Corporate History category: 769 books
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And...
The Go-Go Years
The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
A humorous and keen look at the roller-coaster boom and bust of the 1960s and 1970s by the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures
John Brooks blends humor and astute analysis in this tale of the staggering “go-go” growth of the 1960s stock market and the ensuing crashes...
Inside Job
The Looting of America's Savings and Loans
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
New York Times Bestseller: A history of the S&L scandal that caused a financial disaster for American taxpayers: “Hard to put down” (Library Journal).
For most of the 20th century, savings and loans were an invaluable thread of the American economy. But in the 1970s, Congress passed...
by Andrew Carnegie
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Words of wisdom from American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
Focusing on Carnegie's most famous essay, "The Gospel of Wealth," this book of his writings, published here together for the first time, demonstrates the late steel magnate's beliefs on wealth, poverty, the public good,...
The Wal-Mart Effect
How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and HowIt's Transforming the American Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Wal-Mart isnt just the worlds biggest company, it is probably the worlds most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented...
Leap
How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Every business faces the existential threat of competitors producing cheaper copies. Even patent filings, market dominance and financial resources can't shield them from copycats. So what can we do--and, what can we learn from companies that have endured and even prospered for centuries despite copycat...
The Firm
The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The story of McKinsey & Co., America’s most influential and controversial business consulting firm, “an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity” (The Wall Street Journal).
If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company. Founded in 1926, McKinsey...
Hell's Cartel
IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates
At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker...
Branded Beauty
How Marketing Changed the Way We Look
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Beauty is a multi-billion dollar global industry embracing make-up, skincare, hair care, fragrances, cosmetic surgery - even tattooing and piercing. Over the years it has used flattery, seduction, science and shame to persuade consumers to invest if they want to look their best.
Branded Beauty...
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
**Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize
"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now."—The New York Times Book Review**
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events...
Billion Dollar Whale
The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The “extraordinary” (Financial Times) and definitive inside account of the 1MDB scandal, a "must read" (Booklist) "epic tale" (Publishers Weekly) that exposes the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics from two award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters.
In...
American Icon
Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The inside story of the epic turnaround of Ford Motor Company under the leadership of CEO Alan Mulally.
At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout....
Money and Power
How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
The bestselling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success.
From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more profitable...
Bull!
A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1982, the Dow hovered below 1000. Then, the market rose and rapidly gained speed until it peaked above 11,000. Noted journalist and financial reporter Maggie Mahar has written the first book on the remarkable bull market that began in 1982 and ended just in the early 2000s. For almost two decades,...