Corporate category: 1876 books
Max Factor and Hollywood
A Glamorous History
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When Polish wigmaker and cosmetician Max Factor arrived in Los Angeles at the dawn of the motion picture industry, "make-up" had been associated only with stage performers and ladies of the oldest profession. Appalled by the garish paints worn by actors, Factor introduced the first "flexible" greasepaint...
by John Charles Anicic Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
In the first half of the 20th century, Fontana Farms Company operated a hog ranch on the site where Kaiser Company Incorporated later erected one of the nation�s largest steel mills. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was forced into an unprecedented escalation in...
Sunnyvale
The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the next decade, as Silicon Valley boomed, the Goodell family unraveled.
Splintered by their parent's...
Summary of The Black Swan
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Includes Analysis Preview: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a philosophical treatment of Taleb's research on highly improbable, high-impact events. These events, which Taleb calls “Black Swans,”...
Today and Tomorrow
Timeless Wisdom for a Modern Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1926
Henry Ford's impact on industry, business, and society continues to drive us to reach for seemingly impossible goals. He turned an automobile into an industry, transformed the world of farming with a tractor, and launched the airplane into a new era of mass production. Ford didn't just revolutionize...
Ethical Chic
The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
In this age of social activism, pinpoint marketing, and immediate information, consumers demand everything from the coffee, computer, or toothpaste they buy: an affordable, reliable product manufactured by a company that doesn't pollute, saves energy, treats its workers well, and doesn't hurt animals—oh,...
You Can't Order Change
Lessons from Jim McNerney's Turnaround at Boeing
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
The first book to explore the unique leadership style of Boeing’s acclaimed CEO
Jim McNerney was one of Jack Welch’s top protégés at General Electric and a finalist to replace the retiring Welch as CEO. McNerney lost that competition in 2001, but since then he has emerged as one of the...
by Stephen Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
A Top Editor’s Take on the State of Journalism Today—and His Prescient Forecast of Its Future
“This is a personal and insightful book about one of the most important questions of our time: how will journalism make the transition to the digital age? Steve Shepard made that leap bravely...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Xerox Company was exceptional during the hard economic times that accompanied the Great Depression. After losing a small amount in 1929 the business began to expand its profits and workforce. Whereas many companies were either laying off workers or trimming their hours, Xerox was working their employees...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting deals with organizations’ assessment, articulation and disclosure of their social and environmental impact on various groups in society.
There is increasingly an understanding that financial information does not sufficiently discharge organizational...
To Pixar and Beyond
My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“Lovely and surprising . . . This delightful book is about finance, creative genius, workplace harmony, and luck.”—Fortune
”Enchanting,”—New York Times
“I love this book! I think it is brilliant.”—Ed Catmull, cofounder and president of Pixar Animation, president of...
by Bill Capodagli, Lynn Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
“Dream, Believe, Dare, Do . . .”
Though four simple words, this carefully crafted credo lies at the heart of Walt Disney’s enviable empire and has led The Walt Disney Company to prosperity for decades.
As foremost experts on Disney, authors Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson return...
Free the Market!
Why Only Government Can Keep the Marketplace Competitive
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Why we need government intervention in the free market to protect competition and encourage innovation
Starting about thirty years ago, conservatives forced an overhaul of competition policy that has loosened business rules for everything from selling products to buying competitors.
Gary Reback...
Rebuilding Empires
How Best Buy and Other Retailers are Transforming and Competing in the Digital Age of Retailing
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Rebuilding Empires examines, through retail giants Best Buy and Target, how big box chains are constructing a new future by utilizing mobile devices, social media, and the Internet, the same technologies that once pushed them to the brink of irrelevance. This book features interviews with industry...