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Data ethics and challenges by Samiksha Shukla, et al.
Call Number: Springer e-book
ISBN: 9811907528
Publication Date: 2022
This item provides a thorough and systematic introduction to data, data sources, and dimensions of data. The authors address privacy and security challenges associated with data, ethics, laws, IPR, and technology law. This book can serve as a reference for scholars, researchers, and data scientists.
What Every CEO Should Know about AI by Viktor Dörfler
Call Number: Cambridge e-book
ISBN: 9781009037853
Publication Date: 2022
The author combines his background in developing and implementing AI with scholarly research on knowledge and cultivating talent to address misconceptions about AI. The book explains what AI can and cannot do, carefully delineating facts from beliefs or wishful thinking, and is filled with examples and coverage of ethical issues CEOs should be aware of.
Artificial Intelligence for Business: innovation, tools and practices by Ana Landeta Echeberria, Ed.
Call Number: Springer e-book
ISBN: 9783030882402
Publication Date: 2022
This book seeks to build a shared understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the global business scenario today and in the near future. Drawing on academic theory and real-world case studies, it examines AI's development and application across a number of business contexts. This book will be of great interest to academics studying Digital Business, Digital Strategy, Innovation Management, and Information Technology.
Zero Distance: management in the quantum age by Danah Zohar
Call Number: Springer e-book
ISBN: 9811678480
Publication Date: 2022
This open access book offers a new management meta-theory to replace Taylorism. It presents a new paradigm in management thinking and a new, practical organizational model for implementing it in our personal and working lives, in our companies, in our communities and nations, and in a sustainable global order.
Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Fans Use Mathematics in Sports, Second Edition. by Wayne L. Winston; Scott Nestler; Konstantinos Pelechrinis
ISBN: 0691177627
Publication Date: 2022
This book is about how to use math to improve performance and predict outcomes in professional sports by revealing the mathematical methods top coaches and managers use to evaluate players and improve team performance. It also gives math enthusiasts the practical skills they need to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of their favorite sports. This second edition features new data, new players and teams, and new chapters on soccer, e-sports, golf, volleyball, gambling, analysis of camera data, Bayesian inference, ridge regression, and other statistical techniques.
The Business of Pandemics: the COVID-19 Story by Jay Liebowitz (Editor)
Call Number: CRC e-book
ISBN: 9781000203912
Publication Date: 2020
Even though the COVID-19 story is still in progress, this book focuses on the business of pandemics as applied to COVID-19. The book brings together a global panel of experts across industries and NGOs to help guide business executives and managers through the complex array of issues affecting business in the time of a pandemic.
Trend following: how to make a fortune in bull, bear and black swan markets by Michael W. Covel; Barry Ritholtz (Foreword by)
Call Number: Wiley e-book
ISBN: 9781119371878
Publication Date: 2017
Want to take the financial journey to a new investing philosophy that might very well affect the rest of your moneymaking life? Covel takes you inside the core principles of trend following and shows everyone, from brand new trader to professional, how alpha gets pulled from the market.
Everybody Writes by Ann Handley
Call Number: Wiley e-book
ISBN: 9781118905555
Publication Date: 2015
Finally a go-to guide to creating and publishing the kind of content that will make your business thrive. Everybody Writes is a go-to guide to attracting and retaining customers through stellar online communication, because in our content-driven world, every one of us is, in fact, a writer.
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Call Number: HD57.7 .S549, Geisel 6th fl.
ISBN: 9781591842804
Publication Date: 2011
Based on START WITH WHY, the third most popular TED video of all time, author Sinek starts with a fundamental question: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? He contends that people like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. Drawing on a wide range of real-life stories, Sinek weaves together a clear vision of what it truly takes to lead and inspire.
The Innovator's Path by Madge M. Meyer
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9781118537329
Publication Date: 2013
Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation Systems by Elias G. Carayannis; David F. J. Campbell These authors 'focus on the “Quadruple Helix” model, through which government, academia, industry, and civil society are seen as key actors promoting a democratic approach to innovation through which strategy, development and decision-making are exposed to feedback from key stakeholders, resulting in socially accountable policies and practices.'
ISBN: 9781461420613
Publication Date: 2011
Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: how the top 1% of entrepreneurs profit from global chaos by Sarah Lacy "To tell this story, Lacy spends six weeks in six different cities around the world -- London, England; Tel Aviv, Israel; Kigali, Rwanda; Mumbai, India; Beijing, China and Guadalajara, Mexico -- that are standing on the brink of economic and political opportunity and volatility. The individuals that she follows are distinct products of their own cultures, yet they share that same unmistakable cocktail of delusion, ambition, and brilliance that's driven Bill Gates, Fred Smith, Donald Trump, and every other iconic American entrepreneur of the last few decades."
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780470580097
Publication Date: 2011

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Ebooks @ UCSD
The complete guide to ebook collections at UCSD - including by-device instructions, troubleshooting and the most comprehensive list of our ebook packages in all subject areas - sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary, some journals back to early 20th century. Abstracts and full text in virtually all subject areas related to Business, Management and Finance. Journal and magazine articles; also books, industry reports, company profiles, SWOT analysis, much more

CRCnetBASE
CRC Press' e-book collections are primarily based in the sciences, however it also contains a subset related to management, and has a particularly strong collection of project management, marketing and social media and stragegic planning resources. Not all CRCnetBASE collections are licensed by UCSD.
ebrary Online Books in Business
This site contains hundreds of electronic books covering business, economics and finance.

IMF eLibrary This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive access to International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), and Government Finance Statistics (GFS) databases. Also provides access to the International Monetary Fund's recent publications, including periodicals, books, analytical papers, and statistical tools.
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5700+ texts, handbooks, encyclopedias and databases for chemistry and engineering. Advanced features include numerical range searching and interactive graphs and tables. Excellent resource for locating property data for chemicals and materials; use the basic search for (compound and property), or the more advanced Data Search.

Making of the Modern World
Provides primary source documents on topics of banking, economics, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books from the 1460-1850 period, and pre-1906 serials.

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It focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. It combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections--the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration--along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University.
NBER Books (National Bureau of Economic Research)
The NBER is a private, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Its research is intended for economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. This site also links to e-book pages that highlight its recent books and its books by series.
O'Reilly for Higher Education
Contains 1,700+ O'Reilly books, primarily on IT and computing, but also on project management, career development and entrepreneurship. ** To connect, select UCSD from the institutions, then login with your AD username/password. **
ScienceDirect
Over 300 books in a variety of disciplines, primarily in the sciences, but also including project management, business statistics and more.
Springer Electronic Books in Business & Management
This Springer site includes over 28,000 books from every scientific discipline, plus business and other social science areas. The items are published in English and German from 2005-2010 plus selected older series back to volume 1.
UC Press ebooks Collection: Economics & Business (1982-2004)
This collection includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including economics. Access to the entire collection of electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, and more than 500 of the titles are available to the public.
Wiley
1,300+ e-books on all major disciplines, including business & management. There is strong coverage in the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences, business and law. The UC's purchased all 2011-2016 e-books, plus selected titles from 2010 and earlier.
World Bank e-Library
The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of World Bank documents. The collection consists of World Bank publications and Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. Use the browse books link to go directly to the e-book contents and here for its Data Book contents, like World Development Indicators and the Little Data Book series.

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