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Amalita: La biografía
By Soledad Vallejos, Marina Abiuso. 2013
Biografía de Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, la mujer más rica de laArgentina. Una historia de política, dinero y amor llena…
de datos sorprendentes. «No habrá ninguna igual», así la despidieron las mujeres de su familia cuando murió, en febrero de 2012. La mujer más rica de la Argentina, la viuda convertida en empresaria cementera de la noche a la mañana, fue tan poco común como su historia. Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat podía ponerse al frente de su propio equipo de fútbol profesional con la misma naturalidad con la que mandaba en la compañía cementera que había heredado de su marido, almorzaba con presidentes (democráticos o no) o se hacía retratar por Andy Warhol. Hija de una familia patricia, con mucho prestigio social pero no tanta fortuna económica, era una veinteañera casada con un abogado cuando conoció a Alfredo Fortabat, el industrial -también casado- capaz de sacar millones de las piedras. Divorciados, en segundas nupcias formaron un matrimonio donde los negocios, el amor y la política fueron de la mano. Tras enviudar, Amalita hizo de sí misma una leyenda, sin importar si la verdad sufría en el camino. De su mano, Loma Negra creció aunque se sucedieran los gobiernos. Hubo contratiempos: un juicio millonario por estafa al Estado y la investigación por la desaparición de un abogado en 1977. Prestó su avión para la guerra y ayudó a los ex combatientes de Malvinas, desarrolló una fuerte tarea de acción social con su fundación y se concedió todos los caprichos: una radio, un diario, los hombres que quiso. Amalita es el resultado de una intensa y rigurosa investigación periodística. Es el producto de haber entrevistado a quienes la conocieron y trataron en los más diversos ámbitos, pero también de una obsesiva tarea de archivo. Marina Abiuso y Soledad Vallejos han escrito una maravillosa biografía repleta de secretos; como su protagonista, una mujer que sorprendió hasta en su último acto: vender la empresa que la hizo famosa. En su final, conservó el dinero, no el poder.La gran manzana: Las 10 claves del éxito de Apple
By Leandro Zanoni. 2012
Apple, la empresa más exitosa de todos los tiempos: desde el diseño desus productos hasta las fabulosas tiendas en las…
principales ciudadesdel mundo, su mítica historia, la fascinante vida de Steve Jobs, losfanáticos de la manzana y la particular comunicación que hizo famosa ala marca. El 5 de octubre de 2011 murió Steve Jobs y los medios de todo el mundocubrieron la noticia como si fuera una estrella de rock. Se refirieron aél como «un genio», «el creador del siglo XX» y hasta lo compararon conLeonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison y Albert Einstein. Su rostro fue tapade los principales diarios y revistas internacionales. Por eso, LeandroZanoni se propuso explorar las razones del descomunal éxito de Apple.El tridente imbatible: iPod, iPhone y iPad son símbolos del nuevomilenio. Cómo fueron creados, qué nuevas conductas instalaron en elpúblico y en las industrias a las que pertenecen, y el fenomenal negocioque permitió que Apple lidere el ranking de las empresas más cotizadasdel planeta. La gran manzana también cuenta quiénes fueron los hombres ymujeres más importantes de la compañía. Entre esos dieciséis nombres, ellector encontrará el espíritu y los motivos de los logros de Apple, laempresa más exitosa de todos los tiempos.Krauss: The New Orleans Value Store (Landmarks)
By Edward J. Branley. 2017
For almost one hundred years, generations of New Orleans shoppers flocked to Krauss. The Canal Street store was hailed for…
its vast merchandise selection and quality customer service. In its early days, it sold lace and fabric to the ladies of the notorious red-light district of Storyville. The store's renowned lunch counter, Eddie's at Krauss, served Eddie Baquet's authentic New Orleans cuisine to customers and celebrities such as Julia Child. Although the beloved store finally closed its doors in 1997, Krauss is still fondly remembered as a retail haven. With vintage photographs, interviews with store insiders and a wealth of research, historian Edward J. Branley brings the story of New Orleans' Creole department store back to life.Steamboats in Dakota Territory: Transforming the Northern Plains (Transportation)
By Tracy Potter. 2017
Steamboats transformed the Missouri Valley. Enterprising men like Joseph La Barge and Grant Marsh braved financial and mortal danger to…
reap fantastic profits from trade in furs and buffalo robes. But steamboats also brought smallpox, soldiers and settlers to the lands of Native Americans. Although they began as agents of commerce, steamboats came to represent confinement and war to Sitting Bull and his people. Railroads made Yankton, Bismarck and Fargo rise as ports for a few years and then drove steamboats out of business, ending an era filled with colorful characters and dramatic moments. Author Tracy Potter takes an in-depth look at the boats, trade and cultural and military relations between the United States and the native inhabitants of Dakota Territory.The Four Lives of Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs biography
By Daniel Ichbiah. 2014
The Four Lives of Steve Jobs Daniel Ichbiah No. 1 on the best-sellers list in August 2011 (French version). New edition…
updated in 2016 "So at thirty I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating… …I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me." This was Steve Jobs' confession on that morning in June 2005 to students at Stanford University. It summed up the growth that was slowly taking place in him. Chased out of Apple like scum in 1985, Jobs had made a resounding comeback ten years later and gave us devices that left a mark on their time, such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad. The world's most admired CEO, Steve Jobs mostly went against the tide, driven by a vision of genius and an extraordinary strength of conviction. However, he could also get it wrong: he was the one who nearly ruined Apple in 1984 after launching the Macintosh by insisting on poor technical choices! The 4 lives of Steve Jobs depicts Jobs' troubled youth, his rise to glory following the founding of Apple, his disgrace and his vain attempt at revenge followed by a return to the top. It also reveals a thousand unexpected facets of the extraordinary artist who ran Apple. * His quest for enlightenment in India * His initial refusal to recogniae the paternity of his daughter Lisa * His relationship with folk singer Joan Baez * The search for his mother, who abandoned him at birth * The attempt to treat his cancer with a vegetarian diet In his own way, Steve Jobs never stopped wanting to change the world, to change life... A best-seller Published by Leduc Editions in April 2011, the French version of The Four Lives of Steve Jobs was a number one best-seller at the end of August, 2011.Zara: Visión y estrategia de Amancio Ortega
By David Martínez. 2012
Las claves del mayor milagro empresarial de las últimas décadas solo se pueden comprender conociendo a su creador, Amancio Ortega.…
El espectacular crecimiento de Zara es el fenómeno empresarial más destacado de la historia reciente de nuestro país. Nacida en un momento de clara decadencia de la industria textil, Zara se basa en un modelo de negocio que se ha demostrado imbatible, y que constituye un caso único, estudiado y admirado en todo el mundo. Su vertiginosa expansión y su éxito están inseparablemente ligados a la figura de su fundador, Amancio Ortega, y a su visión única del cliente y del negocio. Zara analiza cuáles son los principios y estrategias que a lo largo de las diferentes etapas de consolidación y crecimiento de la compañía han inspirado a Amancio Ortega a tomar las decisiones claves en cada momento y que constituyen la base de esta multinacional. Desde la gestión de las tiendas hasta el sistema de diseño y aprovisionamiento de Inditex, el libro recorre todos los aspectos de una brillante trayectoria que está estrechamente vinculada a la biografía y la personalidad excepcionales de su fundador, y a su forma de entender a los clientes y de gestionar su empresa. Los expertos opinan...«Por fin un libro equilibrado entre la historia de su patrón y la de la empresa que creó. Un libro interesante, repleto de datos inéditos, pero, sobre todo, valiente, ya que hay que serlo para poder escribir una historia optimista de una gran empresa española en los tiempos que corren.»José Luis Nueno, catedrático de Marketing del IESE «Pasar por delante de los amplios escaparates de Zara en Manhattan nos lleva a plantearnos ¿cómo ha llegado esta empresa a alcanzar su enorme éxito internacional, y cuáles son las claves de la personalidad de quien ha impulsado esta aventura? El libro de David responde a estas preguntas con enorme claridad.»Emili J. Blasco, corresponsal de ABC en Estados Unidos «Si alguien es digno de la admiración general es Amancio Ortega, que ha sido capaz de transformar todo un sector a nivel mundial. Cualquier esfuerzo encaminado a acercarnos a su figura, tal como realiza David Martínez, es un gran beneficio para todos los interesados en aprender a aportar valor de forma innovadora.»Juan Ramis, profesor de Innovación de ESADEBetsey: A Memoir
By Betsey Johnson, Mark Vitulano. 2020
A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style iconMention the name "Betsey Johnson" and almost every woman from…
the age of 15 to 75 can rapturously recall a favorite dress or outfit; whether worn for a prom, a wedding, or just to stand out from the crowd in a colorful way. They may also know her as a renegade single mom who palled around with Edie Sedgwick, Twiggy, and The Velvet Underground, or even as a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars. Betsey is also famous for her iconic pink stores (she had 65 shops across the US) and for her habit of doing cartwheels and splits down the runway at the close of her fashion shows. Throughout her decades-long career, she's taken pride in producing fun but rule-breaking clothing at an accessible price point. What they might not know is that she built an empire from scratch, and brought stretch clothing to the masses in the 80s and 90s. Betsey will take the reader behind the tutu and delve deeply into what it took to go from a white picket fence childhood in Connecticut to becoming an internationally known force in a tough, competitive business. The book will feature Betsey's candid memories of the fashion and downtown scene in the 60s and how she started her own business from the ground up after designing successfully for multiple other companies. She will discuss that business's ups and downs and reinventions (including bankruptcy), and her thoughts on body image, love, divorce, men, motherhood, and her bout with breast cancer. Betsey will be richly illustrated with many of her landmark clothes, fashion sketches, and personal photos--making the book the perfect memento and gift for every girl (of any age) for whom Betsey is, as a recent New York Times profile noted, "a role model still."Bloomberg by Bloomberg, Revised and Updated
By Michael R. Bloomberg. 2019
Michael Bloomberg rose from middle-class Medford, Massachusetts to become a pioneer of the computer age, mayor of New York, one…
of the world's most generous philanthropists, and one of America's most respected—and fearless—voices on gun violence, climate change, public health, and other issues. And it all happened after he got fired at the age of 39. This is his story, told in his own words and in his own candid style. After working his way through college and graduating from Harvard Business School, Bloomberg landed on the bottom rung of a Wall Street firm and worked his way up to partner. But in 1981, he was forced out of the firm. With an idea for computerizing financial data, Bloomberg started his own company. And, since personal computers barely existed, he built his own. Specially designed for Wall Street traders and analysts, the Bloomberg Terminal revolutionized the world of finance. Under Bloomberg's leadership, his company grew rapidly, playing David to the Goliaths of finance and media—and making Bloomberg one of the world's wealthiest men. Bloomberg by Bloomberg offers an intimate look at the creative mind and driven personality behind the Bloomberg brand. He describes in vivid detail his early Wall Street career, both the victories and frustrations, including a personal account of what it was like to be fired and given $10 million on the same day. He combines personal stories with penetrating insights into business and technology, while also offering lessons from his unique approach to management. There is no one in business or politics quite like him—or who has had more success in both areas.Up and to the Right: The Story of John W. Dobson and Formula Growth Second Edition
By Craig Toomey. 2020
In 1960, Montreal stock broker John Dobson launched an informal investment club with a close group of friends and associates,…
including future prime minister John Turner. His Formula Growth Fund would go on to become one of North America's most successful investment funds, consistently outperforming the Dow Jones Industrial Average and attracting the likes of legendary investor Sir John Templeton. Up and to the Right tells the story behind John Dobson's investment success as well as his many contributions to entrepreneurial education. Craig Toomey provides valuable insight into Dobson's unconventional but disciplined investment approach, his uncanny ability to predict winning stocks, and his unwavering faith in the market despite its many ups and downs. Coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the Formula Growth Fund, this revised edition brings the company's story up to 2019, presenting new material and case studies and describing recent developments, including how Formula Growth tripled its assets under management to $1.5 billion through the launch of a successful hedge fund platform and expansion into Asia. Based on interviews with Dobson as well as with dozens of members of his extensive network of friends, colleagues, and investment professionals, Up and to the Right is a fascinating story about a great Canadian who believed deeply in self-reliance and free enterprise as well as the value of friendship, pursuing one's passions, and working for the greater good.The John Deere Story: A Biography Of Plowmakers John And Charles Deere
By Jeremy Dahlstrom. 2005
Today, John Deere is remembered-some say mistakenly-as the inventor of the steel plow. Who was this legendary man and how…
did he create the internationally renowned company that still bears his name? He began as a debt-stricken blacksmith who, fleeing debt in New England in the 1830s, set up shop in a little town on the Illinois frontier. There, in response to farmers' struggles, he designed a new plow that cut through the impervious prairie sod and lay open the rich, heavy soil for planting. The demand for his polished steel plow convinced him to specialize in farm implements. In the decades before the Civil War, John Deere envisioned a company supplying midwestern farmers with reliable, affordable equipment. He used only high quality, imported steel and resisted pressure to raise prices. At the same time, he won respectful affection from his employees by working alongside them on the shop floor. Upon taking the helm in the 1860s, John's only surviving son, Charles, expanded the Moline factories to increase production, started branch houses in major midwestern cities to speed distribution, and began to transform the company into a modern corporation. The transformation didn't come without difficulties however: Charles found himself battling the Grange, facing threats of labor unions and strikes led by his own employees, and enduring patent suits and blatant thefts of product designs and advertising.Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
By Michael Wallis, Wilma Mankiller. 1993
Wilma Mankiller has been the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation since 1985. She tells her personal story (her political…
