Free Press: 1051 books
Promoting Yourself
52 Lessons for Getting to the Top . . . and Stayin
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Longtime Wall Street Journal columnist Hal Lancaster is tired of feel-good career guides written by football coaches and soap opera actors who boil the complex workplace down to buzzwords and platitudes. Refreshing and controversial, Promoting Yourself asserts that readers can best build their careers...
World Class Manufacturing: The Next Decade
Building Power, Strength, and Value
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, managers have judged a company's worth by sales and profits. Now, Richard J. Schonberger, the architect of the worldwide Just-In-Time revolution, reaches beyond "financials" to redefine excellence -- and reveals, with new benchmark data, how pioneers...
by Joseph J. Fucini
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book is an exploration into the relations between Americans and Japanese at the Mazda-Flat Rock plant.
The presence of Japan Inc. looms larger than ever for millions of American managers and workers, as hundreds of Japanese companies open plants and offices in local communities across...
Managing New Product and Process Development
Text Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Argues that a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of products to market more quickly than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition. The authors present principles for developing speed and efficiency.
by Richard J. Schonberger
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Richard Schonberger, in his fourth and most important book yet, introduces a powerful new concept: that the many links between and within the four main business functions -- design, operations, accounting, and marketing -- form a continuous "chain of customers" that extends to those who buy the product...
The Technology Machine
How Manufacturing Will Work in the Year 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
How will autonomous agents, emergent systems, and chaos theory change the way we live and work in the twenty-first century? As today's manufacturing and production systems grow increasingly complex, tomorrow's science of complexity will produce paradoxically simple solutions, argue technology experts...
Quality Wars
The Triumphs and Defeats of American Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The quality revolution in American industry, now more than a decade old, has produced an avalanche of books, but this is the first in-depth study reporting the struggles from inside the companies that have attempted large-scale improvement efforts. Jeremy Main has interviewed more than a dozen chief...
Blood on the Street
The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2005
Blood on the Street is a riveting account of the Wall Street scam in which ordinary investors lost literally billions of dollars -- in many cases their life savings -- in one of the greatest deceptions ever, by the crack reporter who broke the original story.
In one of the most outrageous examples...
Dumb Money
How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion...
The Immigrant Advantage
What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Do you have a relative or friend who would gladly wait on you, hand and foot, for a full month after you had a baby? How about someone to deliver a delicious, piping hot home-cooked meal, just like your mother’s, right to your front door after work? Do you know people you’d trust enough to give...
e-Commerce
An e-Book Special Report
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
Several times a year, The Wall Street Journal publishes Special Reports about e-commerce and technology. With this segment of the economy generating billions of dollars in revenue and market capitalization, it's no wonder that this is one of the most popular features of both the print and interactive...
Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders
The Three Essential Principles You Need to Become an Extraordinary Leader
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
How did Alan Mulally––an outsider to the auto industry—lead such a spectacular turnaround at Ford? How did Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack keep his company from imploding even as Lehman Brothers collapsed? What is it that enables such extraordinary leaders to galvanize their talents and energy,...
The Rule of Three
Surviving and Thriving in Competitive Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Name any industry and more likely than not you will find that the three strongest, most efficient companies control 70 to 90 percent of the market. Here are just a few examples:
McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's
General Mills, Kellogg, and Post
Nike, Adidas, and Reebok
Bank of America, Chase...
Five Points
The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points,...