Finance Industry

Each year thousands of people die waiting for organ transplants. Many of these deaths could have been prevented were it not for the almost universal moral hand-wringing over the concept of selling human organs. Author and bioethicist Mark Cherry reasserts the case that health care could be improved and lives saved by introducing a regulated transplant organs market rather than by well-meant, but misguided, prohibitions.

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts are beginning to understand the potential dangers of these substances, there are still more than 80,000 synthetic compounds that have not been sufficiently tested to interpret their effects on human health.

Alles begann mit einer Doktorarbeit und der Entdeckung des medizinischen Potenzials des Botenmoleküls messenger RNA. Am Ende stehen prominente Investoren wie Dietmar Hopp oder die Gates-Stiftung, Hunderte Millionen staatlicher Finanzierung, der Aufstieg zum Börsenstar und zum erfolgreichen Impfstoffentwickler. Dazwischen liegt ein steiniger Weg auf der Suche nach Unterstützung. Biotech-Unternehmer Wolfgang Klein hat die Anfangszeit als Finanzchef von CureVac selbst miterlebt. Er erzählt die einzigartige und anekdotenreiche Geschichte auf dem Weg zum Weltunternehmen.

The United States spends far more money on health care than any other country, and yet nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured at least part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who cares enough about our health-care situation to consider serious alternatives to the current system.

Blockchain is far more than cryptocurrency. Regarded for a decade as complex and with limited application, blockchain has now matured to be on the verge of fully realizing its disruptive potential. In Enterprise Strategy for Blockchain, business strategy expert Ravi Sarathy shows how companies can gain competitive advantage by developing and deploying blockchain capabilities.

With In the Black, T. Dallas Smith identifies the centrality of honest and open relationships to success within the world of high-dollar commercial real estate deals. His advice to “build relationships before you need them” is complemented by personal stories highlighting the importance of identifying one’s advocates.

A start-up wastes a billion dollars making videos nobody wants to watch. A city rushes to build landing pads for flightless air taxi prototypes. Tech giants hire thousands of techies for fake projects to stop them working for rivals. The tech industry has a tendency to go crazy. In Siliconned, industry insider Emmanuel Maggiori decodes tech’s hysteria and explains why we all pay the price for it.

Take your real estate career to the next level. Whether you’re just starting out in the business or have been at it for decades, your real estate career is about to take off. In his much-anticipated publishing debut, Do You Have a Minute?, John Giffen draws on his seasoned experience as an award-winning managing real estate broker, to help agents just like you with all the questions you’ve wanted to ask.

For more than 30 years, Hank Cardello was an executive and adviser to some of the largest food and beverage corporations in the world. For more than 30 years, he watched as corporate profits - and America's waistlines - ballooned: fattening consumers meant fattening profits. Now, in this fascinating and timely book, Cardello offers a behind-the-scenes look at the business of food.

Inside the Chinese Wine Industry takes you on a thrilling adventure through the past, present, and future of wine in China. The wine business is one of the world’s most compelling industries, and China is considered the rising star. A hidden secret, the Chinese wine production continues to grow at an amazing pace. It is poised to soon enter the top five producing nations, supplanting long-established countries such as Australia.

Nel settore della sanità sono in gioco forti interessi economici. Per questo, imparare a riconoscere le condizioni di conflitto di interesse è la base per avviare una seria politica di prevenzione, o di identificazione precoce, delle situazioni di rischio che possono arrecare danno alla salute delle persone o compromettere la fiducia dei cittadini nelle istituzioni.

Whether you want to discover great places to live in the USA and around the world that are inexpensive, set your home and social life up for optimal enjoyment, or explore the many ways you can live happily and productively in retirement, this audiobook will teach you everything you need to know. Choose wisely how you retire.

Whether you are a PharmD, PhD, MD, DPT, DC, or DNP, you likely have a credit card, student loan, and/or mortgage debt you would like to pay down. While your professors worked hard to teach you the ins and outs of clinical practice, it's unlikely they talked about personal finance as often making money is an anathema to being a good clinician and an unwelcome conversation. While debt prevention isn't as sexy as the person who overcame hundreds of thousands of student loan debt, the principles that the authors follow can help you find yourself in a much better financial place.

This book is different. Why? Because in short, bite-size chapters I will show you how the asset management industry works. Most other books on asset management focus on portfolio management. I will instead show you a 360-degree view of the industry, covering topics including: the industry's main asset managers, who the main types of clients are, and most importantly, how people within the money management industry look at themselves.

Achieving homeownership is a life goal for most but it can be scary and unbearably stressful. This book is your answer to destroying your biggest obstacles in buying a house and taking your first step towards financial freedom. Did you know that 90 percent of the world’s millionaires have created their wealth through real estate? You deserve to be set up with the same life skills that the smartest people in the world have.

In a world where more time is spent planning vacations than securing financial futures, the importance of meticulous retirement planning cannot be understated. Dive into the transformative journey outlined in this book, where the gift of quality planning paves the way for a future filled with financial prosperity and peace of mind.

In Medicare Decoded: Shocking Facts to Help You Save Money and Get the Most from Medicare, elder advocate and Medicare expert Rick Solofsky guides you through the twists and turns of Medicare to get to the heart of what you need to know. Easy to understand and filled with essential information and strategies, Medicare Decoded answers your questions.

Written by a licensed Medicare broker who’s helped thousands of NJ residents, this isn’t just another government pamphlet. It’s a plain-English survival guide that finally makes these programs make sense—especially for seniors, caregivers, and those living on a fixed income.

Hello, and welcome to The Art of Home Staging! Here, you will be taken on a comprehensive walkthrough of every “stage of staging” in preparation of putting your home on the market. Home staging is, in fact, an art form. Every element of the staging process works together synergistically to create the perfect aesthetic for you and your beautiful house. Staging, though, is definitely not art for art’s sake; it has a specific, important function in the home-selling process and must be done with careful consideration of many factors.

My grandmother used to say, "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a lawyer." The same can be said of financial advisors today. If you're a wealthy business owner or an ultra-high-net-worth individual, this book is your wake-up call. For too long, the wealth management industry has failed to deliver the comprehensive, coordinated services that successful entrepreneurs and their families truly need.