Corporate History category: 769 books
by Barbara Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
With the extraordinary investigative acumen and sensitive narrative skills that informed her best-selling Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, Barbara Goldsmith now gives us the most sensational case of a contested will in American history—weaving a hypnotic tale of vast wealth and moral corruption.
When...
The Secret Club That Runs the World
Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
“Commodity players are a shrewd and indomitable lot. And the contracts they trade are still so loosely regulated that the correct combination of money and skill creates irresistible opportunity. That’s why I’m only half joking when I call them the secret club that runs the world.”
When...
Banking on the Future of Asia and the Pacific
50 Years of the Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This book is a history of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank established 50 years ago to serve Asia and the Pacific. Focusing on the region’s economic development, the evolution of the international development agenda, and the story of ADB itself, this book raises several...
by Devin T. Frick
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
From the store's beginnings in March 1907 until its closing on June 25, 1983, Bullock's was Los Angeles's store of choice. Throughout its 76 years of operation, Bullock's flagship department store became an icon, a commercial beacon in the vast city. The name Bullock's has engendered many memories...
by Susie J. Pak
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century.
The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. Today, Enron is the biggest business story...
The Man Who Solved the Market
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Bestselling author and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?
Jim Simons is the greatest money maker in modern financial history. His track record bests those of legendary investors including...
by John Charles Anicic Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
In the first half of the 20th century, Fontana Farms Company operated a hog ranch on the site where Kaiser Company Incorporated later erected one of the nation�s largest steel mills. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was forced into an unprecedented escalation in...
Sunnyvale
The Rise and Fall of a Silicon Valley Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
In Sunnyvale, California, in 1979, Jeff Goodell's family lived quietly on Meadowlark Lane, unaware that their town was soon to become ground zero in the digital revolution. Over the course of the next decade, as Silicon Valley boomed, the Goodell family unraveled.
Splintered by their parent's...
To Pixar and Beyond
My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“Lovely and surprising . . . This delightful book is about finance, creative genius, workplace harmony, and luck.”—Fortune
”Enchanting,”—New York Times
“I love this book! I think it is brilliant.”—Ed Catmull, cofounder and president of Pixar Animation, president of...
The Wawa Way
How a Funny Name and Six Core Values Revolutionized Convenience
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Grahame Wood opened the first Wawa Food Market in 1964 as an outlet for Wawa dairy products. Since then, the convenience store has grown into a well-known company that competes against the biggest industry players in the world in three areas: fuel, convenience, and food, all while maintaining their...
Selling under the Swastika
Advertising and Commercial Culture in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Selling under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of commercial advertising in the Third Reich. While scholars have focused extensively on the political propaganda that infused daily life in Nazi Germany, they have paid little attention to the role played by commercial ads and sales culture in...
Management Innovators
The People and Ideas that Have Shaped Modern Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1998
Here is a who's who of business, thirty-one profiles of inventors, financiers, organizers, motivators, and gurus--a vivid, informative look at the history of management as seen through the lives of its most influential figures. We meet Eli Whitney, creator of the cotton gin and father of the machine...
The Vanishing American Corporation
Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by half between 1996 and 2012. In recent years we've seen some of the most storied corporations go bankrupt...