Macmillan Company

Ben Jonson has frequently been maligned for his antitheatricalism and inability to conceive of his plays as anything other than a reading experience.

“Jacek’s book offers a user-friendly step-by-step guide through a corporate financial statement analysis. It is a journey starting from fundamental concepts of financial reporting, and then traveling through numerous analytical tools, which are discussed with both a retrospective as well as future-oriented focus. The real-life examples greatly demonstrate not only how financial reports are useful in evaluating business performance, but also (or before all) in an assessment of corporate business risks. The auxiliary materials are innovative and highly valuable too, since they make a ‘digestion’ of the discussed topics much easier, especially for non-advanced readers.”

Scribners tells the inside story of five generations—over 150 years—at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York, continuing through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the famous landmark bookstore and down to the present day. The author, the fifth of the Charleses to work at that house of celebrated authors, provides here an inside view—"between the covers" of illustrious and notorious books—of the family members, editors, and authors of this colorful literary history.

An insightful discussion and practical guide on how to put customers back into the center of your business model

This book describes the "strategic community" concept, which integrates knowledge possessed by people, groups, or organizations across organizational boundaries to create new products and services, or new business models. Through detailed case studies of Japanese high-tech industries, including joint product innovation with US-based companies, the author suggests that strategy, organization and leadership that realizes knowledge integration across multiple organizational boundaries represents the dynamic view of strategy that a company needs to obtain organizational capability with a competitive edge.