Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Boss Lady
How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret...
The Monster
How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Who killed the economy?
A page-turning, true-crime exposé of the subprime salesmen and Wall Street alchemists who produced the biggest financial scandal in American history
"It's hard to have a guilty conscience if you don't have a conscience. Anything that benefited production...
House of Cards
A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.
At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After...
Becoming Hewlett Packard
Why Strategic Leadership Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the 77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological changes that felled most of its competitors...
Investment Banking History
National and Comparative Issues (19th-21st centuries)
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The recent financial and banking crisis did reveal the discrepancy between internal management rules and the demands for stability within the divisions of corporate and investment banking by universal banks or within pure investment banks. Their mastership of risks did not balance the variety and...
The Activist Director
Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive...
Two Centuries of Panic
A history of corporate collapses in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Two Centuries of Panic is a book of breathtaking energy and scope. Rich in sensation and scandal, it is the first history ever published of corporate collapses in Australia from the first bank closure in the 1820s through the four great recessions of the 1840s, 1890s, 1920s and 1970s to the downfall...
The Hippie Guide to Climbing Corporate Ladder and Other Mountains
How JanSport Makes It Happen
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
From small-town Kansas boy to adventure-junkie extraordinaire to respected mountaineer, this funky and funny read traces Skip Yowell's (Co-Founder of JanSport) unorthodox journey to the top of the outdoor industry.
Full of offbeat details and photos from Skip's adventures around the...
by S. Jonathan Wiesen
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, West German industrialists faced a major crisis in their public image. With mounting revelations about the use of forced and slave labor, the "Aryanization" of Jewish property, and corporate profiteering under National Socialism, industrialists emerged...
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...
Boards and Shareholders in European Listed Companies
Facts, Context and Post-Crisis Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
With contributions by distinguished scholars from legal and financial backgrounds, this collection of essays analyses four main topics in the corporate governance of European listed firms: (i) board structure, composition and functioning and their interaction with ownership structure; (ii) board remuneration;...
by Mark S. Mizruchi
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Critics warn that corporate leaders have too much influence over American politics. Mark Mizruchi worries they exert too little. American CEOs have abdicated their civic responsibilities in helping the government address national challenges, with grave consequences for society. A sobering assessment of the dissolution of America’s business class.
Disqualification of Company Directors
A Comparative Analysis of the Law in the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book provides a clear overview of the legal rules relating to directors’ disqualification in Australia, Germany, South Africa, the UK and the US, and to highlight the differences in the disqualification regimes of these jurisdictions. The book seeks to determine whether disqualification on...
Corporate Purpose
Why It Matters More Than Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Originally published in 1999 after a decade of research and extensive interviews with some of Toyota's top executives, this book examines organizational purpose: what it is, how it is crafted, how does it relate to strategy and objectives and how does it relate to decisions and actions that ultimately...