Corporate category: 1876 books
Managing Financial Institutions
Markets and Sustainable Finance
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book goes beyond traditional financial institutions textbooks, which tend to focus on mathematical models for risk management and the technical aspects of measuring and managing risk. It focuses on the role of financial institutions in promoting social and economic goals for the communities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The most comprehensive guide to all techniques available to European companies, European Cross-Border Mergers and Reorganisations is the ideal reference tool for lawyers, auditors, notaries and scholars working in the field. Providing everything a practitioner needs to co-ordinate a successful cross-border...
Comparative Insolvency Law
The Pre-pack Approach in Corporate Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Comparative Insolvency Law argues that the most important development in contemporary insolvency law and practice is the shift towards a rescue culture rather than full creditor satisfaction. This book is the first to specifically examine the rise of the pre-pack approach, which permits debtor companies to formulate a clear pre-arranged exit before entering into formal insolvency proceedings.
Varieties of Capitalism and Business History
The Dutch Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies. This volume gives a business history perspective on the Varieties of Capitalism debate and considers the respective merits of the liberal and coordinated market economies. It looks at individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
This book provides insight into current research topics in finance and banking in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Expert authors authoritatively analyse how banks finance their activities and resolve funding issues. Chapters specifically discuss financial instruments such as corporate bonds,...
New Challenges in Banking and Finance
2nd International Conference on Banking and Finance Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This volume presents current developments in the fields of banking and finance from an international perspective. Featuring contributions from the 2nd International Conference on Banking and Finance Perspectives (ICBFP), this volume serves as a valuable forum for discussing current issues and trends...
Driving Honda
Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Since its birth as a motorcycle company in 1949, Honda has steadily grown into one of the world’s largest automakers and engine manufacturers, as well as one of the most beloved, most profitable, and most consistently innovative multinational corporations. What drives the company that keeps creating...
by Maurice R. Greenberg, Lawrence A. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Selected as one of Motley Fool’s "5 Great Books You Should Read"
In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of...
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially...
The Wizards of Wall Street
Business Adventures, Once in Golconda, and The Go-Go Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
A collection of true stories about money, the stock market, and high finance from the Gerald Loeb Award–winning “unbelievable business writer” (Bill Gates).
For decades, author and New Yorker staff writer John Brooks was renowned for his keen intelligence, in-depth knowledge, and uniquely...
The Real Cost of Capital
A Business Field Guide to Better Financial Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
"This book is required reading for anyone involved in the practical issues of cost of capital decisions. It is written in a way that engages the novice, and yet challenges the professional to rethink the real issues."
Brendan Scholey, Bloomberg.
The cost of capital is the fundamental...
Acquisition Essentials
A step-by-step guide to smarter deals
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The comprehensive and crystal-clear companion to making the right acquisition decisions and executing them well:
Acquisition is the most powerful corporate development tool available to companies and will therefore always be on the business agenda.
Very practical and easy to follow: diagrams,...
Class Privilege
How Law Shelters Shareholders and Coddles Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Capitalism’s agenda is the endless pursuit of private accumulation of socially produced wealth. In our system, the corporation—created by law—is meant to hide this agenda, to distract us so that flesh and blood capitalists can do what they like. But when the workings of the corporation are examined,...
Optical Illusions
Lucent and the Crash of Telecom
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
When Lucent Technologies was spun off from AT&T in 1996, the new company was full of promise. An old-line manufacturer, it quickly became a sizzling hot stock thanks to the emergence of the Internet and the build-up of telecommunications. The stock market was soaring, and Lucent flew with it. Within...