Business History

75 books

Business Adventures: Gambits, Fortunes, and Human Nature cover
Business Adventures: Gambits, Fortunes, and Human Nature John Brooks CITIC Press · 2023 Business Adventures is the signature work of the American financial writer John Brooks. Originally published under the title Business Adventures: Twel…
Thirty Years of Turmoil: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008 (Tenth-Anniversary Collector's Edition, Two Volumes) cover
Thirty Years of Turmoil: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008 (Tenth-Anniversary Collector's Edition, Two Volumes) Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2017 Thirty Years of Turmoil is a history of Chinese enterprise by financial writer Wu Xiaobo, completed over roughly four years, recording the growth, str…
Understanding America's Rise Through Business and Capital (The Coca-Cola Story + The House of Morgan) cover
Understanding America's Rise Through Business and Capital (The Coca-Cola Story + The House of Morgan) 马克·彭德格拉斯特 / 罗恩·彻诺 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2017 Reading these two books together is a fascinating exercise. One is the history of "selling things": The Coca-Cola Story, in over seven hundred pages, …
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Rating 4.5
On Top of the Wave (Fourth Edition) Wu Jun Posts & Telecom Press · 2019 On Top of Tides began as a series of articles Dr. Wu Jun published on Google's corporate blog. After several rounds of rewriting and restructuring, it…
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Rating 4.3
The Tumultuous Century (Volume One): Chinese Enterprises, 1870–1977 Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2009 This book is Wu Xiaobo's follow-up to Thirty Years of Turmoil, tracing the story further back in time. It is the first volume of his "Chinese Enterpri…
Barbarians at the Gate 2: KKR and the Rise of Capitalist Excess cover
Rating 4.2
Barbarians at the Gate 2: KKR and the Rise of Capitalist Excess George Anders China Machine Press · 2012 This book is a companion volume to Barbarians at the Gate. Its original English title is Merchants of Debt: KKR and the Mortgaging of American Busines…
Once Upon a Car: The Fall of the Motor City cover
Once Upon a Car: The Fall of the Motor City Bill Frasco CITIC Press · 2014 Once Upon a Car: The Fall of the Motor City is a work of business reportage by Bill Vlasic, Detroit bureau chief of The New York Times. Originally pub…
Sam Walton: Made in America — The Autobiography of Walmart's Founder cover
Rating 4.1
Sam Walton: Made in America — The Autobiography of Walmart's Founder 山姆·沃尔顿 / John Huey Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 In 1962, Sam Walton borrowed money to open the first Walmart store. Decades later, Walmart would rise to the top of the Fortune Global 500 and become …
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Rating 4.3
The Power Law: A History of Venture Capital 塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比 Zhejiang Education Publishing House · 2022 This book is by Sebastian Mallaby, a British writer on financial history; the original English title is The Power Law, and the Chinese edition was tra…
A Century of Upheaval: Chinese Enterprises 1870–1977 (Volume 2) cover
Rating 4.5
A Century of Upheaval: Chinese Enterprises 1870–1977 (Volume 2) Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2009 A Century of Upheaval is Wu Xiaobo's follow-up to Thirty Years of Turbulence, tracing Chinese enterprise history and commercial change from 1870 to 19…
The Alibaba Bureau: Chronicles of the China Supplier Heroes cover
Rating 4.1
The Alibaba Bureau: Chronicles of the China Supplier Heroes He Yang Guangdong Economic Publishing House · 2018 In September 2000, Jack Ma declared Alibaba to be in a state of emergency: overseas offices and parachuted-in "foreign talent" were costing about a mi…
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Rating 4.2
The Whiz Kids 约翰·伯恩 Hainan Publishing House · 2014 This book is the representative work of John A. Byrne, a senior BusinessWeek reporter. Originally titled The Whiz Kids, it focuses on a highly unusual…
A Century of Upheaval: Chinese Enterprises 1870–1977 (Commemorative Edition, 2-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.3
A Century of Upheaval: Chinese Enterprises 1870–1977 (Commemorative Edition, 2-Volume Set) Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2014 A Century of Upheaval is Wu Xiaobo's upward-reaching history of Chinese enterprise following Thirty Years of Turbulence, forming with Two Thousand Yea…
Capitalism in Transformation: A History of American Business Development cover
Capitalism in Transformation: A History of American Business Development Stanley Buder CITIC Press · 2013 This book is a general history of American business development by the American historian Stanley Buder. The original English title is *Capitalizing o…
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Rating 3.2
Engines of Change: Fifteen Cars That Changed the World 保罗·英格拉西亚 Tianjin Science and Technology Press · 2022 In American history, certain car models have represented more than their owners' personal image; they are calling cards of American culture, shapers o…
Wu Xiaobo's Complete Economic History Collection (Seven-Volume Boxed Set) cover
Wu Xiaobo's Complete Economic History Collection (Seven-Volume Boxed Set) Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2017 In this collection, financial writer Wu Xiaobo uses corporate history as his thread to trace more than two thousand years of Chinese commercial and in…
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. cover
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Ron Chernov East China Normal University Press · 2013 This book is the Chinese translation of the biography of John D. Rockefeller by the American biographer Ron Chernow, originally published in English a…
From 200,000 to 3 Billion: The Trump Autobiography cover
From 200,000 to 3 Billion: The Trump Autobiography 唐纳德·特朗普 / Tony Schwartz China Youth Press · 2011 This is Donald Trump's breakthrough autobiography, co-written with journalist Tony Schwartz and published in the United States in 1987 as Trump: The A…
Two Thousand Years of Grandeur: Chinese Enterprise from the 7th Century BC to 1869 cover
Rating 4.3
Two Thousand Years of Grandeur: Chinese Enterprise from the 7th Century BC to 1869 Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2012 Two Thousand Years of Grandeur is the third volume of Wu Xiaobo's "Chinese Enterprise History Trilogy" (Thirty Years of Turmoil, A Hundred Years of Up…
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The Exaggerated Mission Wu Xiaobo Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2004 The Exaggerated Mission is a collection of business commentary that Wu Xiaobo published after Big Failures; about ninety thousand characters and more …