Titoli in Business

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The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes “Shnayerson tackles his subject with gusto, parading a cast of colorful...

Raising an Entrepreneur presents 76 stories from the mothers of some of the most successful entrepreneurs today. Entrepreneurs are the new rock stars - they're the ones who turn their passions into ingenious projects, because they're willing to risk failure to make their dreams come true.

Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Siggi used his wits to stay alive, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near starvation, he was liberated from camp Mauthausen and went to work for the US Army hunting Nazis.

Entre las mentes maestras de la segunda mitad del siglo XX que lograron cambiar nuestra visión del mundo se encuentra, indiscutiblemente, Steve Jobs. Steven Paul Jobs fue cofundador y presidente ejecutivo de Apple y máximo accionista individual de The Walt Disney Company. Gracias a sus conocimientos y a un emprendimiento visionario excepcional supo captar las necesidades del sector informático y adaptar sus productos al usuario. Sus orígenes humildes y su iniciativa en el mundo de los negocios han inspirado a millones de personas.

It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside 14 such remarkable companies.

Esta biografia atual apresenta pela primeira vez uma visão completa dos anos de Cook na Apple—de sua contratação ainda jovem para o setor de operações até os desafios como CEO. Recheada de bastidores e entrevistas com nomes que ajudaram a moldar a empresa como é hoje, traz um vislumbre das mudanças e dos novos rumos traçados por Cook enquanto tenta alcançar seu ideal: fazer da Apple—e do mundo—um lugar melhor.

Plongez dans l'esprit visionnaire de Henry Ford, l'homme qui a révolutionné l'industrie automobile et changé à jamais la société moderne. Dans "Ma vie et mon œuvre", Ford partage avec une franchise captivante son parcours, de ses humbles débuts dans une ferme du Michigan à la création de l'emblématique Ford Motor Company. Découvrez les principes audacieux qui ont guidé ses innovations, de la production de masse à la chaîne de montage, et son engagement à améliorer la vie des travailleurs.

"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."

Sanjay Burman has had an accomplished life - he produced two feature films and two TV shows by the age of 24, and sold his high school to Pepsi for $1.2 million. This book showcases personal anecdotes and honest lessons he has learned through his failures and successes that can inspire others to persevere. People who want to go further in life but lack the confidence can be motivated to take risks, despite class, education, or lack of money.

In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student - and how he went on to found and run Mint Investment Management Company, one of the most profitable and largest quantitative hedge funds in the world.

Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses, but entire empires. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business man is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical self-made tycoon, Kroc was 52 years old when he opened his first franchise.  

Hazte rico. Porque no existe ningún motivo real para no serlo. Para no desearlo. Porque tener dinero te permite hacer cosas que no podrías hacer de otra forma. Sin dinero, mucho; pero con dinero, todo. Así de fácil. Y te lo dice alguien que ha emprendido, fracasado y reintentado hasta el...

When Martha Stewart was under investigation for insider trading and later on trial, the media served up countless gratuitous stories describing her ornery character. Now, Lloyd Allen, Martha's old friend and neighbor, is out to set the record straight.

Bogen er en livs- og erhversbiografi om Bent Silberg, en møbelfabrikantant fra Djursland, og hans deltagelse i det 20. århundreds globale eksporteventyr. I bogen gives et portræt af den danske møbelproducent Bent Silberg. Vi hører om hans barndom og ungdom i den livlige landsby Tved på...

2012 stand Walter Stuber am Abgrund: Das Spezialgerüstbau-Unternehmen, das er mit seinem Kompagnon groß gemacht hatte, stand kurz vor der Insolvenz. Die Rettung kam buchstäblich in letzter Minute durch den privaten Kredit eines befreundeten Unternehmers. Dann der nächste Schlag: Walter...

एलॉन मस्क हा एक जगप्रसिद्ध, श्रीमंत आणि यशस्वी उद्योजक. ‘टेस्ला’चं साम्राज्य उभं करणाऱ्या एलॉन मस्कची लाईफ...

संपूर्ण शरीराचा डोलारा ज्या पायांवर उभा असतो, त्या पायांची काळजी घेत; धावपटूंपासून ते सर्वसामान्यांच्या...

Lessons on life and business you are guaranteed to find nowhere else. Crocs are many things to many people. They're the best-selling non-sneaker shoe on the planet, for starters. For some, it's true, they're the ugliest shoe ever made. What's indisputable is, two decades later, they've worn by...

Lessons on life and business you are guaranteed to find nowhere else. Croc tells the true, larger-than-life story of George “Boe” Boedecker, Jr.: his fire to succeed, his “don’t just break the rules but make up new ones” attitude, his partners, his light-bulb moment, and then the...