Shepherd G. Pryor IV Libri

The latest title in the CCH Board Perspectives Series Building Value through Planning, Risk Management and Renewal In a post-Sarbanes-Oxley world, directors will need to participate more and more in the strategic planning and risk assessment processes. This new title from CCH will help boards and management teams work more productively together when dealing with strategy. Building Value through Strategy, written by consultants William J. Hass and Shepherd G. Pryor IV, explores the evolving role of the board and its involvement with strategy, risk and renewal. It helps corporate leaders draw the line between board and management roles and provides action-oriented advice across the full strategic and risk spectrum. A must-read for directors and management, this title takes readers from the beginning of strategy formulation through monitoring the outcomes of execution for both healthy and troubled organizations. Learn from professionals who have been there. Over their careers, the authors have served in different strategic planner, line manager, entrepreneur, turnaround professional, director, board consultant and author.

The world is changing and has never been more challenging to private equity players, public companies, and investors. With record market volatility and a global economic crisis, decision makers of all types can learn from successful private equity players and other top value builders. Private equity is growing at a rapid rate, with $2.7 trillion in transactions since 2001 and buyouts occurring in every type of market, including declining ones. And now, with the end of investment banks as we know them, the door is open to more opportunities than ever. In The Private Equity Edge , economics giant Arthur B. Laffer, along with value-building experts William J. Hass and Shepherd G. Pryor IV, combines the concepts of intrinsic value, macroeconomics, and incentives into a single strategy used by today’s top value builders. You’ll learn how to create value while reducing risk by: