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Wordcraft
The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
"Five little words: BlackBerry, Accenture, Viagra, Cayenne, e-business. Two of the words are appropriated (BlackBerry and Cayenne); two are completely made up (Viagra and Accenture); and one (e-business) is a composite word made of a word and a letter that already exist. . . .These five words...
The Last of the Imperious Rich
Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
The inspiration for the hit play The Lehman Trilogy
On September 11, 1844, Henry Lehman arrived in New York City on a boat from Germany. Soon after, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he and his brother Emanuel established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman...
Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post • The McKinsey Business Book of the Year
**The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time...
by Hersh Shefrin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1999
Even the best Wall Street investors make mistakes. No matter how savvy or experienced, all financial practitioners eventually let bias, overconfidence, and emotion cloud their judgement and misguide their actions. Yet most financial decision-making models fail to factor in these fundamentals of human...
Revolt in the Boardroom
The New Rules of Power in Corporate America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Throughout the 20th century, American corporations were governed by autocratic, almost unaccountable chief executives. Their word was law and the only check on their power was a board of directors composed of their friends and allies.
Then, in a stunning reversal, a momentous series of firings...
The HP Phenomenon
Innovation and Business Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
The HP Phenomenon tells the story of how Hewlett-Packard innovated and transformed itself six times while most of its competitors were unable to make even one significant transformation. It describes those transformations, how they started, how they prevailed, and how the challenges along the way...
The Big Lie
Spying, Scandal, and Ethical Collapse at Hewlett Packard
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Hewlett Packard is an American icon, the largest information technology company in the world. The bedrock of Silicon Valley, it employs more than 300,000 people, its market capitalization is in excess of 100 billion and its products are in almost every home in the country where there is a printer...
The End of Loyalty
The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore.
In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors,...
by Lynn M. Homan, Thomas Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Pan American World Airways could be considered a corporate Cinderella�a rags-to-riches-and-back-again phenomenon. From its founding in 1927 and its relatively obscure inauguration as a mail carrier on a 90-mile mail run from Florida�s Key West to Cuba, Pan Am�s route system grew to span the...
by Mike Kiett
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This was written to open the eyes and mind of the Urban Demographic. To show a community of people, who have taken unwanted risk in life to survive, how they can use those learned skills, to now live, in poverty stricken neighborhoods, many men choose to sell drugs, to provide for their family, and...
Halliburton's Army
How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Halliburton’s Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering...
Money-Driven Medicine
The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan...
The Buffett Essays Symposium
A 20th Anniversary Annotated Transcript
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2016
Among the landmark occasions in the legendary history of Berkshire Hathaway and its iconic co-leaders, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, was a 1996 symposium held in New York at Cardozo Law School. The focus of the symposium was Warren's letters to Berkshire shareholders. The format was a series of...
by Andrei Besedin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Are you advancing or pursuing a career in investment banking, commercial banking, corporate development, financial planning and analysis, equity research, or other areas of corporate finance? Building financial models and analysis is part of the daily routine.
Financial analysis and models...