Biography & History

This comprehensive volume provides an understanding of the roots of modern business practices in India. It is the first authoritative history of Indian business in the modern period that charts the course of the transition of business from mercantile capitalism to industrial capitalism. The author b... More

The Concise Oxford History of Indian Business is an adapted edition of The Oxford History of Business. The author traces the transformation of the Indian business class from merchants to industrialists and, more recently, service providers. The focus of this volume is on the modern or that phase of ... More

Proven Blueprints for Aligning Business Strategy and TechnologyHigh performance companies are increasingly those that get their technology foundations right critically so in the case of technology com-panies but no less so in other industries. And sound technology foundations require getting a fix o... More

The book aims to determine the disclosure practices bymeasuring the extent of disclosure published in the corporate annual reports;finding out the recent trends in the presentation of published accounts; and tosupport measures for improvement in the published annual reports. The book canbe used as a... More

This book presents a real-life case study, over 15 years, from SAIL (Steel Authority of India Limited) India's largest steel mill.... More

Family business in India face an uphill task in adapting to the new business climate ushered in by the opening up of the economy. Nurtured during the protectionist years of the licence Raj, they todaly run the risk of being relegated to the slidelines unless they can quickly transform themselves int... More

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An extraordinary expos by one of America's young radical journalists, this is the dark story of the rise of a powerful mercenary army, ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, where Blackwater executives are hailed as heroes.On September 16, 2007, machin... More

The rise of Google is one of the most amazing stories of our time. Jumping into the search industry long after Yahoo!, AltaVista, Lycos, and other competitors, Google offered a radical new approach to search, redefined the idea of viral marketing, and in just seven years became the largest IPO in th... More

Is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and anything. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to... More

A searing indictment of modern corporations, which, says the author, enjoy the legal status of individuals but are not bound by the same legal and moral responsibilities.... More

This inspirational work follows the pioneering successes of a group of 12 African-American marketing executives at Pepsi Cola in the 1940s and 1950s, who paved the way for a more inclusionary marketing plan that helped transform U.S. business and society.In America's long march toward racial equalit... More

Tim Parks's best seller, "Italian Neighbors", offered a sparkling, witty, and acutely observed account of an expatriate's life in a small village outside of Verona. Now in "An Italian Education", Parks continues his chronicle of adapting to Italian society and culture, while raising his Italian-born... More

Written by the CEOs of Shell, DuPont, and Anova, Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development is the most important book about corporate responsibility and yet it is written by business for business. For the first time anywhere, leading industrialists show than an integration of s... More

This inspiring book is the story of one man's lifelong struggle with and recent dramatic victory over obesity.... More

Companies worldwide are relying on Kaizen techniques to promote a culture of sustained continuous improvement that can handle both evolutionary and revolutionary change. In this book, Kaizen expert Michael Colenso presents a start-to-finish, Kaizen-based guide to successful organizational change. Pa... More