Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Winning at Active Management -- Contents -- Preface: Active Management is Not Dead Yet -- Part I Culture -- Chapter 1 Culture at the Core -- The Original Organizational Culture: Command-and-Control -- Drawbacks of Command-and-Control -- An Alternative Culture for Knowledge Businesses -- The Partnership Culture Model -- Interdependence -- Support -- Shared Interest -- Justice and Fairness -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Culture in Investment Management -- Values -- Integrity -- Trust -- Culture and Clients -- Firm Culture under Stress -- Culture in Recruiting -- Acquisitions -- Evolution of Culture -- Evolution of Culture: A Parable -- Notes -- Part II Philosophy and Methodology -- Chapter 3 The Nature of Equity Returns -- Linkages: The Real Economy and the Financial Economy -- Components of Stock Returns -- Price-Earnings Ratios -- The Historical Makeup of Stock Returns -- Notes -- Chapter 4 The Great Investment Debate: Active or Passive Management? …”

“…To manage business operations - let alone innovate - amid frequent restructurings, outsourcings and retirements, leaders must quickly capitalize on hidden know-how (knowledge). …”

“…"The probability of failure in corporate innovation outside of a firm's core business is staggeringly high. Yet, the vast majority of existing books about innovation focus on startups and their entrepreneurs, methodologies, and ecosystems. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 1 The Bad and Good Reasons for Your Digital Transformation -- The Risk of Falling into the Digital-Hype Trap -- The Beneficiaries (Hint: It's Not Necessarily Only You) -- Chapter 2 Why Digital Transformation Advice Can Get You Off the Payback Track -- What You Should Learn from Technology Payback Research -- Digital Maturity and Payback Are Not the Same -- Chapter 3 Digital Transformation Payday: A New Framework for Accelerated Payback -- Five Key Elements of Digital Transformation Payback -- The Path to Payback Is Never as Linear as You Hope -- The Only Econometric Formulas You Need to Understand -- Part II Five Key Elements Drive Digital Transformation Payback -- Chapter 4 Supply-Side Catalysts: Digital Technologies Alone Do Not Do the Trick -- Digital Technology Does Not Scale Without New Skills and Funding -- Chapter 5 Demand-Side and Overarching Catalysts: Customers and Workforces Have Changed -- From You They Expect Nothing Less -- Demand-Side Customer Needs -- Demand-Side Workforce Expectations -- Demand-Side Spending Patterns -- Overarching: Industry Barriers Are Blurring, Whether You Like It or Not -- Chapter 6 Reactants/Scope: Make Sure Your Investments End Up Transforming Your Core -- Core Business Digital Transformations Are Prone to Failure But Must Be Your Final Goal -- Digital-Adjacent Businesses Will Never Be Family Without Proper Reintegration -- Digital Frontier Businesses Will Not Behave (the Way You Expect) -- Chapter 7 Reaction Mechanisms/Process: Agile Done Wrong Can Be a Very Effective Tool of Value Destruction -- Waterfall Is Not Dead Yet, But It's About to Be Retired…”

“…She pieces together the rough outline of his plan to die and the details of its execution. Yet she acknowledges that she cannot provide a complete narrative of why h…”

“… The most frequently used words in English are highly ambiguous; for example, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 94 meanings for the word ""run"" as a verb alone. Yet people rarely notice this ambiguity. Solving this puzzle has commanded the efforts of cognitive scientists for many years. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Times, They Are a-Changin' -- Changing Your Advantage -- Great Things Happen at the Intersection of People and Technology -- Flat as a Pancake - Not Yet -- But What if They Could? -- People Are (Still) the Future of Business -- A Moment Can Become a Movement -- But Does It Have to Be This Way? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…(Weevers) -- 'k En hoore u nog niet -- I Cannot Hear You Yet (Vincent)* -- Slaaplied -- Christmas Lullaby (Van Eyken)* -- Voorbij ... -- To...? …”

“…Yet most studies published in financial literature deal with low frequency, regularly spaced data. …”

“…Instead, this user-friendly guide stands alone thanks to the clear approach it takes to the topic of personal finance. …”

“…This insight undermines the mantra that “we cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet,” for the world of ideas is infinitely vast. Yet we can no longer focus on its upsides alone. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…(Weevers) -- `k En hoore u nog niet -- I Cannot Hear You Yet (Vincent)* -- Slaaplied -- Christmas Lullaby (Van Eyken)* --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…8.1.2 Contributed Data Sets -- 8.2 Reading in External Data Files -- 8.2.1 The Table Format -- 8.2.2 Spreadsheet Workbooks -- 8.2.3 Web-Based Files -- 8.2.4 Other File Formats -- 8.3 Writing Out Data Files and Plots -- 8.3.1 Data Sets -- 8.3.2 Plots and Graphics Files -- 8.4 Ad Hoc Object Read/Write Operations -- Exercise 8.1 -- Part II: Programming -- Chapter 9: Calling Functions -- 9.1 Scoping -- 9.1.1 Environments -- 9.1.2 Search Path -- 9.1.3 Reserved and Protected Names -- Exercise 9.1 -- 9.2 Argument Matching -- 9.2.1 Exact -- 9.2.2 Partial -- 9.2.3 Positional -- 9.2.4 Mixed -- 9.2.5 Dot-Dot-Dot: Use of Ellipses -- Exercise 9.2 -- Chapter 10: Conditions and Loops -- 10.1 if Statements -- 10.1.1 Stand-Alone Statement -- 10.1.2 else Statements -- 10.1.3 Using ifelse for Element-wise Checks -- Exercise 10.1 -- 10.1.4 Nesting and Stacking Statements -- 10.1.5 The switch Function -- Exercise 10.2 -- 10.2 Coding Loops -- 10.2.1 for Loops -- Exercise 10.3 -- 10.2.2 while Loops -- Exercise 10.4 -- 10.2.3 Implicit Looping with apply -- Exercise 10.5 -- 10.3 Other Control Flow Mechanisms -- 10.3.1 Declaring break or next -- 10.3.2 The repeat Statement -- Exercise 10.6 -- Chapter 11: Writing Functions -- 11.1 The function Command -- 11.1.1 Function Creation -- 11.1.2 Using return -- Exercise 11.1 -- 11.2 Arguments -- 11.2.1 Lazy Evaluation -- 11.2.2 Setting Defaults -- 11.2.3 Checking for Missing Arguments -- 11.2.4 Dealing with Ellipses -- Exercise 11.2 -- 11.3 Specialized Functions -- 11.3.1 Helper Functions -- 11.3.2 Disposable Functions -- 11.3.3 Recursive Functions -- Exercise 11.3 -- Chapter 12: Exceptions, Timings, and Visibility -- 12.1 Exception Handling -- 12.1.1 Formal Notifications: Errors and Warnings -- 12.1.2 Catching Errors with try Statements -- Exercise 12.1 -- 12.2 Progress and Timing -- 12.2.1 Textual Progress Bars: Are We There Yet?…”

“…Unhealthy diets and low physical activity contribute to many chronic diseases and disability; they are responsible for some 2 in 5 deaths worldwide and for about 30% of the global disease burden. Yet surprisingly little is known about the economic costs that these risk factors cause, both for health care and society more widely.This study pulls together the evidence about the economic burden that can be linked to unhealthy diets and low physical activity and explores- How definitions vary and why this matters- The complexity of estimating the economic burden and- How we can arrive at a better way to estimate the costs of an unhealthy diet and low physical activity, using diabetes as an exampleThe review finds that unhealthy diets and low physical activity predict higher health care expenditure, but estimates vary greatly. …”