Biography & History

This comprehensive volume deals with all aspects of corporate governance. Hardbound,New Book... More

Praise for "Extreme Toyota" "This book, based on unprecedented access to Toyota, offers a revealing look at one of the world's greatest companies. The authors, professors at Japan's most innovative business school, find that Toyota's success goes far beyond its production system and draws on its un... More

Delineates Dell's incredible successes and the lessons learned on the way to becoming #1 on Fortune's "Most Admired" list -- and shows how you can apply these successes to your businesses. You'll get an insider look at the cornerstone of Dell's model: zero-tolerance for inventory, and the flexibili... More

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced wit... More

This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical products, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, computers, semiconductors, and software. In each of these industries, ... More

This book provides leaders with insights into telling stories that can bring mission statements and strategies to life, engaging employees and bringing out their full potential and passion for work. The inside stories will entertain, inspire and show how to capture the minds and hearts of our audien... More

Jack Welch's innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. In writing Jack Welch And The GE Way, author Robert Slater was given unprecedented access to Welch and other prominent GE insiders. What em... More

In 1998, when Amazon.com began to recruit employees, they gave temp agencies a simple directive: send us your freaks. Mike Daisey -- slacker, onetime aesthetics major -- fit the bill. His subsequent ascension, over the course of twenty-one dog years, from lowly temp to customer service representativ... More

An ideal text for the students of MBA and Commerce classes as also for those taking the CAIIB exams. The book, dotted with live illustrative examples drawn from the Indian context, will be found especially useful by both the Finance and Non-finance executives in the industries and banks, as a refres... More

In September 1999, an earthquake devastated much of Taiwan, toppling buildings, knocking out electricity, and killing 2,500 people. Within days, factories as far away as California and Texas began to close. Cut off from their supplies of semiconductor chips, companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard b... More

JOHN CHAMBERS AND THECISCO WAY: Navigating through Volatility Under the leadership of CEO John Chambers, Cisco Systems has become one of the world's leading technology companies. Chambers's management philosophy and business strategies have allowed Cisco to dominate the computer networking industry ... More

Incisive Profiles of the 50 Organizations, Large and Small, That have Shaped the Course of Modern Business50 Companies That Changed the World shows how some of the greatest businesses of all time achieved their success - found untapped niches, stayed on top of trends, managed progressively, and enco... More

Incisive Profiles of the 50 Organizations, Large and Small, That have Shaped the Course of Modern Business50 Companies That Changed the World shows how some of the greatest businesses of all time achieved their success - found untapped niches, stayed on top of trends, managed progressively, and enco... More

Essential reading for all those concerned with the history and practice of industrial relations, this landmark volume chronicles the evolution of the field to date. It focuses on the largely untold story of how the globalization of industrial relations to... More