Upskilling for the Age of AI and Automation examines how rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation are transforming the global workforce. It highlights the growing need for continuous learning and reskilling as traditional job roles evolve and new opportunities emerge in an AI-driven economy.The book traces the evolution of automation from industrial systems to intelligent technologies, exploring both the opportunities and disruptions they create. ...

Upskilling for the Age of AI and Automation examines how rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation are transforming the global workforce. It highlights the growing need for continuous learning and reskilling as traditional job roles evolve and new opportunities emerge in an AI-driven economy.The book traces the evolution of automation from industrial systems to intelligent technologies, exploring both the opportunities and disruptions they create. It ident...

A comprehensive exploration of how ESG principles are reshaping financial markets, corporate governance, and technological innovation. Emphasizing the growing importance of integrating environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and governance practices into investment decision-making, this book addresses the challenges and opportunities that shape sustainable finance worldwide. Examining a wide spectrum of themes, the book begins with emerging ESG practices and governance innovation...

A comprehensive exploration of how ESG principles are reshaping financial markets, corporate governance, and technological innovation. Emphasizing the growing importance of integrating environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and governance practices into investment decision-making, this book addresses the challenges and opportunities that shape sustainable finance worldwide.Examining a wide spectrum of themes, the book begins with emerging ESG practices and governance inn...

At a time when corporate scandals and major financial failures dominate newspaper headlines, the importance of good risk management practices has never been more obvious. The absence or mismanagement of such practices can have devastating effects on exposed organizations and the wider economy (Barings Bank, Enron, Lehmann Brothers, Northern Rock, to name but a few). Today's organizations and corporate leaders must learn the lessons of such failures by developing practices to deal effective...

This primer enables professionals with technical expertise to collaborate with their business-side colleagues. Emphasizing brevity and clarity, it gives technical staff answers to their most pressing questions about economics, finance, marketing, strategic decision-making, accounting, management, and related subjects. It does not offer condensed 1st year MBA courses; instead, it presents streamlined concepts and insights that are easy enough to be accessible and challenging enough to hold ...

Sustainable investing is a rapidly growing and evolving field. With investors expressing ever greater interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics and reporting, companies face a sustainability imperative and the need to remake their business models to respond to an array of pressing issues including climate change, air and water pollution, racial justice, workplace diversity, economic inequality, privacy, corporate integrity, and good governance. From equities ...

Explore the strategies of impact investing that deliver financial gains and positive results for people and the planetIn The Little Book of Impact Investing: Aligning Profit and Purpose to Change the World, veteran investor and author Priya Parrish delivers a timely, inspiring, and practical exploration of an investing discipline that is rapidly taking center stage in contemporary finance. In the book, you'll explore how and why impact investing has become...

Discover how to invest your capital to achieve a powerful, lasting impact on the world.The Global Handbook of Impact Investing: Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society is an insightful guide to the growing world-wide movement of Impact Investing. Impact investors seek to realize lasting, beneficial improvements in society by allocating capital to sources of impactful and sustainable profit.This Handbook...

Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) is a critical framework for businesses and society to create sustainable practices that drive long-term success. This book provides a comprehensive overview of ESG, including its historical background, evolution, benefits, best practices, and challenges. It also covers ESG investing, reporting, and disclosure, as well as the opportunities and future outlook for ESG. Through this book, readers will gain a deep understanding of the import...

The challenges faced by diversified corporations—firms that operate in more than one industry or market—have changed over the years. In this new edition, Olivier Furrer helps students of corporate strategy to consider the impact of critical changes in resources, businesses and headquarters roles on the firm’s ability for establishing and sustaining corporate advantage.New to this edition are stimulating pedagogical features and additional material such as a new chapter on the theor...

Today, it has become strikingly obvious that companies no longer operate in an environment where only risk return and volatility describe the business environment. The business has to deal with volatility plus uncertainty, plus complexity and ambiguity (VUCA): that requires new qualities, competencies, frameworks; and it demands a new mind set to deal with the VUCA environment in investment, funding and financing. This book builds on a new megatrend beyond resilience, called anti-fragility...