Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
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by Annarita Briganti, Rossella Canevari, Marta Elena Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This publication is part of the Mamma, che impresa! project, a workshop that promotes corporate culture, open to collaborations and synergies.
The stories of nine wonderful business case-histories, narrated, together with nine bright professional writers, by those who have founded them and lead them.
After...
by Ann Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
A comprehensive book describing principal forms of business, including sample agreements, forms and checklists, such as: a limited partnership agreement, a management agreement, a limited liability company operating agreement, articles of incorporation, sample minutes, bylaws, an indemnity agreement,...
Black Life in Corporate America
Swimming in the Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
When it was published in 1982, Business Week called it a book "packed with insights that might otherwise remain hidden for years." The New York Times Book Review called it: "A thoroughly readable book of immediate interest to average readers as well as specialists in business administration, psychology...
Model Business Corporation Act
Official Text with Official Commentary & Statutory Cross-References
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
The Model Business Corporation Act (2016 Revision) is the first complete revision of the Model Act since 1984. The Model Act is a free-standing corporation statute that can be enacted in its entirety by a state legislation. It is the basis for the general corporation statute in 32 states and the District...
The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank
Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood...
Masters of the Game
Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Veteran legal issues reporter Kim Eisler takes us behind the scenes into mega law firm Williams & Connolly, guiding us on a journey through the many storied cases that have served to shape current policies in public and private sector alike
For the past twenty years, author and journalist...
Business Adventures
Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward. Development challenges intensified, the global development agenda became more ambitious, and new sources of development finance emerged. This volume shows how...
The Bank That Lived a Little
Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. In a tale of feuds, grandiose dreams and a struggle for supremacy between rival strategies...
The Deals That Made the World
Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
"Excellent. ... Impressive." —Financial Times
An award-winning investigative journalist takes us inside the ten business deals that have transformed the modern world
We tend to think of our world as controlled by forces we basically understand, primarily the politicians we...
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially...
by Patricia Beard
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
The inside story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street's most prestigious financial institution
What began with a shot over the bow ended in a shocking coup d'etat. In less than four months a group of eight retired executives orchestrated a stunning revolt within Morgan Stanley, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Routledge Companion to Business History is a definitive work of reference, and authoritative, international source on business history. Compiled by leading scholars in the field, it offers both researchers and students an introduction and overview of current scholarship in this expanding discipline.
Drawing...
Risk and Ruin
Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other ventures—some more legal...