Corporate category: 1876 books
by Jay Elliot, William L. Simon
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 22, 2012
“Un mago. Un leader, temuto e ammirato. Un inventore. Un artista della tecnologia. Un uomo poco diplomatico. Figlio adottivo, studente curioso ma inadatto a ¬ finire l’università, pioniere dell’elettronica, seguace dello zen, imprenditore di successo cacciato dall’azienda che ha fondato,...
Steve Jobs
L'uomo che ha inventato il futuro
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Dalle riunioni con gli sviluppatori ai laboratori di design, dalle prove di forza con il consiglio di amministrazione al mondo fuori dalla Silicon Valley: questo è il VERO Steve Jobs, la storia autentica di un ragazzo prodigio che ha trasformato la tecnologia e il mondo in cui viviamo, il nostro...
Venture Capital
How to raise funds for your business
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Everyone wants to become like Mark Zuckerberg. Put in a sweet business proposal, get a venture capital fund to breathe life into it, and then start rolling in the billions. The only problem is that less than one per cent will become “Zuckers” while the rest remain “Suckers”. How do you avoid...
Entrepreneurship in Finance
Successfully Launching and Managing a Hedge Fund in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Thinking of launching your own hedge fund? Want to learn more about the different steps involved in setting up and scaling a hedge fund? Want to understand what are the global best practices in order to grow your existing hedge fund and attract institutional investors?
This book is the first...
Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management
How Top Companies Assess Risk, Manage Exposure, and Seize Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Using examples from companies such as Home Depot, Airbus, Boeing, and Nokia, Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management takes a fresh look at one of the hottest topics in business today. Showing readers in charge of monitoring operational exposures in corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government...
The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing
Empowering Economic Growth and Investment Portfolios
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A little book full of enormous value for novices and seasoned venture capitalists alike
After having been thrown for a loop by the bursting of the tech bubble more than a decade ago, the venture capital industry suddenly has come roaring back to life over the past two years. In 2011 alone,...
Due Diligence in China
Beyond the Checklists
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
A plain-English guide that demystifies the business landscape in China from a due diligence point of view
Due diligence is crucial to any business deal, and, thankfully, due diligence research has come a long way over the years. What used to be a cumbersome, time-consuming process has been...
by Pat Sheehy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Never A Dull Moment takes us on a fascinating journey that starts in pre-war colonial Burma and ends in the boardrooms of Britain’s top companies. Along the way, we visit wartime Australia, and the author's time serving in the Irish Guards. Then onto West Africa on the cusp of independence and a...
Jewel of Knightsbridge
The Origins of the Harrods Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In 1836, Charles Harrod found himself in a prison hulk awaiting transportation to Tasmania for seven years' hard labor. He had been convicted of receiving stolen goods, and this should have been the beginning of the end for his fledgling business. And yet, in miraculously escaping his fate and vowing...
by Jack Beatty
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American...
First in Thirst
How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat Into a Cultural Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
Selected as one of Soundview Executive Book Summaries's the "30 Best Business Books" of the year. Remember the Cola Wars, with Coke and Pepsi battling it out year after year for supremacy in the soft drink market? Or what about the Burger Wars, the legendary slugfests between McDonald’s...
Monopoly on Wheels
Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Examines the eight-year legal fight to overturn the Selden automobile patent in the early days of the American auto industry.
Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most...
Integral Community Enterprise in Africa
Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three decades, Africa was the recipient of billions...