Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
The Rise of Mutual Funds
An Insider's View
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today U.S. mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. New and updated to reflect the crash of 2008, Matthew Fink's latest book, The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider's...
by Thomas Ramge, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to...
Asbestos House
the secret history of James Hardie Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asbestos.
Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie...
Borrowed Time
Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The disturbing, untold story of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Citigroup—one of the " too big to fail" banks—from its founding in 1812 to its role in the 2008 financial crisis, and the many disasters in between.
During the 2008 financial crisis, Citi was...
How To Be a Rogue Trader
A Penguin Special from Portfolio
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
A compelling, topical e-book on the motives and patterns of rogue traders, and the investment banking system that hosts them, by John Gapper of the Financial Times.
Nick Leeson at Barings. Jerome Kerviel at Societe Generale. John Rusnak at Allied Irish Banks. And now the thirty-one-year-old Kweku...
by Carl Kowall
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This story of El Dorado Hills is about Allan Lindseys pursuit to create a completely new town.
It is not commonly understood about the total human, physical, and financial challenges required to create a new community from scratch. This story is about such an event beginning in the late nineteen...
The Big Book of Business Quotations
Over 1,400 of the Smartest Things Ever Said about Making Money
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A quotable reference for anyone interested in learning the ins and outs of business or starting their own.
More than one million people in the United States take the necessary steps to enroll in master’s of business programs every single year. These students learn the fundamentals required...
Avoiding the Arrogance Cycle
What Every Investor Needs To Know To Protect Their Assets From The Next Big Bubble
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
What is the arrogance cycle? We’ve just lived through it. As market bubbles build, our confidence level rises (dis)proportionately. Everyone wants in on the action. We want to believe Wall Street, and once we do, the inevitable happens. Like Dr. Frankenstein breathing life into inanimate flesh,...
Die Geschichte der DZ-BANK
Das genossenschaftliche Zentralbankwesen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute
Language: German
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Die DZ BANK ist das Spitzeninstitut der Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken in Deutschland und zählt zu den wichtigsten Kreditinstituten des Landes. Ihre Geschichte wird in diesem Buch von renommierten Wirtschaftshistorikern anschaulich und quellennah dargestellt. Die Autoren spannen den Bogen von den...
by Daniel Marques
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Encuanto lo mundo sigue evolucionando en direcciones impredecibles, pero la economía portuguesa sigue previsiblemente en declive permanente, como lo ha sido durante siglos, desde la caída del primer lugar del mundo, hay una búsqueda de explicaciones, soluciones y respuestas que parecen aparentemente...
My Father's Business
The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape that Dave Ramsey calls a must-read.
Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father, Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned...
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known...
In The Plex
How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best technology writers.
Few companies in history have ever been...
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science Monitor
The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants...