de Wit's landmark text Strategy is that an understanding of the topic can only be gained by exposure to the different perspectives in the field. Recognizing that there is no simple answer to the question of 'what is strategy', the author navigates readers through contrasting viewpoint readings to encourage discussion and debate, and illustrative cases to acknowledge the importance of strategy in the world of business. Placing the student at the centre of the strategy debates encourages the qualities of creativity, flexibility, independence and analytical depth that are needed to become a strategic thinker.

Now in its tenth edition, this key textbook provides a solid foundation in program evaluation, covering the main components of evaluating agencies and their programs, how best to address these components, and the procedures to follow when conducting evaluations.