Surya Home Collection

This book is a sequel to the author's well-received "Option Valuation under Stochastic Volatility". It extends that work to jump-diffusions and many related topics in quantitative finance. Topics include spectral theory for jump-diffusions, boundary behavior for short-term interest rate models, modelling VIX options, inference theory, discrete dividends, and more. It provides approximately 750 pages of original research in 26 chapters, with 165 illustrations, Mathematica, and some C/C++ codes. The first 12 chapters (550 pages) are completely new. Also included are reprints of selected previous publications of the author for convenient reference. The book should interest both researchers and quantitatively-oriented investors and traders.

First 12 chapters: 1. Slow Reflection, Jump-Returns, & Short-term Interest Rates 2. Spectral Theory for Jump-diffusions 3. Joint Time Series Modelling of SPX and VIX 4. Modelling VIX Options (and Futures) under Stochastic Volatility 5. Stochastic Volatility as a Hidden Markov Model 6. Continuous-time Inference: Mathematical Methods and Worked Examples 7. A Closer Look at the Square-root and 3/2-model 8. A Closer Look at the SABR Model 9. Back to Basics: An Update on the Discrete Dividend Problem 10. PDE Numerics without the Pain 11. Exact Solution to Double Barrier Problems under a Class of Processes 12. Advanced Smile Asymptotics: Geometry, Geodesics, and All That

When used effectively, discussion protocols have the power to help educators cultivate highly impactful, collaborative spaces. Learn how you can lead structured and productive discussions in your own learning community with Meeting Goals. The author provides scaffolds for frequently used protocols as well as examples of protocol application. Both new and veteran educators can rely on this resource to help them facilitate constructive meetings and, as a group, catalyze great work.

• Improve your group facilitation skills and expertise.
• Enhance instructional coaching and feedback for teachers and teacher groups through meaningful protocols.
• Study detailed instructions and scaffolds for specific protocols to meet clear, desired outcomes of collaboration.
• Experience more moments of connection and transformation in groups with effective leadership and a purpose-driven agenda.
• Examine specific language, practical situations, and clarifying questions for implementing discussion protocols.

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction: Grounding
Chapter 1: Ensuring Purpose Before Protocols
Chapter 2: Protocols to Build Shared Understanding
Chapter 3: Protocols to Refine Products
Chapter 4: Protocols to Seek Perspective
Chapter 5: Protocols to Explore and Manage Dilemmas
Chapter 6: Protocols to Generate Ideas
Epilogue: Debriefing
Appendix A: Consistent Approaches to Common Steps in Seeking-Perspectives Protocols
Appendix B: Consistent Approaches to Common Steps in Dilemma-Based Protocols
Appendix C: Consistent Approaches to Common Steps in Generative Protocols
Appendix D: Preconference Key Words and Actions
Appendix E: Passion Profiles
Appendix F: Student Profiles
Appendix G: Fist to Five Protocol
Appendix H: Synectics
Appendix I: Using Protocols With Large Groups
Appendix J: Excerpts From the Pocket Guide to Probing Questions
Appendix K: Building Shared Understanding Matrix--When to Use
References and Resources
Index

Is this blue book more valuable than a business degree?

Most people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they’re doing.

It’s hard to be successful without a clear understanding of how business works. These 60 daily readings are crucial for any professional or business owner who wants to take their career to the next level.

New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Donald Miller knows that business is more than just a good idea made profitable – it’s a system of unspoken rules, rarely taught by MBA schools. If you are attempting to profitably grow your business or career, you need elite business knowledge—knowledge that creates tangible value.

Even if you had the time, access, or money to attend a Top 20 business school, you would still be missing the practical knowledge that propels the best and brightest forward. However, there is another way to achieve this insider skill development, which can both drastically improve your career earnings and the satisfaction of achieving your goals.

Donald Miller learned how to rise to the top using the principles he shares in this book. He wrote Business Made Simple to teach others what it takes to grow your career and create a company that is healthy and profitable.

These short, daily entries and accompanying videos will add enormous value to your business and the organization you work for. In this sixty-day guide, readers will be introduced to the nine areas where truly successful leaders and their businesses excel:

• Character: What kind of person succeeds in business?
• Leadership: How do you unite a team around a mission?
• Personal Productivity: How can you get more done in less time?
• Messaging: Why aren’t customers paying more attention?
• Marketing: How do I build a sales funnel?
• Business Strategy: How does a business really work?
• Execution: How can we get things done?
• Sales: How do I close more sales?
• Management: What does a good manager do?

Business Made Simple is the must-have guide for anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed by the modern business climate, even if they attended business school. Learn what the most successful business leaders have known for years through the simple but effective secrets shared in these pages.

Take things further: If you want to be worth more as a business professional, read each daily entry and follow along with the free videos that will be sent to you after you buy the book.

The Interest Driven Sales Funnel Strategy

You’ve likely seen the phrase “sales funnel” quite a few times in the last year or two because it’s been blowing up!

Sales funnels are on the rise with businesses and entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes talking about them.

Ecommerce stores, coaches & consultants, digital products businesses, and even brick & mortar stores that are implementing them.

But, what are they?

And, more importantly, how can you effectively implement them into your business?

The Sales Funnel Book teaches the “Interest Driven” strategy to help you plan, build, and implement sales funnels that automatically mold to your subscribers, leads, and customers – allowing you to better relate and sell more!

Here Are Just A Few Things You'll Learn In This Book...

• How to "see" your sales funnels and how they work with your business. Hint: they fit everywhere! (pg. 1)
• The Interest Driven Sales Funnel model that will reshape how you think about your marketing. This model automatically molds to your audience so you can better relate and sell more! (pg. 6)
• Why building a modular sales funnel makes your entire system plug & play, allowing it to expand as you do! (pg. 7)
• The timelessness of the system. This strategy pre-dates the Internet and will exist after it ceases to exist. Yes, it's way more than just sending some emails! (pg. 8)
• What "old folks" have to do with your sales funnels. (pg. 9)
• 4 elite patterns for the "Main Series" - the engagements responsible for building and maintaining relationships while simultaneously gauging interest! (pg. 14)
• The 3 E Emails (Entertain, Educate, and Earn). When should you send which? How should they be used? Can you use more than one at a given time? (pg. 18)
• The Weekly "Pushes" framework that simplifies the content you present your list. All you need to do is follow the pattern and let it do its thing! (pg. 22)
• The Story-Based Series that "hooks" your subscribers in and keeps them excited about what's next! (pg. 23)
• The "Long Course" framework that's perfect for businesses that want to convert their audience to their way of thinking! (pg. 25)
• What Micro Sales Funnels are, how people enter them (there are at least 7 ways to get people in!), and what to do with people once they've gone through! (pg. 29)
• The "Simplest" Sales Funnel you have ever seen and how it increased engagement by over 632%! (pg. 33)
• The "Classic" Sales Funnel, how McDonald's built their empire on it, and how you can use it in your business! (pg. 35)
• The Product Launch or Video Funnel that gets people excited to buy your stuff ... and how to structure it for maximum effectiveness! (pg. 42)

All that and it's not even the first half of the book! I have yet to mention webinar funnels, call/application funnels, the other "guru" funnels and how you can (and should) use them, combining funnels, creating all the content these babies need, copywriting formulas and how to use them to structure your content, filling your sales funnels, pre-written emails, value ladder development so you sell the right things at the right times, and oh ... so much more!

This book explains how changes in both the market and the government have made public finance a more challenging, interesting and at times frustrating branch of economics. It provides a cosmopolitan perspective and details the part that historical developments have played in shaping modern views. The author explores the real life, practical nature of public finance and de-emphasizes the role of armchair theorizing by focusing on real issues that are seen from a community rather than an individualistic perspective.

The Advanced Introduction to Public Finance offers a fresh look at the field for students, researchers and policymakers in economics, public administration, taxation, policy and economic history.

As a result, in this remarkable collaboration the reader is invited to compare views on self-awareness and careers from traditional Indian Ayurvedic and alternative Western perspectives, alongside contrasting Indian and Western reports on women stepping off their career ladders, the motivation of social entrepreneurs, the careers of IT workers, MBA holders and management scholars and other topics.

Career and cross-cultural researchers and career and HR practitioners will be fascinated by the comparative analysis of career dynamics.

A magnificently illustrated, international survey of rings through history.

State-of-the-art overview on bioepoxy polymers as well as their blends and composites -- covering all aspects from fundamentals to applications!

Bioepoxy polymers is an emerging area and have attracted more and more attention due to their biodegradability and good thermo-mechanical performance. In recent years, research progress has been made in synthesis, processing, characterization, and applications of bioepoxy blends and composites. Bioepoxy polymers are very promising candidates to replace the traditional thermosetting nonbiodegradable polymers.

