Corporate History category: 769 books
A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages
The Boom, Bust, and Boom Culture of M&A
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Modern mergers and acquisitions, or M&A as it's more commonly known, is a new phenomenon. The buying and selling, the breaking up and combining of companies-the essence of M&A-has been a part of commerce throughout history, but only in our era has M&A itself become a business. In 2007,...
The Partnership
The Making of Goldman Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
The inside story of one of the world?s most powerful financial Institutions
Now with a new foreword and final chapter, The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the individuals who built one of the world?s largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis,...
PEZ
From Austrian Invention to American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
The world’s one-and-only PEZ historian dispenses fun facts on the candy’s evolution from smoking substitute to childhood treat to pop culture collectible.
PEZ is an American classic and a staple of many childhood memories. Yet it originated in Austria, where PEZ began in 1927 as compressed...
DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC
The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2004
Edgar Schein is one of the founders of the organization development field, a widely respected scholar and a bestselling author • Shows how the unique culture of DEC was responsible both for its early rise and for its ultimate downfall-a real-life classical tragedy • Schein was a high-level consultant...
Remembering Woolworth's
A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Remembering Woolworth's brings back to life all the nostalgia and magic of the famous five-and-dime that captured the hearts of Americans for over a century
Millions of Americans have fond memories of shopping at Woolworth's, wandering the aisles in search of a humble spool of Woolco thread,...
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...
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...
The Coffee Book
Anatomy of an Industry from Crop to the Last Drop
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A history of coffee from the sixth century to Starbucks that’s “good to the last sentence” (Las Cruces Sun News).
One of Library Journal’s “Best Business Books”
This updated edition of The Coffee Book is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee...
The Citizen's Share
Putting Ownership Back into Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The idea of workers owning the businesses where they work is not new. In America’s early years, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison believed that the best economic plan for the Republic was for citizens to have some ownership stake in the land, which was the main form of productive capital. This...
Rescuing Prometheus
Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
"A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The Economist
Rescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects...
Abraham and Straus
It's Worth a Trip from Anywhere
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Along with the Dodgers and Prospect Park, Abraham & Straus was a legendary piece of Brooklyn's history and identity. From Abraham Abraham's modest store of 1865, A&S developed into one of America's largest department stores. It eventually became a charter member of the powerful Federated Department...
Braniff Airways
Flying Colors
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Braniff Airways: Flying Colors takes readers on a magical flight through the history of Braniff International Airways, beginning with its small-town Oklahoma roots to its high-flying and stylish span of the globe. Braniff brought together the mystery of aviation with the glamorous fields of fashion,...
Dynasties
Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World's Great Family Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin
David S. Landes has earned a reputation as a brilliant writer and iconoclast among economic historians. In his latest acclaimed work, he takes a revealing...
by Roy G. Jinks, Sandra C. Krein
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Horace Smith and Daniel Baird Wesson shared a dream of manufacturing a firearm that could fire repeatedly, using a new and self-contained cartridge. In 1852, the dream became a reality with the founding of Smith & Wesson Firearms Company. Over the next 154 years, the company grew to be one of the most...