Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Ugly Beauty
The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
From acclaimed novelist and cultural historian Ruth Brandon comes a captivating dual biography of the legendary founders of the cosmetics industry, Helena Rubinstein and Eugène Schueller, creator of L’Oréal. Brandon’s gripping and sometimes disturbing story of gender, power, and politics stretches...
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall of American Airlines, Frank Borman of Eastern, and Richard Ferris of United, battled for control of the world's airlines. 416 pp. Radio drive-time pubilcity. 20,000 print.
The Airbnb Story
How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
“An engrossing story of audacious entrepreneurism and big-industry disruption, [this] is a tale for our times.” — Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better
An investigative look into a beloved, disruptive, notorious start-up
This is the remarkable behind-the-scenes story...
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And...
The Company
A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.
Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know existed, revealing that we cannot make sense of the past four hundred years until...
Ambitious Brew
The Story of American Beer
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
A “fascinating and well-documented social history” of American beer, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it (Chicago Tribune).
Grab a pint and settle in with Ambitious**Brew, the fascinating, first-ever history of American beer. Included here are...
Bananas
How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company.
In this compelling history of the United Fruit Company, Financial Times writer Peter Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business,...
SuperCorp
How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis of business and American-style capitalism.
Out of the ashes of conventional business models arises a set of companies using their power not only for profits and sustainable growth but also social good.
If you think business corporations...
Inside Job
The Looting of America's Savings and Loans
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: “Hard to put down” (Library Journal).
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed...
by Andrew Carnegie
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Words of wisdom from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
Focusing on Carnegie's most famous essay, "The Gospel of Wealth," this book of his writings, published here together for the first time, demonstrates the late steel magnate's beliefs on wealth, poverty, the public good,...
The Wal-Mart Effect
How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and HowIt's Transforming the American Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Wal-Mart isnt just the worlds biggest company, it is probably the worlds most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented...
Amazon.com
Get Big Fast
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In Amazon.com Jeff Bezos built something the world had never seen. He created the most recognized brand name on the Internet, became for a time one of the richest men in the world, and was crowned "the king of cyber-commerce."
Yet for all the media exposure, the inside story of Amazon.com...
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. With no advertising or big-box distribution, creator Ty Warner - an eccentric college dropout - become a billionaire in just three years. And it was all thanks to collectors. The end of the craze was just as swift and extremely devastating,...
by Kurt Eichenwald
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A real-life thriller—the story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sums—some their life’s savings—in the largest securities fraud of the 1980s, with names like Onassis and Bush numbered among the victims.