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by Alan Deutschman
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography...
Iacocca
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
“Vintage Iacocca . . . He is fast-talking, blunt, boastful, and unabashedly patriotic. Lee Iacocca is also a genuine folk hero. . . . His career is breathtaking.”—Business Week
He’s an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the...
Secret Formula
The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A "highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche” (Publishers Weekly).
Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth...
Pour Your Heart Into It
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In Pour Your Heart Into It, former CEO and now chairman emeritus Howard Schultz illustrates the principles that have shaped the Starbucks phenomenon, sharing the wisdom he has gained from his quest to make great coffee part of the American experience.
The success of Starbucks Coffee Company...
Conspiracy
Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
**An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!
A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic...
Hit Refresh
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
“At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like never before.” – Satya Nadella from Hit Refresh
“Satya has charted a course for making...
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the...
by Michael Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1999
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar...
How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars
The Snapchat Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
"In the grand tradition of Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires (2009)... an engaging look into a fascinating subculture of millions." —Booklist
"Breezy...How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars ably if uncritically chronicles the short history of a young company catering to...
Blood Medicine
Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
“Blood Feud rivals A Civil Action for best non-fiction book of the past twenty years.” — John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author of Damage
Procrit seemed like a biotech miracle, promising a golden age in medical care. Developed in the 1980s by Amgen and licensed to the pharmaceutical...
Quench Your Own Thirst
Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career.
In 1984, it looked like an...
by Michael Ovitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one.
As the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy, and fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent and helped shape the careers of...
Confessions of a Wall Street Insider
A Cautionary Tale of Rats, Feds, and Banksters
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Although he was a suburban husband and father, living a far different life than the Wolf of Wall Street,” Michael Kimelman had a good run as the cofounder of a hedge fund. He had left a cushy yet suffocating job at a law firm to try his hand at the high-risk life of a proprietary trader - and...
Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionaire Mogul Sam Zell
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
"The challenge is, how do we get somebody 126 years old to get it up?" This was Sam Zell's unique way of saying hello to a large gathering at the Los Angeles Times shortly after taking charge of Tribune Company. "I'm your Viagra, OK?"
Even for Sam Zell, one of the greatest...