Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Chocolate Wars
The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
With a cast of characters that wouldn't be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys. Chocolate was consumed unrefined and unprocessed as a rather bitter, fatty drink for the wealthy elite until the late...
Soros
The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
A penniless émigré who made a fortune and became one of the great philanthropists of the twentieth century, George Soros has led a remarkable life. This biography brings forth his story in unprecedented depth, from his childhood as a Jew in occupied Budapest during World War II to his conquests...
Banking on the Future of Asia and the Pacific
50 Years of the Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This book is a history of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank established 50 years ago to serve Asia and the Pacific. Focusing on the region’s economic development, the evolution of the international development agenda, and the story of ADB itself, this book raises several...
by Devin T. Frick
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
From the store's beginnings in March 1907 until its closing on June 25, 1983, Bullock's was Los Angeles's store of choice. Throughout its 76 years of operation, Bullock's flagship department store became an icon, a commercial beacon in the vast city. The name Bullock's has engendered many memories...
by Susie J. Pak
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century.
The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. Today, Enron is the biggest business story...
Marshall Field's
The Store that Helped Build Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Anyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room's Great Tree can attest that Chicago's loyalty to Marshall Field's is fierce. Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town to apologize for changing the Field's hallowed green bags. And with good reason--the store and those who...
Meet You in Hell
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end,...
Braves and Businessmen: A History of Montana, Volume III
Montana History Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Montana’s history is rich, colorful, and full of excitement in this fully-illustrated third volume of the state’s history. Montana Territory had 20,595 people in 1870 and the vast majority were Indians. Those Indians would fight for their lands, and much of the territory’s focus...
by Katrina Pescador, Mark Aldrich, San Diego Air and Space Museum
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Founded by Reuben H. Fleet in 1923, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (later Convair) became one of the most significant aircraft manufacturers in American history. For roughly 60 years, this prolific company was synonymous with San Diego. In fact, whole sections of the city were designed to provide...
Max Factor and Hollywood
A Glamorous History
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When Polish wigmaker and cosmetician Max Factor arrived in Los Angeles at the dawn of the motion picture industry, "make-up" had been associated only with stage performers and ladies of the oldest profession. Appalled by the garish paints worn by actors, Factor introduced the first "flexible" greasepaint...
by John Charles Anicic Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
In the first half of the 20th century, Fontana Farms Company operated a hog ranch on the site where Kaiser Company Incorporated later erected one of the nation�s largest steel mills. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was forced into an unprecedented escalation in...
Sunnyvale
The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the next decade, as Silicon Valley boomed, the Goodell family unraveled.
Splintered by their parent's...
Today and Tomorrow
Timeless Wisdom for a Modern Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1926
Henry Ford's impact on industry, business, and society continues to drive us to reach for seemingly impossible goals. He turned an automobile into an industry, transformed the world of farming with a tractor, and launched the airplane into a new era of mass production. Ford didn't just revolutionize...