Industries category: 12638 books
The Sports Strategist
Developing Leaders for a High-Performance Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Today's high-performance sports business is more complex than ever before and presents new challenges to the industry at all levels. Sports organizations are fighting hard for the money and engagement of fans, media, and sponsors while facing unprecedented competition both domestically and internationally....
Slingshot
AMD's Fight to Free an Industry from the Ruthless Grip of Intel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
When Hector Ruiz joined AMD, quickly ascending to the CEO’s suite, he took the helm of a dynamic company that was nonetheless struggling against perceptions that it could not contend with Intel, the Goliath of the microchip industry. Though AMD’s technology, products, and pricing were keeping...
by Shaun Finnie
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
In 1955 Walt Disney presented the world's first theme park. Disneyland opened with just 18 rides and attractions. Today there are eleven Disney parks around the globe. Visitors can spend weeks at a time in these resorts, often staying in one of Disney's own hotel rooms. But in the last fifty...
by Tom Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Whether you’re a financial services expert or novice, you understand the business. You’ve worked hard to gain your product knowledge. You watch industry trends. But, do you know how to talk to clients so they’ll listen?
The Art of Selling Financial Services depends upon the collaboration...
Harriman vs. Hill
Wall Street’s Great Railroad War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally—five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West....
by Richard Finney
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Those who can’t do… teach.
This old adage has ended up being true with previous books on screenwriting. The authors of those books had no real industry experience as working screenwriters on produced movies. Or their experience was so old, what they had to teach was not relevant for today’s...
by Jeffrey Liker
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Transform your company the Toyota way!
Two essential guides streamlined into a SINGLE EBOOK PACKAGE
Toyota. The name says it all: Innovation. Efficiency. Quality. Excellence.
The Toyota Way—Management Principles and Fieldbook explains how the legendary automaker consistently achieves...
Max Factor
The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
**The true story of a poor immigrant who built a Hollywood cosmetics empire is told in “**this biography of the man who gave the world a makeover” (Publishers Weekly).
There was a time when “nice girls” didn’t wear makeup. Max Factor changed all that. Born Maksymilian Faktorowicz...
Eagle on the Street
The SEC and Wall Street during the Reagan Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A “spellbinding account” of Wall Street deregulation in the 1980s, based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post series (The New York Times Book Review).
Described by the New York Times Book Review as “worthy of being on the same shelf” as Liar’s Poker, Greed and Glory on Wall...
Don't Eat This Book
Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
For thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary earned him an Academy Award nomination and broke box-office records worldwide.
But there’s more to the story, and in Don’t...
Where Does It Hurt?
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry.
Where else but the doctor’s office do you have to fill out a form on a clipboard? Have you noticed that hospital bills are almost unintelligible, except for the absurdly high dollar amount? Why is it that technology in...
In Pursuit of the Common Good
Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Shameless exploitation has never been more fun nor done more good for more people than when done by Newman’s Own—the first green food company to use all-natural ingredients, and still the most successful.
It was 1982 when Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner made their foray into local gourmet...
by Omar Raúl Martínez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Con suma recurrencia se plantea que se carece de parámetros que orienten y
eleven la calidad del ejercicio periodístico. Ante esa preocupación, Códigos
de ética periodística en México se propone dos objetivos medulares: hacer una
revisión y análisis crítico de la deontología...
Real Dirt
An Ex-industrial Farmer's Guide to Sustainable Eating
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Real Dirt is a groundbreaking book for any reader interested in learning more about where food comes from. Harry Stoddart shares years of experience and knowledge in his quirky dissection of agriculture and what we eat. Among his many achievements, he has developed a farming system he believes is...