Dell was first in the PC industry to pioneer the direct-selling model, a method that competitors such as Compaq and Apple Computer are only now starting to embrace. Over 600 entries provide coverage not only of important figures--Henry Ford, Adam Smith, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henri Fayol, Jack Welch, Lyndall Fownes Urwick, Alfred P. Sloan and others--but also many who contributed on a smaller scale, like Mitsui Takatoshi, the founder of Mitsui; Ida Minerva Telfer, a pioneering writer on the role of women in business; or Arie de Geus, whose early work on knowledge as a corporate asset is now at the heart of most thinking on knowledge management. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. Versace is also the legacy of a great creative genius from a poor, backward part of southern Italy who transformed the fashion world through his intuitive understanding of both women and how a changing culture influenced the way they wanted to dress. He tells the story of his passage between two worlds; he recounts his adventures with physicists, quants, options traders, and other highfliers on Wall Street; and he meditates on the dissimilar natures of knowledge in physics and finance. Explore Handy's views on: seeing businesses as communities, the four gods of organizational culture, challenging dogma, making groups work, living by the "doughnut principle", the benefits of a horizontal career, and curing role stress. Moreover, by astute business management he transformed a faltering General Motors into one of the world's most profitable enterprises.

Call Number: HG172 .M84 L69 2000 (Library West). For the millions of students pursuing degrees related to business, would-be entrepreneurs dreaming of launching their own enterprises, and frontline employees and managers on their way up the corporate ladder, learning by example is a powerful tool, and the leaders who exemplify business success serve as models. It was about economics as well. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation’s largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. Commentaries by Warren Bennis, John Child, Angela Dumas, Tokihiko Enomoto, Henry Mintzberg, Nitin Nohria, and Sir Peter Parker are featured. But never before has his outsized genius been brought to life so vividly as by Steven Watts in this major new biography. Call Number: CT274.E375 C64 2006 (Library West), ISBN: 9780374272296.Farrar,StrausandGiroux, 272p.$25.00. In 1996, Ben Cohen stepped down as Chief Executive Officer. Growing up one of nine children in a working-class family in Elmira, New York, Tommy suffered from dyslexia, flunked sophomore year of high school, and found himself constantly at odds with his father. --David Carr, The New York Times "Sherman is at his best writing with sweep about the history of cable news and placing Ailes in context." ", Call Number: PS3535.A547 Z587 2009 (Library West), ISBN: 9780195324877.OxfordUniversityPress,369p.$27.95.

Mallaby's story lands with both feet on the great crash which did so much to damage Alan Greenspan's reputation. Call Number: HB119.G74 A3 2007 (Library West), ISBN: 9781594201318.PenguinPress, 531p.$35.00. The astonishing economic development made possible by our financial founding fathers was indispensable to the preservation of national unity and of support for a government that was then still a profoundly radical and delicate political experiment. Call Number: HD9696.63.U64 O728 2003 (Library West), ISBN: 0609610694.CrownBusiness, 306p.$27.50. That young designer was Jony Ive. With a unique blend of humor and genius, Taubman shows how selling fine art and antiques really isn't that different from marketing root beer or football, and offers penetrating insights into that quintessential palace of commerce, the luxury shopping mall. Entrepreneur. His exhaustive study surpasses anything about the Rothschilds to date. While at the helm of this controversial institution, Wolfensohn motivated, schemed, charmed, and bullied all the constituencies at his command to broaden the distribution of the world's wealth. He argues that Musk--one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history--is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs.

A few of his ideas—that of the “invisible hand” of the market and that “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest” have become iconic. There’s Ida, the wife he fell in love with because no one could peel an onion faster; Sammy, the counterman who could serve an astonishing sixty franks per minute; and then there are the heirs to the empire, Murray and Sol, whose differing visions for the future lead to clashes with their eternally demanding father. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR "[An] actually fair and balanced, carefully documented biography." Against a backdrop of scorched-earth legal skirmishes, Charles and David built Koch Industries into one of the largest private corporations in the world-bigger than Boeing and Disney-and they rose to become two of the wealthiest men on the planet. Call Number: HD9710.U52 F6684 2005 (Library West). Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, a time when Horatio Alger preached the gospel of upward mobility and expansionism went hand in hand with optimism, Meet You in Hell is a classic tale of two men who embodied the best and worst of American capitalism." Butman, coauthor of the PBS special An Immigrant's Life, based on Juran's life, depends heavily on Juran's extensive personal involvement in this first, only, and uncritical authorized biography. Yet Smith saw himself primarily as a philosopher rather than an economist and would never have predicted that the ideas for which he is now best known were his most important. The Man Behind the Microchip illuminates the triumphs and setbacks of one of the most important inventors and entrepreneurs of our time. Howard Schultz. When Mickie Siebert arrived in New York in the mid-1950s, she had $500 in her wallet and drove a used Studebaker. Ben Cohen Popularity .

Graham's story is a hugely satisfying chronicle of one of the richest & most eventful lives of the century. In Direct from Dell, founder and CEO Michael Dell tells how he started his company from a dorm room at the University of Texas with less than $1,000 and built it into an industry powerhouse with a market capitalization of well over $100 billion. Nevertheless, in the 1980s he masterminded a major coup when he translated a small investment in oil made by his father into a 25 percent stake in the mighty DuPont company. To their supporters, they are liberating America from the scourge of Big Government. and and and and  When she filed a sex-discrimination case against Goodyear, Lilly won--and then heartbreakingly lost on appeal. Throughout his life, Candler made gifts and loans to encourage the well-being of his denomination, his city, and his state. Based on exclusive interviews with people who knew Charles Ponzi, lent him their money, and exposed him, Donald Dunn’s Ponzi recreates both one of America’s most notorious and colorful financial con artists and the mad money-hungry era in which he thrived. As a 23-year-old bank clerk, Eastman bought his first camera and began simplifying the cumbersome and messy wet-plate process. Call Number: HG4928.5 .E42 2001 (Library West), ISBN: 0471238090.J.Wiley, Vol. Yet when English does indeed make a fortune, when the travel website Kayak is sold for almost two billion dollars--the first thing he thinks about is how to give the money away: "What else would you do with it?" Their unofficial motto was, "If it's not fun, why do it?" "Seeking part-time employment while attending law school, Leo Melamed answered a classified ad that would change his life. In December 1919, he was an unknown thirty-eight-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with a borrowed two-hundred dollars in his pocket. In Discover Your Inner Economist, one of Americas most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage—-often when you least expect it to be relevant. After all, both had just been fired. Ben Cohen was born on March 18th, 1951 to Jewish parents. . Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting after two decades of separation, probably to ease his conscience. Only five of the subjects Silver profiles launched their businesses with professional venture capital; the rest got off the ground through sweat equity, supplier financing, and/or loans from family and friends.Today, about half of all entrepreneurs in the United States are female; by the year 2000, women entrepreneurs are expected to be in the majority. Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture. Offering a new understanding of the origins and global nature of financial crises, "Lords of Finance" a timely and arresting reminder that individuals - their ambitions, limitations and human nature - lie at the very heart of global catastrophe. Self-help Messiah tells the story of Carnegie's personal journey and how it gave rise to the movement of self-help and personal reinvention. This unique book offers a close insider look at the phenomenon of the leveraged buyout, those who perfected it, and what it has meant for business.