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Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre et collaborative
Retour sur le succès d’un projet totalement innovant
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Un guide pratique et accessible pour tout comprendre de Wikipédia et de son fabuleux succès !
Fondée en 2001 par deux Américains, l’encyclopédie en ligne Wikipédia représente à l’heure actuelle un site web incontournable, l’un des plus consultés au monde. Le concept est simple,...
by Harvey Sawler
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Famed Canadian industrialist K. C. Irving has always been considered the most important figure of the Irving family business empire-an empire of such dominance in its region that only America's Morgans or Rockefellers merit a valid comparison. K. C. was indeed the pivot man in a relentless relay of...
Investment Banking
Institutions, Politics, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets, and uses it to explain both the historical evolution of the investment banking industry and also recent changes to its organization. Although investment...
by Anthony Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large share of the business done by almost every U.S. consumer-product company. More than 138 million shoppers visit one of its 5,300 stores each week....
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
The Biography of a Cause
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years to produce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The company Facundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought...
by Campbell Jones, Martin Parker, Rene ten Bos
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
For Business Ethics is a daring adventure into the world of business ethics. It offers a clear and accessible introduction to business ethics and also expands business ethics beyond its current narrow confines. It is ground-breaking in the sense that it invites a distinctively critical approach to...
by Claire Gierwatowski, Skytop Lodge
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Surrounded by the natural beauty of mountain lakes, streams, and cascading waterfalls, the historic Skytop Lodge resort sits on 5,500 pristine acres in the heart of the Poconos. Developers of the estate cultivated this aesthetic when they hired the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm to site...
by Melanie Linn Gutowski
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Kaufmann's Department Store was a force in Pittsburgh retail from its humble beginnings in 1871 until its merger with Federated Department Stores in 2006. The "Big Store" downtown was a landmark shopping emporium with 12 floors of everything from cosmetics and groceries to wedding gowns and lawn mowers....
A Man Short
"An Insider's Tale of T.G.I. Friday's in the 1980s"
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The reader will grab a front row seat and learn of the entrepreneurial roots of T.G.I. Friday's, a tumultuous start, the righting of the ship and the rise to the top of casual dining by the time the mid-1980s rolled around!
The Search
How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
What does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that question—in all its shades of meaning—can unlock the most intractable riddles of business and arguably of human culture itself. And for the past few years, that’s exactly what Google has been doing.
But...
by Jean-Louis Peaucelle
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Henri Fayol is one of the most important management theorists of the twentieth century. Guthrie and Peaucelle present a study of Fayol's management, comparing the theories set out in his book with his hands-on experience and practice. The first English translation of the third part of Industrial and General Management appears as an Appendix.
Rethinking America
A New Game Plan from the American Innovators: Schools, Business, People, Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Russians, The Power Game, and The New Russians shows how America has lost ground, and reveals how innovators are creating new strategies to win in the new global game.
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Jeff Bezos e l'era di Amazon
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2013
LA STORIA DEFINITIVA DI AMAZON E DEL SUO AMBIZIOSO, INTRAPRENDENTE, CONTROVERSO FONDATORE: JEFF BEZOS AMAZON.COM è nata inviando libri per posta e ha cavalcato la prima ondata dell’isteria dot-com. Ma il suo visionario fondatore Jeff Bezos non si accontentava di essere un libraio alla moda; voleva...
From Corner Café to JSE Giant
The Famous Brands Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Famous Brands Ltd, as it is known today, started as a single Steers restaurant in the early 1960s, and now comprises more than 2100 restaurants across a portfolio of 20 brands, as well as extremely lucrative logistics, manufacturing and retail components. George Halamandres's family came to South...