A shocking expose of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. Updated with a New Afterword by the Author. When news of Volkswagen's clean diesel fraud first broke in September 2015, it sent shockwaves around the world. Overnight, the company long associated with quality, reliability and trust became a universal symbol of greed and deception. Consumers were outraged, investors panicked, the company embarrassed and facing bankruptcy. As lawsuits and criminal investigations piled up, by August 2016 VW had settled with American regulators and car-owners for $15 billion, with additional fines and claims still looming. In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack Ewing rips the lid off the scandal. He describes VW's rise from "the people's car" during the Nazi era to one of Germany's most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being "green." He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that their unremitting ambition drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. With unprecedented access to key players and a ringside seat during the course of the legal proceedings, Faster, Higher, Farther reveals how the succeed-at-all-costs culture prevalent in modern boardrooms led to one of corporate history's farthest-reaching cases of fraud-with potentially devastating consequences. As the future of one of the world's biggest companies remains uncertain, this is the extraordinary story of Volkswagen's downfall.

Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond. Having announced plans to extend its production of connected texts in cinema, network and online television until at least 2028, the new aesthetic patterns brought about by Marvel's 'shared' media universe demand analysis and understanding. The Marvel Studios Phenomenon evaluates the studio's identity, as well as its status within the structures of parent Disney. In a new set of readings of key texts such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the thematics of superhero fiction and the role of fandom are considered. The authors identify milestones from Marvel's complex and controversial business history, allowing us to appraise its industrial status: from a comic publisher keen to exploit its intellectual property, to an independent producer, to successful subsidiary of a vast entertainment empire.

Winner, Governor General's Award for PoetryShortlisted, Governor General's Award for TranslationAn elegant testimony to the beautiful and the good, Serge Patrice Thibodeau's One pays homage to the vibrancy and vigor of life, backdropped against the precarious immediacy of the everyday. From the tiny trunk of opening lines taken from Paul Valery, Thibodeau unpacks a vision of human consciousness that exists in a state of singular wonder, creating a universe that is at once faithful and ever-changing like the tidal bore -- the landscape of mascaret. Thibodeau boldly blends anecdotes, pop-ups, leitmotifs, ecological awareness, and the inner world in variations on the theme of wholeness.

From its earliest flights in 1926, carrying mail and occasionally a solo passenger to Chicago, to its acquisition by Delta in 2010, Northwest Airlines soared to the heights of technological achievement and business innovation--and sunk to the depths of employee discord, passenger dissatisfaction, and financial bankruptcy. Its story, rich in singular successes and failures, also has the sweep of the history of American business in the twentieth century. "Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines" captures both the broad context and the intriguing details as it weaves together the accounts of individuals who gave the airline its unique character: from founder Lewis Brittin and pioneering female executive "Rosie" Stein to the CEOs who saw the company through its glory days and its final tumultuous decade.

What was it like to pilot a crippled airliner, to be in the vanguard of the new profession of stewardess, to ride in the cabin of a luxurious Stratocruiser for the first time? These are the experiences that come alive as Jack El-Hai follows Northwest from its humble beginnings to its triumph as the envy of the airline industry and then ultimately to its decline into what aggrieved passengers and employees called "Northworst."

"Non-Stop" hits the airline's high points (such as its contributions during World War II and the Korean War) and the low--D. B. Cooper's parachute getaway from a Northwest airliner in 1971 and a terrorist's disruption of the airline's last year. Touching on everything from airline food and advertising to smoking regulations and labor relations, the story of Northwest Airlines encapsulates the profound changes to business, travel, and culture that marked the twentieth century.

If the current economic malaise accomplishes nothing else, it should help awaken us all to the realization that our country has been on a path of self-destructive behavior for several decades--a reversal of the progressive path that had made major gains in economic and political equality for a large majority of the U.S. population starting in the 1870s. It is John McDermott's purpose in this ambitious book to explain why that reversal happened, how society has changed in dramatic ways since the 1960s, and what we can do to reverse this downward spiral.

In Part 1 he endeavors to lay out the overall narrative of change from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing how a novel social structure came to be developed around corporate America to form what he calls "corporate society." Part 2 analyzes what the nature of this corporate society is, how it is a special type of "fabricated" structure, and why it came to dominate society generally, eventually including the government and university systems, which themselves became increasingly corporatized. The aim of Part 3 is to outline a path of reform that can, if all its parts can be integrated sufficiently to be effective, put us on the path to restarting the progressive movement.

Is a lively and captivating history of the formative years of the American fur trade, the period in which the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, with its corps of trappers and traders, grew to be "the greatest name in the mountains."

Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 1993 im Fachbereich BWL - Rechnungswesen, Bilanzierung, Steuern, Note: 1,0, Leopold-Franzens-Universitat Innsbruck (Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultat), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Problemstellung: Betrachtet man die im Statistischen Jahrbuch der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in toto publizierten Bilanzen und Erfolgsrechnungen der grossen Kapitalgesellschaften, so ergibt sich fur das Jahr 1989 ein aggregierter Jahresuberschuss von 19.739 Mio. DM bei einer Bilanzsumme von 861.386 Mio. DM. Somit betrug der durchschnittliche Jahresuberschuss der grossen Kapitalgesellschaften bezogen auf die Bilanzsumme 2,29%. Hieraus ergibt sich die Fragestellung, inwieweit durch den Einsatz des jahresabschlusspolitischen Instrumentariums die im Hinblick auf die Realisierung jahresabschlusspolitischer Ziele zentrale Grosse des Jahresuberschusses beeinflusst werden kann. Rechnerisch wurde eine erfolgswirksame Verminderung (Erhohung) der Summe aller Aktiva, bei gleichzeitiger erfolgswirksamer Erhohung (Verminderung) der Summe aller Passiva ohne Eigenkapital] um jeweils 1,14% ausreichen, um den ausgewiesenen Jahresuberschuss auf Null zu reduzieren (zu verdoppeln). Zur Beantwortung der obigen Fragestellung wird im betriebswirtschaftlichen Schrifttum uberwiegend die sachverhaltsabbildende Jahresabschlusspolitik untersucht, wahrend sich die Untersuchung der sachverhaltsgestaltenden Jahresabschlusspolitik oftmals darin erschopft, lediglich auf deren Existenz hinzuweisen, ggf. unter Hinzufugung einiger Beispiele, oder ohne weitere Begrundung die sachverhaltsabbildende Jahresabschlusspolitik in den Mittelpunkt des wissenschaftlichen Interesses zu stellen. Die geringe Beachtung sachverhaltsgestaltender Massnahmen als Mittel der Jahresabschlusspolitik steht in deutlichem Gegensatz zu der Bedeutung, die derartigen Gestaltungen in der betrieblichen Praxis zugemessen wird. Darauf wird im Schrifttum vor allem von Vertretern des Beru

Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a brilliant, powerful, and practical book about the parallels between business and nature—two fields that feature nonstop battles between the forces of tradition and the forces of transformation. It offers a bold new way of thinking about and responding to the personal and strategic challenges everyone in business faces these days.

Die Branche der Abfallwirtschaft befindet sich im Umbruch. Tradierte Rahmenbedingungen werden durch eine veranderte, dem Umweltschutz- und Nachhaltigkeitsgedanken verpflichtete Gesetzgebung neu definiert. Unternehmen, denen es gelingt, ihre Geschaftsmodelle an bereits eingetretene Veranderungen anzupassen und auf absehbare Veranderungen aktiv zu reagieren, werden aus der Phase des Umbruchs gestarkt hervorgehen. Die notwendigen strategischen Anpassungen fallen in den Aufgabenbereich des strategischen Planungs- und Steuerungsprozesses. An diesem Punkt setzt diese Arbeit mit der Zielsetzung an, ein fur den Strategieprozess abfallwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen geeignetes Steuerungsinstrumentarium zu entwickeln. Die Umsetzung erfolgt durch Entwicklung einer branchenspezifischen Balanced Scorecard.

Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM) emerged from the liquidation of Successori Andrea Rioda in November 1931. The new factory placed a very personal accent on contemporary artistic glass production on Murano: while designs prior to the Second World War were generally still the responsibility of master glassblowers themselves, after the war designers and freelance artists increasingly determined production. Giulio Radi began experimenting in 1940, obtaining the company's signature chromatic effects by superimposing mould-blown layers of glass, often opaque and transparent in alternation, and inlaying them with gold and silver foil. This latest volume of Marc Heireman's ongoing Murano manufactory books features over 800 design drawings, numerous archive images and new photos of AVEM masterpieces, making this anthology of the company's history indispensable for all Murano glass lovers.

Founded by Robert M. Savini in 1933, Astor Pictures Corporation distributed hundreds of films in its 32 years of production. The company distributed over 150 first run features in addition to the numerous re-releases for which it became famous. Astor had great success in the fields of horror and western movies and was a pioneer in African-American film productions. While under Savini's management, Astor and its subsidiaries were highly successful, but after his death in 1956 the company was sold, leading to eventual bankruptcy and closure. This volume provides the first in-depth look at Astor Pictures Corporation with thorough coverage of its releases, including diverse titles like La Dolce Vita and Frankenstein's Daughter.

The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town's biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realise that he can never arrest Lancaster's real problems.

