A Career in Statistics: Beyond the Numbers

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A valuable guide to a successful career as a statistician

A Career in Statistics: Beyond the Numbers prepares readers for careers in statistics by emphasizing essential concepts and practices beyond the technical tools provided in standard courses and texts. This insider's guide from internationally recognized applied statisticians helps readers decide whether a career in statistics is right for them, provides hands-on guidance on how to prepare for such a career, and shows how to succeed on the job.

The book provides non-technical guidance for a successful career. The authors' extensive industrial experience is supplemented by insights from contributing authors from government and academia, Carol Joyce Blumberg, Leonard M. Gaines, Lynne B. Hare, William Q. Meeker, and Josef Schmee. Following an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the field, the authors discuss the various dimensions of a career in applied statistics in three succinct parts:

• The Work of a Statistician describes the day-to-day activities of applied statisticians in business and industry, official government, and various other application areas, highlighting the work environment and major on-the-job challenges
• Preparing for a Successful Career in Statistics describes the personal traits that characterize successful statisticians, the education that they need to acquire, and approaches for securing the right job
• Building a Successful Career as a Statistician offers practical guidance for addressing key challenges that statisticians face on the job, such as project initiation and execution, effective communication, publicizing successes, ethical considerations, and gathering good data; alternative career paths are also described

The book concludes with an in-depth examination of careers for statisticians in academia as well as tips to help them stay on top of their field throughout their careers. Each chapter includes thought-provoking discussion questions and a Major Takeaways section that outlines key concepts. Real-world examples illustrate key points, and an FTP site provides additional information on selected topics.

A Career in Statistics is an invaluable guide for individuals who are considering or have decided on a career in statistics as well as for statisticians already on the job who want to accelerate their path to success. It also serves as a suitable book for courses on statistical consulting, statistical practice, and statistics in the workplace at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Essentials of Operations Management

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Covering the most critical topics and strategies in the field, Essentials of Operations Management provides business students with the most up-to-date coverage of modern topics not always found in other texts, such as human resources in operations, facility location, “green” operations, and the balanced scorecard approach to operations. Author Scott Young draws on his many years of teaching experience at both the undergraduate and MBA level to provide the essential content necessary for success in operations-in an affordable text.

Key Features

• Includes a complete chapter (Chapter 4) on managing the operations workforce-an important topic for the well-rounded operations manager
• Applies “The Balanced Scorecard” approach to operations in Chapter 5, introducing students to a performance measure that balances customer, internal processes and learning and growth measures against traditional financial measures
• Covers sustainable operations in Chapter 7, including discussions of “green” operations and why they are important for any new operations manager
• Includes end-of-chapter projects and exercises that help students apply concepts to real-life situations
• Provides students with ample review opportunities through additional end-of-chapter features such as review questions, key terms, and summary points

Instructor Resources on CD include PowerPoint® slides, chapter overviews, lecture outlines, review questions, and additional cases. Contact Customer Care at 1-800-818-SAGE (7243) from 6 am - 5 pm, PT, to request a copy (qualified instructors only).

Essentials of Operations Management is appropriate for undergraduate or MBA students taking Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, or Operations Strategy courses in schools of business.

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The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business

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Collected here, for the first time, are more than 100 essays written between 1998 and 2006 on the sports industry by one of the nation's leading sports economists. Provocative, fact-filled, and tightly argued, these essays are essential reading for every sports fan. They delve into some of the most important sports business issues of the last fifteen years, including the financing of new stadiums, the financial value of professional teams, revenue sharing programs, the flaws in "competitive balance" plans, walkouts and lockouts, the cost of college sports programs, and the fallout from Congressional hearings on steroid use by professional athletes. Andrew Zimbalist writes with well-earned authority, and impressive ease, about the principal sports in the U.S.-major league baseball, basketball, hockey, and the NCAA. Along with being an unmatched "numbers guy," Zimbalist is clearly a sports fan himself. Even casual readers will find that their "sports I.Q." skyrockets after reading these perceptive, insightful essays.

