Corporate History category: 769 books
Open Innovation Learning
Theory building on open sourcing while private sourcing
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Organizations embark on open innovation initiatives to sweep in external knowledge, practices and resources in cooperation with partners. This contrasts to the mainstream private innovation approach of in-house research and development sponsored solely by an incorporated funder, with intellectual...
by Joseph Michelli
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!
“Like any business, a hospital must be true to its core values in order to succeed. ‘Trickle-down values’ start at the top with the best leadership, so that all the stakeholders understand and carry out the institution’s mission. That...
The Curse of the Mogul
What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
If Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone are so smart, why are their stocks long-term losers?
We live in the age of big Media, with the celebrity moguls telling us that "content is king." But for all the excitement, glamour, drama, and publicity they produce, why can't these moguls and...
Only the Paranoid Survive
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Andy Grove, founder and former CEO of Intel shares his strategy for success as he takes the reader deep inside the workings of a major company in Only the Paranoid Survive.
Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel became the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the...
Ugly Beauty
The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
From acclaimed novelist and cultural historian Ruth Brandon comes a captivating dual biography of the legendary founders of the cosmetics industry, Helena Rubinstein and Eugène Schueller, creator of L’Oréal. Brandon’s gripping and sometimes disturbing story of gender, power, and politics stretches...
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this updated paperback edition of a "rich, readable, and authoritative" Fortune) book, Wall Street Journal reporter Petzinger tells the dramatic story of how a dozen men, including Robert Crandall of American Airlines, Frank Borman of Eastern, and Richard Ferris of United, battled for control of the world's airlines. 416 pp. Radio drive-time pubilcity. 20,000 print.
The Airbnb Story
How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
“An engrossing story of audacious entrepreneurism and big-industry disruption, [this] is a tale for our times.” — Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better
An investigative look into a beloved, disruptive, notorious start-up
This is the remarkable behind-the-scenes story...
Once in Golconda
A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920–1938
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Business Adventures comes the chronicle of the stock market crash of 1929 and its aftermath
Legend had it that anyone who passed through Golconda, a city in southern India, attained tremendous wealth. But Golconda, now in ruins, ran out of riches,...
SuperCorp
How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the answer to the global crisis of business and American-style capitalism.
Out of the ashes of conventional business models arises a set of companies using their power not only for profits and sustainable growth but also social good.
If you think business corporations...
Amazon.com
Get Big Fast
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In Amazon.com Jeff Bezos built something the world had never seen. He created the most recognized brand name on the Internet, became for a time one of the richest men in the world, and was crowned "the king of cyber-commerce."
Yet for all the media exposure, the inside story of Amazon.com...
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble
Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. With no advertising or big-box distribution, creator Ty Warner - an eccentric college dropout - become a billionaire in just three years. And it was all thanks to collectors. The end of the craze was just as swift and extremely devastating,...
by Kurt Eichenwald
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A real-life thriller—the story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sums—some their life’s savings—in the largest securities fraud of the 1980s, with names like Onassis and Bush numbered among the victims.
The Launch Pad
Inside Y Combinator
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Number of teams that applied to Y Combinator’s summer 2011 batch: 2,089
Teams interviewed: 170
Minutes per interview: 10
Teams accepted and funded: 64
Months to build a viable startup: 3
Possibilities: BOUNDLESS
Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after...
Pensionsverpflichtungen in der Rechnungslegung nach IFRS
Theoretische und empirische Analyse alternativer Bilanzierungskonzepte
Language: German
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Bilanzierung von Pensionsverpflichtungen, welche ein seit Jahrzehnten kontrovers diskutierter Bereich in der Rechnungslegung nach IFRS sind. Es stellen sich die Fragen, welche Regelungen zur Pensionsbilanzierung sachgerecht sind und welche Auswirkungen Bilanzierungsänderungen...