Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
by Alen Bosankic
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Können Privatunternehmen einen Beitrag zu Frieden und Sicherheit in Konfliktregionen leisten? Falls ja, gibt es bestimmte Voraussetzungen dafür? Besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen diesen und dem privatwirtschaftlichen Beitrag? Ziel von Alen Bosankic ist es, Wege für unternehmerische Beiträge zu...
Technological Innovation in Retail Finance
International Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This edited volume offers a new and original approach to the study of technological change in retail finance. Documenting developments in the US alongside case studies from Mexico and Europe, Technological Innovation in Retail Finance addresses the variety of financial institutions that populated...
Managed by the Markets
How Finance Re-Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and college savings of families in Detroit and Southern...
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
**Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize
"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now."—The New York Times Book Review**
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events...
When Money Was In Fashion
Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
This epic biography tells the story of the rise of Wall Street and the growth of Goldman Sachs from a small commercial paper company to the international banking business we know today. At its heart is the story of Henry Goldman, a man who spoke out passionately for his beliefs, understood the importance...
The Man Who Solved the Market
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Bestselling author and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?
Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. His track record bests those of legendary investors including...
The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
"An immersive play-by-play of the company's ascent.... It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story." -- Laura Bennett, New Republic
Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything...
Du Pont Dynasty
Behind the Nylon Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the author
Their name is everywhere. America’s wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts,...
by James B. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2005
The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war.
“When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Whistle While You Work,” “The Happiest Place on Earth”—these are lyrics...
At Any Cost
Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
"O'Boyle has researched and written a monumental book that should be mandatory reading for all CEOs and anyone concerned with business ethics." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Superb . . . a spirited study of General Electric, and of its sometimes brilliant, sometimes bungling,...
by Josh Ozersky
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars’ worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person—Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside café in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders...
The Watson Dynasty
The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For an extraordinary fifty-seven-year period, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing companies was run by two men who were flesh and blood. The chief executives of the International Business Machines Corporation from 1914 until 1971 were Thomas J. Watson and Thomas J. Watson, father and son....
Giants of Enterprise
Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Seven business innovators and the empires they built.
The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires.
With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates...
Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book...