Business Biographies
Business Biographies
In Zennovation, Adam Taki chronicles the career trajectory of his father, Tomio Taki, the leader of a large Japanese conglomerate. An entrepreneur who skillfully leveraged his background and contacts,...
Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky explores the inner workings of Apple and how its founder, the late Steve Jobs, returned from exile to transform a floundering computer company into an unrivaled producer...
In The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick delves into the life of entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg and explores how he created a company that has forever changed the way the world uses the Internet....
Eli Broad’s most cherished possession, a paperweight from his wife Edythe, is inscribed with these words from George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in...
In The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation, former Apple Senior Vice President Jay Elliot and William Simon analyze the business practices of the man who once asked a potential hire, “Do...
In Digital Wars, Charles Arthur explores how the introduction of the Internet in the late 1990s and the affordability of personal computing significantly altered the world’s digital landscape. He...
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...
David Ogilvy has been dubbed “the original mad man,” the “godfather” of the ad world, and “the pope of modern advertising.” In The King of Madison Avenue, Kenneth Roman, former chairman and CEO...
In 2006, the story broke of a spying scandal at one of America’s oldest and most respected technology companies. In The Big Lie, Anthony Bianco provides a thoroughly documented account of the...
Mother Teresa, CEO is not the typical business book. Authors Ruma Bose, a former volunteer with Missionaries of Charity, and her mentor, Lou Faust provide insight for business leaders from an atypical...
