Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Since Yesterday
The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
A “wonderfully written account of America in the ’30s,” the follow-up to Only Yesterday examines Black Tuesday through the end of the Depression (The New York Times).
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Opening on September 3, 1929, in the days before the stock market crash, this information-packed...
Billion Dollar Whale
The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The “extraordinary” (Financial Times) and definitive inside account of the 1MDB scandal, a "must read" (Booklist) "epic tale" (Publishers Weekly) that exposes the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics from two award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters.
In...
Fordlandia
The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon
In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project...
American Icon
Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The inside story of the epic turnaround of Ford Motor Company under the leadership of CEO Alan Mulally.
At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout....
Present Shock
When Everything Happens Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous...
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest,...
Creating Magic
10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
“It’s not the magic that makes it work; it’s the way we work that makes it magic.”
The secret for creating “magic” in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership—the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary...
by David Ehrenfeld, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
David Ehrenfeld examines the consequences of "the extraordinary proliferation of administration, of bureaucracy, of management, the increasing...
Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop
How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
"Deftly and compassionately captures [Ben's] genius in all its entrepreneurial splendor...This tale will keep you entertained."--New York Times Book Review.
A former CEO of Ben & Jerry's tells how two '60s holdovers built a single ice cream store into one of America's hottest...
by Ferdinand Pecora
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Ferdinand Pecora investigated with ruthlessly abandon the nation’s most influential bankers and stockbrokers to determine what caused the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which in turn led to the Great Depression. Pecora, as Chief Counsel of Senate launched investigation, shined a vivid light on the shocking...
All the Presidents' Bankers
The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.
Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents' Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year...
The Golden Passport
Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School.
Harvard University still occupies a unique...
The Secret History of the American Empire
The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" comes an expos of international corruption. Perkins suggests how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations.
Big Deal
Mergers and Acquisitions in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
"Wasserstein is widely recognized as the father of modern-day mergers and acquisitions... [He] explains what drives mergers and how they get done." - USA Today
"Informative and entertaining." - Kirkus Reviews
Big Deal is a penetrating look at the world of mergers...