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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"There are few industrialists in history who could match Elon Musk's relentless drive and ingenious vision. A modern alloy of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs, Musk is the man behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity, each of which has sent shock waves throughout American business and industry. More than any other executive today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that...
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Language
English
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Description
In this book the author gives the reader the opportunity of seeing Steve Jobs as only his closest associates have ever seen him, and to learn what has made him, and the mystique of his management style, capable of creating tools so extraordinary that they have remade three industries and have transformed the way we create, consume, and communicate with each other. The author worked side by side with Steve as Senior Vice President of Apple and brings...
24) Shipped: a novel
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Between taking night classes for her MBA and her demanding day job at a cruise line, marketing manager Henley Evans barely has time for herself, let alone family, friends, or dating. But when she's shortlisted for the promotion of her dreams, all her sacrifices finally seem worth it. The only problem? Graeme Crawford-Collins, the remote social media manager and the bane of her existence, is also up for the position. Although they've never met in...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
One of corporate America's greatest enemies profiles twelve CEOs, including The Body Shop's Anita Roddick, Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Vanguard's John Bogle, whom he believes performed extraordinarily well as business leaders and civic reformers.
Author
Publisher
Keywords Press/Atria
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this intimate memoir of life beyond the camera, Connor Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation--so far. Connor offers a look at his Midwestern upbringing as one of four children in the home and one of five in the classroom; his struggles with identity, body image, and sexuality in his teen years; and his decision to finally pursue his creative and artistic passions in his early twenties,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined...
Publisher
Time Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1998, to commemorate its 75th anniversary, Time launched its most ambitious, provocative, and controversial project ever! The Time 100 series is a set of three powerful books, to be released over the next two years, naming the most important people of the century. This second volume features Time's picks for the most important builders, titans, scientists and thinkers. Who'll make the list? Don't be left in the dark!
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Whether it's selling your company's product in the boardroom or selling yourself on eating healthy, everything in life can and should be treated as a sale. And as sales expert Grant Cardone explains, knowing the principles of selling is a prerequisite for success of any kind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Biography of Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, who has used his vast wealth to pursue philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Provides a history of America's first black millionaires--former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties--self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The name means chocolate to America and the world, but as author D'Antonio reveals, it also stands for an inspiring man and a uniquely successful experiment in community and capitalism that produced a business empire devoted to a higher purpose. Milton S. Hershey brought affordable milk chocolate to America, creating and then satisfying the chocoholic urges of millions, and pioneering techniques of branding, mass production, and marketing. But as...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A biography of the little-known antihero, Samuel Zemurray (1877-1961), the disgraced mogul of the much hated United Fruit Company who aided the creation of Israel, funded many of Tulane University's buildings, and had a hand in the rise of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest,...
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