Business Biographies

Business Biographies

 
The Snowball Schroeder, Alice Bantam Books , 2008 Business Biographies

Most people equate the name Warren Buffett with canny investing, enormous amounts of money, and a generous, philanthropic spirit. In The Snowball, Alice Schroeder provides readers with a detailed and...

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Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here Verklin, David | Kanner, Bernice John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2007 Business Biographies, Customer Focus, Marketing, Technology

Almost two-thirds of Americans’ waking lives are engaged with media of some kind, according to David Verklin and Bernice Kanner, the authors of Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here, and where consumers...

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Leaders as Teachers Betof, Edward ASTD Press , 2009 Business Biographies, Business Strategy

In 2000, Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was competing in a medical technology market that was much different than the one it had grown up in. The current market was fully globalized, and regulations were changing...

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My Secret Life on the McJob Newman, Jerry McGraw-Hill , 2007 Business Biographies, Business Strategy, Management

In March 1998 Jerry Newman visited a fast food restaurant with his daughter for breakfast. In her breakfast sandwich was a finger from a plastic sanitary glove. That experience led Newman, a university business...

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Everything I Know About Business I Learned at McDonald's Facella, Paul McGraw-Hill , 2009 Business Biographies, Leadership

Paul Facella’s Everything I Know About Business I Learned at McDonald’s is an overview of his 34-year career with the fast food giant. In it he provides advice and guidance for achieving success and...

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Stirring It Up Hirshberg, Gary Hyperion Books , 2008 Business Biographies, Business Strategy, Social Responsibility

In Stirring It Up, Gary Hirshberg describes the mission behind Stonyfield Farm and catalogs the lessons he has learned while seeking profit via environmental sustainability over the past 25 years....

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Extreme Toyota Osono, Emi | Shimizu, Norihiko | Takeuchi, Hirotaka | Dorton, John Kyle John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2008 Business Biographies, Business Strategy, Management, Productivity

Toyota is defined by contradictions. The auto company has a famously efficient production system, but appears to have heavy layers of management and a surplus of administrative employees. It has a stable history...

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The GE Work-Out Ulrich, Dave | Kerr, Steve | Ashkenas, Ron McGraw-Hill , 2002 Business Biographies, Business Strategy, Management

Employees at GE have a deeply engrained and internalized process for addressing and solving the company’s problems quickly, simply, and with the involvement of people who will ultimately carry out the decision. The...

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Chocolate Fortunes Allen, Lawrence L. AMACOM , 2010 Business Biographies, Global Business

Until about 25 years ago, almost no one in China had ever eaten a piece of chocolate. For the world's leading chocolate makers, this was both a great challenge and a great opportunity. In Chocolate Fortunes, Lawrence L...

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Riches Among the Ruins Smith, Richard P. | Zheutlin, Peter AMACOM , 2009 Business Biographies, Global Business

The focus of Riches Among the Ruins by Robert P. Smith is twofold: it shows how the isolated economies of individual nations have created great investment opportunities in the last 50 years, and how...

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