Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Start With the Future and Work Back
A Heritage Management Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Start With the Future and Work Back: A Heritage Management Manifesto is a lively, often amusing, but seriously perceptive take on the business of history and the history of business. The book explores The History Factory’s role in creating and shaping the global heritage management industry, drawing...
Economic Transplants
On Lawmaking for Corporations and Capital Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Why and in what ways have lawyers been importing economic theories into a legal environment, and how has this shaped scholarly research, judicial and legislative work? Since the financial crisis, corporate or capital markets law has been the focus of attention by academia and media. Formal modelling...
Responsabilités des dirigeants de sociétés
3e édition de l'ouvrage d'Olivier Ralet
Language: French
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Depuis la dernière édition de l’ouvrage « Responsabilités des dirigeants de sociétés » (2004), la matière n’a cessé d’évoluer, la législation et la jurisprudence tendant à imposer de plus en plus de charges et de responsabilités non seulement aux entreprises, mais également à...
by Perry Holley
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Learn how IBM has overcome its toughest challenges—and how you can replicate iconic company's success
Over the past 100 years, the IBM Corporation has survived several recessions and innumerable twists and turns in the global technology market. And even in an economy of global recession,...
Goldman Sachs
The Culture of Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The history, mystique, and remarkable success of Goldman Sachs, the world's premier investment bank, are examined in unprecedented depth in this fascinating and authoritative study. Former Goldman Sachs Vice President Lisa Endlich draws on an insider's knowledge and access to all levels of management...
When Genius Failed
The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
**“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”—**The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUSINESSWEEK
In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which...
Pensionsverpflichtungen in der Rechnungslegung nach IFRS
Theoretische und empirische Analyse alternativer Bilanzierungskonzepte
Language: German
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Bilanzierung von Pensionsverpflichtungen, welche ein seit Jahrzehnten kontrovers diskutierter Bereich in der Rechnungslegung nach IFRS sind. Es stellen sich die Fragen, welche Regelungen zur Pensionsbilanzierung sachgerecht sind und welche Auswirkungen Bilanzierungsänderungen...
All the Devils Are Here
The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"Hell is empty, and
all the devils are here."
-Shakespeare, The Tempest
As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies,...
More Money Than God
Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales." —The Washington Post
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first- century capitalism. Beating the...
Bull!
A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1982, the Dow hovered below 1000. Then, the market rose and rapidly gained speed until it peaked above 11,000. Noted journalist and financial reporter Maggie Mahar has written the first book on the remarkable bull market that began in 1982 and ended just in the early 2000s. For almost two decades,...
Dear Chairman
Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism’s longest running tensions—the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders—told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activists.
Recent...
Grande Expectations
A Year in the Life of Starbucks' Stock
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Karen Blumenthal, like most people, is mystified by the stock market. Just why is it, she wonders, that seemingly good news can send a stock plummeting and bad news can send it skyrocketing again?
In Grande Expectations, she shows how money is made and lost by following one of America’s hottest...
America's Bank
The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so...
Good Guys and Bad Guys
Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Every thing in Between)
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
The greatest columns and profiles by the bestselling coauthor of All the Devils Are Here.
What's it like to be a top tobacco executive when your kid asks you about smoking? How did a young liberal arts major become the hottest tech-stock analyst of the '90s, and why did he self-destruct? How...