Corporate History category: 769 books
The Enlightened Capitalists
Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices—from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day entrepreneurs...
by John P. Kotter
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Going far beyond previous empirical work, John Kotter and James Heskett provide the first comprehensive critical analysis of how the "culture" of a corporation powerfully influences its economic performance, for better or for worse. Through painstaking research at such firms as Hewlett-Packard,...
Gangs of America
The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
The corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much...
Becoming Hewlett Packard
Why Strategic Leadership Matters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the 77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological changes that felled most of its competitors...
The Activist Director
Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive...
The Hippie Guide to Climbing Corporate Ladder and Other Mountains
How JanSport Makes It Happen
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
From small-town Kansas boy to adventure-junkie extraordinaire to respected mountaineer, this funky and funny read traces Skip Yowell's (Co-Founder of JanSport) unorthodox journey to the top of the outdoor industry.
Full of offbeat details and photos from Skip's adventures around the...
The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder
Labor’s Last Best Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confident he would win. But where traditional labor action failed, a novel approach was more successful. With the aid of the California Public Employees’...
Corporate Purpose
Why It Matters More Than Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Originally published in 1999 after a decade of research and extensive interviews with some of Toyota's top executives, this book examines organizational purpose: what it is, how it is crafted, how does it relate to strategy and objectives and how does it relate to decisions and actions that ultimately...
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by Annarita Briganti, Rossella Canevari, Marta Elena Casanova
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This publication is part of the Mamma, che impresa! project, a workshop that promotes corporate culture, open to collaborations and synergies.
The stories of nine wonderful business case-histories, narrated, together with nine bright professional writers, by those who have founded them and lead them.
After...
Investment Banking History
National and Comparative Issues (19th-21st centuries)
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The recent financial and banking crisis did reveal the discrepancy between internal management rules and the demands for stability within the divisions of corporate and investment banking by universal banks or within pure investment banks. Their mastership of risks did not balance the variety and...
Big Steel
The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2001
At its formation in 1901, the United States Steel Corporation was the earth’s biggest industrial corporation, a wonder of the manufacturing world. Immediately it produced two thirds of America’s raw steel and thirty percent of the steel made worldwide. The behemoth company would go on to support...
A History of the Book in America
Volume 5: The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as the expansion of government, the growth of higher education, the climate of the Cold War, globalization,...
Allianz
The Company History 1890-2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
On February 5, 1890, the First District Royal Court of Prussia in Berlin entered a new enter prise into the corporate trade register: the „Allianz Versicherungs-Aktien-Gesellschaft“. 125 years later, Allianz is one of the largest international financial services prividers. This book tells the...
The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co.
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bank
Wall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most powerful firms, Lazard Frères & Co. stood...