Archive for May, 2009

“Family Business” provides the next generation of family business owners with the knowledge and skills needed for the successful management and leadership of the family enterprise. The author, Ernesto Poza, uses both text and cases to explore a diverse set of family firms, examining the interrelationships between the owners, the family, and the management team. “Family Business,” at its core, is a practical book that presents management and family practices to model success as well as an honest look at the advantages and challenges facing family enterprises. With an emphasis on leadership and positioning for the future, “Family Business” illustrates how the family enterprise can achieve sustained growth and continuity through generations.

Title: Family Business, Edition 3
Author: Ernesto J. Poza, Ph.D., is a professor of global entrepreneurship at the Walker Center of Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird. He has special expertise in family business strategies. Since 1979, Poza has consulted, taught and lectured in Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain and Venezuela.
Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 3 edition (Jan. 29, 2009)
Price: $76.12
ISBN: 978-0324597691
Description: Paperback, 391 pages
Information: www.amazon.com

“Going Global: International Interviews on Worldwide Expansion” includes interviews with C-level technology executives on how they are approaching international markets, such as Japan, Korea, Latin America and New Zealand. Specific industries covered are Internet, software, telecommunications, travel, and Web hosting. Interviewees are from large companies, such as Motorola and Hostway, as well as small companies like Advizor Solutions, iExplore, Lakeview Technologies and Proto Group.

Title: Going Global: International Interviews on Worldwide Expansion
Author: Michael Muth, a 1986 Thunderbird graduate, is managing director of the Global American Technology Alliances. Muth has 18 years of experience in building international relationships and has served on the boards of four nonprofit associations. He has spent 16 years working for medium-high tech firms and has big company experience with Xerox, Deutsche Bank, Siemens and AC Nielsen Marketing Research.
Publisher: Global American Technology Alliances (Dec. 1, 2008)
Price: $1.99
Description: Kindle Edition, 96 KB
ASIN: B001MS7QLA
Information: www.intlalliances.com/ebooks.htm

“Going Global: International Interviews on Technology” is the third in a series of going global international interviews e-books. It contains interviews with C-level executives on technologies they are implementing in international markets, such as Argentina, China, India and Europe. Specific topics covered include how technologies are applied to GILT (globalization, internationalization, localization, translation), digital mapping, television graphics, global data standards, immigration law and real estate. Interviewees are from small organizations like 1Sync, Acclaro, the International Engineering Consortium, Interpro, nPhase, Op2mize, Sportvision and VisaNow, as well as one large company, Navteq.

Title: Going Global: International Interviews on Technology
Author: Michael Muth, a 1986 Thunderbird graduate, is managing director of the Global American Technology Alliances. Muth has 18 years of experience in building international relationships and has served on the boards of four nonprofit associations. He has spent 16 years working for medium-high tech firms and has big company experience with Xerox, Deutsche Bank, Siemens and AC Nielsen Marketing Research.
Publisher: Global American Technology Alliances (Feb. 1, 2009)
Price: $2.79
Description: Kindle Edition, 246 KB
ASIN: B001RCTOCU
Information: www.intlalliances.com/ebooks.htm

“Going Global: International Interviews on Finance and Management” contains interviews with investment bankers, venture capitalists, investors and financial executives on how they are investing in and financing their operations in international markets, such as Africa, Canada, China, France, Germany and Japan. Specific industries covered are manufacturing, consumer goods distribution, mutual funds and temporary services. Interviewees are from large organizations, such as the Federal Reserve Bank, Manpower and Morningstar, as well as small companies like Chicago Pacific Capital Investors, Madison Capital Partners, Opportunity International, Origin Ventures, RPX Group, Scott Lang & Co., Technomic Asia, and World Business Chicago.

Title: Going Global: International Interviews on Finance and Management
Author: Michael Muth, a 1986 Thunderbird graduate, is managing director of the Global American Technology Alliances. Muth has 18 years of experience in building international relationships and has served on the boards of four nonprofit associations. He has spent 16 years working for medium-high tech firms and has big company experience with Xerox, Deutsche Bank, Siemens and AC Nielsen Marketing Research.
Publisher: Global American Technology Alliances (Jan. 1, 2009)
Price: $3.59
Description: Kindle Edition, 339 KB
ASIN: B001P303FI
Information: www.intlalliances.com/ebooks.htm

“Going Global: International Interviews on Outsourcing Offshore” contains interviews with C-level executives on how they are maintaining quality & reducing expenses by moving their supply chains offshore to countries such as Belarus, Brazil, India, Russia, Ukraine. Specific topics covered include outsourcing computer software development & research & development in the telecommunications industry. Interviewees are from companies such as Lisle Technology Partners, Fastroot, Daitan Labs, Intetics, & the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center.

Title: Going Global: International Interviews on Outsourcing Offshore
Author: Michael Muth, a 1986 Thunderbird graduate, is managing director of the Global American Technology Alliances. Muth has 18 years of experience in building international relationships and has served on the boards of four nonprofit associations. He has spent 16 years working for medium-high tech firms and has big company experience with Xerox, Deutsche Bank, Siemens and AC Nielsen Marketing Research.
Publisher: Global American Technology Alliances (March 1, 2009)
Price: $1.59
Description: Kindle Edition, 151 KB
ASIN: B001UE77XS
Information: www.intlalliances.com/ebooks.htm

How can countries in the underdeveloped world position themselves to take best advantage of the positive economic benefits of globalization? One avenue to success is the harnessing of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the nontraditional forms of the high-technology and service sectors, where an educated workforce is essential and the spillover effects to other sectors are potentially very beneficial.

Title: Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America”
Author: Thunderbird Professor Roy C. Nelson, Ph.D., is also the author of “Industrialization and Political Affinity: Industrial Policy in Brazil” (Routledge Press, 1995). His knowledge of Latin American business practices and his field research in nearly a dozen Latin American countries have made him a foremost expert on Latin American business strategy. He speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Price: $28
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN: 978-0271035130
Description: Paperback, 256 pages
Information: www.amazon.com

This supplement text bridges the gap between the fundamentals of how businesses operate (processes) and the tools that business people use to accomplish their tasks (systems). The authors have developed this text for an introductory MIS or general business course to establish a fundamental understanding of business processes. Business students, regardless of their functional discipline, will be able to apply the real-world concepts discussed in this text immediately upon entering the workforce.

Title: Essentials of Business Processes and Information Systems
Authors: Jeffrey Word, a 1999 Thunderbird graduate, is vice president of product strategy at SAP. Word has more than 14 years’ experience in business consulting and IT strategy working for Global 1000 companies in the high tech industry.  Over the last 8 years at SAP, he has driven the evolution of enterprise technology strategy with focus on corporate process improvement initiatives and services-based IT architecture design. The co-author is Simha R. Magal.
Publisher: Wiley (Jan. 20, 2009)
Price: $46.75
ISBN: 978-0470418543
Description: Paperback, 170 pages
Information: www.amazon.com