Break into film without a trust fund or a famous last name.What does it really take to launch a career in filmmaking and turn it into a business that pays? No Cash, No Contacts gives you the answers. With behind-the-scenes stories, hard-earned lessons, and strategies they don't teach you in film school, it shows you how to get on set, become indispensable, and build a career that lasts.This isn't about chasing likes or going viral. It's about learn...

The quality of financial sector supervision has emerged as a key issue from the financial crisis. While most countries operated broadly under the same regulatory standards, differences emerged in supervisory approaches. The international response to this crisis has focused on the need for more and better regulations (e.g., in areas such as bank capital, liquidity and provisioning) and on developing a framework to address systemic risks, but there has been less discussion of how supervision...

For nearly forty years, this almanac has provided dozens of articles that fascinate and inspire magical practitioners of all skill levels.Written by some of the most esteemed Witches and Pagans today, the essays in this collection feature spells, rituals, and insights on a wide variety of subjects. Enhance your practice with urban animism (Kate Freuler), a survey of English fairies (Alaric Albertsson), earth magic (James Kambos), and crystal grids for the zodiac (S...

Why corporate stars often lose their luster after changing jobsIt is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice this can be.After examining the careers of more than a thousand star analysts at Wall Street investment banks, and conducting more than...

This book will examine the profession of investor relations from the practical standpoint. The book will define what investor relations is, what investor relations professionals do, what skills and competencies are required to become a successful investor relations practitioner and, finally, how to outsource investor relations services. Investor relations is a profession on the borderline between communication, finance and law. This book will address each of these three competencies as ess...

A ground-breaking book on the transformative power of impact investingThis is the first book to chart the catalytic path of this new industry, explaining how it is and can be a positive disruptive force. It shows how impact investing is a transformational vehicle for delivering "blended value" throughout the investment spectrum, giving a single name to a set of activities previously siloed in enclaves, revealing how they are linked within what is becoming a new fie...

A groundbreaking guide to making profitable business decisionsDo you wonder why your value initiatives aren't providing the payoff you'd hoped for? Could it be because you've been thinking about value all wrong? According to the authors of this groundbreaking guide, there's a very good chance that you have. Using examples from leading companies worldwide, they explain why every decision a company makes either creates value or detracts from it, and why, if they hope...

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...

Mastering the Art Managing Money is an unconventional book. It teaches that success in money matters is more art than science. The book begins with introductory lessons on why we all need to manage money properly. Chapter two reveals that the science of financial management is simply not enough. The role of emotions in financial decision making was x-rayed in addition to a presentation of different concepts of success. The main body of the book focused on a series of five connected steps o...

A real-world look at the pension revolution underwayThe Future of Pension Management offers a progress report from the field, using actual case studies from around the world. In the mid-70s, Peter Drucker predicted that demographic dynamics would eventually turn pensions into a major societal issue; in 2007, author Keith Ambachsheer's book Pension Revolution laid out the ways in which Drucker's predictions had come to pass. This book provides a fr...

Pleasing Wall Street used to be easy for executives. Not anymore. The stock market is an uncertain place, and every day executives have to figure out what investors really want. There are right ways and wrong ways to do this. Get it wrong, and you risk alienating investors as well as employees, consumers, and suppliers-which can erode your earnings and stock price.In Winning Investors Over, Baruch Lev draws on his own and other finance scholars’ research to present authori...

The financial crisis prompted financial supervisors to take a critical look at their own performance. The "toolkit" available to supervisors is considerably more varied than it was a few years ago. Supervision has become more forward-looking, taking into account also soft controls, such as ‘conduct and culture’, corporate governance, and business models of financial institutions. This collection of essays discusses several significant changes in supervision methods and supervisory organisa...