Authors have compiled this book focusing on entrepreneurship from three different perspectives: people, process, and place. This volume examines the entrepreneurial process. The book proceeds through the life cycle of a new venture start-up. Chapter authors tackle several key steps in the process, ranging from idea, to opportunity, team building, resource acquisition, managing growth, and entering global markets

This book features a new, user-friendly approach. It shows you how to get your foot in the door and build your business from your own "comfort zone" - that area of your personal and professional behavior which you perform most confidently in. It gives you the tools to prepare and mail a response-getting contact package. Plus, it shares the most effective techniques that can secure an appointment with the person who makes the final decision

This book brings together a vast amount of experience to show the "best practices" of the most successful and long-lasting families in business. It provides a framework of five insights and four principles in which to position 50 lessons for family businesses

The book introduces an alternative, a new paradigm. Praised by business and political leaders as well as economists and environmentalists around the globe, this groundbreaking book reveals how tomorrow's most successful global businesses will draw profit from their own environmental responsibility

There are hundreds of sound ideas presented in this book that are specific to small-store retailers. Most were developed and implemented to varying degrees by the industry's most successful retailers, accumulated and analyzed by author and presented in its best practices knowledge base

In this book, the efforts of the Continental Army are made even more personal, as an excerpted version of the original book is paired with letters, maps, and seminal artwork. More than three dozen source documents - including a personal letter George Washington penned to Martha about his commission, a note informing the mother of a Continental soldier that her son has been taken prisoner

This volume recounts the evolution of the presidency, from the age of George Washington until today. It provides a revealing glimpse of the culture, particularly the material culture, of the presidency: the duties, responsibilities, rituals, representations, and personal effects of America's chief executive

This handbook is designed to serve as a reference source for two distinct user groups involved in the development bond markets

This book significantly advances the study of pioneering black dancers by providing valuable biographical and historical information on a group of artists who worked during the 1920s-1940s to legitimize dance of the African diaspora as a serious art form. Author sets these seminal artists and their innovations in the contexts of African-American culture and American modern dance and explores their creative synthesis of material from European-American, African-American sources

This book offers insight and perspective on entrepreneurship from the foremost academic leaders in the field. Taking a contemporary approach to entrepreneurial processes, the book considers how the convergence of individual, opportunity, and environment ultimately leads to success or failure, while illuminating the true relationship between entrepreneurship and technological and social issues