History of Specific Companies/Corporate History

Though Heinz Ketchup is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world, few people know anything at all about the founder of this global...

'An engrossing story of audacious entrepreneurism' -- Charles Duhigg'Captures the remarkable journey of Airbnb exceedingly well' -- Reid Hoffman'fa...

Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While ...

This volume aims to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large enterprises in today's developed economies. It focuses on the e...

This book explores a century of business development of The South African Life Assurance Company, from a specific local focus to a national conglom...

In The Fords: An American Epic, Peter Collier and David Horowitz tell the riveting story of three generations of Fords, a dramatic story of conflic...

At the center of San Antonio’s growth from a small pioneering town to a major western metropolis sits CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned ene...

In the last two decades, innovation, data analysis and technology have driven a tectonic shift in the sports business. Game of Edges is the story o...

This book is a historical analysis of the gold standard from 1880-1914 focusing on the origins and workings of the gold standard as an internationa...

Documenting important milestones in the epic journey traversed by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) over the last 50 years, 50 Years of Central Banki...

This volume is based on the author's experiences as a chief executive officer (CEO) at the Bank of Baroda and his research findings of almost five ...

George Reinitz was twelve years old when he and his family were taken from Szikszo, Hungary, and deported to Auschwitz, where many of his family me...

Two companies with established pedigrees were brought together in 1945 by Sir John Black, then Chairman of the Standard Motor Company, to form Stan...

Winner of the Canadian National Business Book Award 2016Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015In 2009, BlackBerry con...

From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As th...

The core theme of the book is the importance of an independent state audit to ensure that the Executive is held accountable to Parliament. Instilli...

Smiths Group (formerly Smiths Industries), part of the UK FTSE 100 index, is a global engineering company with a market capitalisation over £5bn. E...

"Jim Marrs can't be ignored. Few in this country shout about The Truth louder than he." -Dallas Observer In The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Jim Ma...

“Ace Greenberg did almost everything better than I do—bridge, magic tricks, dog training, and arbitrage—all the important things in life.” —WARREN ...

Robert Greifeld was CEO of NASDAQ for over a decade, during which time it was named Company of the Year, ranked one of the best performing compani...

Reed Hastings is one of the world's foremost business leaders. As co-founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix, he has built one of the largest media an...

Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous t...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEARA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Brilliantly conceived and enlightening at every turn' Lawrence Wr...

Lund Humphries, today, is known for publishing books on contemporary art and artists; few know that its roots are in a jobbing printers in Bradford...

Drawing upon an impressive range of international sources, this book explores the late-nineteenth century partnership between Bradford worsted manu...

Sometimes it’s not a college degree that will make someone successful.  Sometimes all it takes is a good idea, and the drive to seek the resources ...

It is 1570, and France has been torn apart by religious wars between Catholics and Huguenots. The formidable Queen Mother, Catherine de Médicis, ca...

First appearing in 1972, National Express coaches have become a familiar site on the UK’s roads, and are very much a part of popular culture, celeb...

An illustrated history of one of Britain's most popular potteries, by a rising star of the 'Antiques Roadshow'. Poole Pottery is a great British i...

Born out of the Sankey Commission’s identification of the appalling living and working conditions of coal miners, the Miners’ Welfare Fund was esta...

Winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History from The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History ConferenceSelected by Choice Magazine as...

In the three or four decades before the first world war British industry was subject to increasing foreign competition particularly from America an...

Introduced at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and powered by an historic advertising campaign, Hires Root Beer—launched 10 years before Coca-Cola—bl...

This book gives an account of the literary representation of Jews as businessmen from the early nineteenth century to the onset of the Third Reich....

The economic life of Thessaloniki and Macedonia in general is unfolded through stocks issued by limited companies during an important period of its...

Sometimes it’s not a college degree that will make someone successful.  Sometimes all it takes is a good idea, and the drive to seek the resources ...