Corporate category: 1876 books
by Jean E. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Accounting delivers a lot of indecipherable reports. Finance rarely addresses the business leader?s need for a greater understanding of the complete financial impact of decisions made as well as decisions to be made. Both functions also have a lot of internal process waste. The Value Add Accountant...
Contemporary Trends in Accounting, Finance and Financial Institutions
Proceedings from the International Conference on Accounting, Finance and Financial Institutions (ICAFFI), Poznan 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book gathers the proceedings of the ICAFFI International Conference on Accounting, Finance and Financial Institutions. The main topics addressed include: corporate finance, financial markets and asset pricing, empirical finance, taxation, financial risk management, international finance, financial...
New Trends in Finance and Accounting
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Finance and Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
This book presents the most current trends in the field of finance and accounting from an international perspective. Featuring contributions presented at the 17th Annual Conference on Finance and Accounting at the University of Economics in Prague, this title provides a mix of research methods used...
Dealers of Lightning
Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created...
Ray & Joan
The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The movie The Founder, starring Michael Keaton, focused the spotlight on Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as the chairman of McDonald’s. But what about his wife Joan, the woman who became famous for giving away his fortune? Lisa Napoli tells the fascinating story behind the historic couple.
Ray...
The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank
Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood...
Masters of the Game
Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Veteran legal issues reporter Kim Eisler takes us behind the scenes into mega law firm Williams & Connolly, guiding us on a journey through the many storied cases that have served to shape current policies in public and private sector alike
For the past twenty years, author and journalist...
Stealing Time
Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2003
In January 2000, America Online and Time Warner announced the largest merger in U.S. history, a deal that would create the biggest media company in the world. It was celebrated as the marriage of new media and old media, a potent combination of the nation's No. 1 Internet company and the country's...
by Thomas Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
“Examines why the set-in-its-ways Coca Cola Company tampered with a drink that had become an American institution—and blundered into one of the greatest marketing triumphs of all time.”—New York
On April 23, 1985, the top executives of the Coca-Cola Company held a press conference in...
The Bettencourt Affair
The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
An NPR Best Book of 2017
Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what...
by Abrahm Lustgarten
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
It was Big Oil's nightmare moment, and the dominoes began falling years before the well was drilled.
Two decades ago, British Petroleum, a venerable and storied corporation, was running out of oil reserves. Along came a new CEO of vision and vast ambition, John Browne, who pulled off one of...
by Prem Geet OceanicMedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
First in a series of "Osho's Alphabet," this is an homage to Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, Inc., who exemplified Osho's teaching about the urgency and immediacy of life. "A is for Apple and Steve Jobs as Avatar" is a reflection upon the mysterious last words of Jobs, a man who...
Starting Up Silicon Valley
How ROLM Became a Cultural Icon and Fortune 500 Company
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500: The inside story of ROLM and its continuing influence on Silicon Valley
Decades before Facebook, seven years before Apple, four young men were hard at work in a prune-drying shed designing “the world’s toughest computer.” That was the founding of ROLM Corporation,...
by Jane Gleeson-White
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
“A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping.”—Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers...