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Minister of Money

Henry Duncan, Founder of the Savings Bank Movement

By: Charles W. Munn

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Minister of Money

Henry Duncan, Founder of the Savings Bank Movement

By: Charles W. Munn

Henry Duncan was a man of many parts: parish minister, savings bank founder, political lobbyist, anti-slavery campaigner, educator, geologist, poet, author. He restored the Ruthwell Cross, a medieval monument of international importance. He also played a major role in the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 – the most significant social event in nineteenth-century Scotland. But his lasting legacy is as founder of the worldwide savings bank movement. He first opened a parish bank in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, in 1810, to encourage the 'industrious poor' to save for times of hardship. It was run by local voluntary trustees, and the idea spread to become the basis of trustee savings banks across the world. Duncan was a product of the Enlightenment and his Christian faith. While these were often uneasy bedfellows, he found ways to reconcile them by addressing the economic and social problems of his parishioners as well as their spiritual needs. A man of vision and compassion, Duncan believed fundamentally in the dignity of ordinary working people. From its beginnings in a small cottage on the shores of the Solway, his community savings bank went on to influence and inspire generations all over the world.

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Birlinn Ltd

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ISBN 10

0857909851

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9780857909855

Unleashing Intellectual Capital

By: Charles Kalev Ehin

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Unleashing Intellectual Capital

By: Charles Kalev Ehin

Demonstrates clearly what ails most knowledge-based organizations today-the gap between unchanging human nature and management systems. Illustrates how the latest research in a variety of fields can redefine management. Provides the most comprehensive framework to date for generating, capturing and leveraging intellectual capital based on a thorough understanding of human nature.

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Routledge

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1136350764

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9781136350764

Knowledge Horizons

By: Charles Despres,Daniele Chauvel

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Knowledge Horizons

By: Charles Despres,Daniele Chauvel

Knowledge Horizons charts the feasible future for knowledge management. This practical and provocative resource presents the work of many of the leading voices in knowledge management and related disciplines, who explore the current trends and offer pragmatic and authoritative thinking on applied knowledge management from a variety of positions. Knowledge management is the new frontier for businesses, organizations, and institutions of all kinds. For those that hope to conquer this new territory, establishing a better understanding of current and future knowledge management trends and adoption of the most effective practices is imperitive. There are numerous options for executives: intranets, extranets, groupware, and core competencies are continually being refined. New entitites and rules in terms of intellectual capital and the "Chief Knowledge Officer" are emerging. Knowledge Horizons addresses these issues by exploring current and future knowledge management trends, gauging the future value of knowledge management investments, and how they will drive new business initiatives, and integrates the experience and insights of managers and cutting-edge research from experts in the field.

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365

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Routledge

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1136390170

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9781136390173

Speeches of Benjamin Harrison

By: Charles Hedges

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Speeches of Benjamin Harrison

By: Charles Hedges

Reproduction of the original: Speeches of Benjamin Harrison by Charles Hedges

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752339306

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9783752339307

Investing for Generations

A History of the Alliance Trust

By: Charles Munn

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Investing for Generations

A History of the Alliance Trust

By: Charles Munn

This history of the Alliance Trust, one of Scotland's oldest and most interesting companies and the UK's largest general investment fund, is a story of flexibility, patience, careful management and acting in the best interests of shareholders. Alliance Trust began life in Dundee in 1888 as a mortgage company financing farmers in the American West. It inherited the business of several Dundee-based mortgage companies that had lent, wisely and unwisely, on large and small tracts of land in Oregon, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico. It was an industry leader from the outset but, unlike some of the companies it had acquired, it soon built a reputation for stability and prudence. Despite the company discovering oil on some of the land that in owned in the USA, the economic difficulties of the inter-war years necessitated a change of business strategy. It made the transition from lending on mortgages to investing in securities. It enjoyed the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s, fought its way through the troubles of the 1970s and, when better times returned in the 1980s, it extended its reach, first into asset finance and then into retail savings and investment products.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474471188

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9781474471183

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Minister of Money

Minister of Money

Unleashing Intellectual Capital

Unleashing Intellectual Capital

Knowledge Horizons

Knowledge Horizons

Speeches of Benjamin Harrison

Speeches of Benjamin Harrison

Investing for Generations

Investing for Generations

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