Corporate & Business History

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It grew to have one of the most recognizable and valuable brands in the world and then fell into decline, leading to the sale of its mobile phone business to...

"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...

Continuing the story of Commodore where the previous book, Commodore: A Company on the Edge left off, this book takes a look at Commodore's most tumultuous years. How did the Amiga, a computer now widely regarded as having been five years ahead of its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250007438Author Diana B HenriquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142000359Author Annette Moser-WellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Widowed mom shatters notions of how trailblazing CEOs look and act If Crazy Rich Asians and a Greek tragedy had a literary offspring, it would be the spitting image of Why Should Guys Have All the Fun? The true story of resolute immigration lawyer and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783980846691Author Michael HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint IsletPublisher IsletWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 23mm

"An incisive history of the venture-capital industry."-New Yorker"An excellent and original economic history of venture capital."-Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"A detailed, fact-filled account of America's most celebrated moneymen."-New...

From New York Times bestselling authors Richard Belzer and David Wayne comes a hard look at the wrongs done to us all by big business in America.Here is an explosive account of wrongful acts perpetrated, and the ensuing cover-ups inflicted upon us, by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116820Author Bryan BurroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Alpha BooksPublisher Alpha BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062092069Author Dr Laurence J PeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The longtime chief marketing officer for Chick-fil-A tells the inside story of how the company turned prevailing theories of fast-food marketing upside down and built one of the most successful and beloved brands in America.During his thirty-four-year...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180716Author Charles V. BagliFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

A compelling narrative on what went wrong with our financial system--and who's to blame. From an award-winning journalist who has been covering the industry for more than a decade, The Devil's Derivatives charts the untold story of modern financial...

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 9780805242942Author Mark Russ FedermanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The story of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., is exciting--full of struggle, determination, crisis, and heroic endeavor. Air Products grew out of the vision and drive of one individual, Leonard Pool. In the course of fifty years, Pool's precarious...

When Carter Bryant began work on what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel where he designed outfits for Barbie. Later, back at Mattel, he sold his concept for Bratz to rival company MGA. Orly...

Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius", and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? "Bottled and Sold" shows how water went...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556525629Author Tony MageeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143119418Author Sebastian MallabyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint...

Tesla is the most exciting car company in a generation . . . but can it live up to the hype?Tesla Motors and CEO Elon Musk have become household names, shaking up the staid auto industry by creating a set of innovative electric vehicles that have wowed...

London Transport was created in 1933 to coordinate the shambolic, overlapping transport systems of the capital, and for decades has striven to meet the challenges of organising London travel. Now operating as Transport for London (TfL), it continues this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451498120Author Nicholas SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA Inc

Scribners tells the inside story of five generations--over 150 years--at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the...

This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account of the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it. The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345360441Author Laton McCartneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812987133Author Michael MossFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805042429Author Ann Hagedorn AuerbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 721g

In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands-the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles,...

The complete story of the changing fortunes of the man who altered the face of the world's media forever. Rupert Murdoch, ruthless visionary, empire builder, and business genius, created a global media network which made him one of the most powerful and...

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

The Business of Emotions in Modern History shows how businesses, from individual entrepreneurs to family firms and massive corporations, have relied on, leveraged, generated and been shaped by emotions for centuries. With a broad temporal and global...

Learn how pioneering business leaders are resetting their companies' relationship to nature, society, and our common future In The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability, businessman Andre Hoffmann and journalist Peter Vanham...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565846593Author Jefferson CowieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 340g

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...

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 9781642932669Author Ivan SeidenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Recent research in business strategy suggests that corporate reputations are a valuable strategic asset for every company. Good reputations have been shown to help firms attain and sustain superior financial performance in their industry. This book...