Month: November 2012

Author: Nancy F. Koehn Publisher: Harvard Business Press – 432 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book presents news stories from the business pages of The New York Times spanning a century and a half from 1851 to 2001. It is a chronicle of American business itself, as no other United States daily newspaper has reported as well as the Times itself, with  perhaps the exception of The Wall Street Journal. There are three parts to this history of U.S.business, with nine chapters. The stories are not presented chronologically, but rather by theme and subject matter.   Part...

Author: Reto R. Gallati Publisher: Balboa Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram To people new to the stock market, investing is either a mystery or a minefield. Compounding their difficulties and risks is being exposed to conflicting views and suggestions from self-proclaimed “gurus” with no history of consistently high rates of return to substantiate their advice. One so-called guru suggests “buy” while another warns that you “sell” the stock of a company as he fears its shares will sink further! What is the inexperienced novice to do? One of the reasons long-term serious investors like Warren Buffett and others...

Author: Robert H. Ledlitz, M.A. Publisher: Delmar – Cengage Learning Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar I presume most readers know that health care is one of, if not the largest sectors of theUnited Stateseconomy, comprising one-sixth of our gross domestic product. The author Robert H. Ledlitz cites data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that show that 10 of the 20 occupations with the largest job growth in 2012 and through 2020, will be health-related. Some of the reasons he mentions for large growth of employment in the health care field are the following: Technological advances in patient care...