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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
In the course of 60 years, Thomas J. Watson, Sr. and his son built the colo ssus that is IBM. Father, Son & Co. is an eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, told by the entrepreneurial genius who transformed IBM from a manufacturer of tabulating machines and timeclocks into a $7.5 billion-a-year ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom rode the tidal wave of takeovers in the 1970s and '80s to become the most profitable law firm in the world. At its peak, partners there earned an average of over $1 million a year. Unabashedly competitive and zealously private, Skadden, as the firm is known, was different from leading firms of previous eras: ...
In 1975, six years before IBM brought out its initial model, Zerox produced the first fully integrated personal computer, the Alto. How and why Xerox management, which had given its researchers the charter to develop the computer, then decided not to market it, forms one of the most fascinating corporate business stories ever told.
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 ...
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.
A systematic treatment of the economics of the modern firm, this text draws on the insights of various areas in modern economics and other disciplines, and presents the central problems in organizations of motivating people and co-ordinating their activities. After introducing the fundamental problems which organizations encounter and explaining ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Novelist and translator Tim Parks describes the rearing of his children in northern Italy, where he has lived with his Italian wife for the last 15 years.
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.
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 ...
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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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
