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Moneyball

Autor: Michael Lewis

Número de Páginas: 337

Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be "the most influential book on sports ever written" (People), but "you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it" (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Review Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far) Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur...

Saving America

Autor: Mark Aesch

Número de Páginas: 207

National polling indicates that for the first time in American history, people believe their children will not be as well off as they are. The primary reason for this? The lack of performance by government. The public sector receives trillions of American taxpayer dollars every year and yet because of its seeming inability to run effectively, government is not delivering the level of service the people are paying for. In Saving America, Mark Aesch tells us where government -- at the local, state, and federal level -- is falling short and offers a coherent, non-partisan, Seven-Step plan for rebuilding our nation's public agencies. The book is not a political broadside or a theoretical academic tract; it's an accessible guidebook that helps local citizens, elected officials, and administrators make American government great again. The Seven Steps process will lead to measurable gains for organizations large and small, including school systems, municipal governments, entire states, and even the federal government itself.

ECKM 2023 24th European Conference on Knowledge Managemen Vol 1

Autor: Academic Conferences And Publishing Limited

Número de Páginas: 1021

Principles and Paradoxes of Sports Economics

Autor: Stefan Szymanski

Número de Páginas: 202

This book is a Festschrift in honor or Professor Rod Fort, one of the leading contributors to the emerging field of sports economics in the past half century. Professor Fort’s path-breaking research in the 1990s and 2000s both laid down an agenda for research in sports economics and popularized the application of economic analysis to sports issues for lay readers. The contributors to the volume are among the leading scholars in modern sports economics. They put issues highlighted in Professor Fort’s research in the context of current issues. Topics discussed include competitive balance and outcome uncertainty estimation, gender-wage discrimination in US professional soccer, and the paradox of fan loyalty.

International Journal of Sport Finance

Número de Páginas: 288

Don't Trust Your Gut

Autor: Seth Stephens-davidowitz

Número de Páginas: 215

"Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is more than a data scientist. He is a prophet for how to use the data revolution to reimagine your life. Don’t Trust Your Gut is a tour de force—an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity.” — Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human Big decisions are hard. We consult friends and family, make sense of confusing “expert” advice online, maybe we read a self-help book to guide us. In the end, we usually just do what feels right, pursuing high stakes self-improvement—such as who we marry, how to date, where to live, what makes us happy—based solely on what our gut instinct tells us. But what if our gut is wrong? Biased, unpredictable, and misinformed, our gut, it turns out, is not all that reliable. And data can prove this. In Don’t Trust Your Gut, economist, former Google data scientist, and New York Times bestselling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our own lives. In the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life’s biggest self-help puzzles. Data from hundreds of...

La señal y el ruido

Autor: Nate Silver

Número de Páginas: 1730

Los seres humanos estamos obligados ser previsores. Nuestra supervivencia depende de la capacidad que tengamos para anticiparnos a lo que pueda ocurrir, sea en el ámbito que sea. Y aunque pudiera parecer que la tecnología nos lo pone cada vez más fácil, lo cierto es que vivimos ante el riesgo de ser sepultados por la cantidad de datos que recibimos a diario. Cualquier intento de procesar, organizar y asimilar toda esa información puede llevarnos al colapso. Nate Silver investiga cómo podemos distinguir el contenido relevante del que no lo es. Para ello, recurre a expertos en diversas áreas de la predicción —desde meteorólogos que pronostican huracanes, hasta analistas deportivos, jugadores de póker y gurús del mercado de valores—, y expone sus métodos más efectivos y rigurosos. Además, analiza ejemplos históricos y recientes para mostrar cómo aplicar el pensamiento crítico, el análisis estadístico y la capacidad de discernir entre todos los estímulos informativos a los que estamos expuestos, convirtiéndonos así en individuos más precisos.

Moneyball

Autor: Michael Lewis

Número de Páginas: 170

Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton Subjects: Baseball -- Economic aspects United States Baseball -- Scouting United States Baseball players -- Salaries, etc. United States Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Moneyball Marketing

Autor: Larry Popelka

Número de Páginas: 130

Learn how Amazon.com, Apple Computer, Glaceau Vitamin Water, Proactiv Solution, Netflix and others used Moneyball Marketing tactics to out-market competitors with ad budgets several times their size. Like the "Moneyball" movie, Moneyball Marketing is all about redefining your metrics - to find higher-impact, under-valued approaches. Instead of measuring GRPs, reach and frequency, successful marketers today need to focus on conversion rates, retention rates and revenue per customer. Moneyball Marketing combines these new metrics with low-cost, iterative testing of alternative marketing tactics. It utilizes techniques from the best approaches in Online Marketing, Direct Response, and MMA/MMM models. Changes in consumer behavior have reduced the impact of many traditional marketing tools like TV, print and radio. To maximize marketing ROI, companies must dramatically reinvent their marketing programs.

Vanity Fair

Número de Páginas: 1050

Winning Fixes Everything

Autor: Evan Drellich

Número de Páginas: 446

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself. Baseball, that old romantic game, has been defaced and consumed by corporate America. As Moneyball-thinking and Ivy League graduates grabbed hold of the sport, the Astros set out to build a cost-efficient winning machine on the principles of the outside business world, squeezing every dollar out of every transaction, player and employee. In less than a decade, ex-Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow helped revolutionize the game. He created an environment that led to one of the worst cheating scandals in baseball history, a Shakespearean tragedy of innovation and failed change management. Through years of extensive interviews, former Houston Chronicle beat writer Evan Drellich, now a national writer for The Athletic, delivers the definitive account of baseball’s most controversial franchise and how a modern baseball team truly works—without the usual myth-spinning. Drellich reveals the rise and fall of the Astros to be a...

Qué pasa

Número de Páginas: 874

Human Resource Information System

Autor: Kelvin Molly

Número de Páginas: 13

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: B, King`s College London, language: English, abstract: As the major organizations face an increment in global competition and rapid change in technology, the leveraging of the human capital is important as seen in the Moneyball case. This necessitates the rethinking of the human resource management role as an approach in managing employee recruitment within the organizations. Following the significant advances in management and technology, the HRIS application has been under utilization for the provision of processes to enhance the process of human resource management. This significantly relates to the Moneyball case that highlights on the concepts of budgeting, data analytics, and the aspect of productivity. The general manager of Oakland A revolutionizes the process of new basketball players scouting through the application of a computer-generated analysis that reflects on the framework of the HRIS system. The use of the human resource information systems enables the delivery and administration of the management framework. The Moneyball case indicates the use of a new...

International Abstracts of Human Resources

Número de Páginas: 500

Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Autor: Academy Of Management

Número de Páginas: 988

Arkansas Law Review

Número de Páginas: 260

Best Pictures

Autor: Chris Knight

Número de Páginas: 86

Did you think The Help was overrated? That Bridesmaids was more ha-ha than hoorah? That The Muppets was robbed of Golden Globes glory? Then it1s time to read Best Pictures, Chris Knight1s guide to the best, weirdest and most over-looked in 2011 cinema. In this exclusive ebook, the National Post1s chief film critic rounds up all of 20111s four-star cinematic success stories, providing you with the perfect prep for that late-winter ritual known as awards season.