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The Management of Technological Innovation: Strategy and Practice

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The Management of Technological Innovation (MTI) is one of the most important challenges facing businesses today. Innovation has become the fundamental driver of competitiveness for firms of all sizes in virtually all business sectors and nations.

The first edition of this book has become one of the most popular texts for students of innovation and technology management. This new edition sees David Gann and Ammon Salter join Mark Dodgson as authors, drawing on their combined experience of 60 years of researching and teaching MTI. It combines the most relevant theoretical analysis with contemporary and historical empirical evidence to provide a comprehensive, yet concise and readable, guide to the challenges of MTI.

By explaining the innovation process the book reveals the broad scope of MTI and its importance for company survival, growth and sustainability. It describes how MTI has to be managed strategically and how this is successfully achieved by formulating and implementing strategy and delivering value. Chapters provide frameworks, tools and techniques, and case studies on managing: innovation strategy, communities, and networks, R&D, design and new product and service development, operations and production, and commercialization.

Based on robust analysis, the book provides a wide range of empirical evidence from a huge diversity of case studies, with around fifty case studies newly written for this edition. It analyses MTI in all parts of the world, in companies large and small, and in services, manufacturing, and resource-based business sectors.

This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the latest teaching and research, and to ensure its continuing relevance to the contemporary world of MTI. It will be an important resource for academics, students, and managers throughout the world, is a recommended text for students of innovation and technology management at postgraduate and undergraduate level, and is particularly valuable for MBA courses.

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The Cornell School of Hotel Administration Handbook of Applied Hospitality Strategy

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The Handbook of Applied Hospitality Strategy is a comprehensive resource for advanced students and serious practitioners focused on hospitality strategic management. The Handbook includes original thought on key topics, critical articles from the pages of the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, and integrative commentary. Particular emphasis is placed on the strategies and decisions that determine the long-run performance of a corporation within a competitive hospitality industry context.

Throughout the chapters, the authors have offered new ideas, models and frameworks, managerial implications of research findings, and suggestions for future practice. The emphasis is on strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Key issues such as pricing, service delivery, experiential branding, franchising, acquisitions and mergers, human resource management, change management, and culture creation are featured.

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Measure What Matters to Customers: Using Key Predictive Indicators (KPIs)

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Measure What Matters to Customers reveals how to capitalize on Key Predictive Indicators (KPIs), the innovative measures that define the success of your enterprise as your customers do. If you want to increase your company's profits by working smarter, this is the book for you.

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Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders

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What's it like to work on a great software development team facing an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Can a group of people who don't get along still build good software? How does a team leader keep everyone on track when the stakes are high and the schedule is tight?

Beautiful Teams takes you behind the scenes with some of the most interesting teams in software engineering history. You'll learn from veteran team leaders' successes and failures, told through a series of engaging personal stories -- and interviews -- by leading programmers, architects, project managers, and thought leaders.

This book includes contributions from:

• Tim O'Reilly
• Scott Berkun
• Mark Healey
• Bill DiPierre
• Andy Lester
• Keoki Andrus
• Tom Tarka
• Auke Jilderda
• Grady Booch
• Jennifer Greene
• Mike Cohn
• Cory Doctorow
• Neil Siegel
• Trevor Field
• James Grenning
• Steve McConnell
• Barry Boehm and Maria H. Penedo
• Peter Gluck
• Karl E. Wiegers
• Alex Martelli
• Karl Fogel
• Michael Collins
• Karl Rehmer
• Andrew Stellman
• Ned Robinson
• Scott Ambler
• Johanna Rothman
• Mark Denovich and Eric Renkey
• Patricia Ensworth
• Andy Oram
• Tony Visconti

Beautiful Teams is edited by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, veteran software engineers and project managers who have been writing bestselling books for O'Reilly since 2005, including Applied Software Project Management, Head First PMP, and Head First C#.

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