Readers of Story of a Lean Journey will empathize with the plight of Allison Manufacturing Services (AMS), a small manufacturer struggling to survive global competition and specialization to the point where it is trying to be everything to everyone. Its board of directors is disheartened with the downward spiral of profits, continuing loss [...]
Four years after the debacle, the name “Enron” has become a term in the everyday vocabulary of business ethics. Hardly anyone understands the business intricacies of what really happened with the sophisticated energy conglomerate. This book not only shows how and where ethics came into play, but also draws lessons and discusses [...]
From Publishers Weekly
Former foreign correspondent for Toronto’s Globe and Mail, Drohan concentrates on Africa for this indictment of multinational corporations that forge ties with armies, warlords, militias and mercenaries. She traces the roots of corporate armed force to Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company, [...]
VGM Business Portraits * BASIC BUSINESS CONCEPTS. Put into a format that intiques reluctant, young readers. * FULL COLOR. Creates a book that is not only easy to read, but fun to explore. * FOCUS ON FAMOUS COMPANIES. Helps students relate even more to the trials and successes of American business. * [...]
VGM Business Portraits * BASIC BUSINESS CONCEPTS. Put into a format that intiques reluctant, young readers. * FULL COLOR. Creates a book that is not only easy to read, but fun to explore. * FOCUS ON FAMOUS COMPANIES. Helps students relate even more to the trials and successes of American business. * [...]
From Publishers Weekly
In a laudatory business portrait of General Electric CEO Jack Welch, Time reporter Slater asserts that in 1981 Welch was one of the few people in the U.S. who recognized the challenge that inexpensive, high-quality imported goods would present to American industry. Slater recounts how [...]
From Booklist
In 1960 Harvard economics professor Edward Mason edited a landmark book, The Corporation in Modern Society, that investigated the U.S. corporate system and its role in society. One of the contributors to that work was Kaysen, then a Harvard professor but now a professor of political [...]
From Publishers Weekly
Stock options have been much maligned recently, mainly because of fatcat executives who’ve cashed them in for millions, before the share price tanks and average shareholders suffer. But stock options can be a very good thing if handled correctly, say Rutgers University professors Blasi and [...]
Throughout these pages you will find the personalities, practices and principles that put some of America’s most intriguing CEOs into leadership positions. The unique personality characteristics, management techniques and work ethic of these leaders provide important insights into that rare, elusive and hard-to-define quality that is known as “leadership.”
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Featured in this first compendium of Ford Country are columns on topics as wide-ranging as Henry Fords diet and health and his various homes, members of the Ford family, advertising campaigns, and the reminisces of old-time employees. Sure to stir the memories of Lewis legions of devoted readers, this collection will also prove [...]
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