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As eager-beaver business school students, Rolfe and Troob garnered job offers as junior associates at the elite Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, lured by dreams of wealth, glamour and power. Readers whose fascination with Wall Street shenanigans has been fueled [...]
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Southwest Airlines began operating in 1971 with four planes serving three cities and with revenues of $2 million. In 1995, the company had 224 planes serving 45 cities and revenues of almost $3 billion. Moreover, the company has made a profit every year [...]
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The late Sam Walton was one of the shrewdest and richest merchants in America. Centered on the building of his Wal-Mart empire, his book, like fellow magnate Sandra Kurtzig’s CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from Ground Up ( LJ 5/1/91), is light [...]
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Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn health care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring the vast majority of the industry’s transactions online. So why was he spending so [...]
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During the ’80s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham created the corporate raiders. He was the billionaire Junk Bond King. But, in the corner stood the U.S. District Attorney waiting to file criminal and racketeering charges.
Order The Predators’ Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk [...]
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Sir Richard Branson is one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and his Virgin Group is one of the most recognised lifestyle brands, trusted and enjoyed by many millions of people. Now, in his trademark charismatic and honest style, Richard shares the inside track on some of his greatest achievements over [...]
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“Columbus discovered America, Jefferson invented it, and Ray Kroc Big Mac’d it.” –Tom Robbins, Esquire magazine
“A marvelous, zesty read, filled with the optimism and enthusiasm of Ray Kroc.” –West Coast Review of Books
“He was past fifty before he ever thought of getting into the fast [...]
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With a central role in NBC’s The Apprentice, Trump’s star is soaring. In his fifth book (after The Art of the Deal, he offers a cursory glance behind the scenes of the hit reality show, but the bulk of the text consists of [...]
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Nordstrom’s has long had the reputation for outstanding customer service. This book, coauthored by one of Nordstrom’s top sales associates, McCarthy, tells how Nordstrom’s earned that reputation. The work combines case studies and personal narrative with some history of the store. Each chapter [...]
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The latest from Renehan, author most recently of a much-praised biography of another titan of 19th-century business, Jay Gould, is a thorough look at Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), who rose from nothing to amass one of the great fortunes in American history (more than [...]
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