“ian c macmillan”

You've been charged with growing your business. Incremental growth can no longer deliver the results you need. You need truly dynamic growth - and you need to achieve it without risking a hugely expensive gamble. How can you encourage innovative new ventures and pursue ambitious growth while minimiz... More

General Motors and IBM have been battered to their cores. Jack Welch, the chairman of General Electric, called the frenzied competition of the 1980's "a white knuckle decade" and said the 1990s would be worse. In this pathbreaking book that will define this new age of "hypercompetition," Richard D'A... More

This collection presents selected papers from the Fourth Annual Global Conference on Entrepreneurial Research, held in 1994 at INSEAD, France. Covering a wide selection of themes, methodological approaches and organization types, the papers cover all aspects of current entrepreneurship theory in eco... More

Based on an extensive three-year study, McGrath and MacMillan identify five arenas in which exceptional growth opportunities can be found and outline forty specific marketbusting moves. In addition, they provide practical tools and checklists to help leaders determine the best move to use in a given... More

This second edition contains a brand new case study section including case studies on local sustainability networks, regional sustainability networks, the sustainable state and networks for global action, plus a new conclusion as to the organizational requirements for sustainable developments in the... More

""This book is a must for any Business Development Manager, Corporate Strategist, R&D Director, and anyone else who is accountable for growth in a corporation. It is an easy read that is practical and not fraught with useless academic theories."" Ron Pierantozzi, Ph.D., CEO of PPT Research and Forme... More

With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining. Economic value is increasingly seen to reside in the former - that is, in intangible assets - rather than in the latter. Yet we keep wanting to turn knowledge ... More

An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four-- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to fin... More