Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
The Secret Club That Runs the World
Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“Commodity players are a shrewd and indomitable lot. And the contracts they trade are still so loosely regulated that the correct combination of money and skill creates irresistible opportunity. That’s why I’m only half joking when I call them the secret club that runs the world.”
When...
All That Glitters
The Fall of Barings
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
**The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring, the oldest merchant bank in London, in 1995 and the ultimate rogue trader, Nick Leeson, who brought down the venerable institution with speculative investing.
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John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his coauthor...
Bank mergers and acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region
An investigation of the shareholder wealth effects of the financial sector consolidation and its impact on the acquirers cost of debt
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the shareholder wealth effects of the financial sector consolidation in the Asia-Pacific region and its impact on the acquirer’s cost of debt. By not only examining the capital market reactions to the institutions directly involved in M&A transactions,...
by Hiriyappa .B, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Strategic Management and Business Policy are changing fast and it generates new ideas, innovative strategies, practically managing the core resources and the establishment of the key platform for the development of business and brand. This book exceptionally fills the gap between theory such as generic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Fischer Black was a remarkable social scientist, one whose contributions range from the lofty perch of highbrow theory to the trenches of practical application. The papers represented in this work span the same range, the contributions of a remarkable array of financial economists who embody in different...
The Quotable Billionaire
Advice and Reflections From and For the Real, Former, Almost, and Wanna-Be Super-Rich . . . and Others
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
What the super-rich and others have to say about money in these pages is sometimes enlightening, sometimes profound, often entertaining, and always revealing. Topics include wealth (If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.”-J. Paul Getty); investing (Only buy...
The Curse of the Mogul
What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
If Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone are so smart, why are their stocks long-term losers?
We live in the age of big Media, with the celebrity moguls telling us that "content is king." But for all the excitement, glamour, drama, and publicity they produce, why can't these moguls and...
Once in Golconda
A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920–1938
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures comes the chronicle of the stock market crash of 1929 and its aftermath
Legend had it that anyone who passed through Golconda, a city in southern India, attained tremendous wealth. But Golconda, now in ruins, ran out of riches,...
The Go-Go Years
The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A humorous and keen look at the roller-coaster boom and bust of the 1960s and 1970s by the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures
John Brooks blends humor and astute analysis in this tale of the staggering “go-go” growth of the 1960s stock market and the ensuing crashes...
The Hellhound of Wall Street
How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
A gripping account of the underdog Senate lawyer who unmasked the financial wrongdoing that led to the Crash of 1929 and forever changed the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put...
by Bruce McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
The History of Eckler Ltd. - A graduate in commerce and finance from the University of Toronto, Sam Eckler grew up in Toronto, in the working-class Parkdale neighbourhood. His father ran a grocery store. Before university, Sam attended Ryerson Public School and Parkdale Collegiate. As an undergraduate,...
The Land of Enterprise
A Business History of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for freedom—but as a search for wealth and prosperity.
The Land of Enterprise charts the development...
Money and Power
How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The bestselling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success.
From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more profitable...
Anglo Republic
Inside the bank that broke Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
As late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world. By 2008, it was bust. The Irish government's hopeless attempts to save Anglo have led the state to ruin - culminating in a punitive IMF bailout...