Biography & History

In this fast-paced book, named one of the "Top Ten of 2001" by BusinessWeek, Mitchell Pacelle tells the gripping story of the ten-year struggle for control of America's most famous skyscraper-a tale of greed and duplicity that consumed, and nearly destroyed, some of the real estate world's most cont... More

According to Cisco CEO and President John Chambers, when a company acquires technology-any technology-they are also acquiring people. In order for an acquisition to succeed, a company not only needs to be careful in the selection process, but also needs to have a culture in place that accepts the ac... More

"This book tells the exciting story of how Charles Schwab revolutionized the financial services industry and shook up Wall Street forever. It is also an essential read for any aspiring entrepreneur." -Jon Friedman, CBSMarketWatch.com "A roller coaster ride of how industry-defining, world-changing b... More

Advance Praise "It's not a pretty story, but it is a well-told story of the decline and fall of Kmart, the discount chain that pioneered the new category that brought us Wal-Mart. Every would-be entrepreneur should read this cautionary tale." -Al Ries, Chairman, Ries & Ries "A well-written comparati... More

Professor Landes's study, Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe, 1750-1914, first appeare as a chapter in volume VI of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe. He has now extended it by adding a full-scale analysis of modern industrial Europe from the First World War to ... More

"Must reading for anyone who wants to understand the driving point for the New Economy. It's especially gratifying to learn the story directly from some of the Valley's key figures."--John Young, retired CEO, Hewlett-Packard"To emulate, one must first understand. This book is an essential guide for ... More

"A solid, intelligent and fair account of the hubris that made Enron famous and important, then crazy and crooked." -Martin Mayer, author of The Fed and The Bankers "Loren Fox unravels one of the great downfalls in the history of corporate America and lays bare the toxic confluence of innovation, g... More

Prins brings an insider's eye to the boom economy, uncovering the old-boy networks and hot-money flows between Wall Street, Corporate America, and Capitol Hill, and exposing the whitewash reforms brought in to control them.In a widely acclaimed expose, a former Wall Street insider reveals how busine... More

"Assembled in Japan "investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. Contrary to mainstream interpretation, Simon Partner discovers that behind the meteoric rise of Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, and other electrical goods companies ... More

Praise for Culture.com "What a simple, yet profound, understanding of culture! This is a wise, practical and important guide in navigating todays dot com whitewater world."--Dr. Stephen R. Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"At last someone has paid attention to that mos... More

Applying the concept of historical waves originally propounded by Alvin Toffler in The Third Wave, Herman Maynard and Susan Mehrtens look toward the next century and foresee a "Fourth Wave", an era of integration and responsibility far beyond Toffler's revolutionary description of Third Wave postind... More

During the twentieth century, American corporations have spread American material productivity and American values such as consumerism and competitiveness around the globe. People in other nations have accepted some aspects of American corporate culture while vehemently rejecting others. The Revolut... More

This book grows out of a five-year collaborative research project undertaken by the authors in East Asia. They have worked with firms and institutions in Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, to inquire into the micro-processes of firm-level organizational learning that underpin technology leverage... More

Sony is a global household name. Look around your house - you may have a Trinitron television, a VAIO computer, a PlayStation or a Walkman. Or maybe movie DVDs such as Men In Black and Stuart Little. Or music CDs by Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson or Macy Gray. Sony's role in the evolution of electr... More

Packard, E.J. Korvette, RCA, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Pabst, and Schwinn. Once industry leaders, these companies all suffered devastating and, in some cases, fatal setbacks because of one pivotal mistake. A renowned writer and speaker who has traced the missteps of corporate America, Robert Sobel off... More

A lively history of one of America's oldest publishing houses, published in conjunction with Wiley's bicentennial Founded in New York City when Thomas Jefferson was president, Wiley has been a significant player in the publishing industry for two centuries. Now, on the occasion of Wiley's bicentenn... More

The remarkable story of how two brothers--Edouard and Andre Michelin--turned the sleepy family rubber firm in the heart of rural France into one of the most innovative and successful tire makers in the world. Edouard, a landscape painter, displayed an engineering genius for tire making and product i... More

The operations of the firm lie at the heart of studying business and business economics. This volume--the first in the new Oxford Management Readers Series--brings together the classic articles analyzing the role of firms and the relations between them, focusing particularly on the increasingly wide... More