Corporate & Business History

The Strip. Home to some of the world's grandest, flashiest, and most lucrative casino resorts, Las Vegas, with its multitude of attractions, draws millions of tourists from around the world every year. But Sin City hasn't always been booming: modern...

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...

In this definitive history of the Rover company, Graham Robson traces the history of the iconic British car brand right back to the Starley family's Coventry-made bicycles of the 1870s, through to 1988. Delving deeply into the records and talking to many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591845638Author Jeff RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 29gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 24mm

This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. With all the depth, clarity and...

Updated business wisdom from the founder of Dogfish Head, the nation's fastest growing independent craft brewery Starting with nothing more than a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality in the form of...

The Fashion Icons McQueen is magnificently adorned with some of Lee Alexander McQueen's most riveting designs, and the narrative illuminates the personal and professional struggles of a man who dared to defy accepted norms in the cavernous halls of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn adrenaline-fuelled expose of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446563048Author Tony HsiehFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Business PlusPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

The best-known and most important manufacturer of plastic model kits in the UK, Airfix has been at the forefront of the industry since 1955 when the first Airfix aircraft kit appeared in UK branches of Woolworth's. The kits were made to a constant...

'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...

'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...

'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...

When Andre de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa. Aside from neglected equipment, ageing power stations and an eroded skills base, he discovered that...

'You won't find a more honest, raw and helpful look into the trenches of founding a tech startup than this book' Nir Eyal, author of Hooked'Rand Fishkin is the real deal' Seth Godin, entrepreneur and author -----------Everyone knows how a startup story...

Dinky Toys are a part of many people's childhood. They were one of the many famous brands produced as part of the Meccano empire set up by Frank Hornby at his Binns Road factory in Liverpool. Although they began before the Second World War, it was the...

Magnetic Venture is the inside story of Oxford Instruments, the first substantial spin-off company from Oxford University, established in 1959. Written by one of its founders, it describes the ups and downs, the mistakes and successes of a growing...

How did BMW recover from the edge of bankruptcy to become on of Europe's strongest companies? Why did Saatchi and Saatchi's global strategy bring the company to its knees? Why has Philips's outstanding record in innovation not been translated into...

Cannibals with Forks passionately demonstrates how all businessescan and must help society achieve the three inter-linked goals of economicprosperity,environmental protection and social equity, issues whichare already at the top of the corporate agenda...

Founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing, a wealthy timber merchant, the mighty Boeing Company's long history spans decades of rich achievement and technological development. Beginning with the manufacture of seaplanes, fighters and, from the 1930s onwards,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307886064Author Bryce G. HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

A family business prospers through a series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then senseless internal conflicts lead to a long line of demented CEOs, monumental expansion, and foolish diversification-at a high cost in shattered lives. In the...

The story behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google – and how an an epic battle is reshaping the way we think about technology. This book, previously published as ‘Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution’, explores...

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the...

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the...

Smiths Group (formerly Smiths Industries), part of the UK FTSE 100 index, is a global engineering company with a market capitalisation over GBP5bn. Evolving from beginnings in the Victorian jewellery trade, to significant market presences in the...

Improve your ability to adapt to an increasingly unpredictable world In Certain Uncertainty, renowned management theorist Des Dearlove delivers an exciting and illuminating discussion of how to build resilience and agility into our lives and businesses...

The Beatles. The Beach Boys. Blur, Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Kate Bush and Coldplay. EMI was one of the big four record companies, with some of the biggest names in the history of recorded music on its roster. Dominating the music industry for over 100...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593852262Author Eva DouFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144652Author Ron ChernowFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

This book is about the company culture that helped drive Arm Limited's spectacular growth to become the world's leading semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) company. Its extremely power-efficient processor technology has been licensed to hundreds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455558902Author Greg SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

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...

"Entertainingly indiscreet . . . Knee's talent for wicked pen portraits is put to good use."--Financial Times Investment bankers used to be known as respectful of their clients, loyal to their firms, and chary of the financial system that allowed them...

New York Times BestsellerNew York Times reporter and "Corner Office" columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs. In 1981, Jack...

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 9780062301253Author Ashlee VanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* 'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES, Best Books of 2023'Gripping' THE TIMES, Best Technology Books of 2023...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060008765Author Mike WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *...