Editore: Portfolio, 2011
ISBN 10: 1591843901 ISBN 13: 9781591843900
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc.
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Editore: Oxford University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0195307925 ISBN 13: 9780195307924
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Editore: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007
ISBN 10: 0812978048 ISBN 13: 9780812978049
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Editore: Portfolio Hardcover, 2009
ISBN 10: 1591842646 ISBN 13: 9781591842644
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Editore: Columbia Business School Publishing, 2016
ISBN 10: 0231179286 ISBN 13: 9780231179287
Da: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.15.
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Editore: Portfolio Hardcover, 2009
Da: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Cover and edges show heavy shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact. Has some dirtiness on the outside from handling.There is some slight dirtiness on the textblock/fore edge from handling.
Editore: Wiley, 2007
ISBN 10: 0470517344 ISBN 13: 9780470517345
Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
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Editore: Portfolio, 2021
ISBN 10: 0593189434 ISBN 13: 9780593189436
Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.
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Editore: Columbia University Press, 2020
ISBN 10: 0231179294 ISBN 13: 9780231179294
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Good. Reprint. The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, lost their shirts.In Class Clowns, professor and investment banker Jonathan A. Knee dissects what drives investors' efforts to improve education and why they consistently fail. Knee takes readers inside four spectacular financial failures in education: Rupert Murdoch's billion-dollar effort to reshape elementary education through technology; the unhappy investors-including hedge fund titan John Paulson-who lost billions in textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin; the abandonment of Knowledge Universe, Michael Milken's twenty-year mission to revolutionize the global education industry; and a look at Chris Whittle, founder of EdisonLearning and a pioneer of large-scale transformational educational ventures, who continues to attract investment despite decades of financial and operational disappointment.Although deep belief in the curative powers of the market drove these initiatives, it was the investors' failure to appreciate market structure that doomed them. Knee asks: What makes a good education business? By contrasting rare successes, he finds a dozen broad lessons at the heart of these cautionary case studies. Class Clowns offers an important guide for public policy makers and guardrails for future investors, as well as an intelligent exposé for activists and teachers frustrated with the repeated underperformance of these attempts to shake up education.
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Editore: Redline GmbH, 2007
ISBN 10: 3636014366 ISBN 13: 9783636014368
Da: medimops, Berlin, Germania
Condizione: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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Editore: Columbia Business School Publishing, 2016
ISBN 10: 0231179286 ISBN 13: 9780231179287
Da: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1st printing of 1st edition, with complete number line. Author's signature and inscription on page facing title page. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. DJ protected in Mylar wraps. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Signed by Author.
Da: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Regno Unito
New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. "Entertainingly indiscreet. . . Knee's talent for wicked pen portraits is put to good use. "--Financial Times.
Editore: Portfolio, New York, 2009
Da: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Grey paper boards. xii, 304 pp. Fine.
Editore: Münchner Verlagsgruppe GmbH, 2007
ISBN 10: 3868813764 ISBN 13: 9783868813760
Da: moluna, Greven, Germania
Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New.