awakening came during the 1970 occupation of Alcatraz Island), interwoven with the complex history of the Cherokee Nation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Remembering Marshall Field's (Images of America)
By Leslie Goddard. 2011
For more than 150 years, Marshall Field's reigned as Chicago's leading department store, celebrated for its exceptional service, spectacular window…
displays, and fashionable merchandise. Few shoppers recalled its origins as a small dry goods business opened in 1852 by a New York Quaker named Potter Palmer. That store, eventually renamed Marshall Field and Company, weathered economic downturns, spectacular fires, and fierce competition to become a world-class retailer and merchandise powerhouse. Marshall Field sent buyers to Europe for the latest fashions, insisted on courteous service, and immortalized the phrase "give the lady what she wants." The store prided itself on its dazzling Tiffany mosaic dome, Walnut Room restaurant, bronze clocks, and a string of firsts including the first bridal registry and first book signing.The riveting story of a trading prodigy who amassed $70 million from his childhood bedroom--until the government accused him of…
helping trigger an unprecedented market collapse *Soon to be a feature film starring Dev Patel*On May 6, 2010, financial markets around the world tumbled simultaneously and without warning. In the span of five minutes, a trillion dollars of valuation was lost. The Flash Crash, as it became known, represented the fastest drop in market history. When share values rebounded less than half an hour later, experts around the globe were left perplexed. What had they just witnessed?Navinder Singh Sarao hardly seemed like a man who would shake the world's financial markets to their core. Raised in a working-class neighborhood in West London, Nav was a preternaturally gifted trader who played the markets like a computer game. By the age of thirty, he had left behind London's "trading arcades," working instead out of his childhood home. For years the money poured in. But when lightning-fast electronic traders infiltrated markets and started eating into his profits, Nav built a system of his own to fight back. It worked--until 2015, when the FBI arrived at his door. Depending on whom you ask, Sarao was a scourge, a symbol of a financial system run horribly amok, or a folk hero who took on the tyranny of Wall Street and the high-frequency traders.A real-life financial thriller, Flash Crash uncovers the remarkable, behind-the-scenes narrative of a mystifying market crash, a globe-spanning investigation into international fraud, and the man at the center of them both.An in-depth, revelatory, and unbiased look at Amazon&’s world-dominating business model, the current competitors either imitating or trying to outfox…
Amazon, and the ways Bezonomics is shaping the life of every American consumer—from an award-winning Fortune magazine writer.Like Henry Ford, Sam Walton, or Steve Jobs in the early years of Ford, Walmart, and Apple, Jeff Bezos is the business story of the decade. Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history with 2% of US household income being spent on nearly 500 million products shipped from warehouses in seventeen countries. Amazon&’s business model has not only turned the retail industry and cloud computing inside out, but now its tentacles are squeezing media and advertising, and disrupting the state of technology, the economy, job creation, and society at large. Amazon&’s impact is so pervasive that business leaders in nearly every sector around the world need to understand how this force of nature operates. Based on unprecedented behind-the-scenes reporting from 150 sources inside and outside of Amazon, Bezonomics unveils the underlying principles Jeff Bezos uses to achieve his dominance—customer obsession, extreme innovation, and long-term management, all supported by artificial intelligence—and shows how these are being borrowed and replicated by companies across the United States, in China, and elsewhere. Brian Dumaine shares tips for Amazon-proofing your business. Most important, Bezonomics answers the fundamental question: How are Amazon and its imitators affecting the way we live, and what can we learn from them? A goldmine for some, and a threat for others, &“Bezonomics&” has become a life-shaping force both now and in the future that every American must know more about.The Classical School: The Birth of Economics in 20 Enlightened Lives
By Callum Williams. 2020
A fascinating chronicle of the lives of 20 economists who played major roles in the evolution of global economic thought.What…
was Adam Smith really talking about when he mentioned the "invisible hand"? Did Karl Marx really predict the end of capitalism? Did Thomas Malthus (from whose name the word "Malthusian" derives) really believe that famines were desirable?In The Classical School, Callum Williams debunks popular myths about these great economists, and explains the significance of their ideas in an engaging way. After reading this book, you will know much more about the very famous (Smith, Ricardo, Mill) and the not-quite-so-famous (Bernard de Mandeville, Friedrich Engels, Jean-Baptiste Say). The book offers an assessment of what they wrote, the impact it had, and the worthiness of their ideas. It's far from the final word on any of these people, but a useful way of understanding what they were all about, at a time when understanding these economic giants is perhaps more important than ever.The compelling story of how one man took a 150-year-old family recipe and disrupted the entire liquor industry one sip,…
