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Kid Olympians: True Tales of Childhood from Champions and Game Changers (Kid Legends #9)
Par Robin Stevenson. 2024
Triumphant, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of international athletes who have captured…
the world’s attention at the Summer Olympics and Paralympics, like Simone Biles, Jesse Owens, Naomi Osaka, Tatyana McFadden, and 12 other incredible olympians.Athletes throughout history have dreamed of competing in the Olympics—and some were kids themselves when those dreams and plans began! In Kid Olympians: Summer, discover the childhood stories of legends such as: Usain Bolt, who used to skip practices to go to the arcade and play video games.Serena Williams, who sometimes hit her tennis ball over the fence on purpose!Tatyana McFadden, who had to fight to be allowed on her school’s track teamFeaturing kid-friendly text and full-color illustrations, you’ll be inspired to dream bigger, faster, and higher than ever before! The diverse and inspiring group also includes Michael Phelps, Yusra Mardini, Dick Fosbury, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Gertrude Ederle, Nadia Comaneci, Ellie Simmonds, Tommie Smith, Wilma Rudolph, and Megan Rapinoe.Pride and Persistence: Stories of Queer Activism (Do You Know My Name? #4)
Par Mary Fairhurst Breen. 2023
The activists between these pages have stood up for the queer community, whether on their own behalf or in support…
of people they love. Some made a difference by confronting injustice; others dared to be fully themselves.See It, Dream It, Do It: How 25 people just like you found their dream jobs
Par Colleen Nelson, Kathie MacIsaac. 2023
From award-winning author Colleen Nelson, and literacy advocate Kathie MacIsaac, twenty-five profiles present a plethora of jobs, and people, making…
it easier than ever for young people to see their dreams and to live their dreams!Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist
Par Dustin Galer. 2023
The story of a mid-century working-class housewife whose extraordinary physical transformation empowered her to become a dynamic social activist who…
fueled a movement to create a more inclusive future for people with disabilities.TraceTogether
Par Mitchell B. Weiss, Sarah Mehta. 2020
By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the…
spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore's Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and Ministry of Health (MOH) all of eight weeks to develop the world's first nationwide deployment of a Bluetooth-based contact tracing system, TraceTogether, and deploy it in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19. From late January to mid-March 2020, GovTech's Jason Bay and his team raced to create a technology that would supplement the work of Singapore's human contact tracers. Days after its launch, Singapore's foreign minister announced plans to open source the technology. Now, in early April, TraceTogether was a beta for the world. Whether the system would really help in Singapore, and whether other countries should adopt it was still a wide-open question.Hank and Nancy: The Subprime Crisis, the Run on Lehman and the Shadow Banks, and the Decision to Bailout Wall Street
Par Alberto F. Cavallo, Aldo Sesia, Rafael Di Tella. 2017
Fynd
Par Kairavi Dey, Rachna Tahilyani, Ranjay Gulati. 2021
Fynd is a fast-growing venture that in 7 years since its founding has become India's largest omnichannel retail company with…
real-time access to over 9,000 stores' offline inventory. It started as a B2B business supporting retailers who didn't have an online business, but pivoted to a B2C platform that allowed customers to shop directly from nearby retail stores through its website and app. Over time, Fynd continued with its B2C platform, scaled up its organization, and added new B2B platforms. But funding this was difficult, with investors raising questions about the business model and growth. In its next phase of growth it sought and failed to receive funding from venture capitalists. In 2018, the founders took a strategic investment from Google. But the subsequent departure of their sponsor from Google they needed to look at other avenues for funding. As they were poised for their next phase of growth, the founders were faced with a series of decisions about the pace of scaling, the business model, and how to fund the expansion. In 2019, Reliance Retail, a subsidiary of one of India's largest private conglomerates, and one of their key customers offered to invest $42 million for an 87% stake in the company, and is willing to negotiate terms of the deal. Should the founders accept the offer? What should the terms of the agreement be? How will this impact their business model, their growth trajectory, and also the future of the founders at the firm?Governance and Sustainability at Nike (A)
Par Lara Adamsons, Lynn S. Paine, Nien-He Hsieh. 2013
Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate…
responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social concerns from its origins in student protests against labor conditions in the supply chain in the 1990s through the development of a board-level corporate responsibility (CR) committee in 2001 to the creation of the Sustainable Business & Innovation (SB&I) strategy in 2009. In this context, Hannah Jones, Nike's VP of SB&I, and Eric Sprunk, VP of Merchandising & Product, are working to finalize the company's next round of sustainability targets for presentation to the CR committee. When Nike signs on to the Roadmap to Zero, a Greenpeace-inspired initiative to eliminate the discharge of toxic chemicals into the water supply by 2020, the company's target-setting process becomes more complex. Jones and Sprunk must decide whether to recommend that Nike dial back other sustainability goals to meet the zero toxics challenge, modify its commitment to zero toxics, or find another solution.A Strait of Uncertainty: Taiwan's Development in the Shadow of China
