Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Billion Dollar Lessons
What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Ye ars
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
”This book is your chance to learn from others’ mistakes.”-- Entrepreneur
In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I...
The Partnership
The Making of Goldman Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
The inside story of one of the world?s most powerful financial Institutions
Now with a new foreword and final chapter, The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the individuals who built one of the world?s largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis,...
Power Failure
The Inside Story of The Collapse of Enron
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
*“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is...
Street Fighters
The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
The acclaimed New York Times bestseller-updated for the second anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns
The fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008 set off a wave of global financial turmoil that continues to ripple. How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray...
The Fall of the House of Forbes
The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Forbes: the legendary name in finance journalism. Synonymous with wealth, grand excess, glamour, and fun as well as style, insight, gossip, and hard-nosed reporting, the media empire and the family behind it form a remarkable story that has never been told. Now, in The Fall of the House of Forbes,...
To Pixar and Beyond
My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“Lovely and surprising . . . This delightful book is about finance, creative genius, workplace harmony, and luck.”—Fortune
”Enchanting,”—New York Times
“I love this book! I think it is brilliant.”—Ed Catmull, cofounder and president of Pixar Animation, president of...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
When the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966, the Asia and Pacific region was undergoing a process of deep change. Several countries gained independence and a sense of regional identity was emerging. A more organized drive toward modernization started in several countries but the...
John D. Rockefeller on Making Money
Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Advice and words of wisdom from the greatest American businessman and philanthropist.
John D. Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest man to have ever lived, after adjusting for inflation. An American businessman who made his wealth as a cofounder and leading figure of the Standard Oil...
Shredded
Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The Royal Bank of Scotland was once one of the most successful and profitable financial institutions in the world; revered, admired and trusted by millions of savers and investors. A trusted employer for tens of thousands of people, with branches on nearly every high street in the land. Now, the very...
Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History
Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This fascinating work presents biographical essays about women from the colonial period to modern times, chronicling the previously untold story of the female financial experience in the United States.
• Explores the female financial experience in the United States from the colonial period...
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Alla vigilia dell’attuazione della riforma del credito cooperativo ci si interroga su quali potranno e dovranno essere le modalità e gli strumenti nuovi con cui concretamente esercitare la mutualità. Il pensiero di Luigi Pettinati, banchiere bresciano che della mutualità sul territorio e in tutto...
by Arnold G. Danielson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
The story of international banking over the last twenty years began as an assembling of financial power in Europe, with London as the focal point, that would be totally reversed by the financial crisis of 2008. This was a crisis with its origins in the United States that caused such well-known institutions...
Open Secret
The Global Banking Conspiracy That Swindled Investors Out of Billions
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
“Gaming the LIBOR—that is, fixing the price of money—had become just that: a game. Playing it was the price of admission to a club of men who socialized together, skied in Europe courtesy of brokers and expense accounts, and reaped million-dollar bonuses.”
In the midst of the financial...
Private Equity
A Transactional Analysis, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
One of the most remarkable phenomena of the 10 years leading up to the financial crisis was the growth of private equity, which became one of the main drivers of mergers and acquisitions. The global financial crisis presented a number of challenges for the private equity world, which in the main have...