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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"A banker, investor, and Columbia Business School professor offers an insider's take on what happened to Goldman Sachs, informed by his own experience, interviews with others who worked at or with the firm, and previously unreleased research"--
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Some of the worst corporate meltdowns over the past sixty years can be traced to passive directors who favored operational shortcuts over quality growth strategies. Thinking primarily about placating institutional investors, selective stockholders, proxy advisors, and corporate management, these inattentive and deferential board members have relied on short-term share price increases to sustain their companies long term. Driven by a desire for prosperity,...
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Inside Vanguard" offers the most intimate look to date at the creation and meteoric rise of Vanguard. Few people have a deeper understanding of Vanguard than Charles D. Ellis, who worked as a strategy consultant and served as the company's director for a decade. In these pages, he explains how Vanguard started with nearly nothing, developed into an innovative upstart, accelerated into a serious disrupter, and blossomed as the investment industry...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From praising the health benefits of cigarettes to moralizing on the character-building qualities of child labor, rich corporate overlords have gone to astonishing, often morally indefensible lengths to defend their profits. Since the dawn of capitalism, they’ve told the same lies over and over to explain why their bottom line is always more important than the greater good: You say you want to raise the federal minimum wage? Why, you’ll only...
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