A compelling argument for a new set of attitudes toward human capital to sharpen our competitive edge and to fuel the creative sparks in any environment This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies. Lobel asks how innovators, entrepreneurs, research teams, and every one of us who experiences the occasional spark of creativity can triumph in today's innovation ecosystems. In every industry and every market, battles to recruit, retain, train, energize, and motivate the best people are fierce. From Facebook to Google, Coca-Cola to Intel, JetBlue to Mattel, Lobel uncovers specific factors that produce winners or losers in the talent wars. Combining original behavioral experiments with sharp observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets, and skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships, and mobility as the most important ingredients for successful innovation. Yet many companies embrace a control mentality-relying more on patents, copyright, branding, espionage, and aggressive restrictions of their own talent and secrets than on creative energies that are waiting to be unleashed. Lobel presents a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and national laws that will incentivize talent flow, creativity, and growth. This vital and exciting reading reveals why everyone wins when talent is set free.

'Such a dazzling version of the boo phenomenon that as readers turn the pages they will be rooting for the company to survive even though they know the story ends in disaster.' The Sunday Times'boo hoo is an engrossing account of how two childhood friends persuaded some of the world's savviest investors and fashion houses - including Bernard Arnault's LVMH and the Benetton family - to fund a sports and designer clothing company to the tune of $100m.' The Guardian '[his] tale captures the hype and excitement of developing what was seen by many as a ground-breaking company with state-of-the-art technology- Along the way, it tells of endless rounds of raising finance, glamorous parties, staff clashes and bitter sparring with the press.' BBC.co.uk 'The game would be to bring boo.com to market, when it would soon be worth more than $1 billion and make its backers rich. Can all this have happened last year? It seems more like a tale from a different aeon, but the lessons it teaches are timeless.' The Spectator'

One of the hottest books on the shelves at Waterstones.' Sunday Times Style magazine'boo hoo-is 386 pages of oddly gripping text made nearly unbelievable by the amount of money that was given voluntarily to two twentysomething Swedes-the very readable book-adds lurid colour to [the] story.' The Daily Telegraph 'Reading [this] has the fascination of watching a high-speed car crash replayed in slow motion. You know what's going to happen, you can see the confident glow on the drivers' faces, but can't warn them about the curve in the road that is coming to unstick them. Schadenfreude is irresistible. And yet everyone walks away unhurt.' The Independent'With its evocative and colourful narrative, you'll quickly find yourself transported to the duo's world of ridiculous money-fuelled excess. Boo hoo offers up a truly entertaining insight into the frenzied and dizzying world of dotcommery at a time when everybody with a bright idea had a chance to make a million.' Virginstudent.com

Die Arbeit gibt einen UEberblick uber den Verlauf der Enteignung von "Nazi- und Kriegsverbrechern" im Land Brandenburg nach SMAD-Befehl Nr. 124 vom 30. Oktober 1945 bis zur UEberfuhrung der Vermoegenswerte in Volkseigentum 1949/50. Sie erlautert die gesetzlichen Grundlagen und ihre damaligen Auslegungen sowie die verwaltungsmassigen Ablaufe in den brandenburgischen Behoerden. Beleuchtet werden unter anderem die Bildung, Aufgaben und Arbeitsweise der Kommissionen fur Sequestrierung und Beschlagnahme und des Amtes zum Schutze des Volkseigentums. Die abschliessende Quellenedition gibt einen Einblick in den widerspruchlichen Prozess der Durchsetzung der Enteignungen.

Allgemeine Vorbehalte gegenuber dem Handel sind ein bekanntes Phanomen. Doch befinden sich die Unternehmen des Handels heute in einer Phase, die besondere Anspruche an die Ressourcenausstattung der Unternehmen stellt. Aufbauend auf verschiedenen Vorstudien werden mit Hilfe einer Multidimensionalen Skalierung Wettbewerbsschwachen des Handels auf verschiedenen Beschaffungsmarkten aufgezeigt und fur die Ableitung von Implikationen fur das Handelsmanagement analysiert.

OEffentliche Verwaltungen koennen ahnlich flexibel sein wie Unternehmen im Wettbewerb. Seit rund einem Dutzend Jahren wird versucht, mit unterschiedlichen Modellen aus der Privatwirtschaft ebenso den notwendigen Erfolg herbeizufuhren wie mit einem umfangreichen Regelungskatalog, der als "Neues Steuerungsmodell" Teilerfolge erzielen konnte. Modelle funktionieren in der Regel nur, wenn sie einerseits in eine adaquate Strategie eingebunden werden, andererseits bedarf es einer stringenten Umsetzung mittels eines echten Change-Management, orientiert an den Erfolgen bestgefuhrter Unternehmen. Das Praxishandbuch stellt die bisherigen Konzepte auf den Prufstand und zeigt auf, dass und wie strukturelle, organisatorische und mentale AEnderungen greifen koennen. Teils unter Einbeziehung tradierter Erfolgssysteme, uberwiegend jedoch mittels Handlungsanweisungen, die zu vielfachen Verbesserungen fuhren und das Auswechseln von Turschildern durch Erfolgsnachweise ermoeglichen.