Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
by Anthony Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week....
Wurlitzer of Cincinnati
The Name That Means Music To Millions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Established in Cincinnati in 1856 by German immigrant Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer, the music dealer became the largest outlet for band instruments in the United States by 1865. During the silent film era in the early twentieth century, Wurlitzer manufactured nearly 2,250 theater organs, affectionately...
by Oscar Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Thousands of readers remember with pleasure Oscar Lewis’s fine book on the Western railroad robber barons, The Big Four. Silver Kings is a companion piece, dealing as it does with the big four of the Nevada Comstock Lode, one of the greatest of all silver mines. These were really fabulous men who...
Has Wal-Mart Found Its Soul?
A New Introduction to the National Bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect: A Penguin eSp ecial
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The behind-the-scenes report on how Wal-Mart has become arguably the most powerful force for environmental change anywhere.
In his national bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect, award-winning journalist Charles Fishman penetrated the store’s once impenetrable wall of secrecy to chart Wal-Mart’s...
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company
A Story of George Washington's Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp on the Virginia-North Carolina border and create fabulous...
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
The Biography of a Cause
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought...
by Campbell Jones, Martin Parker, Rene ten Bos
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
For Business Ethics is a daring adventure into the world of business ethics. It offers a clear and accessible introduction to business ethics and also expands business ethics beyond its current narrow confines. It is ground-breaking in the sense that it invites a distinctively critical approach to...
by Claire Gierwatowski, Skytop Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Surrounded by the natural beauty of mountain lakes, streams, and cascading waterfalls, the historic Skytop Lodge resort sits on 5,500 pristine acres in the heart of the Poconos. Developers of the estate cultivated this aesthetic when they hired the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm to site...
by Wilmerding World Wide
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2002
When George Westinghouse Jr. founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, his air brakes, railroad equipment, and industrial pneumatic devices revolutionized rail travel, opening a new chapter in American industrial history. Not only were the products of his first company revolutionary, but the small...
by Melanie Linn Gutowski
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Kaufmann's Department Store was a force in Pittsburgh retail from its humble beginnings in 1871 until its merger with Federated Department Stores in 2006. The "Big Store" downtown was a landmark shopping emporium with 12 floors of everything from cosmetics and groceries to wedding gowns and lawn mowers....
The Gilded Age
1876–1912: Overture to the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The Gilded Age is in the air! This beautifully designed, fully illustrated, insightful book by noted historian Alan Axelrod provides a vivid view of American life and thought during that era. The Gilded Age—the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the period of rapid economic growth in America...
A Man Short
"An Insider's Tale of T.G.I. Friday's in the 1980s"
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The reader will grab a front row seat and learn of the entrepreneurial roots of T.G.I. Friday's, a tumultuous start, the righting of the ship and the rise to the top of casual dining by the time the mid-1980s rolled around!
The Search
How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
What does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that question—in all its shades of meaning—can unlock the most intractable riddles of business and arguably of human culture itself. And for the past few years, that’s exactly what Google has been doing.
But...
Playing at the Next Level
A History of American Sega Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Today a multinational video game developer, Sega was the first to break Nintendo’s grip on the gaming industry, expanding from primarily an arcade game company to become the dominant game console manufacturer in North America. A major part of that success came from the hard work and innovation of...