Corporate History category: 769 books
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...
Northwest Airlines
The First Eighty Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2005
Since flying its first mail flight on October 1, 1926, Northwest Airways, now known as Northwest Airlines, has grown to become one of the world�s leading airlines. Northwest�s legacy of leadership in the aviation industry began with its foundation in the Twin Cities and extended to its pioneering...
Harzfeld's
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
In 1891, Siegmund Harzfeld and the Parisian Cloak Company introduced a new era of commerce and fashion to the residents of Kansas City. Women no longer needed to make lengthy and expensive appointments with dressmakers to maintain the latest fashion trends; the ready-to-wear movement had begun!Join historians...
by Andrew Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Many of the places that helped make Dayton a center of innovation were lost to history, while others survived and adapted, representing the city's spirit of revitalization. Some of the city's distinctive and significant structures, such as Steele High School and the Callahan Building, were demolished,...
Rich's
A Southern Institution
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
In 1867, less than three years after the Civil War left the city in ruins, Hungarian Jewish immigrant Morris Rich opened a small dry goods store on what is now Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta. Over time, his brothers Emanuel and Daniel joined the business; within a century, it became a retailing...
Jewel of Knightsbridge
The Origins of the Harrods Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
In 1836, Charles Harrod found himself in a prison hulk awaiting transportation to Tasmania for seven years' hard labor. He had been convicted of receiving stolen goods, and this should have been the beginning of the end for his fledgling business. And yet, in miraculously escaping his fate and vowing...
Union Pacific
The Reconfiguration: America's Greatest Railroad from 1969 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "thoroughly and compellingly detailed history," Volumes I and II of Maury Klein's monumental history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969. Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific--the oldest, largest, and most...
Redpath
The History of a Sugar House
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1991
Redpath, today a household name for sugar in Canada, has its roots in the story of an enterprising Scots immigrant, initially a stone mason and later a building contractor during the boom days of Montreal's growth from a small provincial centre to a major North American city. In 1854, the ever-energetic...
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...
by R.T. Naylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
An unprecedented work in Canadian historiography, The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914 has been chosen by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada as one of the twenty most outstanding works in the field in the last half of the twentieth century.
The Rise of Mutual Funds
An Insider's View
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today U.S. mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. New and updated to reflect the crash of 2008, Matthew Fink's latest book, The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider's...
Borrowed Time
Two Centuries of Booms, Busts, and Bailouts at Citi
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The disturbing, untold story of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Citigroup—one of the " too big to fail" banks—from its founding in 1812 to its role in the 2008 financial crisis, and the many disasters in between.
During the 2008 financial crisis, Citi was...
The International Aluminium Cartel
The Business and Politics of a Cooperative Industrial Institution (1886-1978)
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Aluminium was one of most cartelised industries in the international economic panorama of the 20th century. Born following the discovery of electrolytic smelting process in 1886, this industry, even in its infancy, established a cartel which characterised its history until nearly 1980. Managers of...
Industries and Global Competition
A History of Business Beyond Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have remained...