Corporate & Business History

Rentokil is the heart and soul of pest control. A brand synonymous with its field and familiar to all. Innovative, ground-breaking, highly professional; renowned for scientific rigour and go-the-extra-mile customer service. At last, here's a book that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116127Author Charles D. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 760gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476775395Author Christopher LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Taking a career break is a conflicted and risky decision for high-achieving professional women. Yet many do so, usually planning, even as they quit, to return to work eventually. But can they? And if so, how? In Opting Back In, Pamela Stone and Meg...

As enlightening as The Facebook Effect, Elon Musk, and Chaos Monkeys-the compelling, behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of the most essential applications ever devised, and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how we navigate the...

"Important and ingenious . . . ought to be read by every educated person." --The Spectator. Renowned British economist Paul Ormerod explodes current economic theory to offer a radical new framework for understanding how human societies and...

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...

A corporate history of the innovative Benetton Holding Company, Edizione follows the early days of the family-owned brand, through governance and structure changes, mass distribution, infrastructure and network growth, to wider views for the future. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328745545Author Leigh GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Tells how to learn from job assignments, fellow workers, and hardships, shares the lessons of successful executives, and shows how to evaluate the developmental value of a job.Book InformationISBN 9780669180954Author Morgan W. McCallFormat HardbackPage...

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 9780684832234Author Diana B. HenriquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 648gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

After the Berlin Wall tells the inside story of an international financial institution, the European Bank for Development and Reconstruction (EBRD), created in the aftermath of communism to help the countries of central and eastern Europe transition...

Heenan Blaikie was one of Canada's leading law firms that boasted 1,100 employees and once had two former prime ministers on its staff -- Pierre Trudeau and Jean ChrEtien. When it collapsed in February 2014, lawyers across Canada and the business...

Valued at $25 billion following its IPO in 2014, JD.com (Jingdong) is China's second largest e-commerce company (behind its rival Alibaba) and leads the way in sales of consumer electronics and books. Through unprecedented access to the inner-workings of...

Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every corner of the globe.Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky...

What has made Silicon Valley so productive of new technologies and new firms? How did its pioneering achievements begin-in computer networking, semiconductors, personal computing, and the Internet-and what forces have propelled its unprecedented growth?...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 *...

The reissue of the classic history about the sawmill industry in the Pacific Northwest is rich in memories. Here is the vital and true story of the triumphant growth and its undying promise, shown with superb photography and told with exciting text. The...

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

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...

How beliefs shape financial markets and expose the economy to major risksThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman and...

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...

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 *...

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...

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...

This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing...

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.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 2015 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780316231435Author Beth MacyFormat HardbackPage...

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...

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...

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...

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...