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

by 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...


Power Failure: The Inside Story of The Collapse of Enron

by 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

by 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

by 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

by 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,...


Optical Illusions: Lucent and the Crash of Telecom

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

by 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

by 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...


Ugly Beauty

by Ruth Brandon

The gripping story of Helena Rubinstein, Eugène Schueller, and the dark side of the beauty business they helped to create

Helena Rubinstein and L'Oréal's Eugène Schueller both started out in the beauty business...


What Caused the Financial Crisis

by Jeffrey Friedman & Richard Posner

Featuring essays by Nobel laureate economists and an afterword by Richard Posner, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the collapse of the global financial sector in 2008. It will be essential reading...


Managing Global Legal Systems: International Employment Regulation and Competitive Advantage

by Gary W. Florkowski

Presenting a framework for understanding the corporate strategy-public policy interface as it relates to human capital management, this unique text treats legal systems as factors that must be actively managed...


A Better Way to Build: A History of the Pankow Companies

by Michael R. Adamson

While architects have been the subject of many scholarly studies, we know very little about the companies that built the structures they designed. This book is a study in business history as well as civil engineering...


Sheridan Nurseries: One Hundred Years of People, Plans, and Plants

by Edward Butts & Karl Stensson

This beautifully designed book tells the 100-year story behind Ontario's beloved Sheridan Nurseries from its creation by Howard and Lorrie Dunington-Grubb to its overwhelming success today. This is a chronicle...


A Million Little Bricks: The Unofficial Illustrated History of the LEGO Phenomenon

by Sarah Herman

Toy of the Year, Toy of the Century, Greatest Toy of All Time . . . there aren't many titles that haven't been bestowed on LEGO toys, and it's not hard to see why. From its inception in the early 1930s right...


Multinational Corporations and Regional Systems in Europe

by John Cantwell & Simona Iammarino

In globalising economies, particularly those going through a process of economic integration such as those economies within the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within...


Spirituality and Corporate Social Responsibility: Interpenetrating Worlds

by David Bubna-Litic

This book brings together a range of leading thinkers to consider the relations between spirituality and corporate social responsibility. With authors from four continents the volume reflects a number of different...


The Rise and Fall of Management: A Brief History of Practice, Theory and Context

by Gordon Pearson

Pearson reviews how management became a practice and body of understanding, the development of its crucial role in economic progress, and then how its corruption came about as a result of malign theory, leading...


Best Practice in Corporate Governance: Building Reputation and Sustainable Success

by Adrian Davies

This book explores the operational issues around corporate governance, giving examples of good practice. It is a 'how to' book, which focuses on processes and practical issues, making the case for corporate...


Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital

by Stephen Shepard

A Top Editor’s Take on the State of Journalism Today—and His Prescient Forecast of Its Future

“This is a personal and insightful book about one of the most important questions of our time: how will journalism...


The End of Detroit: How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market

by Micheline Maynard

An in-depth, hard-hitting account of the mistakes, miscalculations and myopia that have doomed America’s automobile industry.

In the 1990s, Detroit’s Big Three automobile companies were riding high. The introduction...