Corporate & Business History - General
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – And Helped Save an American Town
$43.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller about one man’s battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.
The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world’s biggest w- Author: Macy, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0316231436
- Language: English
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The Family Business: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books
$24.99 Add to cartThe first book to tell the story of one of the world’s most influential media businesses, The Family Business draws on more than 70 interviews with company insiders as well as book-industry luminaries
- Author: Hunt, Keel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513267213
- Language: English
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
$18.99 Add to cart“The most interesting book ever written about Google” (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afte
- Author: Levy, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1416596593
- Language: English
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Covert Cows and Chick-Fil-A: How Faith, Cows, and Chicken Built an Iconic Brand
$28.99 Add to cartThe longtime chief marketing officer for Chick-fil-A tells the inside story of how the company turned prevailing theories of fast-food marketing upside down and built one of the most successful and be
- Author: Robinson, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1400213169
- Language: English
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The Lean Machine: How Harley-Davidson Drove Top-Line Growth and Profitability with Revolutionary Lean Product Development
$22.99 Add to cartIn this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt in an ever-changing world to stay on top and stay in existenc
- Author: Oosterwal, Dantar P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0814432883
- Language: English
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American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World’s #1 Bourbon
$37.00 Add to cart“American Still Life” erz臧lt die Geschichte eines Familienunternehmens mit einer 200-j臧rigen Tradition: Jim Beam. Dieses Unternehmen hat es verstanden, den Herausforderungen der Zeit zu begegnen u… [more below]
- Author: Pacult, F. Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0471444073
- Language: English
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The Brompton: Engineering for Change
$30.00 Add to cartLightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn’t the only folding bicycle–or even the first. But everyone who has been on one will enthusiastically testify to its mar… [more below]
- Author: Butler-Adams, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 161519956X
- Language: English
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Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
$21.00 Add to cartA propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Sn… [more below]
- Author: Snow, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1501190814
- Language: English
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
$21.99 Add to cartNow a documentary on CBS All Access.
Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars–a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega,
- Author: Harris, Blake J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0062276700
- Language: English
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How Business Works
$27.99 Add to cartLearn the essentials of business, finance, and company management with this unique graphic guide from DK!
If you’re perplexed by profit margins, confused by cash flow, or baffled by balance sheets, all… [more below]- Series: How Things Work
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 074404216X
- Language: English
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Disneywar
$24.00 Add to cartThe dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner–Disney Chairman and CEO–and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war.
“When You Wish Upon a Star,”- Author: Stewart, James B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0743267095
- Language: English
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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
$17.95 Add to cartThe Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge–decades before Facebook, Amazon, an… [more below]
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1324091126
- Language: English
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Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
$17.00 Add to cartSometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, using LEGO–which experienced one of the most remar… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0307951618
- Language: English
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Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal
$19.99 Add to cartOn April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty years-a… [more below]
- Author: Galuszka, Peter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 283
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1940425247
- Language: English
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
$20.00 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD
The Atlantic – The Huffington Post – Men’s Journal – MSN (U.K.) – Kirkus Reviews – Publishers Weekly- Author: Moss, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0812982193
- Language: English
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
$19.99 Read moreAn “eloquent” (Economist) history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley
Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism h- Author: Magnuson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601572
- Language: English
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Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry
$18.99 Add to cartTHE BASIS FOR IFC FILMS’ BLACKBERRY
Named a Best Business Book by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, and more
The riveting, true story of the BlackBerry empire–and how it would eventua- Author: McNish, Jacquie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1250096065
- Language: English
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24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies That Destroyed Faith in Corporate America
$15.99 Add to cartThis is the story of Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller, the two reporters who led the Wall Street Journal‘s reporting on Enron and uncovered the unorthodox partnerships at the heart of the scandal
- Author: Smith, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 0060520744
- Language: English
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The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
$22.95 Read more“A powerful analysis of the rise and fall of the British East India Company, a private company that conquered a subcontinent and subjugated an entire people.”–Huw Bowen, Swansea University
“Elegantl- Author: Robins, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0745331955
- Language: English
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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
$40.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 – Financial Times Best Books of 2022 – The Economist Best Books of 2022 The dramatic rise–and unimaginable fall–of America’s most iconic c- Author: Cohan, William D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0593084160
- Language: English
