“…Dealing at the highest levels with Chinese government officials and major American brands like Disney, Marvel, and the NBA, [Fenton] defied authorities on both sides of the superpower divide to make billions-and history.Thanks to a brisk, [engaging] storytelling style and an evenhanded, insider-level perspective . . ., Feeding the Dragon manages to be both timeless and timely. …”

“…After billions of dollars and fifty years of effort, researchers are finally cracking the code on artificial intelligence. …”

“…The costs of faulty communication are enormous for companies. Each year, billions of dollars are lost, precious time is wasted, innovation is thwarted, and morale suffers. …”

“…Using SuperCritical Fluids (SCFs) in various processes is not new, because Mother Nature has been processing minerals in aqueous solutions at critical and supercritical pressures for billions of years. Somewhere in the 20th century, SCFs started to be used in various industries as working fluids, coolants, chemical agents, etc. …”

“…NTDs affect more than one billion people and cost developing economies billions of dollars every year. …”

“…It points to the ability of mainstream social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to be able to deliver specialised advertising services to highly targeted audience segments controlled by the billions of devices that flood our daily lives. At the same time, it highlights a more relevant problem: can social media guide, suggest or impose a certain behaviour or thought? …”

“…Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. …”

“…Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society's faith in itself. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Innovation a root of all growth and every turnaround : how to implement an innovation process that will continually increase revenues and profits : the echelon innovation process(tm) -- Transforming your current strategy into an accelerated growth or turnaround strategy : the echeloned strategy process -- The right objectives : the foundation of a growth or turnaround strategy : how to create growth objectives in the seven essential areas of objectives that every company must have : echeloned growth objectives -- Growth strategy & turnaround as a continuous process -- How to facilitate a transformation around service that leads to accelerated growth & improved service experiences and perceptions : echeloned service -- How to find the hidden billions within your existing customer base : echeloned depth interviews -- Growth oriented targeting : giving your best to your best growth markets : echeloned customer segmentation or echeloned targets -- Growth through innovations in and echeloning of marketing -- Increasing sales & knowledge worker productivity for growth and turnaround -- Productivity improvement is not the panacea -- Sales teaming & echeloning your sales and other groups for accelerated growth -- To grow, stop selling products, and start selling profit…”

“…-- How do you stay in touch with your customers when your market valuation is in the billions? -- How do you gather input from disparate audiences for a new line of office workspace components? …”

“…Learning from agri-environment schemes in Australia is a book about the birds and the beef -- more specifically it is about the billions of dollars that governments pay farmers around the world each year to protect and restore biodiversity. …”

“…The appropriate function of the nervous system relies on precise patterns of connectivity among hundreds to billions of neurons across different biological systems. …”

“…All taken, yeast-related business is worth billions, critically contributing to the economical welfare of many differently developed countries. …”

“…Since the beginning of its formation approximately three billion years ago, the hydrosphere - as an envelope of the terrestrial ellipsoid - has remained constant from a quantitative point of view. …”

“…Fermentation and the use of micro-organisms is one of the most important aspects of food processing, an industry worth billions of US dollars world-wide. From beer and wine to yoghurt and bread, it is the common denominator between many of our foodstuffs.In his engaging style Professor Charles Bamforth covers all known food applications of fermentation. …”

“…The successful realization of General Intelligence (evidenced by the kind of cross-domain flexibility enjoyed by humans) will spawn an industry worth billions and transform the range of viable automation tasks.The recent notable successes of Machine Learning has lead to conjecture that it might be the appropriate technology for delivering General Intelligence. …”

“…Although access to water, sanitation, and hygiene is a human right, billions of people in developing countries are still faced with daily challenges accessing even the most basic of services, specifically the poor and vulnerable in communities. …”

“…Assessing IT Projects to Ensure Successful Outcomes Companies invest billions in technology projects each year, yet their success rates remain surprisingly low. …”

“…In a series of one-on-one interviews with senior executives at ORIX companies around the world, readers gain a firsthand glimpse of the inner workings of this "invisible" corporate group that controls hundreds of billions of dollars. Interviews with the company President and Chairman in Tokyo provide rare insight into the thought leaders at the highest levels, and a contribution by the Chairman himself discusses the hard realities of globalization and the keys to success in the coming decade. …”

“…It is responsible for all of the Fed's market operations, from trillions in quantitative easing to hundreds of billions in repo and FX-swap loans. The financial crises of 2008 and 2020 abated only through the emergency interventions of the Desk. …”