Corporate category: 1876 books
by Barnali Choudhury, Martin Petrin
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
In a world where the grocery store may be more powerful than the government and corporations are the governors rather than the governed, the notion of corporations being only private actors is slowly evaporating. Gone is the view that corporations can focus exclusively on maximizing shareholder wealth....
Black Life in Corporate America
Swimming in the Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
When it was published in 1982, Business Week called it a book "packed with insights that might otherwise remain hidden for years." The New York Times Book Review called it: "A thoroughly readable book of immediate interest to average readers as well as specialists in business administration, psychology...
by Bert Spector
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This handy new reference is your guided tour through the world of corporate clients, offered from a business perspective rather than a legal one. You'll discover the concepts and issues that arise in the day-to-day activities of managers, including: • Corporate Finance and Governance • Business Strategy...
Model Business Corporation Act
Official Text with Official Commentary & Statutory Cross-References
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
The Model Business Corporation Act (2016 Revision) is the first complete revision of the Model Act since 1984. The Model Act is a free-standing corporation statute that can be enacted in its entirety by a state legislation. It is the basis for the general corporation statute in 32 states and the District...
Wall Streeters
The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance.
Edward Morris...
Adventures in Innovation
Inside the Rise and Fall of Nortel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In 1966, recent art college grad, John F. Tyson, became the first industrial designer hired by Northern Electric, Bell Canada’s modest manufacturing arm. In 2000, he retired as vice-president of advanced technology for Nortel, then the world’s leading supplier of communications networks.
Adventures...
The King of Content
Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The remarkable story of Sumner Redstone, his family legacy, and the battles for all he controls.
Sumner Murray Redstone, who lived by the credo "content is king," leveraged his father’s chain of drive-in movie theaters into one of the world’s greatest media empires through a series...
The Chief Financial Officer
What CFOs Do, the Influence they Have, and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The rapid rise in importance of the role of the chief financial officer—from back-office accountant to front-line executive—is unrivaled by that of any other corporate position. With access to every facet of the business, CFOs now wield a level of influence matched only by chief executives.
This...
Artificial Intelligence in Financial Markets
Cutting Edge Applications for Risk Management, Portfolio Optimization and Economics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
As technology advancement has increased, so to have computational applications for forecasting, modelling and trading financial markets and information, and practitioners are finding ever more complex solutions to financial challenges. Neural networking is a highly effective, trainable algorithmic...
Conspiracy of Fools
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.
It was the corporate collapse that appeared...
The Taking of Getty Oil
Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times–bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll is renowned for “his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them...
Fortune's Fool
Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In 1999, when Napster made music available free online, the music industry found itself in a fight for its life. A decade later, the most important and misunderstood story—and the one with the greatest implications for both music lovers and media companies—is how the music industry has failed...
by Adam Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post).
In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author...
by Mark Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
How Excessive Risk Destroyed Lehman and Nearly Brought Down the Financial Industry
“Uncontrolled Risk will ruffle feathers—and for good reason—as voters and legislators learn the diffi cult lessons of Lehman’s collapse and demand that we never forget them.”
Dr. David C. Shimko, Board...