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International Financial Management

Jeff Madura

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

TERRIBLE BOOK 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Unless you have prior knowledge of currency trading or the international finance world you won't understand a damn thing after the 5th or 6th chapter. The author goes in depth about these complex theories and mathematical equations that can be exceptionally difficult to follow ESPECIALLY if you are NEW to the subject.

This book is terrible period, I would recommend if you take International Finance (class), to buy a book (dummies guide er something) to go along with this to make it a little easier to understand. I don't know who this guy is trying to impress but I was throughly pissed off that I paid over a hundred bucks for this USELESS book. The author teaches it way over everybody's head.....

Editorial Review:

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 6e combines a strong foundation in international finance theory with current, practical applications. It provides thorough, up-to-date treatment of cutting-edge international finance issues along with traditional treatment of international financial management. This book is known for its readability and clear explanation as well as its extensive use of hands-on, real world applications and student-oriented pedagogy.

Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work (Environmental Markets Insight Series)

Ricardo Bayon, Amanda Hawn, Katherine Hamilton

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** By the end of 2006 the world carbon market will top $30 billion in transactions and the first carbon billionaire may well have emerged

** HSBC, Volvo, Avis, Ricoh, and American Express are but a few of the thousands of companies now offsetting their CO2 emissions and becoming "carbon neutral", fuelling a massive international voluntary carbon market that is growing exponentially

** This is the only business guide to this "next big thing", with complete coverage of what voluntary carbon markets are, where they are, how they work and how to capitalize--as a buyer or a seller--on a market that has the potential to mirror oil and gas in scale and to slow climate change

This groundbreaking business book, written in a fast-paced journalistic style, draws together all of the key information on international voluntary carbon markets with commentary from leading practitioners and business people. While maturing quickly, the voluntary market is complex, fragmented, and multi-layered, but it is beginning to consolidate around a few guiding practices and business models from which conclusions can be drawn about market direction and opportunities.

The book covers all aspects of voluntary carbon markets in the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Asia: what they are, how they work and, most critically, their business potential to help slow climate change. It is the indispensable guide for anyone seeking to understand voluntary carbon markets and capitalize on the opportunities they present for economic and environmental benefit. If you want to be ahead of the curve for the next big thing, you need this book.

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Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours

Tarun Khanna

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Called well worth reading by The Economist and earnest and entertaining by the Financial Times, Tarun Khanna s Billions of Entrepreneurs is an elegantly written book that mixes on-the-ground stories with thorough research to show how Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs are creating change through new business models and bringing hope to countless people across the globe. Khanna juxtaposes, on a variety of levels, China and India; explores how the future depends on understanding the yin and yang of these two nations; and emphasizes the increasingly important links between China, India, and the West. Khanna embraces what he calls a big tent view of entrepreneurship going beyond typical stories of high profile, young executives taking companies public and focusing on social and political entrepreneurs who are redefining the norms of daily activity.

In the book, Khanna sets out to demystify many of the questions that confound foreigners (BusinessWeek), exploring subjects that include each nation s treatment of multinationals, Chinese and Indian managerial talent, and state vs. grassroots approaches to business and entrepreneurship. Khanna s insightful analysis draws on history, economics, and political science, and is humanized by vivid portraits of the lives of individual entrepreneurs, politicians, and activists whom the author has met during his regular visits to each country. He argues that hope for prosperity in both countries lies in the hands of the billions of entrepreneurs who are alleviating social problems and historic tensions, benefiting both countries and the world at large.

According to the Financial Times: What Khanna does do, and does well, is cover vast sociopolitical and economic ground, and provide meaty information derived from conversations with people who have done business in India and China.

One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China

James McGregor

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A Must Read for Doing Business in China 4 out of 5 stars.
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One Billion Customers teaches by example. This book contains modern-day stories of foreigners doing business in China; some do it well, some poorly and some in between. But behind each story is a theme of what can, should, and should never be done when dealing with the Chinese, especially on their turf. There is no doubt that James McGregor is one of the foremost experts in the field given his time and experience in China and his journalism and research skills shine in the stories he relates to the reader. This book is also useful from a historical perspective given the historical details of modern-day China McGregor includes in One Billion Customers. Admittedly, I am not in a position to currently do business in China and as such, this book dragged on a bit for me. But if I ever were to be in China with a specific business task at hand, this book would never be more than an arm's length away.

