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Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (5 pages)
Language
English
Description
Recent sustainability regulations in the EU and some U.S. states hold consumer packaged goods brands responsible for the environmental impact of the materials in their products. For brands with a complex web of suppliers across the globe, gaining visibility into the chemical composition of their products is a major challenge, and most available tools are insufficient for the task. The authors explain how brands can improve supply chain transparency...
2) High stakes
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor -- a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between two Russian mafia bosses...
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English
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"Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an in-depth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance...
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English
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Jack Ryan Jr.'s race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend ... The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped ... Jack Ryan Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail dead ends in a harrowing fight...
5) Wired
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Series
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English
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When Agent Liam Scott recruits a beautiful hacker, Allison Trent, to find a leak within the FBI, he uses her cousin's criminal record as leverage. As they try to deny their growing attraction, the computer program Allison developed is stolen. Liam helps track down the thief while protecting her from continual harassment and attempts on her life.
Author
Publisher
J. Wiley & Sons Singapore
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
A plain-English guide that demystifies the business landscape in China from a due diligence point of view Due diligence is crucial to any business deal, and, thankfully, due diligence research has come a long way over the years. What used to be a cumbersome, time-consuming process has been standardized and systemized with generally accepted auditing frameworks and tools, such as the all-important auditing ""checklists."" But when it comes to doing...
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Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 15
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a safe house near the Syrian border, a clandestine American operations team readies to launch a dramatic mission months in the making. Their target: the director of social media for ISIS, Abu Muslim al-Naser. Multiple analysts, as well as a senior congresswoman, are in the country to monitor the raid, but before the team can launch, the safe house is attacked. What unfolds in the bloody aftermath is a political and public relations nightmare. As...
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
©2008
Edition
3rd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
How to Comply with Sarbanes Oxley Section 404: Assessing the Effectiveness of Internal Control, 3E, provides a comprehensive, structured approach for the testing and evaluation of internal control. Now in its third edition, this book was the first and con.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
We live in the age of disinformation. More than four months before the 2016 election, Rid warned that Russian military intelligence was attempting to disrupt the democratic process. Here he tells the story of modern disinformation, beginning with the post-Russian Revolution clash between communism and capitalism, which would come to define the Cold War. He exposes the disturbing yet colorful history of professional, organized lying, revealing for...
Author
Publisher
FT Press
Pub. Date
2010, ©2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 187 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Financial crimes and scandals constantly victimize sophisticated companies, investors, executives, and business deal-makers. Whether you're planning a major investment, a corporate acquisition, or merger, you can't afford to have it happen to you. In Digging for Disclosure , the leaders of a world-class corporate investigations firm show you exactly how to protect yourself from financial fraud. Kenneth Springer and Joelle Scott draw on decades of...
17) The war on leakers: national security and American democracy, from Eugene v. Debs to Edward Snowden
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii - but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly but steadily across the Cold War, Vietnam, the fall of Communism, and into the present. Ripped from today's headlines, Lloyd C. Gardner's latest...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011 she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military records, and in 2013 she was sentenced to thirty-five years...
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