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 When Corporations Rule the WorldBest Price: $2.97 Great to read through. Some good brain food. But the solutions he espouses are reminiscent of... |  Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las Vegas Casino King Steve WynnBest Price: $3.44 If you're looking for a biography-style book about S.Wynn's road to being King of Las Vegas this... |  Mellon: An American Life (Vintage)Best Price: $12.30 Cannadine exceeded expectations on a number of fronts with this definitive biography of Andrew... |  Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft EmpireBest Price: $6.96 This book "flows" easily and it does a great job covering the meteoric rise of both... |  Clear Vision: The Story of Clear Channel CommunicationsBest Price: $8.75 Don't expect an objective look at Clear Channel as a company, nor it's officer. Nary an... |
 Boone Pickens: The Luckiest Guy in the WorldBest Price: $31.20 I bought this book to get some bonus for my class. I didn't finish the book yet but it's a good... |  Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing DynastyBest Price: $2.00 I could hardly put this book down!! In fact, after I finished it in two days, I read parts of... |  Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My LifeBest Price: $5.15 I found this book to be inspirational. I also found it to be painful to read. The author faces... |  The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined AmericaBest Price: $6.74 I'd recommend this book to smokers like me out there. You'd learn that we (smokers) are the... |  Appetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight backBest Price: $3.98 This book is amazing if you are interested in food and health and want to know everything about... |
 Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's CollapseBest Price: $16.90 Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important... |  Andrew CarnegieBest Price: $1.99 Insight into a fascinating and complex person living in a fascinating complex time. A man who... |  Perpetuating The Family Business : 50 Lessons Learned from Long Lasting, Successful Families in BusinessBest Price: $18.77 I'm an avid reader of family business books, and I recently re-read Perpetuating the Family... |  Baruch: My Own StoryBest Price: $27.45 Bernard Baruch ranks up there with the Morgans, Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Warburgs, Thomas... |  My Life and Work - An Autobiography of Henry FordBest Price: $5.62 A great insight into Henry Fords' way of doing business. Of course hindsight is 20-20 and Ford... |
 Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of InformationBest Price: $19.77 While I expected to find Queen of the Oil Club to be an educational read, I wasn't prepared for... |  Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch DynastySome interesting parallels between the Busches and the Kennedys... Kind of ironic that while... |  The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect DrugBest Price: $2.93 "The Billion Dollar Molecule" is a great story on its own merits. The facts that the... |  The Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner OfficeBest Price: $6.99 I went through only the first audio CD of six, and though it did tell about the author, the... |  McDonald's: Behind The ArchesBest Price: $5.99 Great information on one of America's best ran business. Excellent source of ideas for... |
 My Years with General MotorsBest Price: $6.00 "My Years with General Motors," by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr, Doubleday, NY, 1963, with... |  Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie MungerBest Price: $32.60 This was a great read. Author Janet Lowe did a fine job explaining how Charlie Munger became a... |  The Chasm Companion: Implementing Effective Marketing Strategies for High-Technology CompaniesBest Price: $6.11 The Chasm Companion is written in a more academic style than the books written by Geoffrey... |  Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEOBest Price: $2.00 I bought this book before reading Jack's "Straight from the Gut". When I read this... |  Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly LineBest Price: $4.00 Right from the gitgo Ben Hamper's Rivethead grabs you with gritty gusto of passages such as the... |
 Moments of TruthBest Price: $3.29 This short book is an examination of three companies that Jan Carlzon worked for and how he... |  The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean ProductionBest Price: $28.00 Lean production (now frequently called Lean manufacturing) has melded into several industries... |  Cheaper by the DozenBest Price: $11.42 "Cheaper by the Dozen" is a wonderful, entertaining portrayal of life in the early... |  Raising the Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar & Co.Best Price: $10.95 This is an excellent, interesting little read that I gave to my uncle for his birthday. He is a... |  Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their MistakesBest Price: $3.99 This was an excellent set of case studies and I felt the author mostly kept it readable - though... |
 The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall StreetBest Price: $6.80 The writer did a very good job of explaining from his view what the world of investment banking... |  MemoirsBest Price: $4.90 David's first trip to Europe began with an invitation to meet royal family in England. He never... |  Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery MillionsBest Price: $5.74 "Money for Nothing" is a superficial, less than credible account of a salesman's life... |  Corporate Governance (2nd Edition)Best Price: $30.94 This is an easy to read, well laid out book that is very straightforward and practical. It... |  The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created CaliforniaBest Price: $11.97 Richard Rayner's "Associates" is a detailed, well researched, compilation of letters,... |
 Swoosh: Unauthorized Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There, TheBest Price: $3.49 every little tid bit you needed to know ( and some you wish you didn't) about the culture of... |  The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American EmpireBest Price: $2.50 This particular chapter details the rise of a farming empire in California's Central Valley. ... |  One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic OrganizationBest Price: $4.44 If, lets imagine, the library of Management Literature would be destoyed tomorrow, there's three... |  Merchants of GrainBest Price: $15.05 I first read this book 20 years ago and was awed by the importance of the distribution of grain... |  As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul GettyBest Price: $11.20 I bought this book (for full price, should have saved $7 ordering through Amazon) at the Malibu... |
 The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library Chronicles)Best Price: $8.79 The book introduced the history of coporation in a very different way. From the book, you could... |  Eichler Homes: Design for LivingBest Price: $15.50 I have been looking for as much information as I can on Eichler houses and this was a real find.... |  The Battle for the Soul of CapitalismBest Price: $8.38 Loved the feel of this book and there is tons of great information here about the inner workings... |  The Chief: The Life of William Randolph HearstBest Price: $4.66 This book is a real winner! What a whirlwind of a life! I loved it! |  Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of FinanceBest Price: $14.97 Revolutions spring from unlikely sources. Fischer Black was an unlikely revolutionary. He... |
 The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate ValueBest Price: $17.95 If you're relatively new to the subject and want a good primer/introduction to LBOs, as well as... |  Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business: Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins That Destroy Family BusinessesBest Price: $2.87 I wish I'd had this book years ago! My husband's family business was recently in bankruptcy and... |  Big Change at Best Buy: Working Through Hypergrowth to Sustained ExcellenceBest Price: $12.33 I completely agree with D. roszkowski "book m. dano". If you've read about the... |  The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle GroupBest Price: $5.05 I purchased this book. Book is shallow with no depth. Dan Briody clearly does not know the... |  How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car CompanyBest Price: $6.05 The subtitle of this book, "Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car Company",... |
 Sharks in the DesertBest Price: $5.63 This is a book that appeals to no one. If you're not already familiar with Vegas history, it is... |  Display of Power: How FUBU Changed a World of Fashion, Branding and LifestyleBest Price: $2.98 In life the amazing stories are always the people who had an idea first and worked to make their... |  Howard Hughes: His Life and MadnessBest Price: $6.95 After watching the movie AVIATOR about Howard Hughes' life, I had to know more. This book is... |  Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer AgeBest Price: $7.97 I loved to read this book. It's interesting. It shows you how the thing that we use today, like... |  Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More PeopleBest Price: $2.99 Author Truett Cathy believes in building businesses by building people. He practices what he... |
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