Columbia Press: 2357 books
Charlie Munger
The Complete Investor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett's indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again, and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of "elementary, worldly wisdom"—a set of interdisciplinary mental...
Berkshire Beyond Buffett
The Enduring Value of Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Berkshire Hathaway, the $300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves them wrong.
In a...
Losing Control?
Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1996
What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who loses...
When Principles Pay
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Stories of predatory lending practices and the reckless destruction of the environment by greedy corporations dominate the news, suggesting that, in business, ethics and profit are incompatible pursuits. Yet some of the worst lenders are now bankrupt, and Toyota has enjoyed phenomenal success by positioning...
Big Money Thinks Small
Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Investors are tempted daily by misleading or incomplete information. They may make a lucky bet, realize a sizable profit, and find themselves full of confidence. Their next high-stakes gamble might backfire, not only hitting them in the balance sheet but also taking a mental and emotional toll. Even...
Shapeholders
Business Success in the Age of Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Today, all it takes is one organizational misstep to sink a company's reputation. Social media can be a strict ethical enforcer, with the power to convince thousands to boycott products and services. Executives are stuck on appeasing stakeholders—shareholders, employees, and consumers—but they...
Crude Volatility
The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude...
Winnebago Nation
The RV in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one's car. For the young the roadtrip is a coming-of-age ceremony; for those later in life it is the realization of a lifelong desire to be spontaneous,...
Rethinking Investment Incentives
Trends and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Governments often use direct subsidies or tax credits to encourage investment and promote economic growth and other development objectives. Properly designed and implemented, these incentives can advance a wide range of policy objectives (increasing employment, promoting sustainability, and reducing...
Class Clowns
How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing, and they have, with surprising regularity, lost...
The Education of Ronald Reagan
The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a televised speech in support of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. "The Speech," as it has come to be known, helped launch Ronald Reagan as a leading force in the American conservative movement. However, less than twenty years earlier, Reagan...
The Secret Financial Life of Food
From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The statement inspired Newman to take a...
Social Value Investing
A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world’s problems may seem too great and too complex to solve — inequality, climate change, affordable housing, corruption, healthcare, food insecurity — solutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Max Chafkin's oral history of Apple from Fast Company, Joshua Davis's intimate portrait of tech pioneer John McAfee's personal and public breakdown from Wired; Kyle Dickman's haunting investigation into the...