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This book explores the science behind intuitive decision-making in business, and shows how people's innate capacity for intuition can be nurtured and strengthened to maximize performance. The clear and detailed explanations reveal how we can use intuition to navigate a world that is fast-moving, complex, and uncertain.

Intellectual biography contributes to our understanding of the history of ideas. It can help to explain the origins of a scholar's work, the ideological underpinnings of a subject's thought, and can shed light on the sociology of knowledge. This e-book includes articles that celebrate the lives and contributions of five different pioneers in business education.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Business History: Concepts and Measurement -- Production, Employment and Labour Productivity in the British Coalfields, 1830-1913: Some Reinterpretations -- 'Wealthy and Titled Persons' - The Accumulation of Riches in Victorian Britain: The Case of Peter Denny -- British Entrepreneurs in Distribution and the Steel Industry -- Interpreting the Record of Wage Negotiations under an Arbitral Regime: A Game Theoretic Approach to the Coal Industry Conciliation Boards, 1893-1914 -- Competition, Co-operation and Nationalisation in the Nineteenth Century Telegraph System -- The Birth and Death of Firms in England and Wales during the Inter-War Years -- Locational Choice, Performance and the Growth of British Multinational Firms -- Index

Wasley talks about a raft of new gag laws in the US. Some commentators believe the current crop of 'ag-gags' have borrowed from the model adopted by the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The powerful lobby group--made up of corporations and politicians--suggests pre-packaged laws, according to its critics, which serve members' vested interests before handing them over, ready to roll, to legislators on a state-by-state basis. Unsurprisingly, many food corporations and agricultural organizations support ALEC, which in 2003 introduced the contentious Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act, a federal law designed to target radical environmental and animal rights groups. Some fear that 'ag-gags', designed to suppress investigations into factory farming, could be used to target activists and journalists probing other aspects of the food industry. Adapted from the source document.

Its Official records, 16th sess., Supp. no. 11A-11B. ; "E/2379-E/2379/Add.1-2; E/AC.37/2-E/AC.37/2/Add.1-2." ; 1. Analysis of governmental measures relating to restrictive business practices -- 2. Annex C: texts of national legislation and dother governmental measures relating to restrictive business practices. ; Mode of access: Internet.

With some 50 billion people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and aid agencies are obliged to respond to a range of economic forces in order to 'stay in business'. In his customarily hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating insights into the complexities and challenges of the contemporary humanitarian marketplace. In addition to changing political and military conditions that generate demand for aid, private suppliers have changed too. Today's political economy places aid agencies side-by-side with for-profit businesses, including private military and security companies, in a marketplace that also is linked to global trade networks in illicit arms, natural resources, and drugs. This witch's brew is simmering in the cauldron of wars that are often protracted and always costly to civilians who are the very targets of violence. While belligerents put a price-tag on access to victims, aid agencies pursue branding in a competition for 'scarce' resources relative to the staggering needs. As marketization encroaches on traditional humanitarianism, it seems everything may have a priceÑfrom access and principles, to moral authority and lives.

"With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and aid agencies are obliged to respond to a range of economic forces in order to "stay in business." In his customarily hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating insights into the complexities and challenges of the contemporary humanitarian marketplace. In addition to changing political and military conditions that generate demand for aid, private suppliers have changed too. Today's political economy places aid agencies side-by-side with for-profit businesses, including private military and security companies, in a marketplace that also is linked to global trade networks in illicit arms, natural resources, and drugs. This witch's brew is simmering in the cauldron of wars that are often protracted and always costly to civilians who are the very targets of violence. While belligerents put a price-tag on access to victims, aid agencies pursue branding in a competition for "scarce" resources relative to the staggering needs. As marketization encroaches on traditional humanitarianism, it seems everything may have a price -- from access and principles, to moral authority and lives."--Publisher's description.

Volume 1. From The Prince -- "Advice to a Young Tradesman" -- Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Fletcher v. Peck -- Lowell Mill Girls -- From "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" -- From The Life of P.T. Barnum -- Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade -- From Utilitarianism -- "The Money Power" -- Documents Relating to Black Friday, 1869 -- Verse and Cartoon about Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall -- Crédit Mobilier Scandal -- Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act -- Andrew Carnegie: "The Gospel of Wealth" -- Eugene Debs: "What Can We Do for Working People?" -- Sherman Antitrust Act -- "Wall Street Owns the Country" -- Frick's Fracas--Henry Frick Makes His Case -- "The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over" -- From The Theory of the Leisure Class -- Coal Strike Hearings: The Miners Testify -- An Immigrant Garment Worker's "Days and Dreams" -- Theodore Roosevelt on Corporate Trusts -- "Echoes from the Recent Pennsylvania Coal Strike" -- Jane Addams: "Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood" -- From The Jungle -- Fire Hazards in New York City Factories -- Clayton Act -- On the Teapot Dome Scandal -- From My Life and Work, by Henry Ford.