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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discover the many aspects of retirement planning that you'll need to consider when working toward financial security for your later years. Explore the differences between the go-go, slow-go, and no-go years of retirement, and why your plan must address the specific needs of each period. And when considering financial products, learn to differentiate between a salesperson and a true advisor.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The one unavoidable part of an organization: change. After investigating the three essential ingredients of organizational change, focus on the kind of practical steps you can take to achieve change in your organization. Among them: how to make it about problem solving and how to cultivate a sense of urgency and speed..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Among the most pervasive developments in business organization over the past few decades is supply chain management. Learn how this discipline, a higher order of operations management, uses your network of suppliers and customers to achieve maximum effectiveness and help you better leverage your company’s supply chain..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Most of us consider our trust, power of attorney, and healthcare directive as among our most important estate-planning documents. But in this episode, you'll see why these are equally crucial: the titling of your accounts and property, and setting up beneficiary designations on your retirement accounts, life insurance, and investment accounts.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
One of the most important decisions anyone in marketing will make is how to price your product and service. Here, Professor Hamilton reveals the information marketers use to settle on prices; how customers evaluate prices; and how price discrimination, price skimming, and price wars work..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Passionate customers, tremendous profits, happy employees—the Trader Joe’s grocery chain is a powerful business success story. Discover how their secret for success lies in their use of trade-offs to make it hard for imitators and to mitigate the negative effects of the industry..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Much of one’s success in an organization depends on how well one manages conflict with others. Professor Longenecker guides you through two primary types of conflict and three levels where they occur. Then, he offers ways to avoid or better handle conflict using a powerful management model involving cooperation and assertiveness..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What happens when the whole is worth less than the proposed sum of the parts? You’ve got a diversification discount, common for many unrelated diversifiers in the United States, and one that has led to many corporate breakups. If you’re going to diversify, you need to do it the smart way. Learn how here..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The first question in developing a strong marketing strategy is figuring out who your customer is. That’s where the tools of market segmentation come in. In this lecture, learn the basic principles that underlie solid segmentation analysis—whether you’re working with the best market data available or (as can be the case) imperfect data..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
All investors should know how to make value-creating decisions. Round out your introduction to accounting and finance with a recap of the fundamental tools of the trade. By applying these tools to specific examples involving major companies, you’ll cement your ability to make smart and savvy investment decisions..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What exactly do we mean by “value”? First, learn the true meaning of value and its overarching importance in finance. Then, investigate three different approaches for evaluating investment opportunities: the payback method; the book rate of return method; and the powerful investment decision-making tool known as Net Present Value..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Research is undoubtedly essential for making responsible, effective marketing decisions. Professor Hamilton concludes his course with a lecture on the importance of marketing research methods whose data is often expressed in helpful qualitative terms: customer observations, focus groups, ethnographies, and projective techniques..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Five essential forces shape any business strategy, and together, they create a framework that can help you better make key strategic choices. Central to this discussion of these five strategic forces: Apple’s meteoric rise to the top of the market..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What makes statements of cash flows the most important financial statements you’ll encounter? Professor Sussman explains the differences between revenues, profits, and cash flows; discusses the three separate sections of a statement of cash flows; and uses two intriguing anecdotes to highlight why analyzing these statements is so important..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To keep people in an organization more focused, engaged, and productive, you need to recognize the importance not just of coaching, but of tailor-made coaching. Discover how it works with a step-by-step analysis of a successful coaching scenario and a look at four sets of employees in need of different types of coaching..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Many of us resist the idea of creating a budget, but having a handle on your spending is the starting point to financial success. Compare and contrast two different ways to create a personalized spending plan. You'll also learn how to make some crucial planning decisions, including whether to pay down debt first or boost savings and whether to rent or buy a home.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When should you retire? And how do you save enough to ensure that you're financially covered for the future? Demystify the retirement savings process with continuing guidance from the life cycle theory of managing money. Explore the different investment options at your disposal - including 401(k)s, IRAs, and annuities - and build a strategy for retirement.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bonjour! Begin your voyage with a global look at the French language and French-speaking countries around the world. Learning a new language is an active process, and language is deeply connected to the cultures where it is spoken. To begin, you will survey a few patterns and rules to jump-start your understanding of French.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this lecture on the trade-off between risk and return, Professor Sussman introduces you to several important financial models businesses use every day. These include the Nobel Prize-winning Capital Asset Pricing Model, which is a means for formally unifying an asset’s expected return and risk by studying asset fluctuations..
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