History of specific companies / corporate history

This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account of the John Lewis Partnership.

This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account of the John Lewis Partnership.

The business of reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, went largely unnoticed outside the expert community.

Strategy is becoming more 'open' - more transparent and more inclusive.

Smiths Group (formerly Smiths Industries), part of the UK FTSE 100 index, is a global engineering company with a market capitalisation over GBP5bn.

Reinsurance is an invisible service industry which enables insurance companies to insure more risks and to make better use of their resources.

In London, the world's foremost financial centre, the week before the outbreak of the First World War saw the breakdown of the markets, culminating with the closure for the first time ever of the London Stock Exchange on Friday 31 July.

Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and restaurants.

Imagine a workplace where workers enjoyed a well-paid job for life, one where they could start their day with a pint of stout and a smoke, and enjoy free meals in silver service canteens and restaurants.

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the 77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological changes that felled most of its competitors over the years.

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the 77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological changes that felled most of its competitors over the years.

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print.

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print.

The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture.

The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture.

For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire.

For decades there have been two iconic Japanese auto companies.

As late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world.

Rothschilds Morgans Fords Toyoda Agnellis Rockefellers GuggenheimsDynastic family businesses have everything: extraordinary success, bizarre eccentricity, bitter rivalry as well as pots of money and power.

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Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s.

What can you learn from the world's most successful companies?

What can you learn from one of the most successful companies in the world?

Northeast Utilities Company adopted an ambitious new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s, seeking to become the low-cost supplier in New England electric power markets bracing for deregulation.

A profile of Berkshire Hathaway, the keys to its success, and how it can survive beyond its iconic chairman and CEO, Warren Buffett.

From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms.

From New York Times bestselling authors Richard Belzer and David Wayne comes a hard look at the wrongs done to us all by big business in America.

"e;Readers with an interest in the early days of organized civil mass air transport will enjoy having a familiar story be retold from a Greek perspective.

A riveting New York Times-bestselling expose of Facebook's fall from grace.

Gatorade is an enthralling story, brought to life in bright color and sharp detail in this book as journalist and author Darren Rovell chronicles every astonishing milestone of the company's history.

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation.

Die Geschichte des Traditionsunternehmens Bahlsen bietet einen seltenen Einblick in die ansonsten verborgene Welt des deutschen Mittelstandes.

'A penetrating portrait of one of the most significant companies in the world' Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill'With the skill of an award-winning journalist, Horwitz details the inner workings of the tech giant and their outcomes.

A family business frequently involves enough drama to fill a bookthis one in fact.

Chronicling the emergence of brand consultancy, this book explores how the development and proliferation of brand identity systems transformed the working methods and ideals of practicing graphic designers working in post-war Britain.