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Robert Greifeld was CEO of NASDAQ for over a decade, during which
time it was named Company of the Year, ranked one of the best
performing companies in the U.S., included in Fortune's annual list
of 100 fastest growing companies and shares of the company's stock
rose a whopping 800%. In Market Mover, Bob looks at the
headline-making events that took place while he was at the helm
from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis of
2008, to Facebook's disastrous IPO and the Bernie Madoff scandal.
He takes you exclusively behind the headlines using them as jumping
off points for lessons that can be applied to any business,
including jumpstarting change, working with technology, finding the
best people, and adapting to globalization.
Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and
asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash
entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of
air travel. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents,
employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his
spaceship company - Virgin Galactic - would soon open the space
frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists
and space tourists. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each,
what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement
to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being
turned into a business. Then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck.
SpaceShipTwo was on its most ambitious test flight to date. Seconds
after firing its engine, Virgin Galactic's spaceship was breaking
through the sound barrier. In just the three seconds that it took
for the vehicle to climb from Mach 0.94 to Mach 1.02, co-pilot Mike
Alsbury made what many close to the event believe was a fatal
mistake that led to his death and the disintegration of
SpaceShipTwo. Miraculously, the pilot, Peter Siebold, survived the
16-km fall back to Earth. Soon after the event Branson vowed to
continue his space tourism venture in spite of this. Already a
second SpaceShipTwo is being built, and ticket-holders eagerly
await the day when Virgin Galactic offers quick, routine and
affordable access to the edge of space. This book explains the
hurdles Virgin Galactic had and still has to overcome en route to
developing suborbital space travel as a profitable economic entity,
and describes the missions that will be flown on board SpaceShipTwo
Mk II, including high-altitude science studies, astronomy, life
sciences, and microgravity physics.
This account of Swissair's day-by-day history will serve as the
basis of any future exploration of Switzerland's former national
carrier, from its founding right up to the grounding of the fleet
and ultimate demise of the company. Documented here is every
significant corporate decision, along with previously little-known
background information, a comprehensive overview of operational
incidents, the airline's route network over seven decades, the
countries Swissair served and types of aircraft it operated. In
short, this book covers everything that made the legendary airline
distinctive, in unprecedented scope. This new standard reference
work records in precise detail and in easily comprehensible English
both the history of civil aviation in Switzerland and the qualities
that Swissair deemed important over its 70 years in existence.
Rather than judge or assign blame, this book sticks strictly to the
facts and figures that reflect the dedication of Swissair employees
- from those in the cockpit and the cabin to those in marketing and
technical services, both at home and abroad - to "their" airline,
from the very early days right up until the final flight by a
Swissair aircraft. In the process, the book injects new life into
one of the most exciting chapters in the history of Swiss commerce.
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What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th
century? Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of
the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron
seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every year; its stock
price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries.
Then a young Fortune writer, Bethany McLean, wrote an article
posing a simple question - how, exactly, does Enron make its money?
Within a year Enron was facing humiliation and bankruptcy, the
largest in US history, which caused Americans to lose faith in a
system that rewarded top insiders with millions of dollars, while
small investors lost everything. It was revealed that Enron was a
company whose business was an illusion, an illusion that Wall
Street was willing to accept even though they knew what the real
truth was. This book - fully updated for the paperback - tells the
extraordinary story of Enron's fall.
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.
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. By the late eighteenth century, the University Press was
both printer and publisher. This volume charts its rich and
complicated history between 1780 and 1896, when transformations in
the way books were printed led, in turn, to greater expertise in
distributing and selling Oxford books. Simon Eliot and twelve
expert contributors look at the relationship of the Press with the
wider book trade, and with the University and city of Oxford. They
also explore the growing range of books produced - including, above
all, the creation and initial publication of the Oxford English
Dictionary.
Revenue Management beschaftigt sich mit der Optimierung von
Kapazitats- und Preisentscheidungen beim Verkauf von verderblichen
Gutern und Dienstleistungen, die innerhalb eines vorgegebenen
Zeitraumes angeboten werden. Die Arbeit untersucht
Verallgemeinerungen des Airline Revenue Managements, also Fluge,
die innerhalb eines Flugnetzes durchgefuhrt werden. In einem ersten
Schritt wird dazu ein Modell entwickelt, das neben
UEberbuchungsuberlegungen flexible Kunden betrachtet. In einem
zweiten Schritt wird dieses Modell um die Zuordnung von
Flugzeugtypen zu angebotenen Flugen mit der Option eines
Re-Fleetings erweitert. Dazu werden deterministische lineare
Programme (DLP) entsprechend angepasst. Die DLP-Modelle werden in
verschiedenen Flugnetzen getestet, sowie deren Charakteristika
verglichen.
John Raskob is not a name that looms large but his greatest
building casts a shadow on us every day. Financier of the Empire
State Building, Raskob was a self-made businessman who worked for
DuPont and for GM and famously invented with the idea for consumer
credit, which he first offered to individual car buyers (GMAC). A
friend of New York Governor Al Smith, Raskob became active in New
York politics and ran the Democratic National Committee and Smith's
campaign for the presidency. He invested his own fortune heavily in
the Empire State Building, built at the height of the Great
Depression. A colorful figure, Raskob's life evokes the roaring
twenties, the Catholic elite, the boardrooms of America's biggest
corporations, and the rags-to-riches tale that is central to the
American dream. His most famous interview was entitled "Everybody
Ought to Be Rich" in Ladies' Home Journal in August 1929-on the eve
of the stock market crash-and his personal achievement of such
extraordinary wealth and power highlight just how far he came
traveled from a teenage candy seller on the railway between
Lockport and Buffalo. His wide circle of business associates and
personal acquaintances included Water Chrysler, the DuPonts, Alfred
Sloane, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, Western miners, and the
Pope. He lived his own creed: "Go ahead and do things. The bigger
the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination."
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.
Die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung hat vor allem bei grossen
Unternehmen stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Im Unterschied zur
gesetzlich verpflichtenden Finanzberichterstattung veroeffentlichen
Unternehmen umfassende Nachhaltigkeitsberichte bislang meist auf
freiwilliger Basis. Neben der Legitimation des unternehmerischen
Handelns versprechen sich die Unternehmen durch diese Form der
Berichterstattung haufig eine Reduktion der Kapitalkosten. Vor
diesem Hintergrund liefert die vorliegende Arbeit umfassende
empirische Befunde zur Berichtspraxis in Deutschland und den USA
sowie zu den Determinanten und den Eigenkapitalkostenwirkungen von
Nachhaltigkeitsberichten. Die Ergebnisse der Studie haben wichtige
Implikationen fur Unternehmen, Adressaten, Gesetzgeber und
Standardsetzer sowie Wirtschaftsprufer.
In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman
chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American
companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major
employers--General Motors, General Electric, Kodak, and
Coca-Cola--he shows how big businesses once took responsibility for
providing their workers and retirees with an array of social
benefits. At the height of the post-World War II economy, these
companies also believed that worker pay needed to be kept high in
order to preserve morale and keep the economy humming. Productivity
boomed. But the corporate social contract didn't last. By tracing
the ups and downs of these four corporate icons over seventy years,
Wartzman illustrates just how much has been lost: job security and
steadily rising pay, guaranteed pensions, robust health benefits,
and much more. Charting the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s; the
turbulent years of the '70s and '80s; and the growth of downsizing,
outsourcing, and instability in the modern era, Wartzman's
narrative is a biography of the American Dream gone sideways.
Deeply researched and compelling, The End of Loyalty will make you
rethink how Americans can begin to resurrect the middle class.
In Verschmelzungen boersennotierter Gesellschaften nach den Regeln
des deutschen UmwG weichen begutachtete Ertragswerte und
Boersenkurse regelmassig voneinander ab. Ausgehend von
bewertungsrelevanten Informationsunterschieden und widerstreitenden
Interessen der Beteiligten beleuchtet diese Arbeit die Bestimmung,
den Beschluss und die gerichtliche Beurteilung von
Verschmelzungsverhaltnissen. Strategien zur Maximierung der
Vermoegensposition werden theoretisch untersucht und mittels
empirischer Daten der letzten 20 Jahre gewurdigt. Die
Berucksichtigung von Synergien und baren Zuzahlungen werfen ein
neues Licht auf die Angemessenheit des Transaktionspreises sowie
die aus dem Spruchverfahren resultierende Vermoegensverteilung.
