Business Biographies
Business Biographies
In Design Like Apple, John Edson describes how companies can use design to gain a competitive advantage. Through an in-depth breakdown of Apple’s philosophies, practices, and inner workings, Edson...
Roddy Boyd’s Fatal Risk, details the birth, growth, and ultimate collapse in 2008 of AIG—the largest insurance company in the world. What began after World War I as C.V. Starr’s enterprise in China...
Moments of Truth tells the story of the fantastic turnaround of Scandinavian Airlines under the leadership of CEO Jan Carlzon. Carlzon took the helm of SAS following a two-year period during which the...
The Women of Berkshire Hathaway by Karen Linder brings to life the stories of nine women who have risen to the top ranks of management within subsidiary companies of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway...
In Deliver!, management adviser Jim Champy takes a close look at five very different case studies of enterprises that have found ways to cut costs, improve efficiencies, or integrate new, sometimes...
On the night of April 20, 2010, BP’s Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more. For the next 87 days, millions of barrels of oil from the Macondo...
After serving as the CEO for ten years, Anders Dahlvig retired from Ikea in 2009. He began his career there in 1983 when the company was undergoing significant global expansion. In his book The IKEA Edge...
“Thinking forward” is the phrase used by Patricia Cahill, president and CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), to describe the process that put CHI on the road to its current success. Thinking forward is the way CHI...
When people think of Apple, they almost immediately think of Steve Jobs – the driving force behind products like the Mac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad. In the biography, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson explores...
Google’s founders and executives understand how the introduction of Internet technology has changed the way business is conducted and how people interact with enterprises. This knowledge has made them successful and...
