Company Profiles
epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Tim Wu [Wu, Tim]

As Friendly, Smith, and the others championed cable, its true white knight lurked unsuspected in the Nixon White House in the person of Clay Whitehead. At the age of thirty-two, ...
( Category: Communications March 23,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon, Bryant

HALLEY’S COMET AND BEYOND In 2004, Halley’s Comet hit. That’s what Brewster called Ray Charles’s Concord Records/Hear Music-produced CD, Genius Loves Company. Timed to come out at the same time ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Jim Dwyer

CHAPTER SIXTEEN It was another day for blazer coats and jeans. By early April, dressing up was an established part of their routine for pitches. Seeing them in these getups ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-02 | Author:Connie Bruck

It was remarkable, really, how smooth Wasserman’s assumption within the movie industry had been. Remarkable that the other studio heads just gave way, that in an instant he was able ...
( Category: Business March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:James Green [Green, James]

Chapter 12 There Can Be No Peace in West Virginia May 30–August 7, 1921 Outraged by the military autocracy Major Davis had imposed in the Williamson minefield, Harold Houston decided ...
( Category: Natural Resource Extraction March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:David Carey & John E. Morris & John Morris [Carey, David & Morris, John E. & Morris, John]

James wasted no time putting his mark on the organization. “He arrived and you knew he was there,” says former Blackstone partner Bret Pearlman. “He didn’t spend six months behind ...
( Category: Private Equity March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Chernow, Ron [Chernow, Ron]

Two weeks later, Lamont followed this up by meeting with Neville Chamberlain, then chancellor of the Exchequer. It was a vintage Lamont performance—tough resolve beneath suave civility. He said Morgans ...
( Category: State & Local March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-09 | Author:wallace, Erickson [wallace, Erickson]

20,000 lines of code, compared to about 4,000 lines for the first version of the operating system. The PC/XT was officially announced by IBM in New York City in March ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Schultz, Howard [Schultz, Howard]

DON’T GET DIZZY ON WALL STREET’S EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER If I had to pick the happiest day of my business career, it would have to be June 26, 1992. That ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Suzanne McGee [McGee, Suzanne]

Efforts at Reform? Several Wall Street firms began to tweak their compensation packages in late 2008 in response to the public outrage, introducing the concept of the clawback to investment ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Liaquat Ahamed

PART FOUR REAPING ANOTHER WHIRLWIND 1928-33 16. INTO THE VORTEX 1928-29 At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money. . . . ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-06 | Author:Tony Hsieh [HSIEH, TONY]

Growing Up “What do we want to be when we grow up?” It was a question I’d been thinking about for a while. I was at a Mexican restaurant with ...
( Category: Leadership February 13,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Jonathan A. Knee

·9· CRACKS IN THE FAÇADE Although the beginning of the Internet era is usually dated from the 1995 IPO of Netscape, it did not begin to deeply infect the rest ...
( Category: Economic History February 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Segall, Ken [Segall, Ken]

Simplicity can make itself known in many forms: products, strategies, corporate hierarchies, processes, ads, speeches, and a hundred other places. But nowhere is Simplicity found in such a concentrated form ...
( Category: Marketing February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Richard Branson

Freddie went into the scrap business full-time, turning old warplanes into aluminum ingots. He claimed he was more than happy servicing and recycling planes, and that his flying days were ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )