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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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Ron Chernow
A biography of the famed American industrialist and benefactor. Widely reviled during his lifetime for his rapacious business practices, Rockefeller amassed the greatest fortune of his times and eventually became as adept at giving away funds as he was at making them.
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Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
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Joel Glenn Brenner
Recounting the real-life adventures of corporate giants Forrest Mars and Milton Hershey, "The Emperors of Chocolate" dishes royally on Candyland's corporate spies, cutthroat lawyers, and paranoid executives and provides a mouth-watering look at our culture's passion for chocolate.
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Times We Had
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Marion Davies
The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of America's richest men. Gathered from tapes recroded a decade before Marion Davie's death, read, in her own words, the story of a fantastic and glittering life, as never told before.
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Iacocca: An Autobiography
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William Novak, Lee Iacocca
He's an American legend, a straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, newsmaker, and a man many had urged to run for president. The son of Italian immigrants, Lee Iacocca rose spectacularly through the ranks of Ford Motor Company to become its president, only to be toppled ...
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Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar & Co.
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Gary Erickson, Lois Lorentzen
World traveler, mountain cyclist, jazz musician, and entrepreneur Gary Erickson shares the tale of creating his successful Clif Bar company, which he started from scratch in his mother's kitchen. With co-author Lois Lorentzen, Erickson has written a fascinating, action-packed tale that will act as a strong professional model and a fine personal ...
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McDonald's: Behind the Arches
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John F Love
This revised and updated saga offers a look inside an American business success.
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Andrew Carnegie and the rise of big business
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Harold C Livesay
In this biography, author and scholar Harold C. Livesay examines the life and legacy of Andrew Carnegie, one of the greatest captains of industry and philanthropists in the history of the United States. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each of the titles in the Library of American Biography Series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas ...
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Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty
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Peter Hernon, Terry Ganey
From two award-winning journalists comes the incredible true story of an American dynasty and the scandals, sins and ruthlessness that have marked its rise to power. Under the Influence spins a riveting tale of a corporate monarchy cutting a swath through society--and getting away with it-- in the pursuit of power and profits. 32 pages of ...
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Jackpot!: Harrah's Winning Secrets for Customer Loyalty
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Robert L Shook
This is the inside story of the gaming company that hit the jackpot playing by its own rules. Robert L Shook, a "New York Times" bestselling author, delves into the business behind one of the world's foremost gaming and entertainment companies, Harrah's. Since Bill Harrah took over a small card game business in 1937, Harrah's has become a top ...
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Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony
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Akio Morita, Mitsuko Shimoura, Edwin M Reingold
Co-founded 40 years ago, by a young engineer named Akio Morita, Sony is now one of the most powerful and respected multinational corporations in the world, and Morita is its outspoken chairman. This autobiography charts the growth of the company, from the initial attempts to make a tape recorder to the sales of Walkman.
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Blood and Wine: Unauthorized Story of the Gallo Wine Empire
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Ellen Hawkes
Both an eye-opening account of the financial and personal scandals at the nation's number-one winery and a devastating portrait of patriarch Ernest Gallo, Blood and Wine tells the riveting saga of the ruthless Gallo family and the history of the business that dominates the American wine industry. Photographs.
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Birth of the Chaordic Age
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Dee W Hock, Visa International
Written by the founder, president, and CEO emeritus of VISA International, this is the story of how VISA International was conceived, founded and established. It is also the life story of Dee Hock, a maverick banker who put his own wild ideas into practice to create something the likes of which the world had never seen. This text challenges the ...
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The Arms of Krupp
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William Manchester
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Duveen
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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
Originally published as a serial in "The New Yorker, " this dramatic true-life story of Joseph Duveen--called "the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time"--chronicles how he single-handedly built some of the world's great art collections.
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Swoosh: The Unauthorized Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There
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J B Strasser, Laurie Becklund
Discloses the details of one of America's most significant success stories - Nike Corporation's rise from a small, unknown revolutionary sneaker company to a $3 billion international organization, attracting such celebrity endorsers as Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson and Andre Agassi.
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Secret Formula
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Frederick Allen
Coca-Cola has grown into one of the most recognized commercial trademark symbols in the world. Allen chronicles the rise of this company, right up to its recent breakthroughs behind the fallen Iron Curtain and in the Third World. This book surveys over six decades of Coca-Cola's successes and failures: the many courtroom battles, the involvement ...
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In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
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A E Hotchner, Paul Newman
This is the wonderful story of how Newman and Hotchner created and promoted abestselling brand of all natural foods, and established a new way to make theworld a better place--by giving away the profits.
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For God, Country & Coca-Cola
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Mark Pendergrast
For God, Country and Coca-Cola is the unauthorized history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins as a patent medicine in Reconstruction Atlanta through its rise as the dominant consumer beverage of the American century, the story of Coke is as unique, tasty, and effervescent as the drink itself. With ...
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My Years with General Motors
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Alfred Sloan
This story, told by a business leader, is a distillation of half a century of intimate leadership experience within a giant industry and an inside look at the dramatic events that led to the company's success. The reader will learn the art of management by one who perfected it.
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How to be rich
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J Paul Getty
There are plenty of books on making money by men who haven't made much. But if J. Paul Getty, who Fortune magazine called "the richest man in the world, " doesn't know how, who does? Here the billionaire businessman discloses the secrets of his success - and provided a blueprint for those who want to follow in his footsteps. And he goes beyond the ...
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Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
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Jefferson Cowie
The highly acclaimed account of one renowned company's labor struggles in its rise to global power. Globalization is the lead story of the new century, but its roots reach back nearly one hundred years, to major corporations' quest for stable, inexpensive, and pliant sources of labor. Before the largest companies moved beyond national boundaries, ...
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Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
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William Manchester
Tells the extraordinary 400 year saga of the family that provided arms to the Kaiser and to Hitler, and in so doing wielded enormous power and influenced the course of world events.
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On a clear day you can see General Motors : John Z. De Lorean's look inside the automotive giant
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John Z. De Lorean, J. Patrick Wright
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Plain Talk
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Ken Iverson, F Kenneth Iverson, Warren G Bennis (Foreword by)
A visionary, maverick, and genuine American business hero, Ken Iverson is one of the most closely-watched business leaders in the world. Credited with single-handedly rejuvenating the rapidly declining American steel industry to the status of world-class producer, Iverson is one of the most successful and, as he likes to point out, one of the ...
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Out of Thin Air: A History of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 1940-1990
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Andrew J Butrica
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 project has become a major, multinational corporation. Words like entrepreneurship, sales, finance, ...
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