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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Many of us resist the idea of creating a budget, but having a handle on your spending is the starting point to financial success. Compare and contrast two different ways to create a personalized spending plan. You'll also learn how to make some crucial planning decisions, including whether to pay down debt first or boost savings and whether to rent or buy a home.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this lecture on the trade-off between risk and return, Professor Sussman introduces you to several important financial models businesses use every day. These include the Nobel Prize-winning Capital Asset Pricing Model, which is a means for formally unifying an asset’s expected return and risk by studying asset fluctuations..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Passionate customers, tremendous profits, happy employees—the Trader Joe’s grocery chain is a powerful business success story. Discover how their secret for success lies in their use of trade-offs to make it hard for imitators and to mitigate the negative effects of the industry..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What makes statements of cash flows the most important financial statements you’ll encounter? Professor Sussman explains the differences between revenues, profits, and cash flows; discusses the three separate sections of a statement of cash flows; and uses two intriguing anecdotes to highlight why analyzing these statements is so important..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When should you retire? And how do you save enough to ensure that you're financially covered for the future? Demystify the retirement savings process with continuing guidance from the life cycle theory of managing money. Explore the different investment options at your disposal - including 401(k)s, IRAs, and annuities - and build a strategy for retirement.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Much of one’s success in an organization depends on how well one manages conflict with others. Professor Longenecker guides you through two primary types of conflict and three levels where they occur. Then, he offers ways to avoid or better handle conflict using a powerful management model involving cooperation and assertiveness..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To keep people in an organization more focused, engaged, and productive, you need to recognize the importance not just of coaching, but of tailor-made coaching. Discover how it works with a step-by-step analysis of a successful coaching scenario and a look at four sets of employees in need of different types of coaching..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Turn now to service operations, the successful management of which takes into account the psychology of winning customers through great experiences. From the Service Quality Scale to the details of process improvement, find out how to seize the movement where services are increasingly dominating the 21st-century business landscape..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
One of the most important decisions anyone in marketing will make is how to price your product and service. Here, Professor Hamilton reveals the information marketers use to settle on prices; how customers evaluate prices; and how price discrimination, price skimming, and price wars work..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bonjour! Begin your voyage with a global look at the French language and French-speaking countries around the world. Learning a new language is an active process, and language is deeply connected to the cultures where it is spoken. To begin, you will survey a few patterns and rules to jump-start your understanding of French.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What exactly do we mean by “value”? First, learn the true meaning of value and its overarching importance in finance. Then, investigate three different approaches for evaluating investment opportunities: the payback method; the book rate of return method; and the powerful investment decision-making tool known as Net Present Value..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In How to Plan for the Perfect Retirement, Professor Dana Anspach of Sensible Money, LLC will be your step-by-step guide to help you create the future you want. No matter how old you are or how far along in your working life, it's never too early or too late to develop a plan that works for you.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You’ve mastered segmentation, targeting, and positioning. Now learn how to grow and increase your sales using the 2x2 Ansoff matrix—one of the most powerful ideas in marketing. In the process, you’ll learn piercing insights into the interactions between customers (current and new), product development, diversification, and more..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What does it take to succeed in business? Critical Business Skills for Success is a comprehensive guide to the five disciplines—strategy, operations, finance and accounting, organizational behavior, and marketing—that everyone needs to master in today’s marketplace. Bringing the MBA experience to you, this authoritative course demystifies the secrets of business and provides insights to help you achieve your goals..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How does breakeven analysis, or cost-volume-profit analysis, work—and how do businesspeople make it work for them? As you’ll discover in looking at both the basic breakeven model and some more advanced variations, cost-volume-profit analysis has far-reaching applications in everything from marketing hotel rooms to pricing concert tickets..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Wrap up by building a solid and realistic financial plan. You'll learn how to set up a cash-flow statement, prepare a budget for future expenditures, and make a balance sheet for your estate planning process. Then, apply the fundamentals to achieving your financial goals.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Start taking control of your professional organizational behavior with this introductory lecture on how to achieve lasting results. You’ll explore how to use the S.T.O.P. (“sit, think, organize, perform”) method to improve job satisfaction, reduce stress, and enhance your professional performance..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ways to improve business processes are indispensable to success. Gain simple tools and methods for improving the processes that matter to your organization. Learn how to create and use powerful, yet simple tools called process maps..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Look into four main strategies for withdrawal. For example, what is the income-only approach to retirement savings and is it right for you? Dig deep into annuities as a vehicle for your retirement and learn why this sometimes-controversial product is neither all good nor all bad. You'll learn about the other three main types of annuities as well: income, deferred-income, and variable.
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