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Entrepreneurs Inside: Accelerating Business Growth with Corporate
Entrepreneurs was inspired by an extraordinary group of individuals
who stepped up to the challenge of building new growth businesses
in their organizations. Building a new business inside an existing
organization is a daunting task. It takes a unique combination of
competencies to lead these initiatives. The book describes the
competencies of successful corporate entrepreneurs and
entrepreneurial leaders. It also reveals the obstacles and hidden
barriers these executives encountered as they created the
entrepreneurial culture necessary for success. Most valuably, the
book offers a practical look at corporate entrepreneurship,
innovation, and execution.
This memoir provides a glimpse into the well-known and
long-standing local Bedford company of W. & H. Peacock during
the years 1902-1988. This memoir provides a glimpse into the
well-known and long-standing local Bedford company of W. & H.
Peacock during the years 1902-1988. The author draws on a wide
variety of sources, many from his own collection, including
property instruction books, business ephemera and auctioneers'
handbooks and also from the recollections of his colleagues. The
memoir includes information about other well-known firms of
auctioneers and estate agents in the area and is the first to tell
a story of auctioneering and estate agency in Bedfordshire. Of
lasting value to local, family and social historians is the
appendix of all known property auctions undertaken by Peacocks.
Transcribed from the original auctioneers' handbooks (now lost),
the list has been supplemented with references to newspaper
advertisements and auction catalogues in the Bedfordshire and Luton
Archives and Records Service. The auction records give, where
possible, the date and venue of the auction, a description of the
property and the auction price. Some additional information is
provided if known, such as the name of the person instructing
Peacocks, the names of tenants and the rental value of the
property. The introduction by Richard Moore-Colyer explores the
history of auctioneering in England from the seventeenth century,
when auctions were conducted very differently.
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What can you learn from one of the most successful companies in the
world? The Spanx Story will help you understand and adopt the
competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business
practices that enabled entrepreneur Sara Blakely to dominate the
shapewear industry and become a billionaire. Sara Blakely had a
problem. She had a beautiful pair of white designer pants hanging
in her closet just calling out to her to wear them, even though
they accented her least favorite feature: cellulite. After
searching high and low for a solution and coming up empty, an idea
was born: Spanx. The Spanx Story chronicles Sara's journey from
long nights researching patent and trademark law, to years of cold
shoulders she received from the titans of the pantyhose industry,
to the cold call that led to the shelves of Nieman Marcus. It was a
long road of incredible hard work and determination that led Spanx
to become the iconic brand it is today. Through Sara's story, you
will learn: How to develop an idea and turn it into a business. How
to start a company with very little capital by thinking outside of
the box and dedicating every spare moment to your goal. How to
recognize when it's better to hire a CEO than to be the CEO. How to
stay the course and continue to believe in your idea, despite
naysayers and going against an industry resistant to innovation.
The Spanx Story educates and inspires entrepreneurs and innovators
to find the problem for their solutions and persevere through the
hard work that goes into building a billion-dollar company.
The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of
printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in
Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a
university printing house, it leads through the publication of
bibles, scholarly works, and the Oxford English Dictionary, to a
twentieth-century expansion that created the largest university
press in the world, playing a part in research, education, and
language learning in more than 50 countries. With access to
extensive archives, The History of OUP traces the impact of
long-term changes in printing technology and the business of
publishing. It also considers the effects of wider trends in
education, reading, and scholarship, in international trade and the
spreading influence of the English language, and in cultural and
social history - both in Oxford and through its presence around the
world. This first volume begins with the successive attempts to
establish printing at Oxford from 1478 onwards. Ian Gadd and
sixteen expert contributors chart the activities of individual
university printers, the eventual establishment of a university
printing house, its relationship with the University, and
influential developments in printing under Archbishop Laud, John
Fell, and William Blackstone. They explore the range of scholarly
and religious works produced, together with the growing influence
of the University Press on the city of Oxford, and its place in the
book trade in general.
What can you learn from the world's most successful companies?
Marvel characters have been shaping pop culture for decades and
when comic books were no longer keeping the company afloat, Marvel
Studios was born. Marvel Studios is the multibillion-dollar home to
iconic franchises. They are known for creating brilliant
multilayered worlds and storylines that allow their audiences to
escape into a fantasy and inspire the creative side of every
viewer. But, behind those visionaries is a well-oiled storytelling
machine dedicated to getting the Hulk's smash fists in the hands of
every child and a sea of Spiderman costumes deployed every
Halloween. The Marvel Studios Story educates you on how one of the
largest creative companies in the planetary universe runs their
business and keeps their fans and their parent company, Disney,
counting the profits. Through the story of Marvel Studios, you'll
learn: How to recognize and pursue additional revenue streams. How
a company can successfully balance the creative with business to
appease investors and fans alike. And how to keep a decades-old
superhero franchise new and exciting without losing sight of its
roots. The Marvel Studios Story will help you understand and adopt
the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business
practices that enabled a struggling comic book publisher to parlay
the power of myth and storytelling to become one of history's most
successful movie studios.
Founded in 1987 by a former engineer in China's People's Liberation
Army (Ren Zhengfei), Huawei Technologies is the world's largest
telecoms equipment manufacturer and second only to Apple in
smartphones. Its emergence into a multinational with over 175,000
employees all around the world is nothing short of extraordinary.
This book delves into the financial workings and systems within
Huawei - and the individuals whose craftsmanship and excellence
enabled Huawei to expand globally in such impressive terms. Their
personal stories tell us about the extraordinary vision,
dedication, and perseverance required for companies to establish a
robust financial system that supports the growth of a world-class
company. Huawei's goal is not just to have profitable income and
healthy cash flow. More important is that operating results are
sustainable.
The Pyramid of Lies by international financial journalist Duncan
Mavin, is the true story of Lex Greensill, the Australian farmer
who became a hi-flying billionaire banker before crashing back down
to earth, exposing a tangled network of flawed financiers,
politicians and industrialists. Lex Greensill had a simple,
billion-dollar idea - democratising supply chain finance. Suppliers
want to get their invoices paid as soon as possible. Companies want
to hold off as long as they can. Greensill bridged the two, it's
mundane, boring even, but he saw an opportunity to profit. However,
margins are thin and Lex, ever the risk taker, made lucrative loans
with other people's money: to a Russian cargo plane linked to
Vladmir Putin, to former Special Forces who ran a private army, and
crucially to companies that were fraudulent or had no revenue. When
the company finally collapsed it exposed the revolving door between
Westminster and big business and how David Cameron was allowed to
lobby ministers for cash that would save Greensill's doomed
business. Instead, Credit Suisse and Japan's SoftBank are nursing
billions of dollars in losses, a German bank is under criminal
investigation, and thousands of jobs are at risk. What Bad Blood
did for Silicon Valley and The Smartest Guys in the Room did for
Wall Street, The Pyramid of Lies will do for the world of shadow
banking and supply chain finance. It is a world populated with some
of the most outlandish characters in business and some of the most
outrageous examples of excess. It is a story of greed and ambition
that shines a light on the murky intersection between politics and
business, where lavish fortunes can be made and lost.
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