Corporate category: 1876 books
Free Ride
How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.
On the Internet, “information wants to be...
by John P. Kotter
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 1999
Widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on leadership, John Kotter has devoted his remarkable career to studying organizations and those who run them, and his bestselling books and essays have guided and inspired leaders at all levels. Here, in this collection of his acclaimed Harvard...
Day Trading Forex or Stocks
Day Trading Financial Markets - A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
At Day Trade Toronto, we provide online education, remote trading opportunities, support tools required to ensure ones success in Day Trading. We continue to educate and provide thousands of Traders across the World an insight about trading and the financial markets. In this book we will...
by M. Earl Smith, The Ridgewood Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Given that Ridgewood lies within 20 miles of Lower Manhattan, it would be easy to dismiss this little town as another New York suburb. Settled by Johannes Van Emburgh in 1700, this slice of New Jersey was a pivotal safe haven for the founding fathers, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton,...
Amazon and the Rise of E-commerce
The story of Jeff Bezos’ revolutionary company
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Find out how Amazon conquered the world in just 50 minutes!In less than two decades, Amazon grew from a startup to become the world leader in online shopping, with hundreds of millions of customers around the world. However, the future did not always look so bright for the internet giant: its unconventional...
by Arnold Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The smart investors guide to financial privacy, wealth protection and international profiteering.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Italian Banking and Financial Law provides a thorough overview of the banking sector in Italy, offering historical perspectives, insight into current developments and suggestions for future evolution.
by Harvey Sawler
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Famed Canadian industrialist K. C. Irving has always been considered the most important figure of the Irving family business empire-an empire of such dominance in its region that only America's Morgans or Rockefellers merit a valid comparison. K. C. was indeed the pivot man in a relentless relay of...
Investment Banking
Institutions, Politics, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment...
Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History
Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This fascinating work presents biographical essays about women from the colonial period to modern times, chronicling the previously untold story of the female financial experience in the United States.
• Explores the female financial experience in the United States from the colonial period...
Redpath
The History of a Sugar House
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1991
Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the boom days of Montreal's growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city. In 1854, the ever-energetic...
A Better Way of Doing Business?
Lessons from The John Lewis Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account of the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it. The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and its openness to the market in the...
by Anthony Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week....
Wurlitzer of Cincinnati
The Name That Means Music To Millions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Established in Cincinnati in 1856 by German immigrant Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer, the music dealer became the largest outlet for band instruments in the United States by 1865. During the silent film era in the early twentieth century, Wurlitzer manufactured nearly 2,250 theater organs, affectionately...