Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
by Jean-Louis Peaucelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Henri Fayol is one of the most important management theorists of the twentieth century. Guthrie and Peaucelle present a study of Fayol's management, comparing the theories set out in his book with his hands-on experience and practice. The first English translation of the third part of Industrial and General Management appears as an Appendix.
by John Fredrickson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
In 1916, an airplane company was established in the previous Heath shipyard along the Duwamish River, situated a short distance south of Seattle's Elliott Bay. Work on the first two airplanes was already well underway as the articles of incorporation for Pacific Aero Products Company established three...
Rethinking America
A New Game Plan from the American Innovators: Schools, Business, People, Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Russians, The Power Game, and The New Russians shows how America has lost ground, and reveals how innovators are creating new strategies to win in the new global game.
Divining Desire
Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
An engaging, accessible history of the focus group, Featherstone's survey shows how the primary purpose of the focus group has shifted from determining what we want, to selling us things we don't.
The focus group, over the course of the last century, became an increasingly vital part of the...
Nobody's Perfect
Two Men, One Call, and a Game for Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the “classic, human, baseball stories” (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball).
The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has...
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Jeff Bezos e l'era di Amazon
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2013
LA STORIA DEFINITIVA DI AMAZON E DEL SUO AMBIZIOSO, INTRAPRENDENTE, CONTROVERSO FONDATORE: JEFF BEZOS AMAZON.COM è nata inviando libri per posta e ha cavalcato la prima ondata dell’isteria dot-com. Ma il suo visionario fondatore Jeff Bezos non si accontentava di essere un libraio alla moda; voleva...
From Corner Café to JSE Giant
The Famous Brands Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Famous Brands Ltd, as it is known today, started as a single Steers restaurant in the early 1960s, and now comprises more than 2100 restaurants across a portfolio of 20 brands, as well as extremely lucrative logistics, manufacturing and retail components. George Halamandres's family came to South...
Established
Lessons from the World's Oldest Companies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This is not a dry or boring history of companies, rather it is a digestible book of stories that anchor the histories – and inevitably secrets – of some of the world’s longest-standing businesses.
A general-interest business book for entrepreneurs and casual readers alike.
Features historical black-and-white images, integrated throughout.
by Anthony Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
The 1955 Chrysler 300 with its hemispherical-head V-8 engine was a marketing, sales and racing legend. The 426 Hemi V-8 of the 1960s and 1970s was feared in NASCAR, NHRA and AHRA drag racing, and powered some of the most famous musclecars of the era. With first-time interviews with many of the Chrysler...
From Main Street to Mall
The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle....
by Robert A. Melikian
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
On the corner of Central Avenue and Monroe Street, in the center of downtown Phoenix, is the historic Hotel San Carlos. Local Native Americans once worshipped a god of learning in this same area, and so early white settlers chose the site for the city�s first school, the Little Adobe School, in 1873....
Contradictions of Employee Involvement in Organizational Change
The Transformation Efforts in NCJM, An Indian Industrial Cooperative
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
This monograph narrates the decade-long struggle of workers, unions, and management in transforming one of the largest ailing family-owned jute businesses in India, into a sustainable worker-owned and governed cooperative. It focuses on the variation in the three groups’ involvement in the transformation....
by Consumer Dummies
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The history, statistics, and fun facts! Although yellow-and-black For Dummies books are pervasive today — found all over the world and wherever books are sold, covering subjects from Access to Zune — at one time they didn't exist at all. How did this brand come about? What juicy tidbits exist...
The Fourth Wave
Business in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1996
Applying the concept of historical waves originally propounded by Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave, Herman Maynard and Susan Mehrtens look toward the next century and foresee a "fourth wave," an era of integration and responsibility far beyond Toffler's revolutionary description of third-wave...