Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Leap
How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Every business faces the existential threat of competitors producing cheaper copies. Even patent filings, market dominance and financial resources can't shield them from copycats. So what can we do--and, what can we learn from companies that have endured and even prospered for centuries despite copycat...
The Men Who Loved Trains
The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2006
An award-winning account of a crisis in railroad history: “This absorbing book takes you on an entertaining ride.” —Chicago Tribune
A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land—America’s railroads—The Men Who Loved Trains introduces the chieftains who...
The Launch Pad
Inside Y Combinator
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Number of teams that applied to Y Combinator’s summer 2011 batch: 2,089
Teams interviewed: 170
Minutes per interview: 10
Teams accepted and funded: 64
Months to build a viable startup: 3
Possibilities: BOUNDLESS
Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after...
The Firm
The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The story of McKinsey & Co., America’s most influential and controversial business consulting firm, “an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity” (The Wall Street Journal).
If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company. Founded in 1926, McKinsey...
by Richard E. Foglesong
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Joined together in an economic development marriage,” Walt Disney World and Orlando, Florida, have become the world’s most popular tourist destination. This intriguing book traces the evolution of the relationship between the Disney Co. and the surrounding community since it began in the 1960s....
Hell's Cartel
IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates
At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker...
Reach for the Skies
Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting into Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
One of the world's most famous business leaders (and a well-known avian fanatic) explores the pioneers of flight.
Bestselling author and billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has always been obsessed with the skies. To promote a new Virgin Airlines route, he became the first man to water...
Frenemies
The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of Googled
Advertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible...
Only Yesterday
An Informal History of the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
A history of roaring prosperity—and economic cataclysm: “The one account of America in the 1920s against which all others must be measured” (The Washington Post).
Beginning November 11, 1918, when President Woodrow Wilson declared the end of World War I in a letter to the American public,...
Branded Beauty
How Marketing Changed the Way We Look
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Beauty is a multi-billion dollar global industry embracing make-up, skincare, hair care, fragrances, cosmetic surgery - even tattooing and piercing. Over the years it has used flattery, seduction, science and shame to persuade consumers to invest if they want to look their best.
Branded Beauty...
The Accidental Billionaires
The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times
Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s...
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA?...
Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men’s Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATURE**
Every year, the average...
Losing the Signal
The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is one percent. What went so wrong?
Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional...