Business & economics / Corporate & Business History

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

von Jim Collins

The Challenge

Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise...

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

von Sebastian Mallaby

"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales." -- The Washington Post

Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge...

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

von Michael Moss

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity...

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

von Bryce G. Hoffman

THE INSIDE STORY OF THE EPIC TURNAROUND OF FORD MOTOR COMPANY UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF CEO ALAN MULALLY.

At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry...

Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon

von Julie MacIntosh

How 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 most beloved...

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

von Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras

"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is...

The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

von Adrian Wooldridge & John Micklethwait

From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.

Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know...

Power Failure: The Inside Story of The Collapse of Enron

von Mimi Swartz & Sherron Watkins

“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s...

The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management

von Art Kleiner, Warren Bennis & Steven Wheeler

In this second edition of his bestselling book, author Art Kleiner explores the nature of effective leadership in times of change and defines its importance to the corporation of the future. He describes a heretic...

American Still Life

von F. Paul Pacult

The untold story of the world's premier bourbon and the family that made it #1

American Still Life tells the intertwined true stories of America's favorite whiskey and the family dynasty that produces it to this...

The House that Bogle Built: How John Bogle and Vanguard Reinvented the Mutual Fund Industry

von Lewis Braham

"One of the best financial books of 2011."

National Post

John Bogle’s journey from financial-industry pioneer to one of its toughest critics

Arguably the greatest shareholder advocate in the history of Wall Steet,...

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

von Steven Levy

Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology...

Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity

von Jeffrey Liker & Timothy N. Ogden

The definitive inside account of Toyota's greatest crisis—and lessons you can apply to your own company

"Those who write off Toyota in the current climate of second guessing and speculation are making a profound...

Money for Nothing: How CEOs and Boards Enrich Themselves While Bankrupting America

von John Gillespie & David Zweig

A Bank of America director questioned the CEO's $76 million pay package in a year when the bank was laying off 12,600 workers and found herself dropped from the board without notice a few months later.

According...

Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner

von Alec Klein

In January 2000, America Online and Time Warner announced the largest merger in U.S. history, a deal that would create the biggest media company in the world. It was celebrated as the marriage of new media and...

Optical Illusions: Lucent and the Crash of Telecom

von Lisa Endlich

When Lucent Technologies was spun off from AT&T in 1996, the new company was full of promise. An old-line manufacturer, it quickly became a sizzling hot stock thanks to the emergence of the Internet and the...

The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns

von Alan C. Greenberg & Mark Singer

On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company’s offices on a Sunday. More remarkable by far than the fact that...

Corporate Culture and Performance

von John P. Kotter

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

The Real Pepsi Challenge: The Inspirational Story of Breaking the Color Barr

von Stephanie Capparell

In America's long march toward racial equality, small acts of courage by men and women whose names we don't recall have contributed mightily to our nation's struggle to achieve its own ideals. This moving book...

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

von Charles D. Ellis

The inside story of one of the world?s most powerful financial Institutions

Now with a new foreword and final chapter, The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the...