Bio-Based Epoxy Polymers, Blends and Composites summaries recent research progress on bioepoxy polymers as well as their blends and composites. It covers aspects from synthesis, processing, various characterization techniques to broad spectrum of applications. It provides a correlation of physical properties with macro, micro and nanostructures of the materials. Moreover, research trends, future directions, and opportunities are also discussed.

• Attracts attention: Bioepoxy polymers are environmentally friendly and considered as a promising candidate to replace the traditional thermosetting nonbiodegradable polymers

• Highly application-oriented: Bioepoxy polymers can be used in a broad range of applications such as polymer foams, construction, aerospace, automobiles, self-healing systems   

• One-stop reference: Covers all aspects of bioepoxy polymer, their blends and composites, such as synthesis, properties, processing, characterization and applications

• Broad audience: Attracts attention from both academia and industry

The Soul of Learning is a groundbreaking book that bridges together cultural work, contemplative practices, and ancient scriptures. Inside each chapter, readers are challenged and inspired to come face-to-face with themselves as they encounter teachers in all forms―from spiritual sages to critical theorists, from prophets to poets, from hip-hop rappers to reggae artists. This book is multifaceted and multidisciplinary. It models the essence of education by offering multiple entry points into holistic learning: somatic, aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, ethical, relational, and spiritual.

The Soul of Learning embodies a pedagogical disruption in pursuit of personal sovereignty. What process must we go through to reimagine ourselves in relation to each other and the world around us? This bookoffers a semblance of an answer. As a way to bring the sacred into schooling, Keator and Watson courageously connect spirituality, activism, and education through curated readings, guided activities, and intentional exercises. It’s a ready-to-go syllabus and hands-on workbook all in one! Altogether this book is revelatory and provides innovative ways to teach and learn, lead and live. The Soul of Learning documents a transformative journey, through the interiority of our being into a revolutionary call for collective belonging.

Renowned consultant and author Peter Block delivers the latest and fourth edition of his best-selling Flawless Consulting, an intuitive and insightful step-by-step guide to the five phases of effective consulting. The book offers a deep exploration of the skills, tools, and behaviors required to successfully influence others. You’ll see exactly what you need to say and do to help others achieve their goals, whether you are an internal or external consultant or anyone in a leadership position who wants to build effective partnerships in business, healthcare, education, or community work.

Along with newly updated examples, case studies, stories, and suggestions for putting the flawless consulting process into everyday practice, you’ll find:

• A new section for consultants living in a highly virtual world that explains how to achieve authentic engagement with your clients in virtual and hybrid environments
• Invaluable information for leaders and internal consultants operating within their organizations
• Concise and digestible techniques for successful contracting and discovery

For over 40 years Flawless Consulting has been the go-to guide to building trust and structuring meaningful partnerships with others for greater influence and impact. This latest edition ensures that the book will remain the gold standard in the industry for many years to come.

A hands-on, practical roadmap to get from great idea to successful company

In Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics, renowned entrepreneur and Executive Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Paul Cheek delivers an actionable field guide to transforming your one great idea into a functional, funded, and staffed startup. Building on the ideas presented in the bestselling Disciplined Entrepreneurship, the author delivers a startlingly complete and comprehensive set of solutions you can implement immediately to advance your company to its next stage of growth.

This is not a theoretical book. You’ll find ground-level, down-and-dirty entrepreneurial tactics―like how to conduct advanced primary market research, market and sell to your first customers, and take a scrappy approach to building your first products―that keep your firm growing. These tactics maximize your impact with limited resources. You’ll also discover:

• Effective marketing tactics specific to early startups that go beyond cookie-cutter digital MarTech solutions
• Tactics for designing and testing your product concepts yourself before investing limited resources in developing a fully functional product
• Methods for equity distribution that minimize conflict and maximize investor return

An invaluable resource for founders and entrepreneurs, Disciplined Entrepreneurship: Startup Tactics will also benefit any professional working at an early-stage startup or launching new products looking for concrete solutions to the most common and difficult problems faced by young companies and the people who work in them.

Navigate equity investments and asset valuation with confidence Equity Asset Valuation, Fourth Edition blends theory and practice to paint an accurate, informative picture of the equity asset world. The most comprehensive resource on the market, this text supplements your studies for the third step in the three-level CFA certification program by integrating both accounting and finance concepts to explore a collection of valuation models and challenge you to determine which models are most appropriate for certain companies and circumstances. Detailed learning outcome statements help you navigate your way through the content, which covers a wide range of topics, including how an analyst approaches the equity valuation process, the basic DDM, the derivation of the required rate of return within the context of Markowitz and Sharpe's modern portfolio theory, and more.

