Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Adventures in Innovation
Inside the Rise and Fall of Nortel
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
In 1966, recent art college grad, John F. Tyson, became the first industrial designer hired by Northern Electric, Bell Canada’s modest manufacturing arm. In 2000, he retired as vice-president of advanced technology for Nortel, then the world’s leading supplier of communications networks.
Adventures...
The King of Content
Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The remarkable story of Sumner Redstone, his family legacy, and the battles for all he controls.
Sumner Murray Redstone, who lived by the credo "content is king," leveraged his father’s chain of drive-in movie theaters into one of the world’s greatest media empires through a series...
Conspiracy of Fools
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.
It was the corporate collapse that appeared...
The Taking of Getty Oil
Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times–bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll is renowned for “his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them...
Fortune's Fool
Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In 1999, when Napster made music available free online, the music industry found itself in a fight for its life. A decade later, the most important and misunderstood story—and the one with the greatest implications for both music lovers and media companies—is how the music industry has failed...
by Adam Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post).
In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author...
Wordcraft
The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
"Five little words: BlackBerry, Accenture, Viagra, Cayenne, e-business. Two of the words are appropriated (BlackBerry and Cayenne); two are completely made up (Viagra and Accenture); and one (e-business) is a composite word made of a word and a letter that already exist. . . .These five words...
Revolt in the Boardroom
The New Rules of Power in Corporate America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Throughout the 20th century, American corporations were governed by autocratic, almost unaccountable chief executives. Their word was law and the only check on their power was a board of directors composed of their friends and allies.
Then, in a stunning reversal, a momentous series of firings...
The HP Phenomenon
Innovation and Business Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
The HP Phenomenon tells the story of how Hewlett-Packard innovated and transformed itself six times while most of its competitors were unable to make even one significant transformation. It describes those transformations, how they started, how they prevailed, and how the challenges along the way...
The Big Lie
Spying, Scandal, and Ethical Collapse at Hewlett Packard
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Hewlett Packard is an American icon, the largest information technology company in the world. The bedrock of Silicon Valley, it employs more than 300,000 people, its market capitalization is in excess of 100 billion and its products are in almost every home in the country where there is a printer...
The End of Loyalty
The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore.
In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General Motors,...
by Lynn M. Homan, Thomas Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Pan American World Airways could be considered a corporate Cinderella�a rags-to-riches-and-back-again phenomenon. From its founding in 1927 and its relatively obscure inauguration as a mail carrier on a 90-mile mail run from Florida�s Key West to Cuba, Pan Am�s route system grew to span the...
Halliburton's Army
How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Halliburton’s Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering...
Money-Driven Medicine
The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan...