Business History

This volume explores the variety of business enterprise in the United States and analyzes its presence in the country's economy, its evolution over time, and its meaning in society.

It’s hard to be successful without a clear understanding of how business works. These 60 daily entries from New York Times best-selling author Donald Miller focus on the tangible skills it takes to offer extreme value to your organization while building your company, your career, and your legacy.

In a world where success is predominately measured by how much money we have in the bank, the size of our financial portfolio, and how prestigious our lives are, there have been great American Entrepreneurs who have chosen to take the path less traveled–to be truly compassionate and giving. They risked judgement, ridicule, and their fortunes; but in doing so they realized they could never out give God.

Successful Black Entrepreneurs is an insightful collection of Harvard Business School case studies about Black entrepreneurs succeeding in a variety of industries and through different routes, including start-ups, franchising, and acquisitions. The book also recognizes and celebrates Black entrepreneurial excellence, as it takes the listener through the stages of entrepreneurship, including ideation, raising capital, growing the company, and taking it public.

Are your family business and wealth prepared for major transition? Everything is in transition. Look around.... Business is in transition. Family is in transition. And the thing that no one wants to truly admit.... Wealth is in transition. You will be faced with some very difficult choices in the months and years to come. Now is not the time to bury your head in the sand and pray that challenges in your family business will magically work themselves out. You must be strategic.

Learn about the life and legacy of America’s most ruthless and successful business titan, and learn how to carve your own path to success using his priciples - if you dare! This is the man who started it all. His business acumen, determination, and ambition are unparalleled and still serve as inspiration for all others. Yet, despite his wealth, Rockefeller was a strikingly humble man.

The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrative: that administrative coordination by trained professional managers is essential to the efficient running of organizations both public and private. And yet if managerialism was the apotheosis of administrative efficiency, why did both its practice and the accompanying narrative lie in ruins by the end of the century?

Few things affect the day-to-day lives of everyone more than the economy. Economics is a subject everyone should know at least a little about. How your country’s economy is doing directly affects you, even though you may not be able to see it. Understanding the basic terms and definitions, so when the financial news comes on you won’t have to skip it because you don’t understand it. In this practical glossary, you'll learn about economics, including some of its foundational topics and concepts.

For decades, hidden from the public eye, William Morris agents made the deals that determined the fate of stars, studios, and networks alike. Mae West, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Danny Thomas, Steve McQueen--the Morris Agency sold talent to anyone in the market for it, from the Hollywood studios to the mobsters who ran Vegas to the Madison Avenue admen who controlled television.

A new, gripping history of America - told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present - reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom.

In this encore to his classic 1987 unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs: The Journey is the Reward), Jeffrey Young examines Jobs' remarkable resurgence, one of the most amazing business comeback stories in years.

Upon George Mitchell’s death in 2013, The Economist proclaimed, “Few businesspeople have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell.” He was a billionaire Texas oilman who defied the stereotypical swagger so identified with that industry. In George P. Mitchell: Fracking, Sustainability, and an Unorthodox Quest to Save the Planet, award-winning author Loren C. Steffy offers the first definitive biography of Mitchell, placing his life and legacy in a global context

Noted systems developer, Lars Nielsen reveals the dynamic combination of innovation, competition and, often eccentric, entrepreneurship that went to shape today's tech landscape. From the military's ENIAC of 1946 to the ripening of the Web and e-commerce, Nielsen's Computing: A Business History details the evolution of computing as it has impacted the models and practices of markets and professional services around the globe.

Tanita Co., Inc. gave birth to the body fat scale and grew from a town factory into an only-one-in-the-world enterprise. Daisuke Tanita, the former president, explains the history of Tanita in an audio book series, the first part of which concentrates on the quintessence of Tanita operation. He tells how it began as a town factory that made bathroom scales as measuring instruments up to the point where it gave birth to the hit product known as the body fat scale that measures the level of health, explaining numerous trial and error attempts and how their former work methods changed in the...

Any business project needs a good online marketing, it is one of the most important functions of business management. A business plan is what makes it possible to manage a company and an digital marketing is a key element of the business plan. It identifies the best business opportunities for the company and describes how to achieve and maintain market positions. Through this audiobook, the listener will follow the development of a online marketing, see in detail the different steps of an Internet marketing.

Tanita Co., Inc. gave birth to the body fat scale and grew from a town factory into a top world enterprise. Daisuke Tanita, the former president, explains the history of Tanita in an audio book series, the second part of which is titled “Tanita Concept Operation.” He speaks about various successful people he met when he went to America and traveled around there.He explains the “Laws of Success” that he discovered during his meetings with those people. How was this utilized in Tanita operation? If the concept is altered, the company will be able to make large-scale changes. He talks about the...

Tanita Co., Inc. gave birth to the body fat scale and grew from a town factory into a top world enterprise. Daisuke Tanita, the former president, explains the history of Tanita in an audio book series, the third part of which concentrates on “Tanita’s Only-One Operation.” It consists of abandoning the common practice of imitating some other company and doing things that other people do not do. This includes the device of creating sales routes for the world’s first household body fat scale.It includes refinement of only-one products at the early stage of their development. It is chock-full of...

The term robber baron has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things belonging to others. The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel, and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them.