Corporate History category: 769 books
by Thomas Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
“Examines why the set-in-its-ways Coca Cola Company tampered with a drink that had become an American institution—and blundered into one of the greatest marketing triumphs of all time.”—New York
On April 23, 1985, the top executives of the Coca-Cola Company held a press conference in...
by Prem Geet OceanicMedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
First in a series of "Osho's Alphabet," this is an homage to Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, Inc., who exemplified Osho's teaching about the urgency and immediacy of life. "A is for Apple and Steve Jobs as Avatar" is a reflection upon the mysterious last words of Jobs, a man who...
Starting Up Silicon Valley
How ROLM Became a Cultural Icon and Fortune 500 Company
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500: The inside story of ROLM and its continuing influence on Silicon Valley
Decades before Facebook, seven years before Apple, four young men were hard at work in a prune-drying shed designing “the world’s toughest computer.” That was the founding of ROLM Corporation,...
by Rod McQueen,Jim Balsillie,Mike Lazaridis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Chances are…you are looking at yours right now. They are--quite literally--everywhere. US President Barack Obama admits he cannot live without it. Oprah Winfrey, reigning queen of daytime TV, declared on air that the BlackBerry is one of her "favorite things." BusinessWeek put the case for owning one...
Ice Cream Social
The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Ben & Jerry’s has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world’s best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company’s success with all stakeholders: employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody. But it hasn’t...
House of Cards
A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.
At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After...
Inside Coca-Cola
A CEO's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival
Neville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than 30 years, retiring in 2009 as CEO after regilding the tarnished brand image of the world's leading soft-drink company. This first book by a Coca-Cola...
by Patricia Beard
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Glamorous, cultured, and ambitious -- but fatally young and naive -- James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1899. Five years later, at the pinnacle of social and financial success, he made a fatal miscalculation,...
The Buyout of America
How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
An authoritative exposé of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equity
Few people realize that the top private equity firms, such as Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have become the nation’s largest employers through the businesses they own....
Money for Nothing
How CEOs and Boards Enrich Themselves While Bankrupting America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
**A Bank of America director questioned the CEO's $76 million pay package in a year when the bank was laying off 12,600 workers and found herself dropped from the board without notice a few months later.
According to their employment agreements -- approved by boards -- 96 percent of large company...
Braves and Businessmen: A History of Montana, Volume III
Montana History Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Montana’s history is rich, colorful, and full of excitement in this fully-illustrated third volume of the state’s history. Montana Territory had 20,595 people in 1870 and the vast majority were Indians. Those Indians would fight for their lands, and much of the territory’s focus...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward. Development challenges intensified, the global development agenda became more ambitious, and new sources of development finance emerged. This volume shows how...
The Loudest Voice in the Room
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A revelatory journey inside the world of Fox News and Roger Ailes—the brash, sometimes combative network head who helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A SHOWTIME LIMITED SERIES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
When Rupert Murdoch...
How They Blew It
The CEOs and Entrepreneurs Behind Some of the World's Most Catastrophic Business Failures
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
***How They Blew It***is a series of eye-popping tales of entrepreneurs and business leaders who went from corporate gurus to financial disaster zones in rapid and humiliating fashion. Full of surprising details and mind-blowing sums of money, it looks at the characteristics of these leaders and the...