Corporate History category: 769 books
Stealing Time
Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2003
In January 2000, America Online and Time Warner announced the largest merger in U.S. history, a deal that would create the biggest media company in the world. It was celebrated as the marriage of new media and old media, a potent combination of the nation's No. 1 Internet company and the country's...
by Abrahm Lustgarten
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
It was Big Oil's nightmare moment, and the dominoes began falling years before the well was drilled.
Two decades ago, British Petroleum, a venerable and storied corporation, was running out of oil reserves. Along came a new CEO of vision and vast ambition, John Browne, who pulled off one of...
Business Adventures
Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“Business Adventures remains the best business book I’ve ever read.” —Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal
What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf...
Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.”
—New York Times Book Review
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall...
Shift
Inside Nissan's Historic Revival
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In Shift, Carlos Ghosn, the brilliant, audacious, and widely admired CEO of Nissan, recounts how he took the reins of the nearly bankrupt Japanese automotive company and achieved one of the most remarkable turnarounds in automotive—and corporate—history.
When Carlos Ghosn (pronounced like “phone”)...
The Monster
How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Who killed the economy?
A page-turning, true-crime exposé of the subprime salesmen and Wall Street alchemists who produced the biggest financial scandal in American history
"It's hard to have a guilty conscience if you don't have a conscience. Anything that benefited production...
The Merchant of Power
Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A timely rags-to-riches story, The Merchant of Power recounts how Sam Insull--right hand to Thomas Edison--went on to become one of the richest men in the world, pivotal in the birth of General Electric and instrumental in the creation of the modern metropolis with his invention of the power grid,...
by P. Christiaan Klieger
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
Fleischmann is a brand name that everyone recognizes, even if they have never baked bread from scratch, drunk a Fleischmann's gin and tonic, or used their vinegar and margarine. Charles Fleischmann, in fact, pretty much invented the brand name and this continued recognition is testimonial to his genius....
Nathan's Famous
An Unauthorized View of America's Favorite Frankfurter Company
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
“A heartwarming, poignant and even-handed account of the quintessential American immigrant/family business struggle to succeed against all odds” (Larry King).
Nathan’s Famous chronicles the history and business strategies of company founder Nathan Handwerker that led to the success of...
The Deals That Made the World
Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
"Excellent. ... Impressive." —Financial Times
An award-winning investigative journalist takes us inside the ten business deals that have transformed the modern world
We tend to think of our world as controlled by forces we basically understand, primarily the politicians we...
Mergers & Acquisitions
A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
In 1999, MCI WorldComm and Sprint agreed to merge. Valued at $129 billion, this expected transaction was the largest in history. However, it fell victim to regulators in Europe concerned with the potential monopoly power of the merged firm. This M&A action was merely the latest in a growing trend...
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially...
The Wizards of Wall Street
Business Adventures, Once in Golconda, and The Go-Go Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
A collection of true stories about money, the stock market, and high finance from the Gerald Loeb Award–winning “unbelievable business writer” (Bill Gates).
For decades, author and New Yorker staff writer John Brooks was renowned for his keen intelligence, in-depth knowledge, and uniquely...
Optical Illusions
Lucent and the Crash of Telecom
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
When Lucent Technologies was spun off from AT&T in 1996, the new company was full of promise. An old-line manufacturer, it quickly became a sizzling hot stock thanks to the emergence of the Internet and the build-up of telecommunications. The stock market was soaring, and Lucent flew with it. Within...