Corporate & Business History

'The most explosive, mind-blowing business book I've ever read' - Bradley Hope, New York Times bestselling author of Billion Dollar Whale'Jaw-dropping . . . well-told, well-structured and exquisitely reported' - Financial TimesDiscover the unauthorized,...

A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read"Absolutely compelling."-Diane Coyle"The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity...But capitalism is not just about...

In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolise everything wrong with Silicon Valley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692101742Author P T BarnumFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Creative Texts Publishers, LLCPublisher Creative Texts Publishers, LLCWeight(grams)...

The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and...

Direct Wines, The Sunday Times Wine Club, Laithwaites or just Wine People. Known by various names over the last 50 years, Laithwaites is now the top wine company in the UK and a leading example of a thriving family business turned empire. In the...

Direct Wines, The Sunday Times Wine Club, Laithwaites or just Wine People. Known by various names over the last 50 years, Laithwaites is now the top wine company in the UK and a leading example of a thriving family business turned empire. In the...

From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes Private Empire, winner of the FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2012The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US...

'An excitable, high-octane account' - IndependentIn October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter's front doors after buying the digital giant for $44 billion. His takeover came with the promise of fundamental change, but nothing could prepare the...

The Life and Legacy of an American OriginalCo-founder and first CEO of Burger King, Jim McLamore, recounts the entrepreneurial journey of an international fast food chain and offers a message to today's budding entrepreneur.A rags-to-$9-billion-riches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618197279Author Mark SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591843931Author Jason JenningsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 294g

Start-ups rarely survive their second birthday. Even established firms in the UK and the US average a life of only fifteen years. So how can your company build and sustain success for decades to come?Professor Alex Hill has conducted thirteen years of...

Not all of us get to work on multimillion corporate identity projects for airlines and huge conglomerates. If you are new to the sector or honing their skills, this book if for people who have tackled identity projects in the real world, then this is for...

STARBUCKED is the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fuelled its success. Part Fast Food Nation, part social history, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural...

'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES Best Books of 2023'In a gripping - and sometimes creepy - book, Hill explores the repercussions of [facial recognition] technology and finds out who is behind it' THE TIMES Best Technology Books of...

A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporationPerhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing...

Learn the essentials of business, finance, and company management with this unique graphic guide from DK! If you're perplexed by profit margins, confused by cash flow, or baffled by balance sheets, all your questions and many more are answered in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591846222Author Bob LutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 222g

From John Mack, former CEO of Morgan Stanley, an intimate personal memoir and riveting business story, recounting how he helped grow the company from 300 to 50,000 employees over four decades, transformed a notoriously competitive culture into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307886026Author David CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Fully-illustrated, with modern and archive photography of the breweries, their pub estates, people and beers, this book will examine the past, the present and the future of these great brewing companies and help to highlight the important part they...

An epic true story of ambition, greed and hubris - the collapse of Greensill Capital is a billion pound scandal that shredded the reputation of a British Prime Minister.'The British version of Bad Blood . . . [but] better' - The Sunday Times'Terrific' -...

A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism's longest running tensions-the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders-told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most...

Berkshire Hathaway, the $300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without...

This book interprets insights from the complexity sciences to explore seven types of complexity better to understand the predictable unpredictability of social life. Drawing on the natural and social sciences, it describes how complexity models are...

'A brilliantly readable account, based on exceptional access, of the transformation of the old Quaker bank into a hard-charging capitalist adventurer ... both a thriller and a reminder that business is fascinating because all human life is there' John...

Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research.Founded by Joshua Boger, a...

'Any investor with skin in the game needs to buy this book.' Niall FergusonFrom the Stock Exchange to Westminster, the fantasy of an eventual 'return to normal' is still alive and well. But the economic world as we know it - and the rules that govern it...

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "If you're in any kind of leadership role-whether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere else-there's a lot you can learn here."-Bill Gates, Gates NotesHow could General Electric-perhaps America's most iconic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887309892Author Michael A HiltzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This book reveals crucial but little-known information on the history of cellular and wireless technology -- some of which dates to World War II -- and shows how the company grabbed the wave just as it began to rise.It is not an exaggeration to say that...

CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr.'s memoir about the extraordinary turnaround of IBM and his transformation of the company into the industry leader of the computer age - the great American business story of our time. When Louis V. Gerstner became CEO...

Winner of the Canadian National Business Book Award 2016Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the US smartphone market. Today that number is less than one per cent. What went so...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112471Author David S. LandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778063831Author Harvey S FirestoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Latticework PublishingPublisher Latticework PublishingWeight(grams)...

The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its...

An engrossing, insider's account of how a teacher built one of the world's most valuable companies-rivaling Walmart and Amazon-and forever reshaped the global economy In just a decade and a half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as...

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the rest of the “PayPal Mafia” are now household names who’ve reshaped technology, automobiles, space travel, and politics. But two decades ago, they were unsung entrepreneurs attempting to launch a Silicon Valley startup...