Editorial Review:

Companies from around the globe are flocking to China to buy, sell, manufacture, and create new products, but as former Wall Street Journal China bureau chief turned successful corporate executive James McGregor explains, business in China is never quite what it seems. One Billion Customers offers compelling narratives of personalities, business deals, and lessons learned, creating a coherent pictures of China's emergence as a global economic power with a dog-eat-dog business climate that has turned bureaucrats into billionaires and left many foreign business executives with their pockets turned inside out.

Wall Street: A History : From Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron

Charles R. Geisst

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In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of Wall Street, America's financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation's economic landscape. The bull market of the 1990's came to a close, ushering in the end of the dot com boom, a record number of mergers occurred, and accounting scandals in companies like Enron and WorldCom shook the financial industry to its core. In this wide-ranging volume, financial historian Charles Geisst provides the first history of Wall Street, explaining how a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan came to have such enormous influence in national and world affairs. In this updated edition, Geisst sums up the recent turbulence that has threatened America's financial industry. He shows how in 1997 thirty NASDAQ market makers paid a record $1.3 billion fine for price irregularities in stocks. He makes sense of the closing of the bull market, and explains a major change in the accounting rules for mergers that caused monumental losses for companies like AOL Time Warner. And he recounts how in the aftermath of the speculative fever that swept Wall Street in the 1990's, the scandals at Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Conseco represent a last gasp of mergermania and a fallout from a bubble-like market. Wall Street is at once the story of the street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. In a broader sense it is an engaging economic history of the United States, the role Wall Street played in making America the most powerful economy in the world, and the many challenges to that role it has faced in recent years.

When Corporations Rule the World (Kumarian Press Books for a World That Works)

David C. Korten

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Globalism and the Growth of Greed. 4 out of 5 stars.
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"When Corporations Rule the World" is thoroughly documented and very accurate.
David Korten describes the many tentacles of global corporations. He examines the details surrounding the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad as the beginning of corporations receiving the same rights as individual citizens.

He covers the rise of corporate power in the 1880's and 1890's. President Rutherford B. Hayes observed- "This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no more. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations."

The author assesses the "free" market and "free" trade as instruments that allow global corporations to plan and organize world economic affairs to enrich themselves without any consequences regarding the environment or workers.
Mr. Korten explains why capitalism favors the limited liability corporation. It provides unlimited, concentrated power with very limited accountability or legal liability.
He favors corporate charters because there is accountability. Charters are a priviledge rather than a right.

Mr. Korten examines the flawed projections that served as propaganda for NAFTA's passage. He emphasizes that while government shares some of the blame, the "giant corporations that owe no allegiance to place, people, or human interest" are the benficiaries.
From page 133- "The game of global competition is rigged. It pits companies against people in a contest that the people almost always lose."
Another accurate view on page 207 states- "The argument that globalization increases competition is simply false. To the contrary, it strengthens tendencies toward global-scale monopoly."

The author explains why GATT and the WTO are bad for the general public, great for global corporations. I disagree with his idea of keeping either the U.N. family of organizations or the Bretton Woods group. Why not get rid of them all?

His take on the China trade agreement was on point. The day after Bill Clinton signed the China trade agreement the Wall Street Journal "noted the real reason the corporate establishment put it's full lobbying weight behind the China Trade Bill: to guarantee that U.S. companies could safely move more production to China with assured access to U.S. markets." Does anyone else remember the Chinese campaign contributions to Clinton?

The author has some intriguing solutions in the book. His idea of eliminating income tax on the lower income levels is one positive step. However I don't agree with some of his ideas. Guaranteed income is one of them.


"When Corporations Rule the World" is a sobering assessment of corporate greed that respects no borders. While it is somewhat dated, I recommend it.

Editorial Review:

Addresses the issue of modern corporate power, exposing the harmful effects gobalization is having not only on economics, but also on politics, society and the environment. The book documents the devastating consequences as corporations recreate values and institutions to serve their own narrow financial interests, and outlines a strategy for creating localized economies that empower people and communities within a system of global cooperation.

Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia

Joe Studwell

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Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests range from banking to real estate, shipping to sugar, gambling to lumber. At their peak, eight of the world’s two dozen richest men were Southeast Asian, but their names would not be familiar to most regular readers of The Wall Street Journal. A complex mythology surrounds these billionaires, but in Asian Godfathers, Joe Studwell finds that the facts are even more remarkable than the myths. Studwell has spent fifteen years as a reporter in the region, and he marshals his unprecedented sources to paint intimate and revealing portraits of the men who control Southeast Asia. Studwell also provides us with a rich and deep understanding of the broader historic, economic, and political influences that have shaped Southeast Asia over the past 150 years. Asian Godfathers is a riveting and illuminating book that lifts the curtain on a world of staggering secrecy and hypocrisy, and reveals—for the first time—who the leaders of one of the planet’s most important and tumultuous markets really are, why they got to the top, and how they keep themselves there.

Building an Import/Export Business

Kenneth D. Weiss

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A good book to understand what everybody else is doing 3 out of 5 stars.
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Well, where do I start? This book is useful to understand what every small time operator is doing in this business. You don't want to follow the crowd so I suggest you purchase this book and John Weiley Spiers Book "How Small Business Trades Worldwide". If you follow the techniques outlined by Weiss you're wasting your time, taking on too much risk, and making very little profits. I'm not saying you can't do it, for example, using trade bulletins to find buyers but so is everybody else! This is not an easy business if you do it this way. No real mention of the internet is made to make it useful nor does he focus too much on the marketing aspects which is the most important. Again, there are ways, and very few of them, to make some big profits. In a strange way, I am recommending this book so you understand what everybody else is doing to get into this business, and hopefully you don't follow. If someone is starting off in their own business, I highly recommend you start out as a Manufacturers representative and branch out as an importer/exporter as part of the overall business. [...]

Editorial Review:

Many new import and export businesses will fail within the first two years - mainly due to lack of experience and knowledge. Completely revised and updated, this practical book provides guidelines to stop companies falling the wrong side of the regulations and restrictions that govern international trade - particulary when doing business with the USA. It includes information on the European Economic Community for 1992, keeping abreast of current legislation and customs regulations, successfully choosing a product, target marketing and preparing a business plan that will work.

International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior

Nancy J. Adler, Allison Gundersen

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great Textbook About International Management 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have had the pleasure of using Adler's book for several years now. Simply put, it is far more enjoyable to read than the average textbook and is packed with useful information for those wanting to learn.

Adler does a superb job of addressing the various dimensions of culture. She explains culture quite clearly and makes many connections to management practice. But maybe what I like best is that Adler goes beyond explaining. Each chapter contains vignettes discussing different cultural experiences. The short descriptions are interesting and lively. I have also noticed that the quantity and quality of vignettes has improved in the fourth edition.

Overall, the scope of this book seems quite thorough. National culture, workplace behavior across cultures, communication differences across cultures, creating synergy, multicultural teamwork and negotiation, global leadership, and the expat experience are all discussed. My favorite chapters tend to be early in the book (culture, teamwork, and synergy). It appears that these areas represent the author's greatest strength. The research informing each chapter is thorough and quite up-to-date. Maybe the weakest chapter, in my view, is chapter three which deals with communication. I suspect that maybe the author steps a bit beyond her expertise and is not able to touch on the deeper issues of cross-cultural communication (as she touches on the deeper issues in teamwork or other chapters). The result is a good chapter and sound discussion that maybe lacks the richness found in other parts of the book. She sets the standard so high in other chapters and I was hoping for the same here.

I have used this text for several years in intercultural management courses for undergraduate business students. The students seem to enjoy the book and encourage me to keep using it. I guess that is the highest praise we can give any text--students like it.

Editorial Review:

The world of organizations is no longer defined by national boundaries--and neither are today's successful business leaders. Stay ahead of the curve with INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, the proven and respected text that breaks down the conceptual, theoretical, and practical boundaries limiting our ability to understand and work with people in countries and cultures around the world. Adler's hallmark approach views global complexity as neither unpredictable nor random; rather, she demonstrates that variations across cultures and their impacts on organizations follow systematic, predictable patterns. With a blend of substance and readability, INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR is both authoritative and richly detailed.

Kiss, Bow, or Shakes Hands Asia: How to Do Business in 12 Asian Countries (Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands)12

Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conway

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Kiss Bow or Shake Hands Asia 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this for my daughter who does a lot of business travel. She said it is an awesome resource and a must for those doing business abroad.

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Economies are continuously shifting all over Asia, as trade barriers are constantly being lifted and put in place. To keep up with the pace of change, understanding the culture and customs that are driving this expansion across the continent is essential. The countries explored in "Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: Asia" are China (Hong Kong), India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.