Archive for May, 2009

A Guide to get your Credit Card!

A long search of credit card for your requirement can be found quickly at extra credit card website. The credit card and their facilities are marked down in the website. As the cards are categorized in various descriptions, the users can choose a card easily. The credit cards with special discounts and deals are listed [...]

Global Business Alliances: Theory and Practice: Refik Culpan

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“An expert in the field of international business, Culpan (Pennsylvania State Univ.) explains in this clearly written book the theoretical background of strategic alliances, including transaction cost theory, the resource-based view, the industrial organization model, game theory, and organizational learning. He describes the various types [...]

Tupperware Unsealed: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers: BOB KEALING

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Brownie Wise, the first woman to appear on the cover of Business Week, was the driving force behind making Tupperware a household name. Fired under mysterious circumstances, she was written out of Tupperware history and died in obscurity. A trailblazing businesswoman decades ahead of her time, Wise created the [...]

Clear Vision: The Story of Clear Channel Communications: Reed Bunzel

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“Told accurately.” —Wall Street Journal

This book is the only profile of Clear Channel Communications to be authorized by the company. It traces the origins of the company from its founding in 1972 through the present–and looks to the digital [...]

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City: Greg Grandin

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“Stranger than fiction but with power of a first-rate novel to probe for the deepest truths, Fordlandia is an extraordinary story of American hubris. Out of the Amazon jungle, Greg Grandin brings us an unforgettable tale about the tragic limitations of a capitalist utopia.”—Steve Fraser, [...]

But Wait! There’s More!: The Irresistible Appeal and Spiel of Ronco and Popeil: Tim Samuelson

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For nearly fifty years, the Popeil Brothers’ and Ronco’s high-energy commercials have been familiar intruders into the living rooms of America-and most homes bear evidence of their seductive visits. Countless VegOMatics, SealAMeals, Kitchen Magicians, Pocket Fishermen, and other gadgets sit tucked away in many a cupboard, giving silent testimony to the [...]

Big Dams and Other Dreams: The Six Companies Story: Donald E. Wolf

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From Booklist
The building of Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge has already been well chronicled in numerous books and documentaries as spectacular feats of engineering and costly human achievements. Other than Joseph Stevens’ notable Hoover Dam: An American Adventure (1988), however, most accounts barely [...]

Pigs at the Trough: Arianna Huffington

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Arianna Huffington, popular pundit, columnist, and author, is not known for her polite criticisms or her carefully worded complaints. In the course of Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, the corporate CEOs, accountants, politicians, and lobbyists at who she takes aim receive little relief [...]

The Death of a Thousand Cuts: Corporate Campaigns and the Attack on the Corporation: Jarol B. Manheim

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Although organized labor uses it often, the corporate campaign is little known and little understood. In this comprehensive and sophisticated study, Manheim makes a major contribution to public understanding of this strategy and its tactics….The Death of a Thousand Cuts is an insightful history and [...]

Waste Management: Timothy Jacobson

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The corporate history of the largest and most successful provider of environmental management services in the world.

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