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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463225603321

Autore

Volz Jim

Titolo

How to run a theatre : a witty, practical and fun guide to arts management / / Jim Volz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-4081-5506-0

1-4081-5505-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

792.068

Soggetti

Theater management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1; LIFE MANAGEMENT AND THE ARTS; Understanding Human Behavior Is the Key to SuccessfulArts Administration; Communication; Understanding and Empathy; Strategic Life and Time Management for Savvy Arts Executives; Tools for Time Management; Ten Timely Tips for Savvy Arts Administrators; Twenty Terrible Distractions That Erode Productivity; Thirty Wonderful Ways to Seize Control of Your Own Life; CHAPTER 2; PRODUCERS, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS AND MANAGING DIRECTORS:EXECUTIVE STAFF STRATEGIC PLANNING

The Artistic Vision and Producing in America's Non-profit TheatresAn Introduction to America's Non-profit Theatre Movement; Beyond Broadway; Non-profits Nationwide; Dramatic Developments; Artistic Visioning, the Artistic Director and the Artistic Team; The Managing Director; The Artistic Director/Managing Director Partnership; Sample Organizational Chart for Non-profit Theatres; A Sampling of Mission and Values Statements from SelectNon-profit Theatre Institutions; A Suggested Arts Planning Schedule; Brainstorming and Strategic Vision

Twelve Timely Tips for Taking Charge and Endearing Your Theatreto Your CommunityFifteen Fabulous Ways to Infuriate Your Community; Season Selection: Savvy Strategies, Sick Tales and Sad Stories; Advice to Arts Leaders Everywhere:Twenty-one Wonderful Ways to Improve Your



Life in the Theatre; In Our Own Words: Seventeen Notes Actors Would Like to OfferArtistic Directors; Creating Ownership: Strategic Tricks of the Trade; Looking for Leaders in the Twenty-first Century:  Managers, Oh Managers, Wherefore Art Thou, Managers?

Notes from Both Sides of the Field: Is There a Crisis inManagement Leadership?University Training or Practical Experience?; Graduate Degrees Offer Few Guarantees and Academia Isn'tthe Only Option; Opportunities in the Field and Beyond; Fifteen Distinctive Graduate Programs in Theatre ManagementRelated Areas; Notable Non-degree Pathways and Arts Leadership FinancialOpportunities; CHAPTER 3; BOARD OF TRUSTEE MANAGEMENT AND THE ARTS; The Role of the Non-profit Arts Board of Trustees; Board of Trustee and Executive Staff Relations; Introduction

General Tips on Board of Trustee and Executive Staff RelationsBoard Meeting Planning; Organization of the Agenda; Distribution of Board Meeting Minutes; Season Planning, Budget Preparations and Board Communications; Introduction; Season Selection and Budget Planning; Fundraising Planning and Board Communications; A Sample "Board of Trustee Contract" and "Talking Points"Outline for Recruiting New Board Members; Soothing Souls, Funding Dreams and Saving Theatres: National Theatre Leaders Speak Out on Building America's Non-Profit Boards; Who Should be on a Theatre Board?

What Is the Right Size for a Non-profit Theatre Boardof Trustees?

Sommario/riassunto

""All of us in the arts field are hungry to improve our skills in arts management. The grim tenor of the times makes this witty and fun guide even more valuable to us all!"" Ben Cameron, Former Executive Director, Theater Communications Group. ""Dr. Jim Volz knows how to organize, how to manage, how to motivate, how to assign priorities. In short, he knows how to get the job done."" Abe J. Bassett, Former Dean, Indiana University/Purdue University. Jim Volz is one of America's leading theatre consultants with over three decades of work with theatre, dance, music, museum and arts center managem



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484002903321

Titolo

Encyclopedia of Finance [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Cheng-Few Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2006

ISBN

0-387-26336-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (eReference.)

Disciplina

332.03

Soggetti

Finance

Accounting

Bookkeeping 

Econometrics

Macroeconomics

Finance, general

Accounting/Auditing

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Terms, definitions and short essays -- Deposit insurance schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act: creating a new bank for a new millennium -- Comparative analysis of zero-coupon and coupon-pre-funded bonds -- Intertemporal risk and currency risk -- Credit derivatives -- international parity conditions and market risk -- Treasury inflation-indexed securities -- Asset pricing models -- Conditional asset pricing -- Conditional performance evaluation -- Working capital and cash flow -- Evaluating fund performance within the stochastic discount factor framework -- Duration analysis and its applications -- Loan contract terms -- Chinese a and b shares -- Decimal trading in the U.S. stock markets -- The 1997 nasdaq trading rules -- Reincorporation -- Mean variance portfolio allocation -- Online trading -- A note on the relationship among the portfolio performance indices under rank transformation -- Corporate failure -- Review of REIT and MBS -- Experimental economics and the theory of finance -- Merger and acquisition -- Multi-stage compound real options and case study --



Market efficiency hypothesis -- The microstructure/micro-finance approach to exchange rates -- arbitrage and market frictions -- fundamental tradeoffs associated with the publicly trade corporation -- The Mexican peso crisis -- Portfolio performance evaluation -- Call auction trading -- Market liquidity -- Market makers -- Structure of securities -- Accounting scandals and implications for directors: lessons from enron -- Agent-based models of financial markets -- The Asian bond market -- Cross-border mergers and acquisitions -- Jump diffusion model -- Networks, nodes, and priority rules -- The momentum trading strategy -- Equilibrium credit rationing and monetary non-neutrality in a small open economy -- Policy coordination between wages and exchange rates in Singapore -- The le chatelier principle of the capital market equilibrium -- MBS valuation and prepayments -- The impact of IMF bailouts in international debt crises.

Sommario/riassunto

This project will have a stamped cover, therefore no back text can be used.