Industries Professions category: 12443 books
The Truth About the Drug Companies
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing...
Conspiracy of Fools
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2005
From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.
It was the corporate collapse that appeared...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
New York Times Bestseller: “A historical overview of the auto industry in the United States and Japan [and] the gradual decline of U.S. manufacturing” (Library Journal).
After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the...
Assurance - Banque - Gestion de patrimoine - Tome 2a
6 cas de management stratégique - énoncés
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Un livre utile pour apprendre la prise de décisions dans un contexte particulier et aléatoire, celui de l’assurance, de la banque et de la gestion de patrimoine, à l'heure où les enjeux financiers de cet univers sont colossaux.
En management stratégique, matière complexe en raison de...
Assurance - Banque - Gestion de patrimoine - Tome 2b
6 cas de management stratégique - corrigés
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Un livre utile pour apprendre la prise de décisions dans un contexte particulier et aléatoire, celui de l’assurance, de la banque et de la gestion de patrimoine, à l'heure où les enjeux financiers de cet univers sont colossaux.
En management stratégique, matière complexe en raison de...
This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring
A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business. This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to...
The Curse of the Mogul
What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
If Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone are so smart, why are their stocks long-term losers?
We live in the age of big Media, with the celebrity moguls telling us that "content is king." But for all the excitement, glamour, drama, and publicity they produce, why can't these moguls and...
Brotopia
Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
**Instant National Bestseller
"Excellent." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Brotopia is more than a business book. Silicon Valley holds extraordinary power over our present lives as well as whatever utopia (or nightmare) might come next." --New York Times
Silicon...
The Seventh Sense
Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
Winner of the getAbstract 17th International Book Award
"The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master--a powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to...
Dealers of Lightning
Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created...
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall of American Airlines, Frank Borman of Eastern, and Richard Ferris of United, battled for control of the world's airlines. 416 pp. Radio drive-time pubilcity. 20,000 print.
The Taking of Getty Oil
Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times–bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll is renowned for “his ability to take complicated, significant business stories and turn them...
Ambitious Brew
The Story of American Beer
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2007
A “fascinating and well-documented social history” of American beer, from the immigrants who invented it to the upstart microbrewers who revived it (Chicago Tribune).
Grab a pint and settle in with Ambitious**Brew, the fascinating, first-ever history of American beer. Included here are...
by Lama Jabr
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
There has been a surge in the self-publishing of books in the past few years. The advent of Kindle, Kobo and Barnes and Noble, to name by three of the digital marketplaces, has meant that just about anyone can write and publish a book which they can then upload and sell. And with other new ideas,...