Corporate History category: 769 books
The Puritan Gift
Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
The collapse of Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street institutions sent shock waves around the world. But this was just the beginning. Whole nations have been dragged to the brink of bankruptcy. Banks on both sides of the Atlantic have been nationalised. The stock market is out of control and the...
First in Thirst
How Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat Into a Cultural Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
Selected as one of Soundview Executive Book Summaries's the "30 Best Business Books" of the year. Remember the Cola Wars, with Coke and Pepsi battling it out year after year for supremacy in the soft drink market? Or what about the Burger Wars, the legendary slugfests between McDonald’s...
Monopoly on Wheels
Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Examines the eight-year legal fight to overturn the Selden automobile patent in the early days of the American auto industry.
by Mary A. Browning, Patricia M. Koehler
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Oakdale Cotton Mills, in continuous operation in rural Jamestown since 1865, began as Logan Manufacturing Company immediately after the Civil War. Its primary backer, Cyrus P. Mendenhall, was a descendant of Jamestown's early Quaker settler James Mendenhall. In the late 1880s, the mill's ownership moved...
by Ford R. Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Although Henry Ford gloried in the limelight of highly publicized achievement, he privately admitted, "I don't do so much, I just go around lighting fires under other people." Henry's Lieutenants features biographies of thirty-five "other people" who served Henry Ford in a variety of capacities, and...
by Can Akdeniz
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The world as it exists today is barely recognizable as the same world that existed on hundred, or even fifty, years ago. The last century has seen innovation after innovation reshape and revolutionize almost every aspect of human existence. Far from bringing us to an end point – a settled state...
Krupp
Deutsche Legende und globales Unternehmen
Language: German
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Krupp ist eine deutsche Legende. Kaum ein anderes Unternehmen war so eng mit der deutschen Geschichte verflochten. Zugleich zeigte sich die Firma schon ungewöhnlich früh auf den Weltmärkten aktiv. Der renommierte Historiker Harold James erzählt in diesem Buch die Geschichte des Unternehmens, das...
by David Woodruff
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Since opening on February 1, 1927, with just 12 guest rooms, Furnace Creek Resort has achieved preeminence among US National Park lodges and hotels. Conceived by the Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1926, the inn was the answer to the declining mining industry, which had left the Death Valley Railroad...
by Gerald E. Naftaly
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
When the Northland Mall opened in Michigan on March 22, 1954, it was the world's largest shopping center. Its innovative design was the vision of architect Victor Gruen and the Webbers, nephews of Joseph Lowthian Hudson and executives of the J.L. Hudson Company. Northland featured Hudson's flagship...
Accounting for Slavery
Masters and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Caitlin Rosenthal explores quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations, showing how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizations and used complex accounting tools. By demonstrating that business innovation can be a byproduct of bondage Rosenthal further erodes the false boundary between capitalism and slavery.
50 marques françaises
Histoire et objets publicitaires
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2014
50 marques françaises, la plupart disparues mais pas oubliées... restées dans la mémoire collective par les biais des supports de l'époque, efficaces car faisant partie de la vie quotidienne, les magazines, le cinéma, l'affichage, la publicité lumineuse,...
Cracked
How Telephone Operators Took on Canada’s Largest Corporation ... And Won
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner
2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated
The story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights.
In the 1970s, Bell Canada was Canada’s...
Free Ride
How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track.
On the Internet, “information wants to be...
by M. Earl Smith, The Ridgewood Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Given that Ridgewood lies within 20 miles of Lower Manhattan, it would be easy to dismiss this little town as another New York suburb. Settled by Johannes Van Emburgh in 1700, this slice of New Jersey was a pivotal safe haven for the founding fathers, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton,...