Corporate & Business History - General
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The John Deere Way: Performance That Endures
$35.00 Add to cartThe John Deere Way presents timeless business lessons from one of America’s top brands. Even as many American manufacturers struggle with low-cost foreign competition, John Deere has not only prevaile… [more below]
- Author: Magee, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0471706442
- Language: English
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
$22.00 Add to cartOne of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? … [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Lawrence G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307588343
- Language: English
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Look to Lazarus: The Big Store
$31.99 Add to cartFor more than 150 years, F&R Lazarus & Company was the heart of downtown Columbus. Headed by the “first family of American retailing”? with an eye for flair and a devotion to the customer, this unique… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: October 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1540205991
- Language: English
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McDonald’s: Behind the Arches
$20.00 Add to cartPerfect for fans of The Founder, this is the real-life story of the world’s premier entrepreneurial success.
The growth of McDonald’s worldwide continues to astonish. In tough financial times, McDona- Author: Love, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0553347594
- Language: English
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An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
$18.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER // WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS AWARD
A Book of the Year: Fortune, Foreign Affairs, The Times (London), Cosmopolitan, TechCrunch, WIRED
“The ultimate takedown.
- Author: Frenkel, Sheera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0062960687
- Language: English
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Dethroning the King
$22.00 Add to cartHow the King of Beers collapsed without a fight and what it means for America’s place in the post-Recession world
How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America’s
- Author: Macintosh, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1118157028
- Language: English
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Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and Wework
$17.99 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This “vivid” inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business
- Author: Wiedeman, Reeves
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0316461334
- Language: English
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The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: The Amazing Story of How America Lost Its Mind Over a Plush Toy–And the Eccentric Genius Behind It
$18.00 Add to cart“Fascinating, strange, sad, funny, and entirely engrossing, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble is a smart, engaging book that’s as much about the odd saga of these plush toys as it is about the nature of ob… [more below]
- Author: Bissonnette, Zac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1591848008
- Language: English
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True to Our Roots: Fermenting a Business Revolution
$27.95 Add to cartTrue to Our Roots sets forth the simple but powerful management principles that enabled Fetzer Vineyards under Paul Dolan to become one of America’s biggest and best-known wineries even as it was turn… [more below]
- Series: Bloomberg #7
- Author: Dolan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1576601501
- Language: English
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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
$17.99 Add to cartMuch more personal than standard corporate histories, David Packard’s The HP Way provides insights into managing and motivating people and inspiration for would-be entrepreneurs. This bestselling clas
- Series: Collins Business Essentials
- Author: Packard, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0060845791
- Language: English
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Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a “gripping” (The Wall Street Journal) exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions … [more below]
- Author: Moss, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0812987136
- Language: English
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The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
$19.99 Add to cartAn investigative behind-the-scenes story of the creation and growth of the highly disruptive start-up Airbnb.
In under a decade, Airbnb became the largest provider of accommodations in the world. At fi… [more below]
- Author: Gallagher, Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1328745546
- Language: English
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Sony
$19.99 Add to cartNamed one of the best business books of the year (by Fortune and Newsweek), SONY is the “intimate biography of one of the world’s leading electronics giants” (San Francisco Chronicle) as well as one o
- Author: Nathan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0618126945
- Language: English
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My Father’s Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General Into a Billion-Dollar Company
$16.99 Add to cartThe first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape that Dave Ramsey calls a must-read.
Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir- Author: Turner, Cal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1478992964
- Language: English
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Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America’s Premier Racing Dynasty
$26.99 Add to cartA Gritty Chronicle of the Horse Racing Empire
With an exploration of the tumultuous world of thoroughbred horse racing, Wild Ride presents an unforgettable narrative that’s as thrilling as the sport i- Author: Auerbach, Ann Hagedorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0805042423
- Language: English
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Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values
$29.95 Add to cartBerkshire Hathaway, the $500 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world’s largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berk… [more below]
- Series: Columbia Business School Publishing
- Author: Cunningham, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0231170041
- Language: English
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Secret Formula: The Inside Story of How Coca-Cola Became the Best-Known Brand in the World
$24.99 Add to cartA “highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche” (Publishers Weekly).
Secret Formula follows the color- Author: Allen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1504019857
- Language: English
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Creating Shareholder Value: A Guide for Managers and Investors
$40.00 Add to cartEconomist, consultant, and Wall Street Journal contributor Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the practical tools and tests for a corporate strategy that creates shareholder value. … [more below]
- Author: Rappaport, Alfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684844109
- Language: English
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The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary
$33.00 Add to cartWAKE UP AND SMELL THE SUCCESS!
You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen a staggering 5,000 percent! The genius of Starbucks success lies in its ability to create personali
- Author: Michelli, Joseph A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0071477845
- Language: English
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The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of McKinsey & Co., America’s most influential and controversial business consulting firm, “an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity” (The Wall Street Journal).
If you wan- Author: McDonald, Duff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1439190984
- Language: English