one bottle, one handshake at a time Tom Bulleit stood on a stage before a thousand people inside a tent the size of a big-top. It was both his thirtieth wedding anniversary and his birthday. But there was another thing to celebrate: the dedication of the new Bulleit Distillery in Shelbyville, Kentucky. His great-great-grandfather, Augustus, created his first batch of Bulleit Bourbon around 1830. A century and a half later, Tom fulfilled his lifelong dream, revived the old family bourbon recipe, and started Bulleit Distilling Company. Eventually, Tom was named a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, and elected to the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame. Thinking back on all his achievements, Tom was overcome by a wave of emotion. He looked into the sea of faces and said, “I don't believe our lives are told in years. . . or months. . . or weeks. I believe we live our lives in moments." Tom’s book Bulleit Proof is just that—a life told in moments. Moments of joy, triumph, hardship, persistence, and success. His is a story of survival: in war, in business, in life. Tom faced death twice: in a foxhole and in a cancer ward. In Bulleit Proof, Tom reveals all, pulls no punches, and lets you into his heart. In this book, you will: Share Tom’s personal story, including his loves, losses, and struggles Learn the history of one of America’s most beloved and awarded brands Draw inspiration from the persistence and dedication Tom has shown throughout his life Explore how Bulleit Bourbon changed the liquor industry forever Bulleit Proof is a fast-paced page-turner—not only for fans of Bulleit Bourbon and admirers of Tom, but for anyone who loves an emotional, hilarious, inspirational, and deeply honest story.The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
By Edmund De Waal. 2010
Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots―which are then sold, collected, and handed…
on―he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.Walter Lippmann and the American Century
By Ronald Steel. 1999
Walter Lippmann began his career as a brilliant young man at Harvardstudying under George Santayana, taking tea with William James,…
a radical outsider arguing socialism with anyone who would listen and he ended it in his eighties, writing passionately about the agony of rioting in the streets, war in Asia, and the collapse of a presidency. In between he lived through two world wars, and a depression that shook the foundations of American capitalism.Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) has been hailed as the greatest journalist of his age. For more than sixty years he exerted unprecedented influence on American public opinion through his writing, especially his famous newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow." Beginning with The New Republic in the halcyon days prior to Woodrow Wilson and the First World War, millions of Americans gradually came to rely on Lippmann to comprehend the vital issues of the day.In this absorbing biography, Ronald Steel meticulously documents the philosophers and politics, the friendships and quarrels, the trials and triumphs of this man who for six decades stood at the center of American political life. Lippmann's experience spanned a period when the American empire was born, matured, and began to wane, a time some have called "the American Century." No one better captured its possibilities and wrote about them so wisely and so well, no one was more the mind, the voice, and the conscience of that era than Walter Lippmann: journalist, moralist, public philosopher.American Tycoons (Collective Biographies)
By Carl R. Green, William R. Sanford. 1999
Each book presents ten short biographies of important people for the price of a single volume. - This series includes…
books that are organized around interesting themes, highlight possible career choices, and include women and minorities.Elon Musk: A Biografia de um Gênio Moderno e Titã dos Negócios
By Nate Whitman. 2020
Elon Musk é, sem dúvida, um titã dos negócios. Ele controla empresas gigantes, como a Tesla e a SpaceX, e se consolidou…
na História, para sempre - mas quanto você realmente sabe sobre o homem por trás de tudo isso? Nesse relato detalhado sobre a vida e a carreira de Elon Musk, você aprenderá sobre sua infância e vida escolar na África do Sul, seu humilde começo no continente americano, e seus primeiros empreendimentos nos negócios. Partindo das antigas Zip2 e X.com, as quais marcaram o início da carreira de Musk, às empresas de ponta SpaceX e Tesla, pelas quais chegamos a conhecê-lo, você descobrirá como uma ideia obscura e despretenciosa levou à fundação da SpaceX, como a Tesla revolucionou carros elétricos, e como essas empresas (e o próprio Musk) continuam a sobreviver a todas as dificuldades. Mas, além dos negócios, você também terá a chance de observar o próprio homem - A polarizada imagem pública de Musk, suas incontáveis brincadeiras, e famosas sensações, como o Not-A-Flamethrower e o site de avaliação de mídia, Pravduh. Das visões política e religiosa de Musk à sua aparição em estruturas-chave da Internet, Elon Musk: A Biografia de um Gênio Moderno e Titã dos Negócios oferece uma perspectiva única e poderosa em um dos homens mais famosos do mundo.