Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data--including facts such as this: Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores--this text is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping the American economy.
In this title, the author tells his extraordinary story in inimitable words, sharing a revealing perspective on the elements of his success. Peppered with his philosophy of life and practical business advice, he discusses competition, partnership, money, celebrity, and family.
In this title, the author tells his extraordinary story in inimitable words, sharing a revealing perspective on the elements of his success. Peppered with his philosophy of life and practical business advice, he discusses competition, partnership, money, celebrity, and family.
Insightful, original, and steeped in the culture of retail life, "The Retail Revolution" draws on first-hand reporting from coastal China to rural Arkansas to give a fresh and necessary understanding of how Wal-Mart has transformed international commerce.
Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissent the full extent of War-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the U.S. and world economy.
On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action, representing 1. 6 million women. In her explosive investigation of this historic ...
In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America's devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas missionaries, and free-market activists. Through the stories ...
Wal-Mart is under attack--from labor unions, urban planners, globalization critics, and community activists. Looking at Wal-Mart, the authors review conditions before and after Wal-Mart entered a local market and show that the retailer has been a force for good.
Written by the "Wall Street Journal's" authority on Wal-Mart, this first major biography of Sam Walton offers an in-depth investigation into the most powerful store in the world. Illustrations.
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on small businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3,500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world's largest private employer. In this third edition of How Wal-Mart is Destroying America (and the World), ...
Soderquist, former senior vice chairman of Wal-Mart, shares his story of helping lead a global company from being a $43 billion company to one that would eventually exceed $200 billion.
An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world's largest, and most reviled, corporation reveals how the company's business practices have shaped American culture, including the nation's social, political, and industrial policy.
Stock Up ...on the insider intelligence that will empower your businesses to profit in the new commerce culture. In providing a new level of convenience, low price, and efficiency, Wal-Mart has substantially changed the rules of our global economy, the customer expectations for every business - and the ways your organization must deliver to keep ...
Praise for "What I Learned From Sam Walton" - 'Michael Bergdahl's book presents unique insights into the staggering international success of Wal-Mart. Throughout the pages of this book, you can almost hear Sam Walton himself coaching and inspiring his legion of employees to greatness' - Tracy Mullin, President and CEO, National Retail Federation. ...
Praise for "The 10 Rules Of Sam Walton". '"The 10 Rules of Sam Walton" is one of those books that should be read and regularly reread by ...everyone-business-people, students, teachers, parents, and children. It transcends the limits of a traditional book about lessons in business and makes it a book about life and about successful living!' - J. K ...
Now that Wal-Mart has conquered the US, can it conquer the world? As "Wal-Mart World" shows, the corporation is certainly trying. For a number of years, Wal-Mart has been the largest company in the United States. Now, though, it is the largest company in the world, its global labor practices and outsourcing strategies represent for many what ...
In this text, Bill Quinn argues that Wal-Mart puts many out of work, mistreats its employees and endangers the public. He includes an interview with a disgruntled former manager, and outlines strategies for how communities can band together to fight the retail megalith.
Book Summery The government has kept all of the major airlines out of bankruptcy with the help of taxpayer's money, along with taking over the security at all of the major airports by forcing private security personnel out of work in a meager attempt to save the country. Is the government helping Wal-Mart out as well? Or was Sam Walton, the ...
From a single tiny store in a backwater town of Arkansas, Sam Walton created Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer (with sales in 1998 of $138 billion) and the biggest private sector employer in America. When he died in 1992, Sam Walton had amassed the greatest personal fortune in American history. In this business history, Bob Ortega reveals how ...
'This is a story about stories and specifically about some of the stories that Americans have told themselves about corporate economic power.' In this book, Anne Mayhew focuses on the stories surrounding the creation of Standard Oil and Wal-Mart and their founders, John D. Rockefeller and Sam Walton, combining the accounts of economists with the ...
The story of Wal-Mart Stores is the stuff of legends: in 1945 a poor boy from a poor state opens a variety store in a small town in rural Arkansas and, through hard work, ingenuity, and a commitment to providing customers with low-priced, high-quality merchandise, goes on to create the largest retail operation in the United States. In just 30 ...
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The Wal-Mart Triumph: Inside the World's #1 Company
