Corporate & Business History

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061655548Author Bryan BurroughFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455504015Author Anita RaghavanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

The enormous and sustained success of Silicon Valley has excited interest around the globe. Startup companies the world over are attempting to emulate its high tech businesses, and many governments are changing their institutions in order to foster...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060761387Author Steve KemperFormat PaperbackPage Count 323Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest...

IBM was the world's leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time, and what lessons can this iconic corporation teach present-day enterprises?James W. Cortada-a business...

A riveting and timely intellectual history of one of our most important capitalist institutions, Harvard Business School, from the bestselling author of The Firm. With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting...

Established in 1887, Sanders Bros. was the UK's largest chain of corn, flour, seed and general produce merchants in the 1920s, trading from 154 branches in 1925 in London and the surrounding area and with a stock market value higher than Marks & Spencer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977326419Author Jim CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Jim CollinsPublisher Jim CollinsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 140mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547750330Author Eric SchlosserFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439190982Author Duff McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473442255Author Bob WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint RJ Weir LtdPublisher RJ Weir LtdWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120032Author Michael PerinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

The business of reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, went largely unnoticed outside the expert community. More recently, both public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250127501Author Ray KrocFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 192gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879998Author Jennifer TaubFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881327038Author Caroline FreundFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute...

Last summer, nearly fifty thousand people traveled to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to participate in the countercultural arts event Burning Man. Founded on a commitment to expression and community, the annual weeklong festival presents unique challenges to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156033442Author Alex AbellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 133mm * 25mm

The bus system that came to be known as the Greyhound Bus Company was founded by Carl Eric Wickman, an enterprising Swede of Hibbing, Minnesota. The first bus was a seven-passenger Hupmobile touring car that was used to transport miners across the Mesaba...

Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the United States have been asked to pay the greatest price for credit. Again and again, Americans have asked why the most fragile...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736001202Author Robin GasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Incumetrics Inc.Publisher Incumetrics Inc.Weight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America's most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family's power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international...

Ai Hisano exposes how corporations, the American government, and consumers shaped the colors of what we eat and even the colors of what we consider "natural," "fresh," and "wholesome."The yellow of margarine, the red of meat, the bright orange of...

Imagine?if you could see the playbook that returned a struggling tech empire to the top of the tech leaderboard.?The Microsoft Story?will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that...

In 1863, John Mahlon Marlin's dream was simply to make small, single-shot, derringer-type pistols. But within twenty years, his dream had grown into a corporation that would eventually be called The Marlin Firearms Company, and Marlin was one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767900607Author Gordon R. SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

Wal-Mart is the world's largest company and it sets the standard - both social and commercial - for a huge swath of the global economy. In this probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein shows how the company's success has spread evangelical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983926603Author Clarence B JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Emergence Press, LLCPublisher Emergence Press, LLCWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684804378Author Paul IngrassiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and...

The "HP Way" has attained a kind of mythological status for anyone familiar with the company's history of phenomenal growth and innovative culture. It's a different way of thinking about business, of managing people, of integrating the broader interests...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062698308Author Jacques PerettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983373469Author David Kassin FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Mbi Concepts CorporationPublisher Mbi Concepts CorporationWeight(grams)...

Brought completely up to date for this new edition, Business The Bill Gates Way not only reveals the secrets of Gates' remarkable success but also draws out the universal lessons and identifies strategies that can be applied to any business or career...

Start With the Future and Work Back: A Heritage Management Manifesto is a lively, often amusing, but seriously perceptive take on the business of history and the history of business. The book explores The History Factory's role in creating and shaping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380703043Author Arthur GarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The core theme of the book is the importance of an independent state audit to ensure that the Executive is held accountable to Parliament. Instilling effective financial control and accountability for the use of public funds and the proper conduct of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 2015 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780316231435Author Beth MacyFormat HardbackPage...