TRUST UNDER PRESSURE: EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF TRUST AND TRUST BUILDING IN...; ED. BY KATINKA BIJLSMA-FRANKEMA

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Ben Cohen, Mal Warwick

"The premier title in the Social Venture Network (SVN) Series--SVN is a nonprofit network of the most prominent socially conscious business leaders in North America, representing Ben & Jerry's, Working Assets, Tom's of Maine, Eileen Fisher, Clif Bar, and many others. Find out more about the series * Combines the tried-and-tested wisdom of the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's and the chair of the Social Venture Network Advisory Board * Concise and practical format includes a self-assessment tool, checklists, and other user-friendly features * Listen to podcasts of Mal Warwick talking about Values-Driven Business on the Good Life radio show In Values-Driven Business, Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen and Social Venture Network chair Mal Warwick team up to provide you with a way to run your business for profit and personal satisfaction. This practical, down-to-earth book details every step in the process of creating and managing a business that will reflect your personal values, not force you to hide them. It includes: * A self-assessment tool to determine what it will take for you to start a values-based business or transform your company into one * Hundreds of examples of business policies and practices that are both ethical and business-savvy * Checklists crammed with practical suggestions you can put to work today in your own business."--Publisher's website.

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Frank Rose

This book is a field guide to the visionaries and the fans who are reinventing the art of storytelling. Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media. And while we watch more television than ever before, how we watch it is changing in ways we have barely slowed down to register. No longer content in our traditional role as couch potatoes, we approach television shows, movies, even advertising as invitations to participate -- as experiences to immerse ourselves in at will. Wired contributing editor Frank Rose introduces us to the people who are reshaping media for a two-way world-people like Will Wright (The Sims), James Cameron (Avatar), Damon Lindelof (Lost), and dozens of others whose ideas are changing how we play, how we chill, and even how we think. The Art of Immersion is an eye-opening look at the shifting shape of entertainment today. - Publisher.

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Michael A. Crew, Joseph C. Schuh

Markets, Pricing, and Deregulation of Utilities examines the effects of deregulation on the energy and telecommunications industries in an economic environment that has changed dramatically since deregulation was first introduced in those industries several years ago. The contributors to this book discuss the aspects of deregulation that appear to be succeeding and those that seem to be failing. Within that framework, they offer insight as to the possible next stages of regulatory restructuring and reform. The contents of this book provide a strong theoretical base leading to a better understanding of markets, pricing, and deregulation by utility managers, regulators, and economists.

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Pete Hautman

Mack MacWray tracks down his embezzeling business partner and kills him. He soon finds that he is without guilt and that his life has changed.