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A brilliantly researched and gripping history of the BBC, from its
origins to the present day. 'The book could scarcely be better or
better timed. It is elegantly written, closely argued, balanced,
pulls no punches.' MELVYN BRAGG, GUARDIAN Charlotte Higgins, the
Guardian's chief culture writer, steps behind the polished doors of
Broadcasting House and investigates the BBC. Based on her hugely
popular essay series, this personal journey answers the questions
that rage around this vulnerable, maddening and uniquely British
institution. Questions such as: what does the BBC mean to us now?
What are the threats to its continued existence? Is it worth
fighting for? Higgins traces its origins, celebrating the early
pioneering spirit and unearthing forgotten characters whose imprint
can still be seen on the BBC today. She explores how it forged
ideas of Britishness both at home and abroad. She shows how
controversy is in its DNA and brings us right up to date through
interviews with grandees and loyalists, embattled press officers
and high profile dissenters, and she sheds new light on recent
feuds and scandals. This is a deeply researched, lyrically written,
intriguing portrait of an institution at the heart of Britain.
'Engrossing.' EVENING STANDARD 'Beautifully written'. THE SPECTATOR
'Exactly observed and beautifully written.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A
loving portrait . . . never creaks with excess.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A
pleasingly intricate jigsaw of biography, politics, and opinion.'
INDEPENDENT 'Excellent and enthralling . . . informative,
educational and entertaining.' GUARDIAN
The Google Story is the definitive account of one of the most
remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four
million people use Google in more than one hundred languages,
running billions of searches for information on everything and
anything. Through the creative use of cutting-edge technology and a
series of groundbreaking business ideas, Google's thirty-five year
old founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have in ten years taken
Google from being just another internet start-up to a company with
a market value of over US$80 billion. Based on scrupulous research
and extraordinary access to the inner workings of Google, this book
takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has
become so familiar its name is used as a verb around the world. But
even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult challenges in
a business that changes at lightning speed. In this new and updated
edition to celebrate Google's 10th birthday, David A. Vise has
written a new preface and new final chapter which look at further
developments since 2005 and how Google will continue to expand and
innovate while trying to follow its founders' mantra: DO NO EVIL
'If you want to know how the Google boys became wealthy and
powerful beyond dreams, then David Vise's assiduously researched
The Google Story is for you.' Sunday Telegraph 'If Google were to
take on critical faculties as well as its other attributes Vise's
book would probably come out on top.' The Times
Stretching across three centuries, from the start of the Civil War
through Prohibition to today, Bitter Brew is the engrossing, often
scandalous saga of one of the wealth- iest and most colorful
dynasties in American commerce: the Busch family of St. Louis,
Missouri, the founders of the legendary Anheuser-Busch company. The
critically acclaimed journalist William Knoedelseder tells the
story of how the Busch patriarchs turned a small brewery into a
multibillion dollar international corporation and trans- formed
their product, Budweiser, into the iconic King of Beers. He paints
a fascinating portrait of immense wealth and power accompanied by
scandal, heartbreak, tragedy, and untimely death. A cautionary tale
of prosperity, hubris, and loss, Bitter Brew is also a revealing
chronicle of American progress and decline over the past 150 years.
Since 1818, Brooks Brothers, America s oldest clothing brand, has
grown into a global sartorial institution that has influenced
American style through its iconic fashions, which conjure intimate
memories of pivotal life events from your first navy blazer as a
child to stepping into a bespoke suit on your wedding day. On the
eve of its two-hundredth anniversary, Brooks Brothers remains
synonymous with timeless style, the finest quality, and innovative
designs that resonate with both old and new generations. This
richly illustrated book is replete with photographs of the
signature heritage pieces, from the Original Polo button-down
oxford, grey flannel suit, and Rep ties to the camel overcoat, and
features an unparalleled roster of high-profile political and
cultural icons who have worn and made these pieces their own: from
Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy to Madonna, Lady Gaga, Grace
Kelly, Katharine Hepburn, Miles Davis, and Andy Warhol, as well as
TV and film stars in Glee, Gossip Girl, Mad Men, and Baz Luhrmann s
The Great Gatsby. The text comprises interviews and personal
anecdotes from the retailer s loyal clientele fashion designers,
writers, and celebrities each sharing treasured memories and
connections to Brooks Brothers. This dazzling volume invites
readers to delve into the world of Brooks Brothers, providing
insight into the people, places, and historical moments that have
shaped and provoked the innovative yet timeless American
institution, and is a must for those interested in fashion and
American style.
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