Corporate History category: 769 books
Amazon and the Rise of E-commerce
The story of Jeff Bezos’ revolutionary company
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Find out how Amazon conquered the world in just 50 minutes!In less than two decades, Amazon grew from a startup to become the world leader in online shopping, with hundreds of millions of customers around the world. However, the future did not always look so bright for the internet giant: its unconventional...
A Better Way of Doing Business?
Lessons from The John Lewis Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account of the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it. The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and its openness to the market in the...
by Oscar Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Thousands of readers remember with pleasure Oscar Lewis’s fine book on the Western railroad robber barons, The Big Four. Silver Kings is a companion piece, dealing as it does with the big four of the Nevada Comstock Lode, one of the greatest of all silver mines. These were really fabulous men who...
Has Wal-Mart Found Its Soul?
A New Introduction to the National Bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect: A Penguin eSp ecial
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The behind-the-scenes report on how Wal-Mart has become arguably the most powerful force for environmental change anywhere.
In his national bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect, award-winning journalist Charles Fishman penetrated the store’s once impenetrable wall of secrecy to chart Wal-Mart’s...
The Gilded Age
1876–1912: Overture to the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The Gilded Age is in the air! This beautifully designed, fully illustrated, insightful book by noted historian Alan Axelrod provides a vivid view of American life and thought during that era. The Gilded Age—the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the period of rapid economic growth in America...
by John Fredrickson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
In 1916, an airplane company was established in the previous Heath shipyard along the Duwamish River, situated a short distance south of Seattle's Elliott Bay. Work on the first two airplanes was already well underway as the articles of incorporation for Pacific Aero Products Company established three...
Divining Desire
Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
An engaging, accessible history of the focus group, Featherstone's survey shows how the primary purpose of the focus group has shifted from determining what we want, to selling us things we don't.
The focus group, over the course of the last century, became an increasingly vital part of the...
Nobody's Perfect
Two Men, One Call, and a Game for Baseball History
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the “classic, human, baseball stories” (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball).
The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has...
Established
Lessons from the World's Oldest Companies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This is not a dry or boring history of companies, rather it is a digestible book of stories that anchor the histories – and inevitably secrets – of some of the world’s longest-standing businesses.
A general-interest business book for entrepreneurs and casual readers alike.
Features historical black-and-white images, integrated throughout.
by Dennis Schlagheck, Catherine Lantz
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
A burgeoning town on the fringes of Chicago rose and fell with the successes of the Western Electric Company. For almost 90 years, the Hawthorne Works plant employed, educated, entertained, and defined the township of Cicero. As the manufacturing arm of Western Electric, Hawthorne contributed greatly...
A City Lost and Found
Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
“Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for a building 50 years old will be in vain.” —Herald, 1925.
The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred...
The Rule of Logistics
Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Every time you wheel a shopping cart through one of Walmart’s more than 10,000 stores worldwide, or swipe your credit card or purchase something online, you enter a mind-boggling logistical regime. Even if you’ve never shopped at Walmart, its logistics have probably affected your life. The Rule...
by Thomas Ramge, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to...
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by Gary Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Since the dawn of civilization, corruption has had a perpetual impact on the world's economies. In the modern, technology-enabled, global economy, the effects of those who manipulate free-market capitalism for their own gains regardless of methodology continue to be a problem, despite reforms instituted...