Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise a...
Reeves WiedemanA Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This "vivid" inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Aulett...
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Foo...
Bradley HopeNamed a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (...
DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war, told by one of our most acclaimed writers and reporters.
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of R...
Bryan Burrough'Barbarians at the Gate' is the classic account of the defining takeover in Wall Street merger history. The authors' gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street, in fall of 1988, gives a richly textured social history of w...
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and ...
William D. CohanWritten with the novelistic verve and insider knowledge that made The Last Tycoons a bestseller and a prize winner, House of Cards is a chilling cautionary tale about greed, arrogance, and stupidity in the financial world, and the con...
Temp: The Real Story of What Happened...
Louis HymanWinner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a "Triumph" of 2018 by New York Times Book CriticsShortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book AwardThe untold history of the surprising origins of the "gig economy"--ho...
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword"Guaranteed to make blood boil." —Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S....
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to ...
Roger LowensteinA tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedro...
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battl...
Bob Lutz"One of the most acute books about management and how companies work in practice that I have read in a long time. If anyone wants to know exactly how the U.S. auto industry got into trouble, here is your guide."-John Gap...
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and ...
Sebastian Mallaby"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of larger-than-life characters and dramatic tales." -- The Washington Post Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become t...
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
Sean Howe"Sean Howe's history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it's all true is just frosting on the cake."—Jo...
Built to Last: Successful Habits of V...
James C. CollinsDrawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to ...
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How th...
Gabriel ShermanNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory journey inside the world of Roger Ailes—the founder of Fox News—detailing his rise in TV and political consulting, his brash business style, his conservative agenda, and his sometimes co...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Alway...
Laurence J. Peter"The Peter Principle has cosmic implications."—New York TimesBack in 1969, Lawrence J. Peter created a cultural phenomenon with his brilliant, outrageous, hilarious, and all-too-true treatise on business and life, The Pe...
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Mon...
Nick BiltonA New York Times bestseller Ev told Jack he had to "chill out" with the deluge of media he was doing. "It's bad for the company," Ev said. "It's sending the wrong message." Biz sat between them, wat...
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass De...
Zac BissonnetteIn the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. With no advertising or big-box distribution, creator Ty Warner - an eccentric college dropout - become a billionaire in just three years. And it was all thanks to co...
Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
John BloomIn the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American radio and telecom company, made a huge gamble on a revolutionary satellite telephone system called Iridium. Light-years ahead of anything previously put into space, built on technol...
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann,...
Eliot BrownWALL STREET JOURNALBESTSELLER •A FINANCIAL TIMES, FORTUNE, AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time.”—Matt Levine, Money S...
Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Conce...
Dean Budnick"A clear, comprehensive look at a murky business." —The Wall Street Journal Your favorite band has just announced their nationwide tour. Should you pay to join their fan club and get in on the pre-sale? No, you decide to ...
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of th...
Bryan Burrough"What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?" Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New Y...
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise,...
David CareyStrippers and Flippers . . . or a New Positive Force Helping to Drive the Economy . . . The untold story of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone, the financier and his financial powerhouse that avoided the self-destructive tendencies of...
The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder...
Sven CarlssonTranslated Into More Than a Dozen Languages "Two excellent Swedish journalists recount the historic rise of the company that changed modern music not just as a riveting business tale, but as a lesson in tech geopolitics. Sp...
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built...
Duncan ClarkAn engrossing, insider’s account of how a teacher built one of the world’s most valuable companies—rivaling Walmart and Amazon—and forever reshaped the global economyIn just a decade and a half, Jack Ma, a man from modest begi...
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Ca...
William D. CohanThe bestselling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success. From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine ...
The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of a...
Robert X. CringelyIBM is in serious trouble. Big Blue, as the company is known, tends to rely for its success on magical thinking but that magic ran out a long time ago. The company got in trouble back in the 1990s and had to hire for the first time an...
Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Ou...
Brian DumaineAn “illuminating, lucid, and finely detailed” (The Washington Post) look at Amazon’s world-dominating business model, the current competitors either imitating or trying to outfox Amazon, and “how Jeff Bezos tur...
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola...
Bartow J. Elmore"Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about . . . the Coca-Cola system―past and present." ―Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction ...
The House of Harper: The Making of a ...
Eugene ExmanAn updated edition of this definitive history of Harper—a fascinating look into the history of American letters from the unique perspective of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring publishers—now with a new introduc...
The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary ...
Leigh Gallagher“An engrossing story of audacious entrepreneurism and big-industry disruption, [this] is a tale for our times.” — Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster BetterAn investigative look into a beloved, disruptive, notorious start-u...
A View from Beneath the Dancing Eleph...
Peter E. GreulichMany IBMers see Louis V. Gerstner as the savior of their company—indeed, Gerstner sees himself that way. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? expresses this perspective quite well. What Gerstner never realized is that much of his success...