All Summaries

All Summaries

 
Big Change At Best Buy Gibson, Elizabeth | Billings, Andy Davies-Black Publishing , 2003 Business Biographies, Management

In 1966, Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. began as a single small store, selling audio and stereo components. Today it is considered North America's number one consumer electronics retailer, offering the widest...

 
 
Big Dragon Burstein, Daniel | De Keijzer, Arne Simon & Schuster , 1998 Global Business

Intelligent business and political strategy toward China must be rooted in accurate and realistic assessments of where China has been and where it is headed. The Pollyannas were wrong to assume that China would...

 
 
Bigger Isn't Always Better Tomasko, Robert M. AMACOM , 2005 Innovation, Productivity

A big business is a successful business, or so goes contemporary thinking. In Bigger Isn't Always Better, Robert M. Tomasko, discusses his belief that growth does not necessarily mean getting bigger. He believes that...

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Billy, Alfred, and General Motors Johnson, Lydia Brown AMACOM , 2006 Business Biographies, Entrepreneurship, Major Works

In the 1950s, GM was a juggernaut, dominating every market it entered and influencing American manufacturing, marketing, and even society like no other company, before nor since. Now, as the company approaches its...

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Bionomics Rothschild, Michael Henry Holt and Company , 1990 Economics & Finance, Management

The bionomic perspective is indeed a fresh way of observing the facts of society and the economy. In Bionomics, Rothschild not only offers a new paradigm but a new paradigm of a whole new world. The author assimilates...

 
 
Birds of Prey Lynn, Matthew Four Walls Eight Windows , 1997 Business Biographies, Global Business

Boeing has always been something of an exception in the aerospace industry- a company driven as much by the desire to make steady profits as to build and fly planes. That desire to bring commercial order to the wild...

 
 
Black Faces in White Places Pinkett, Randal | Robinson, Jeffrey | Patterson, Philana AMACOM , 2011 Diversity, Personal Growth

In Black Faces in White Places, Randal Pinkett and Jeffrey Robinson acknowledge that things have improved in America when it comes to race, but there is still progress to be made to leave a better...

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Blink Gladwell, Malcolm Little, Brown and Company , 2005 Management, Personal Growth

Blink is a book about split-second decisions and first impressions. The book is filled with intriguing examples of the "Blink" process, or rapid cognition, at its most impressive - a psychologist who has developed a...

 
 
Blowout in the Gulf Freudenburg, William | Gramling, Robert MIT Press , 2011 Business Biographies, Social Responsibility

When Deepwater Horizon, a massive oil-drilling rig leased by BP, exploded in April 2010, it killed 11 people and released more than 200 billion gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The ecological disaster was...

 
 
Blur Davis, Stan | Meyer, Christopher Addison-Wesley , 1998 Productivity, Technology

The pace of change has accelerated far beyond anyone’s comfort zone, thus, the rules that guided business decisions in the past are no longer reliable. These momentous shifts are being driven by elements of change that...

 
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