Corporate History category: 769 books
by Richard E. Foglesong
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Joined together in an economic development marriage,” Walt Disney World and Orlando, Florida, have become the world’s most popular tourist destination. This intriguing book traces the evolution of the relationship between the Disney Co. and the surrounding community since it began in the 1960s....
Frenemies
The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of Googled
Advertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible...
The Accidental Billionaires
The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times
Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s...
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA?...
Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men’s Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATURE**
Every year, the average...
Losing the Signal
The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is one percent. What went so wrong?
Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional...
Present Shock
When Everything Happens Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous...
Creating Magic
10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
“It’s not the magic that makes it work; it’s the way we work that makes it magic.”
The secret for creating “magic” in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership—the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary...
by David Ehrenfeld, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
David Ehrenfeld examines the consequences of "the extraordinary proliferation of administration, of bureaucracy, of management, the increasing...
Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop
How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
"Deftly and compassionately captures [Ben's] genius in all its entrepreneurial splendor...This tale will keep you entertained."--New York Times Book Review.
A former CEO of Ben & Jerry's tells how two '60s holdovers built a single ice cream store into one of America's hottest...
The Golden Passport
Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School.
Harvard University still occupies a unique...
Big Deal
Mergers and Acquisitions in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
"Wasserstein is widely recognized as the father of modern-day mergers and acquisitions... [He] explains what drives mergers and how they get done." - USA Today
"Informative and entertaining." - Kirkus Reviews
Big Deal is a penetrating look at the world of mergers...
Haier purpose
The real story of China's first global super company
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In September 2015 Haier and Zhang Ruimin won the prestigious Thinkers50 Ideas into Practice award for their mixture of relentless change, teamworking and destruction of middle management layers, combined with long-term dynamic leadership. Established in 1984, Haier is the world's #1 major appliance...
Anglo Republic
Inside the bank that broke Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
As late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world. By 2008, it was bust. The Irish government's hopeless attempts to save Anglo have led the state to ruin - culminating in a punitive IMF bailout...