Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Eccentric Orbits
The Iridium Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
“Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about.” —The Economist, “A Book of the Year 2016”
In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement....
Pretend We're Dead
Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the...
Women of Vision
Nine Business Leaders in Conversation with Alam Srinivas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A 2012 McKinsey study found that women hold a mere 5 per cent of boardroom positions in Indian firms. If India has to emerge as a real economic superpower in the 21st century, she has to harness the growing women power, grant them a greater role in the nation-building process and chalk out a clear ballot-to-boardroom...
Legal Risk Management, Governance and Compliance
Interdisciplinary Case Studies from Leading Experts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This new volume charts the biggest successes – and failures – of legal risk management, governance and compliance at global brands over the past two decades; the cases that have led to our understanding, and myriad national and international regulations, today. Succeeding bestseller Legal Risk...
Mergers & Acquisitions
A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
In 1999, MCI WorldComm and Sprint agreed to merge. Valued at $129 billion, this expected transaction was the largest in history. However, it fell victim to regulators in Europe concerned with the potential monopoly power of the merged firm. This M&A action was merely the latest in a growing trend...
Benefit Corporation Law and Governance
Pursuing Profit with Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
**Corporations with a Conscience
Corporations today are embedded in a system of shareholder primacy. Nonfinancial concerns—like worker well-being, environmental impact, and community health—are secondary to the imperative to maximize share price. Benefit corporation governance reorients...
Varieties of Capitalism and Business History
The Dutch Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies. This volume gives a business history perspective on the Varieties of Capitalism debate and considers the respective merits of the liberal and coordinated market economies. It looks at individual...
Driving Honda
Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Since its birth as a motorcycle company in 1949, Honda has steadily grown into one of the world’s largest automakers and engine manufacturers, as well as one of the most beloved, most profitable, and most consistently innovative multinational corporations. What drives the company that keeps creating...
by Maurice R. Greenberg, Lawrence A. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Selected as one of Motley Fool’s "5 Great Books You Should Read"
In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of...
Optical Illusions
Lucent and the Crash of Telecom
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
When Lucent Technologies was spun off from AT&T in 1996, the new company was full of promise. An old-line manufacturer, it quickly became a sizzling hot stock thanks to the emergence of the Internet and the build-up of telecommunications. The stock market was soaring, and Lucent flew with it. Within...
by Peter T. Muchlinski
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Multinational Enterprises and the Law presents the only comprehensive contemporary and interdisciplinary account of the various techniques used to regulate multinational enterprises (MNEs) at the national, regional and multilateral levels. In addition it considers the effects of corporate self-regulation...
by Tony Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In the summer of 1995 a start-up company led by the son of a Greek shipping tycoon, took up residence in an orange painted tin shack next to the runway at Luton airport. Initially dismissed by British Airways as "a peanut airline", easyJet became one of the most successful start-ups in UK...
Managing Global Legal Systems
International Employment Regulation and Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Presenting a framework for understanding the corporate strategy-public policy interface as it relates to human capital management, this unique text treats legal systems as factors that must be actively managed in the firm’s larger pursuit of international competitive advantage. It provides readers...
Big Steel
The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2001
At its formation in 1901, the United States Steel Corporation was the earth’s biggest industrial corporation, a wonder of the manufacturing world. Immediately it produced two thirds of America’s raw steel and thirty percent of the steel made worldwide. The behemoth company would go on to support...