Business : Corporate & Business History

Following modern executives as they push themselves to the limits in life and in business. In To the Limits , adventure writer Jim Clash examines the phenomenon of corporate leaders and millionaires who test their limits through high-end, risky adventure-and links the life and business lessons they have learned along the way. more...

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A Freethinker’s A-Z of the New World of Business is an eclectic and encyclopedic guide to innovations, people, artifacts and concepts which are currently shaping and dominating the world of work today. Each entry provides readers with ways of looking at customers, producers, creators, new ideas, technologies, rules, and media. more...

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With Wal-Mart on the rampage, and the US food retailing industry consolidating rapidly, there are lessons to be learned from Europe. The great Philip Kotler agrees. He wrote of the book: 'I highly recpmmend this book to US readers interested in future trends in the supermarket industry. The industry is much more consolidated in Europe and our industry is relentlessly moving in the same direction. The stories will provide much inspiration for meeting and mounting the challenges ahead.' The Grocers gives a history of food retailing in the UK, and looks at the rest of Europe and the USA for comparison. It tells the often dramatic and always fascinating stories of how the main UK players - Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda and Safeway got to where they are today, and looks into the future to describe what the new competencies are that supermarkets will need to survive in an increasingly competitive world. more...

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In Infectious Greed, two leading financial experts offer a powerful new explanation of why the corporate scandals happened-and propose market-driven reforms that don't just “patch” the system but fix it for generations to come. Discover how the system came to provide massive incentives for malfeasance by CEOs, boards, auditors, analysts, and investment houses-and learn how those “bad” incentives can be replaced by even more powerful incentives for integrity. more...

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This book is about - but not only about - Napster. The story of Napster is important in its own right, but its legacy even more so. The phenomenon that surrounds Napster has highlighted the extraordinary potential for the mass mobilisation of consumer and community power. This irresistible force - the underground Internet - has blown apart conventional models of doing business. more...

Price: $24.95