Biography & History

The first in-depth portrait of one of the world's best-known luxury brands, this elegant volume traces the remarkable history of the House of Vuitton, which has been making practical but stylish luggage, handbags, and accessories for more than 150 years. Written with full access to the company's arc... More

Ask America's business leaders whom they most admire, and they will not name a young dot.com entrepreneur. Their praise will go to the soon-to-retire chief of one of our oldest companies: Jack Welch of General Electric. This one man has revolutionized American management, bringing in a business revo... More

Through a case study in bad faith double-dealing by insurance providers, attorney Bourhis reveals the mindset that drives illegal practices, how low-level employees are duped into unethical conduct, and how insurers manipulate data and witnesses in the few cases that do go to trial.Joan Hangarter bo... More

On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology -- if not necessarily for its dominant market share -- launched a product with an enticing promise: You can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was called the iPod. What happened next exceeded ... More

A withering expose of the unethical practices that triggered the indictment and collapse of the legendary accounting firm. Arthur Andersen's conviction on obstruction of justice charges related to the Enron debacle spelled the abrupt end of the 88-year-old accounting firm. Until recently, the venera... More

For more than a century, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. was a towering fixture in the American business landscape. At the forefront of the global communications revolution, AT&T led the way in the development of the telephone, wireless communication, and the Internet. But at the end of the t... More

Tapscott and his longtime collaborator Ticoll offer a brilliant guide to the new age of openness. They explain how the new transparency has caused a power shift toward customers and employees, but explains how everyone can use transparency to their advantage.If you have to be naked, you had better b... More

An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world's largest, and most reviled, corporation reveals how the company's business practices have shaped American culture, including the nation's social, political, and industrial policy.An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world's largest-and ... More

While the media long celebrated Harley, this candid inside account goes behind the headlines to reveal the highlights and lowlights, victories and setbacks, breakthroughs and dead ends experienced by Teerlink, Ozley and others as the company engaged in a changing effort.... More

BACK COVER][CATEGORY] Management[HEAD] No-Nonsense Leadership Secrets that Helped Jack Welch Become the Most Celebrated and Successful CEO of His Era"Jack Welch is a genius at making all who work for him raise the level of their game.... I think he's the smartest boss I've ever had."--Tom Brokaw, An... More

Chronicles Intuit's extraordinary success against difficult odds. 2003 marks the 20th anniversary of Intuit, and the company will be initiating a year long celebration to mark the event.... More

The Internet Revolution, like all great industrial changes, has made the world's elephantine media companies tremble that their competitors-whether small and nimble mice or fellow elephants-will get to new terrain first and seize its commanding heights. In a climate in which fear and insecurity are ... More

Martha Stewart has generated an enormous following by establishing herself as the leading authority for all things domestic and in the process created a multimillion-dollar enterprise and a personal net worth of nearly $2 billion. As one of the most successful self-made female business owners in Ame... More

Cassidy, a leading financial journalist and a staff writer at "The New Yorker, " relates the stories of Netscape, Yahoo!, America Online, Amazon.com, and other Internet companies. In a lively and entertaining narrative, he traces the rise of Internet stocks and the development of a populist stock ma... More

We will not survive unless we adapt to the way the world is changing. The Age of Unreason is an inspiring vision of an era of new discoveries, new enlightenment and new freedoms. It helps us to understand what Tom Peters, the American business guru, has called the new 'upside down' competitive reali... More

Steve Ballmer has been with Bill Gates from the beginning, when the bespectacled computer geek convinced him to drop out of Stanford Business School. The grandson of a Russian Czarist soldier and the son of a Swiss immigrant father, Ballmer is the Miscrosoft wizard' s main man-- and the only America... More

In this award-winning book, Sato explores the rise and fall of Honda, an international brand name that was created by two very different men.From the top Japanese auto-industry journalist comes this inimatably informed account of Honda Motor Company's birth out of the ashes of World War II and subse... More