A ONE-STOP GUIDE FOR THE THEORIES, APPLICATIONS, AND STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES OF MARKET RISK

Understanding and investigating the impacts of market risk on the financial landscape is crucial in preventing crises. Written by a hedge fund specialist, the Handbook of Market Risk is the comprehensive guide to the subject of market risk.

Featuring a format that is accessible and convenient, the handbook employs numerous examples to underscore the application of the material in a real-world setting. The book starts by introducing the various methods to measure market risk while continuing to emphasize stress testing, liquidity, and interest rate implications. Covering topics intrinsic to understanding and applying market risk, the handbook features:

• An introduction to financial markets
• The historical perspective from market
• events and diverse mathematics to the
• value-at-risk
• Return and volatility estimates
• Diversification, portfolio risk, and
• efficient frontier
• The Capital Asset Pricing Model
• and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory
• The use of a fundamental
• multi-factors model
• Financial derivatives instruments
• Fixed income and interest rate risk
• Liquidity risk
• Alternative investments
• Stress testing and back testing
• Banks and Basel II/III

The Handbook of Market Risk is a must-have resource for financial engineers, quantitative analysts, regulators, risk managers in investments banks, and large-scale consultancy groups advising banks on internal systems. The handbook is also an excellent text for academics teaching postgraduate courses on financial methodology. 

Discover how to grow and scale a business by first understanding yourself and how you are different from the rest of the world.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re different, ever refused to accept the status quo, or said no to settling for average…

If you’ve ever told yourself that you’re destined to make a massive contribution to the world…

If you’ve ever been told you think differently, or told to sit down, slow down, or change your behavior… And if you feel like the world isn’t built to see you succeed…

You’re in the right place!

You are a part of the most important club in history—entrepreneurs.We’re the only consistent source of positive evolution and always will be.

We’ve been condemned to believe our strengths are actually weaknesses,yet we are able to capitalize on what most people fail to see.

The Entrepreneurial Personality Type will prove to you that you are not alone and that there is nothing wrong with you!

Learn how to reduce pressure and noise in your life so you can live with intention, offload where you’re uncomfortable, consistently overachieve, and program yourself for daily success.

We’re different from most people.

When entrepreneurs are not in momentum, the pressure and noise goes up,we get irritable and aggravated and begin increasing the pressure and noise in the lives of those people closest to us—our family, our children, our team, and our friends.

But when we’re in momentum, we’re magnetic, transformational leaders and help the people around us build momentum in their own lives so we all move forward faster, together.

Alex Charfen has studied greatness for decades, and here is what he has found: All of the notable entrepreneurs down through history have a great deal in common with each other, and, quite frankly, very little in common with the rest of the world. They share the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT) with all of its quirks and idiosyncrasies. They are a restless bunch with an intrinsic need to move and build and strive.

· They’ve locked themselves in rooms and invented the light bulb, but only after 10,000 failed tries.

· They have launched rockets into space and landed them safely, but only after explosions and scrubbed missions.

· They’ve built and lost great empires.

· And sadly,some—perhaps most—have spent their lives as misunderstood and out-of-step dreamers with unhappy endings.

This is the handbook for a restless tribe around the world looking for answers.

Here’s what just a few people have said about how understanding the Entrepreneurial Personality Type has changed their lives:

“EPT is the Rosetta Stone for entrepreneurs.”

“Entrepreneurs can grow and scale a business by first understanding themselves and how they are different from the rest of the world.”

“Alex’s words helped me to understand myself in a way I didn’t know I needed, and gave me answers to questions I didn’t know I had!”

“If you are looking for something that can easily change your life, then look no further. Alex has been an extremely successful entrepreneur for decades and has worked with probably more CEOs than any other person I have ever met. Consume each page while taking notes. To me, this book is the entrepreneur’s bible!”

“This book is a must-read for any visionary entrepreneur that wants to change the world.”

Scroll up and click BUY now. You’ll be glad you did!

You'll gain important insights that can help you manage risk and make more informed investment decisions and learn from relevant illustrations, examples, and definitions. Written in a non-technical format that's easy to follow, Getting Started in Fundamental Analysis provides valuable coverage of:

• the audited statement.
• finding financial information online.
• the process of confirmation.
• balance sheet and income statement ratios.
• the P/E ratio and how to use it.
• how the combination of fundamental analysis with technical methods creates a powerful strategy.

More than an introduction to fundamental analysis, this book will help you use analytical tools in identifying risk levels, making valid and reliable comparisons, and picking stocks for your portfolio so you develop a successful and profitable investment program.