Corporate category: 1876 books
Business Adventures
Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf...
Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.”
—New York Times Book Review
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall...
by Rod McQueen,Jim Balsillie,Mike Lazaridis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Chances are…you are looking at yours right now. They are--quite literally--everywhere. US President Barack Obama admits he cannot live without it. Oprah Winfrey, reigning queen of daytime TV, declared on air that the BlackBerry is one of her "favorite things." BusinessWeek put the case for owning one...
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
**From the award-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, an “extraordinary” and “monumental” exposé of Big Oil (The Washington Post)
Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson**
In...
Shift
Inside Nissan's Historic Revival
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In Shift, Carlos Ghosn, the brilliant, audacious, and widely admired CEO of Nissan, recounts how he took the reins of the nearly bankrupt Japanese automotive company and achieved one of the most remarkable turnarounds in automotive—and corporate—history.
When Carlos Ghosn (pronounced like “phone”)...
Ice Cream Social
The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Ben & Jerry’s has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world’s best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company’s success with all stakeholders: employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody. But it hasn’t...
The Monster
How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Who killed the economy?
A page-turning, true-crime exposé of the subprime salesmen and Wall Street alchemists who produced the biggest financial scandal in American history
"It's hard to have a guilty conscience if you don't have a conscience. Anything that benefited production...
The Dark Side of Valuation
Valuing Young, Distressed, and Complex Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Renowned valuation expert Aswath Damodaran reviews the core tools of valuation, examines today’s most difficult estimation questions and issues, and then systematically addresses the valuation challenges that arise throughout a firm’s lifecycle in The Dark Side of Valuation: Valuing Young, Distressed...
Lombard Street
A Description of the Money Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Financial observer and journalist Walter Bagehot sheds light on the world of banking in his influential tract
Written in response to a nineteenth-century banking crisis in England, Walter Bagehot’s influential treatise was one of the first to clearly explain complex financial systems like...
House of Cards
A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.
At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After...
by Dennis Kelly, Esq.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Since 2000, a new generation of Haitians has emerged and come into their own, fully aware of how the world works and committed to the proposition that Haiti can engage the world as a strong and self-sufficient people able to determine their own future.
Expressing a commitment to move Haiti “from...
Inside Coca-Cola
A CEO's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival
Neville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than 30 years, retiring in 2009 as CEO after regilding the tarnished brand image of the world's leading soft-drink company. This first book by a Coca-Cola...
Internal Rating Systems and the Bank-Firm Relationship
Valuing Company Networks
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This book provides the conceptual and operational tools for understanding the mechanisms for assigning a rating to a network of companies. In it, the author explores the rating systems of corporate networks and analyses the link between rating and an enterprise network.
by Patricia Beard
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Glamorous, cultured, and ambitious -- but fatally young and naive -- James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1899. Five years later, at the pinnacle of social and financial success, he made a fatal miscalculation,...