Corporate category: 1876 books
by Kurt Eichenwald
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A real-life thriller—the story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sums—some their life’s savings—in the largest securities fraud of the 1980s, with names like Onassis and Bush numbered among the victims.
Leap
How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Every business faces the existential threat of competitors producing cheaper copies. Even patent filings, market dominance and financial resources can't shield them from copycats. So what can we do--and, what can we learn from companies that have endured and even prospered for centuries despite copycat...
The Men Who Loved Trains
The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2006
An award-winning account of a crisis in railroad history: “This absorbing book takes you on an entertaining ride.” —Chicago Tribune
A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land—America’s railroads—The Men Who Loved Trains introduces the chieftains who...
The Launch Pad
Inside Y Combinator
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Number of teams that applied to Y Combinator’s summer 2011 batch: 2,089
Teams interviewed: 170
Minutes per interview: 10
Teams accepted and funded: 64
Months to build a viable startup: 3
Possibilities: BOUNDLESS
Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after...
by Cavalcante
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Coleção Your eBook in Finance: os tópicos mais discutidos da área financeira detalhados em forma didática. - Para todo profissional que precisa saber o essencial sobre finanças corporativas. - Para quem deseja aprofundar seus conhecimentos. Nessa edição...
Pensionsverpflichtungen in der Rechnungslegung nach IFRS
Theoretische und empirische Analyse alternativer Bilanzierungskonzepte
Language: German
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Bilanzierung von Pensionsverpflichtungen, welche ein seit Jahrzehnten kontrovers diskutierter Bereich in der Rechnungslegung nach IFRS sind. Es stellen sich die Fragen, welche Regelungen zur Pensionsbilanzierung sachgerecht sind und welche Auswirkungen Bilanzierungsänderungen...
The Hellhound of Wall Street
How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
A gripping account of the underdog Senate lawyer who unmasked the financial wrongdoing that led to the Crash of 1929 and forever changed the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put...
Be Your Own Mentor
Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Surprising secrets of success from some of America's women leaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed in this mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president of Catalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how to tell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the...
The Firm
The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The story of McKinsey & Co., America’s most influential and controversial business consulting firm, “an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity” (The Wall Street Journal).
If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company. Founded in 1926, McKinsey...
by Bruce McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
The History of Eckler Ltd. - A graduate in commerce and finance from the University of Toronto, Sam Eckler grew up in Toronto, in the working-class Parkdale neighbourhood. His father ran a grocery store. Before university, Sam attended Ryerson Public School and Parkdale Collegiate. As an undergraduate,...
Promoting Microfinance
Challenges and Innovations in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Promoting Microfinance brings together essays and empirical work by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of microfinance. It covers key issues currently facing the microfinance industry and provides an overview of the microfinance industry in selected countries/regions, pointing to the direction in which it is heading.
by Richard E. Foglesong
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Joined together in an economic development marriage,” Walt Disney World and Orlando, Florida, have become the world’s most popular tourist destination. This intriguing book traces the evolution of the relationship between the Disney Co. and the surrounding community since it began in the 1960s....
Hell's Cartel
IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates
At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker...
Reach for the Skies
Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting into Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
One of the world's most famous business leaders (and a well-known avian fanatic) explores the pioneers of flight.
Bestselling author and billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has always been obsessed with the skies. To promote a new Virgin Airlines route, he became the first man to water...