Par J. Megan Greene, Tracy Yuen Manty, William C. Kirby, Yuanzhuo Wang. 2009
Relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC), on the Chinese Mainland, and the Republic of China (ROC), on Taiwan,…
had improved significantly since 2008. Taiwan investment in China had played a major role in China's economic boom in recent decades. Investments, partnerships, study, travel, and marriages across the Strait pointed to a future of ever-greater interaction between two parties that brought Asia to the brink of war three times in the last half-century (1954, 1958, 1996). But what does the future hold? Will Taiwan thrive and yet maintain its autonomy as a part of the broader economy of "Greater China"? Will economic integration lead, inexorably, to Taiwan's incorporation into the People's Republic of China? Or will the 2016 electoral backlash in Taiwan against integration with the Mainland embolden the new Taiwan leadership to seek a future for Taiwan separate from China?Health Stop Retail Medical Centers (A): Strategy
Par Joyce Lallman, Nancy M. Kane, Regina E. Herzlinger. 1985
Will Health Stop's strategy and business model enable it to succeed against the many other retail medical center innovations described…
in the case and why? Health Stop, staffed by doctors and located in the malls of wealthy suburbs, is competing against retail medical centers with very different business models. These include: CVS Minute Clinic (CVS' walk-in clinic), One Medical (a concierge service for primary care), Iora Health (a primary care model charging its members a monthly fixed amount as opposed to the traditional fee-for-service model), and ChenMed (a clinic focused on elderly patients with multiple chronic diseases.) Accompanying this case are the following instructional materials: An analytic framework for discussing the questions in the case. It is Chapter 1, Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Services, Products, and Business Models, Regina E. Herzlinger, Wiley 2022The book illustrates how managers and knowledge workers can effectively harness collective and artificial intelligence to counteract the effects of…
exponential change and successfully implement digitization within their organizations. The author applies the proven management principles of Peter F. Drucker to the new challenges of the digital age, enhancing them with the concepts of collective and artificial intelligence. This approach also takes into account the insights of Daniel Kahneman regarding "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and the associated cognitive biases and deficits in human thinking. By leveraging innovative tools – collective and artificial intelligence – these deficits can be mitigated, aiding in decision-making. The use of these tools in innovation management and work organization is also discussed. Readers are provided with practical tips and strategies for implementation. Embark on an exciting journey through digital management practices and successfully navigate the challenges of the digital world.Hochschulen im Wandel: Entwicklungsprozesse im Netzwerk gestalten
Par Roland Brünken, Joachim Härtling, Stefan Löhrke, Markus Reihlen. 2023
Dieser Sammelband befasst sich mit Herausforderungen des Qualitätsmanagements im Bereich von Studium und Hochschullehre. Sie reichen von der Leitbildentwicklung, der…
Steuerung entlang von Zielen, der Errichtung effektiver Strukturen bis hin zur Errichtung eines sinnvollen Monitorings- und Evaluationswesens. Die Autorinnen und Autoren legen dar, wie ihre Universitäten die Herausforderungen im Kontext des Netzwerks Quality Audit bearbeitet haben. Anhand von konkreten Praxisbeispielen und theoretischen Untersuchungsansätzen in Anlehnung an die Praxisforschung werden die Lösungsansätze mit Bezug auf bestehende Theorien kritisch reflektiert und analysiert. Gleichzeitig wird aufgezeigt, wie Netzwerkarbeit im Hochschulkontext gelingen kann.Psychologische Sicherheit in Unternehmen: Wie Hochleistungsteams wirklich funktionieren (essentials)
Par Ina Goller, Tanja Laufer. 2023
Ina Goller und Tanja Laufer erklären in diesem essential, wie Führungskräfte den wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktor für Teamperformance – das Konzept „Psychologische…
Sicherheit“ – in ihrem Unternehmen etablieren. Die Autorinnen geben einen kompakten Überblick, erläutern den wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund und zeigen die positiven Effekte auf die Teamleistung auf. Sie geben wertvolle Umsetzungshilfen für alle Führungskräfte wie Team- und Projektleiter*innen sowie Personalentwickler*innen, um die Fehlerkultur und Innovationsfähigkeit im Team und damit im Unternehmen zu stärken.This open access book constitutes papers from the research workshops presented at XP 2022 and XP 2023, respectively the 23rd…
and 24th International Conferences on Agile Software Development, held on June 13-17, 2022 at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and June 13-16, 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. XP conferences provide an informal environment to learn and trigger discussions and welcome both people new to agile and seasoned agile practitioners. In 2022, the following workshops took place: ● 3rd International Workshop on Agility with Microservices Programming● 2nd International Workshop on Agile Sustainability● Agile and EducationIn 2023, six workshops were held: ● Workshop on Organisational Debt and Large-Scale Agile● Workshop on Software-Intensive Business● Workshop on Global and Hybrid Work● Workshop on Fear-Based Agile Transformation● Workshop on AI-assisted Agile● Workshop on Agile-Quantum Software EngineeringIn 2022, 6 workshop papers were accepted for publication in these post-proceedings, out of 11 submissions, and in 2023, 15 papers were accepted for publication out of 38 submissions.Toward Sustainable Regions: Essays in Honor of Kiyoko Hagihara (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives #73)
Par Chisato Asahi, Noriko Horie. 2023
This book deals with regional sustainability, which is one of the biggest issues in Japan today, and presents suggested methods…
and cases to show how regional management should be carried out. Today, regions in Japan are facing long-term global challenges such as changes in climate and in international relations, as well as regional financial difficulties due to depopulation and aging. Additional causes are the decline of traditional culture and community sustainability, the crisis of public services, inner- and inter-regional disparities, disaster response, and other local and region-specific issues that are intricately related. To meet the challenge of those issues, local actors must deal with the regional issues themselves and solve them in cooperation with various other stakeholders. From this perspective, the book exhibits regional management frameworks, focusing especially on evaluation, decision making, and aid in multi-dimensional approaches, and examines case studies for making regions sustainable by allowing diverse actors to realize diverse values and standards in cooperation. The chapters cover a wide range of disciplines, including urban science, economics, geography, landscape, real estate, and public finance, which makes it possible to shed light on a particular region. This book comprises a collection of essays celebrating the life and work of Kiyoko Hagihara, honorary professor of the Graduate School of Urban Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. Essay contributors include her former students as well as regional scientists with similar interests.Das Buch zeigt, wie Manager und Wissensarbeiter mithilfe von kollektiver und künstlicher Intelligenz effektiver arbeiten können, um den Effekten des…
exponentiellen Wandels entgegenzuwirken und die Digitalisierung erfolgreich im Unternehmen umzusetzen. Der Autor überträgt die bewährten Managementprinzipien von Peter F. Drucker auf die neuen Herausforderungen des digitalen Zeitalters und ergänzt diese um die Konzepte kollektiver und künstlicher Intelligenz. Dabei werden auch die Erkenntnisse von Daniel Kahneman zum „Schnellen Denken, langsamen Denken“ und die damit verbundenen kognitiven Verzerrungen und Defizite des menschlichen Denkens berücksichtigt. Mithilfe der innovativen Instrumente – kollektive und künstliche Intelligenz – können diese Defizite jedoch ausgeglichen und die Entscheidungsfindung unterstützt werden. Thematisiert wird auch der Einsatz der Instrumente im Innovationsmanagement und in der Organisation der Arbeit. Die Leser erhalten Tipps und Strategien für die konkrete Umsetzung an die Hand. Begeben Sie sich auf eine spannende Reise durch die digitale Managementpraxis und meistern Sie erfolgreich die Herausforderungen der digitalen Welt.Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Music Cultures (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
Par Tiziano Bonini, Paolo Magaudda. 2024
Grounded in more than a decade of field research, this book uses empirical examples, quantitative data, and qualitative interviews with…
young music consumers as well as music industry professionals to understand how the platforms behind music production, distribution and listening work in our digital society. Bringing together the perspectives from science and technology studies, media studies, and the political economy of digital platforms, the book outlines the process of mutual construction between music digital platforms and the cultural value of music in today’s society, and also reflects on the complicated relationship between the power of platforms and the agency of listeners.Economics and Property: The Estates Gazette Guide
Par Danny Myers. 2019
a clear and easy-to-read introduction to any property economics module in a degree leading to a profession in real estate,…
surveying, construction and other related built environment fields Full colour figures and packed with features such as: glossary, chapter objectives and summaries, glossary, case studies, tutorial readingsSustainable Economy and Emerging Markets
Par Stefania Paladini, Suresh George. 2020
Sustainable Economy and Emerging Markets provides a snapshot of the different dimensions of sustainability and analyses how they interact and…
configure themselves, case by case, in selected emerging economies. The parameters of economic growth in developing economies are explored in the context of systems, climate change, and environmental challenges.With contributions from a range of business academics, economists, and practitioners, this book conveys a picture of the complex nature of the new global business environment, especially the geopolitical dynamics of emerging countries, and breaks down the challenges across geographic fault lines, offering insights into current business practice. By adopting an in-depth case study approach, this edited book offers and discusses examples from several emerging markets and elucidates how these organisations have modelled business based on sustainable development in its various forms. This book will prove valuable reading for students and scholars of international business, international trade, sustainability, and development.Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism: A Pentecostal Political Theology in Postcolonial Africa
Par Mookgo Solomon Kgatle. 2023
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between prophecy and politics in South African Pentecostalism. The role and…
the power of prophecy in enhancing the presence of politicians in the church square are unpacked through historical examples, as well as case studies of contemporary prophets. Solomon Kgatle argues that the influence of prophecy in politics has the potential to weaken the prophetic voice of the church in general and the Pentecostal movement in particular. He proposes a Pentecostal political theology of prophecy. This theology is developed by taking into cognizance the theoretical and theological frameworks of prophetic imagination and pneumatological imagination. In addition, this theology seeks a balance between prophecy and power and prophecy and sovereignty.