Corporate & Business History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250819475Author Ben RiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm...

It's impossible to tell the story of Court Line without telling that of Autair, founded by helicopter pioneer William 'Bill' Armstrong. Autair itself was an offshoot of his global helicopter operation, but Bill also had his finger in many aviation 'pies'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742153Author Ida TarbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 137mm *...

Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316491976Author Tracy KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224438Author Jonathan KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

This book examines trademarks and brands, and their historical role in national competitive and comparative advantage and in overall economic growth. The contributors provide an historical account of the contribution of brands in consumer goods to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for PROSE Award - Business, Finance & Management 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780262047227Author Vili LehdonvirtaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306873577Author Bradley HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 105mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785905940Author Martin Vander WeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Biteback PublishingPublisher Biteback Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934109229Author Koichi ShimokawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Lean Enterprise Institute,USPublisher Lean Enterprise Institute,USWeight(grams)...

Selected as one of Motley Fool's "5 Great Books You Should Read" In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524241Author Lincoln CaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385042352Author Alfred SloanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060845728Author Michael DellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110842Author Zachary KarabellFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

"It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments." - from The Theory of Money and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455520015Author Alexis OhanianFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010318Author J R MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812933789Author Bernie MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

This history of Burrell & Son of Glasgow describes the way in which ship ownership and operation developed during the final years of the age of sail and the beginning of the era of steamships. Not only does the work contain background material on tramp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524265Author Stefan KanferFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

"An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work."-The...

VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book,...

In the last two decades, innovation, data analysis and technology have driven a tectonic shift in the sports business. Game of Edges is the story of how sports franchises evolved, on and off the field, from raggedly run small businesses into some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060516406Author James C. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915878Author Barry C. LynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510753990Author Robert L BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528351Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116325Author Tom GjeltenFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 452g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547604Author Premeet SidhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In the early nineteenth century the major English chocolate firms,Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury,were all Quaker family enterprises that aimed to do well by doing good. The English chocolatiers introduced the world's first chocolate bar and ever fancier...

The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.Book InformationISBN 9780446394000Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587981258Author George AndersFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Beard BooksPublisher Beard BooksWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Founded in Florence, Italy, as a luggage brand and equestrian outfitter in 1921, Gucci has evolved into one of the world's most celebrated fashion houses - synonymous with classic design, elegance, luxury and quality. This book, beautifully illustrated...

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that a single company could accumulate the kind of power and influence that is now wielded by Lockheed Martin...

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism,...

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist. Creativity is one of American society’s signature values,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101984499Author Tom SanctonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc