Corporate History category: 769 books
Famous-Barr
St. Louis Shopping at Its Finest
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
For ninety-five years, St. Louis residents counted on Famous-Barr to buy the things they used every day and to celebrate the moments that happened only once a year. Customers might bump into Sophia Loren while shoe shopping or confide in Santa Claus during a visit to Toyland. May Company purchased the...
by Darrell Lester
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
"You could already be a winner!" And who wouldn't like to win $10,000,000?
This intriguing book tells the never-before-told, true story of a legendary company that is now part of American pop culture: Publishers Clearing House.
The saga of Publishers Clearing House has been...
Younkers
The Friendly Store
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
When shoppers went to Younkers, they experienced something magical. Celebrities signed autographs, chefs gave cooking demonstrations and Miss Universe discussed the latest styles in swimwear. The flagship store, a showplace in the heart of downtown Des Moines, boasted dazzling selling spaces equipped...
Lyndall Urwick, Management Pioneer
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Lyndall Urwick was the dominant figure in British management between the late 1920s and the early 1960s. His writings and his passion in pursuit of management as a scientific and systematic activity rather than the rule-of-thumb approach to decision-making all too prevalent in Britain exercised a...
The Time of Their Lives
The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—“A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures” (The New York Times).
According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began...
by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder memorably records the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market.
Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the...
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent
The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political...
Super Mario
How Nintendo Conquered America
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible.
Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.
The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became...
Final Accounting
Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2003
A withering exposé of the unethical practices that triggered the indictment and collapse of the legendary accounting firm.
Arthur Andersen's conviction on obstruction of justice charges related to the Enron debacle spelled the abrupt end of the 88-year-old accounting firm. Until recently,...
When Genius Failed
The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
**“A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”—**The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUSINESSWEEK
In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which...
The Decline and Fall of IBM
End of an American Icon?
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
IBM is in serious trouble. Big Blue, as the company is known, tends to rely for its success on magical thinking but that magic ran out a long time ago. The company got in trouble back in the 1990s and had to hire for the first time an outside CEO, Lou Gerstner, to save the day. Gerstner pushed IBM into...
The House of Rothschild
Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
**From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals...
Brick by Brick
How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Sometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, using LEGO--which experienced one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent history--as a business model.
As LEGO failed to keep...
The End of Detroit
How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2003
An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry.
In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction of the minivan and the SUV had revitalized the industry, and it was widely...