Corporate & Business History

Women are taking the lead in today's workforce. They hold half of America's jobs, 51% of supervisory and managerial positions, and nearly 60% of all college degrees. A woman starts a business in the U.S. every 60 seconds. Without women, the U.S. economy...

Women are taking the lead in today's workforce. They hold half of America's jobs, 51% of supervisory and managerial positions, and nearly 60% of all college degrees. A woman starts a business in the U.S. every 60 seconds. Without women, the U.S. economy...

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...

One hundred forty years ago, four shopkeepers in Sacramento, California, rose to become the force behind the American transcontinental railroad, achieving along the way wealth beyond measure. To build influence and maintain power, they lied, bribed, and,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993623Author Cindy VaskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982113636Author Brian DumaineFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

From its very beginning, the specialty chemicals group Clariant has been in a continual process of transformation. This, the first book-length study of the company, gives an insightful account of its historical foundations, starting with the successful...

We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison's...

Amply illustrated, The Vernor's Story -- From Gnomes to Now captures the spirit and genius of the people who transformed Vernors into an iconic American soft drink that has spanned two centuries of shifting public taste. With over seventy photographs...

Norges Bank has been an integrated part of Norwegian economic development from the complicated birth of the new nation-state after the Napoleonic wars to the present nouveau-richness of the Norwegian oil economy. This book traces its 200-year history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767928267Author William D. CohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307588340Author Lawrence G. McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919791Author William D. CohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 641gDimensions(mm)...

Territories of Profit compares Dell Computer, the dominant computer manufacturer of the late twentieth century, and G. F. Swift, the leading meatpacking firm of the late nineteenth century, to reveal how communications revolutions in different periods...

The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century-the white "banana cowboy" pushing the edges of a tropical frontier-was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company. This study of the United Fruit Company...

Violet Crown Award, Writers League of Texas, 2007 Citation, San Antonio Conservation Society, 2009Scarred by the deaths of his mother and sisters and the failure of his father's business, a young man dreamed of making enough money to retire early and...

In this groundbreaking study, Oliver Zunz examines how the growth of corporations changedBook InformationISBN 9780226994604Author Olivier ZunzFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago...

Living Heritage features companies and institutions which have been active for at least two hundred years. The variety of companies presented is broad and their organisational forms are diverse: some are still family-owned while others have different...

Against the backdrop of Enron and other high-profile cases of corporate malfeasance, it is easy to paint today's executives as villains--to blame big business, and corporations generally, for a wide array of social ills. Is the criticism warranted? Not...

These two volumes, Zenith Radio, The Glory Years, 1936-1945, tell the story and highlight the products of the Zenith Radio Corporation between the early years (1919-1935) and the end of World War II. History and Product begins with an exploration of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591846598Author Gina KeatingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996990103Author Seth KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint Airline Weekly Corp.Publisher Airline Weekly Corp.Weight(grams) 857gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

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...

The corporation is one of the most important and remarkable institutions in the world. It affects all our lives continuously. It feeds, entertains, houses and, employs us. It generates vast amounts of revenue for those who own it and it invests a...

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...

DHL: From Startup to Global Upstart is the story of a startup that became the first worldwide logistics service organization, fighting regulation, trade restrictions, customs, and many other technical issues to develop processes that have stood the test...

The complete history of BMC - British Motor Corporation - and a comprehensive directory of the marques and models that made up the whole. Following the historic amalgamation of Morris Motors Ltd and the Austin Motor Co Ltd in 1952, through to the merger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986205064Author Michael CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Progress City Press, L.L.C.Publisher Progress City Press, L.L.C.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956552716Author Chris R WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint AwakenBooksPublisher AwakenBooksWeight(grams) 131gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

The author, responsible for marketing of the Famous Grouse for fifteen years, has been in a unique position to record the decline of the malt distillery and also to look at the remaining distilleries and explain why they survive today. The story is one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345422804Author Carl HiaasenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

We live our lives immersed in name brand products. It's hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants, car dealerships, branded clothing they're all around us. What most of us don't know is that the origins of many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767913683Author Mimi SwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CurrencyPublisher CurrencyWeight(grams) 553g

The corporation is one of the most important and remarkable institutions in the world. It affects all our lives continuously. It feeds, entertains, houses and, employs us. It generates vast amounts of revenue for those who own it and it invests a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439101421Author Alan C GreenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Hill & Smith, a stalwart of the UK's West Midlands industrial scene, is today a leading provider of sustainable infrastructure products and services to a wide range of sectors in multiple international markets. This short history traces its 200-year...

"Only in America could a would-be monk convince a faded televisionstar to pitch a rehabilitation device designed for Scandinavianskiers and create a nationwide sensation. The marketing strategyalone is worth the price of admission." --Paul B. Brown...

John D Rockefeller. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Andrew Carnegie. John Jacob Astor. Henry Ford. Joseph P Kennedy. Even today, long after their deaths, the names of these six men continue to be associated with wealth and power. When they were alive, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780767911795Author Kurt EichenwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of...