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Author: John B. Thompson

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry fi ...

Author: Suzanne Simons

The world first learned of Blackwater USA in March 2004 when several of its men were ambushed and killed in Fallujah, Iraq. Their bodies were badly beaten, and two were then hung from a bridge as a sign of Iraqi resi ...

Author: Tilar J Mazzeo & Tilar J. Mazzeo

Every minute, someone buys an Art Deco-inspired, amber-hued bottle of Chanel No. 5-to the tune of more than half a million bottles a year. Considering that nearly ninety years have passed since No. 5's creation, this sta ...

Author: Robert L. Davis

European Annaliste historians interpreted social history by focusing on the life of one individual as told through a revealing biographical document. An 1859 obituary of antebellum industrialist Robert Findlay provides t ...

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Author: Jim Collins & Morten T Hansen

The new question: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller "Good to Great," Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In "Great by Choice," Collins and hi ...

Author: Marlis Schweitzer

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fash ...

Author: Joost Kircz

In this unique volume, the International Institute for Research and Education's current and previous co-directors explain its origins, activity and challenges. On 11 June 1981, the Institut international de recherches et ...

Author: Jake Brown

In Jay Z and the Roc-A-Fella Dynasty, author Jake Brown has chronicled the Hip Hop icon's legacy. As Hip Hop's prodigal son, Jay Z is truly the pinnacle of where Hip Hop has come in its short but extraordinary life time. ...

Author: Emerson W. Pugh

No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company -- how it was formed, how it grew, and h ...

Author: Nigel Botterill

Nigel Botterill had a successful corporate career. Big six figure salary, bonuses, the works. Then, one day in November 2002, a meeting didn't quite go to plan. He found himself out of a job and, on the way home to tell ...

Author: Howard Schultz

In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision
to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concern ...

Author: William, J. Flynn

Patents for inventions. The human side - from Brunelleschi to Lincoln, Raleigh to Watt, Mark Twain to Einstein. The legal side - from Venice, Germany, France and the Netherlands to commodity monopolies in England; the U. ...

Author: Howard S. Schwartz

The thesis behind this book is that American industry cannot compete in the marketplace because their organizational structure and management style has become pathologically narcissistic. The theory is illustrated with r ...

Author: Lisa H. Newton

Citing recent examples including Enron, Arthur Andersen, and WorldCom, Permission to Steal explores what went wrong and advocates a universal reassessment of what is considered "good" in corporate America. * A fascinatin ...

Author: Alain Pelletier

Founded in 1916, Boeing Commercial Airplanes is the premier aircraft builder in the USA and one of the biggest aerospace constructors in the world. To the man in the street Boeing is inextricably linked with some of the ...

Author: David Bank

The year is 1997, and despite the machinations of its rivals, Microsoft is master of the digital universe and the darling of corporate America. Windows and Office generate staggering profits, the company's share price is ...

Author: Jordan D. Lewis

Until now, the relationship between a company and its customers or suppliers has consisted of arms-length haggling over the price of a part or a service. Today, reveals alliance expert Jordan D. Lewis, customers and supp ...

Author: Kristine Bruland & Patrick O'Brien

What explains the growth of a business, and more broadly the development or decline of a whole economy? What role do particular entrepreneursor indeed a culture of entrepreneurship play? Does the evidence suggest that a ...

Author: Ian Beardwell

Industrial relations have undergone significant and extensive change over the last fifteen years. The combined impact of government legislation, international competition, and organizational restructuring has affected un ...

Author: Paul M Barrett & Paul Barrett

The Glock pistol is America's Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement ...