Dr. Kenneth Blanchard is a business writer, consultant, and cofounder of the Ken Blanchard Companies of Escondido, California. He has made many contributions in the field of human resources development and formulated the situation LEADERSHIP model and several management styles.

The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty intended to reduce the impact of human activity on the earth�s environment. The focus of the treaty is global warming, but it also contains goals to reduce poverty and shepherd water RESOURCES. It is also called the Kyoto Accord or the Climate Change Treaty.

Kondratev waves are 50-year periods of expansion and contraction in Western countries during the period from 1790 to 1940. These long-term BUSINESS CYCLEs were first observed and analyzed by the Russian economist and statistician Nikolay Kondratev.

Knowledge management (KM) is a business activity through which organizations generate value utilizing their explicit and tacit intellectual assets. This is accomplished through the dissemination and utilization of knowledge. The practice of KM involves combining explicit assets (information technologies) with tacit assets (competencies and experiences possessed by employees).

Know-how is valuable business knowledge; it may or may not be a trade secret, and may or may not be patentable. Know-how often refers to technical, scientific, or engineering fields. An engineer who specialized in industrial coatings once said, �I am more than willing to show my ideas and inventions to potential partners and investors.

Keynesian (pronounced Canes-e-an) economics refers to the macroeconomic theories of John Maynard Keynes (1883�1946), considered by many to be the greatest economist of the 20th century. Lord Keynes, knighted for his work on behalf of Great Britain, developed much of the framework of modern macroeconomic theory.

A Keogh plan is a tax-deferred savings vehicle serving as a RETIREMENT PLAN for unincorporated businesses, usually small businesses or people who are self-employed. Keogh plans (which are also sometimes called �qualified plans� or �H.R. 10� plans) were named after New York Representative Eugene James Keogh and were first introduced in the 1960s.