Corporate History category: 769 books
Eccentric Orbits
The Iridium Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
“Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about.” —The Economist, “A Book of the Year 2016”
In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement....
Varieties of Capitalism and Business History
The Dutch Case
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The financial crisis of 2008 brought new urgency to the question how best to organise national economies. This volume gives a business history perspective on the Varieties of Capitalism debate and considers the respective merits of the liberal and coordinated market economies. It looks at individual...
Risk and Ruin
Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other ventures—some more legal...
Start With the Future and Work Back
A Heritage Management Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Start With the Future and Work Back: A Heritage Management Manifesto is a lively, often amusing, but seriously perceptive take on the business of history and the history of business. The book explores The History Factory’s role in creating and shaping the global heritage management industry, drawing...
The Watson Dynasty
The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For an extraordinary fifty-seven-year period, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing companies was run by two men who were flesh and blood. The chief executives of the International Business Machines Corporation from 1914 until 1971 were Thomas J. Watson and Thomas J. Watson, father and son....
The Bettencourt Affair
The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
An NPR Best Book of 2017
Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what...
by Jane Gleeson-White
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
“A timely, topical, readable, and thought-provoking look at the history and legacy of double-entry bookkeeping.”—Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers...
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
**From the award-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, an “extraordinary” and “monumental” exposé of Big Oil (The Washington Post)
Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson**
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by Quentin R. Skrabec Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Throughout history, important commercial developments in the United States have made it possible for American companies to leverage tough economic conditions to survive—even thrive in a volatile marketplace. This reference book examines the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American...
by Linda L. Meabon
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The Zippo Manufacturing Company was founded in 1932 in Bradford by George G. Blaisdell, who designed the first Zippo lighter in 1933; since then, Zippo has produced nearly four hundred million lighters. The product line eventually expanded to include tape measures and pocket knives. Zippo entered the...
Make It New
A History of Silicon Valley Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
The role of design in the formation of the Silicon Valley ecosystem of innovation.
California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design consultancies...
by Maurice R. Greenberg, Lawrence A. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Selected as one of Motley Fool’s "5 Great Books You Should Read"
In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of...
A Better Way to Build
A History of the Pankow Companies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
While architects have been the subject of many scholarly studies, we know very little about the companies that built the structures they designed. This book is a study in business history as well as civil engineering and construction management. It details the contributions that Charles J. Pankow,...
The King of Content
Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The remarkable story of Sumner Redstone, his family legacy, and the battles for all he controls.
Sumner Murray Redstone, who lived by the credo "content is king," leveraged his father’s chain of drive-in movie theaters into one of the world’s greatest media empires through a series...