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introduction by William J. O'Neil

Includes profiles of Bill Bowerman (Nike Co-founder), Walt Disney (animator), Oprah Winfrey (media innovator), Andrew Carnegie (industrialist), Katharine Graham (publisher), James Morgan (chief executive officer of Applied Materials), Carly Fiorina (chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard), Mary Kay Ash (founder of Mary Kay cosmetics), Dale Carnegie (self-help pioneer), David Stern (NBA commissioner), Sam Walton (Wal-Mart founder), Thomas Golisano (chief executive officer of Paychex), Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's), Brownie Wise (of Tupperware), Charles Tandy (chairman of Tandy), Charles R. Walgreen (founder of Walgreen Co.), Sheryl Leach (creator of "Barney"), A.P. Giannini (of Bank of America), William Wrigley, Jr.^ (founder of Wrigley Co.), Nancy Brinker (organizer), Billiam Boeing (aviation pioneer), Michael Barrington (founder of AmeriCredit), Jen-Hsun Huang (of Nvidia), Daisy Braxton (entrepreneur), Charles Mathewson (chairman of International Game Technology), MIchael Birch (chief executive officer of Tellabs), Konosuke Matsushita (founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.), John H. Johnson (founder of Johnson Publishing), Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus (of Home Depot), Scott Kriens (chief executive officer of Juniper Networks), Ann Fudge (of Kraft Foods), Robert Woodruff (of Coca-Cola), Michael Dell (founder of Dell Computer Corp.), Jorma Ollila (of Nokia), Jeffrey Bleustein (of Harley-Davidson), Joan Ganz Cooney (creator of Sesame Street), Alfred P. West, Jr. (of SEI Investments), Meg Whitman (of eBay), Steve Case (of American On Line), Mickey Drexler (of Gap, Inc.), Howard Schultz (of Starbucks Corp.), Linda Sanford (of IBM), David Gold (of 99 Cents Only Stores), Madame D.J.^ Walker (cosmetics entrepreneur), David Ogilvy (founder of Ogilvy & Mather), John Chambers (chief executive officer of Cisco Systems), Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay), Ole and Bess Evinrude (founders of Outboard Marine Corp.), W. Edwards Deming (statistician), Coco Chanel (fashion designer), Joseph C. Wilson (of Xerox), John Mauchly (co-inventor of ENIAC and Univac), Howard Head (inventor), Robert Noyce (Intel co-founder), Jack Welch (chief executive officer of General Electric).

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Pat Croskerry ... [et al

With the increased emphasis on reducing medical errors in an emergency setting, this book will focus on patient safety within the emergency department--where preventable medical errors often occur. The book will provide both an overview of patient safety within health care--the 'culture of safety,' importance of teamwork, organizational change--and specific guidelines on issues such as medication safety, procedural complications, and clinician fatigue, to ensure quality care in the ED. Special sections discuss ED design, medication safety, and awareness of the 'culture of safety.'

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Victor Aguilar

Product Description This book is about economic theory. It is not, however, a simplified version of mainstream economics; mainstream economics is simpleminded enough already. It is certainly not in the "how to be a salesman" genre, nor does it propose to tell the reader how to make money in the framework of current financial institutions. It is an abstract treatise. The purpose of this book is to give an axiomatic foundation for the theory of economics.

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Tony Fu-Lai Yu

This is the first systematic economic study of the nature, operation and contribution of entrepreneurship to the growth of Hong Kong. From a new entrepreneurial perspective of economic development, the author argues that the success of Hong Kong is attributable principally to adaptive entrepreneurship: * product imitation, * small scale enterprise, * subcontracting, * spatial arbitrage. Using these entrepreneurial strategies, local manufacturers learned from foreign firms and imitated their products. By selling improved commodities at lower prices, they competed against the original suppliers from more advanced countries. Being alert to opportunities and responding rapidly to change, Hong Kong's entrepreneurs shifted their production activities from one product to another; from higher cost to lower cost regions; from traditional fishing and agriculture to manufacturing, and then to finance and other services. These entrepreneurial activities have brought about structural transformation in Hong Kong's economy, enabling the country to compete with advanced economies. This study concludes that any policy recommendation on economic development should be based on analysis that incorporates entrepreneurship and provides a reappraisal of the role of government in economic development.