books by Irwin Professional Publishing

books by Irwin Professional Publishing

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The Managing Diversity Survival Guide: A Complete Collection of Checklists, Activities, and Tips/Book and Disk
Lee Gardenswartz, Anita Rowe

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994

This indispensable guide is packed with over 80 activities, worksheets, charts, surveys, checklists (all on diskette!), and transparency masters that cover everything in a diverse work place including: interviewing; communicating; coaching employees.

Investments

Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, ...

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1989

Resourceful: Do You Like Intellectual Pain?
This is the tome used in top MBA programs across the US. It's comprehensive and filled with "extras" like website recs and sample CFA questons. Everything you need to know is here. 2 thumbs up.

Process Reengineering: The Key to Achieving Breakthrough Success

Lon Roberts

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994

Concise, pragmatic and filled with advice
This is one of the most straightforward, content rich books on process design and reengineering in my library. It's not the biggest in terms of page count, but certainly among the best in pragmatic approach and techniques. It's also a compact catalog of process ...

Return Targets and Shortfall Risk: Studies in Strategic Asset Allocation
Martin L. Leibowitz, Lawrence N. Bader, ...

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995

Return Targets and Shortfall Risks explores how to maintain a consistent risk/reward posture as interest rates and other fundamental market conditions change. It covers several critical investment issues, from hedging to yield curve positioning and many others.

International Economics (Irwin publications in economics)

Charles P. Kindleberger, Peter Lindert

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1986

GREAT BOOK
Doesn't get too technical, but explains everything clearly. This book is one of the best economic books that I ever used.

John Bogle and the Vanguard Experiment: One Man's Quest to Transform the Mutual Fund Industry

Robert Slater

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996

Excellent book for those interested in Vanguard
Would recommend anyone intersted in this book to first read "Bogle on Mutual Funds" first as it's an excellent book and covers similar material. If you are still interested in learning more about Vanguard, then this book is an excellent compliment. It's not as ...

Programming In Visual Basic Version 5.0

Julia Case Bradley, Anita C. Millspaugh

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1997

Great book for beginners
Although I have some experience in the computer field (I am an IS student), this was the very first book I've ever studied Visual Basic from. I must say that it explains a broad variety of topics in a very easy-to-comprehend fashion. I was only somewhat disappointed ...

Networking With the Affluent and Their Advisors

Thomas J. Stanley

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1993

Some good advice on how to be useful to the affluent
If you need to rub elbows with the affluent, who better to learn from than the man who made a career of studying the wealthy? Thomas Stanley, bestselling author of "The Millionaire Next Door," teaches us the networking methods of individuals who cater to the rich in ...

Capacity Measurement and Improvement: A Manager's Guide to Evaluating and Optimizing Capacity Productivity

Thomas P. Klammer

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996

Use of this book
This book explains in an easy way a method to implement a Capacity Measurement Initiative. This book is very useful if you are looking to implement it at your organsation. Charpter 2 contains a basic explaination of CAM-I Capacity Model Charpter 3 contains a very ...

The Bank Director's Handbook: The Board Member's Guide to Banking & Bank Management (Bankline Publication)

Benton E. Gup

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996

Excellent guide to understanding the basics of the industry
One of the best summaries of the main marketing and economic forces shaping banks: how banks can find competitive advantage, price products, measure their performance, segment their markets, create barriers to imitation, manage risk. For NON-banking professionals ...

Systems Analysis & Design Methods

Jeffrey L. Whitten, Lonnie D. Bentley, ...

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1997

Excellent Educational Text Book
This book is extremely helpful. It uses step by step guides to help the reader fully understand the content, plus a life-like story line to help the reader understand the placement of the information studied. I would recommend it to any student or professional who ...

Information Technology and Management

Ronald L. Thompson

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996

Great Book
I thought this book did an excellent job of describing the aspects of Information Technology. It was clearly written and easy to read. I also thought the CD did a great job also, though it was a little tricky to navigate around, at first. My only regret is I cannot ...

A History of Managing for Quality

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995

A complete work
This book is a must read for those who wish to learn about quality and talks about the entire history of the quality movement and the japanese revolution, and what would be the future of the science of quality management. I found this book a easy to read than other on ...

Cases In Marketing Management
Kenneth L. Bernhardt, Thomas C. Kinnear

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1996

The traditional strengths of this project rest on three main tenets:1. The strong reputations of the authors--they are those rare breed of academic who maintain high profiles from a research standpoint yet have a fierce dedication and talent for what goes on in the classroom. 2. The quality and diversity of the cases offered--not everyone can ...

Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach

Allan G. Bluman

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1997

Bluman's statistics book
This is THE BEST elementary statistics book I have read. Covers all concepts in a very easy to understand manner. The examples and solved problems show you eaxctly how a problem can be approached. For non-statiscians who want to use statistics to analyze their data, ...