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Supply and demand shocks. Labor shortages. International trade wars. As businesses and customers struggle to get the products they need from across the globe, manufacturers must reassess how they operate, from considering domestic suppliers to exploring new technologies. In Supply Chain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review, articles by experts and researchers will help you understand the risks and identify solutions to these disruptions so that you can ensure a more resilient supply chain—without sacrificing competitive advantage.

Global trade is of vital interest to citizens as well as policymakers, yet it is widely misunderstood. This compact exposition of the market forces underlying international commerce addresses both of these concerned groups, as well as the needs of students and scholars. Although it contains no equations, it is almost mathematical in its elegance, precision, and power of expression. Understanding Global Trade provides a thorough explanation of what shapes the international organization of production and distribution and the resulting trade flows.

Build a Forex trading strategy. Build a better future. Have you been struggling to understand the intricacies of Forex? If so, you’re not alone. Foreign Exchange trading is decidedly difficult to master, and that’s why many traders turn tail. Don’t be amongst the many who miss this sector’s stunning profit potential - not when the knowledge you need to thrive has all been compiled for you!

In Extreme Wine, wine economist and best-selling author Mike Veseth circles the globe searching for the best, worst, cheapest, most expensive, and most over-priced wines. Mike seeks out the most outrageous wine people and places and probes the biggest wine booms and busts. Along the way he applauds celebrity wines, tries to find wine at the movies, and discovers wines that are so scarce that they are almost invisible.

In Outside the Box, Levinson explains that globalization is entering a new era in which moving stuff will matter much less than moving services, information, and ideas.

From the author of Junkyard Planet, "an anthem to decluttering, recycling, making better quality goods and living a simpler life with less stuff." —Associated Press Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we...

In Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations: Five Principles for Leaders to Win in a Volatile World, a team of dedicated veteran operations strategists delivers a practical and hands-on discussion of how to future-proof your company's supply chains through a relentless focus on resilience. In the book, you'll discover how to shift your firm's emphasis from "low-cost" to "low volatility" as you protect your company against the supply and demand shocks associated pandemics, wars, labor disputes, and trade conflicts.

Nowadays everybody is talking about positioning. Positioning is the most important aspect in business. And they are right. On the other hand, most of those people just talk about the expert in the niche. But that's only one possibility to position yourself. There are many other ways for positioning in order to reach a wider target group. Especially in view of automation in the internet, there is a whole new range of possibilities out there. And if you don't take advantage of them, you'll never be able to grow in the internet.

If you’ve ever travelled abroad, then you’ve already conducted a basic forex transaction by trading some of your home currency with the currency of the country you’re visiting. In a nutshell, this is what forex traders basically do - they make money by first exchanging their home currency with those of another countries, and then making. There are hundreds of specific methods for trading in Forex and in markets. There are as many effective, tested and successfully tested methods. How would you take advantage of it? This book covers forex trading and more.

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a...

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A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29 “Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator.” —The New York Times “Moving and powerful.” —Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author Discover the truth behind the discounts. In 2012, an Oregon...

The free-market, limited-government development model has been an ecological and social disaster for the developing world. Sustainable and equitable development is only possible with the active involvement of a strong central state that can guide the economy, protect the environment, and prioritize meeting their people’s basic needs. In this sure-to-be-controversial audiobook, Chandran Nair shows that the market-dominated model followed by the industrialized West is simply not scalable.

Forex trading, especially now in the year of 2020, is one of the greatest ways to free yourself from all of life’s trivial stressors and achieve true financial freedom.

Are you stuck in the rat race? Do you want to start trading and live your best life? Then Forex Trading is for you! Thanks to the incredible strategies presented in this audiobook, you will learn the best and most powerful trading strategies to create abundance in your life.

In this book, Patrick Bolton and Haizhou Huang offer a novel perspective, viewing monetary economics through the lens of corporate finance. They propose a richer theory, where money can be seen as the equity capital of a nation, playing a similar role as stocks for a company. This innovative framework integrates the real and monetary sides of the economy, with a banking sector and debt at its core.

What's Wrong with China is the widely anticipated follow-up to Paul Midler's Poorly Made in China, an expose of China manufacturing practices. Applying a wider lens in this account, he reveals many of the deep problems affecting Chinese society as a whole. Once again, Midler delivers the goods by rejecting commonly held notions, breaking down old myths, and providing fresh explanations of lesser-understood cultural phenomena.

In the past seven years, no other asset on the planet has come close to producing the returns of Bitcoin - if you want to know how you can profit from it, keep going.... Between June 2010 and September 2017 - The price of one Bitcoin has exploded by an incredible 6716700%! That means $100 invested in Bitcoin back then would be worth a life-changing $6,716,700 today. Even since last year, Bitcoin increased by a gigantic 716.96%! How about that for some solid return on investment? So, now you want a piece of the pie. But you don't really know where to start. While other Bitcoin books are like a high school textbook and don't actually provide any information on how you can benefit, Bitcoin Beginners Bible is written, in plain English, with the singular goal of arming you with the information you need to make money with Bitcoin.

A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin is for everyone who is starting to learn about Bitcoin, and wants to understand the reality behind the buzz. Exploring the value proposition of Bitcoin through a progressive lens, Maier's book explores why Bitcoin is good for the environment, how it helps poor and marginalized communities, and why Bitcoin serves as a protest against too-big-to-fail banks: all the people-centric reasons Bitcoin was created in the first place.

The 21st century has seen a rise in the global middle class that brings an unprecedented convergence of interests and perceptions, cultures and values. Kishore Mahbubani is optimistic. We are creating a new global civilization. Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards, and sharing Western aspirations. Yet Mahbubani, one of the most perceptive global commentators, also warns that a new global order needs new policies and attitudes.