Corporate & Business History

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)...

Critical, independent voices are seldom found within the citadels of international finance. That's what makes Nomi Prins unique. During fifteen years as an executive at skyscraping banks like Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers, Prins never...

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 9780262547826Author James W. CortadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 852gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543309Author Emily WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

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...

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...

Sweating Together: How Peloton Built a Billion Dollar Venture and Created Community in a Digital World by David J. Miller, PhD (#ChicagoBorn) The ultimate front row look at the meteoric rise of Peloton, one of the hottest consumer and fitness...

"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 a long-time Alibaba executive and friend of Jack Ma, this is first book to articulate how Alibaba's unique culture and "tai chi" management principles are providing a business and economic development model for the rest of the world.If you took the...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571742308Author Arnold MindellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. 'Bottled' asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation,...

Nearly 70 per cent of employees in the UK aren't performing at their full potential. At the roots of this problem are the policies and systems built to 'manage' these employees, which were designed for a different era - the industrial economy. In the...

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...

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 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 9781250007438Author Diana B HenriquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing...

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 9780743267090Author James B. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467140713Author Anne Evers HitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

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)...

Reinsurance is an invisible service industry which enables insurance companies to insure more risks and to make better use of their resources. Until recently, reinsurers were only known to a small minority outside the insurance community. Major...

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 9780671897819Author Alecia SwasyFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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,...

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner traces the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and uncovers how those once entrusted with improving life have often betrayed that ideal to...

Six leading economists examine the financing of corporate capital formation in the U.S. economy. In clear and nontechnical terms, their papers provide valuable information for economists and nonspecialists interested in such questions as why interest...

The Making of the Modern Supermarket describes the emergence and growth of the modern supermarket format in Britain, showing how the original American innovation of self-service was adapted to the different postwar British context in a number of ways. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765138977Author Stacy Mintzer HerlihyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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,...

This unique volume provides a survey of U.S. business history in a chronological framework. Designed as a basic chronology of representative events, the work covers the years from 1602 to 1988, presenting those events that pioneered trends and those that...

The history of the computer, and of the industry it spawned, is the latest entrant into the field of historical studies. Scholars beginning to turn their attention to the subject of computing need James Cortada's Archives of Data Procesing History as a...

This is a business history of soy that reveals how Japanese imperial and military institutions and financial-mercantile-industrial interests created a role for soy as a versatile raw material and global commodity beginning in the 19th century, even...

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 9781596295292Author Earle DunfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 248mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316530187Author Marc RandolphFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596297333Author Joe BoeckholtFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...