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For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry.
Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the
industry and the country. But from 1899 onwards, two-thirds of the
company was owned by an American giant, making Imperial Oil one of
the largest foreign-controlled multinationals in Canada. Imperial
Standard is the first full-scale history of Imperial Oil. It
illuminates Imperial's longstanding connections to Standard Oil of
New Jersey, also known as Exxon Mobil. Although this relationship
was often beneficial to Imperial, allowing them access to
technology and capital, it also came at a cost, causing Imperial to
be assailed as the embodiment of foreign control of Canada's
natural resources. Graham D. Taylor draws on an extensive
collection of primary sources to explore the complex relationship
between the two companies. This groundbreaking history provides
unprecedented insight into one of Canada's most influential oil
companies as it has grown and evolved with the industry itself.
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George County
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George County Chamber of Commerce Herita
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Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon
Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming
that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the
77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological
changes that felled most of its competitors over the years. Today,
HP is in the throes of a seventh transformation to secure its
continued survival by splitting in two independent companies: HP
Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Based on extensive primary
research conducted over more than 15 years, this book documents the
differential contribution of HP's successive CEOs in sustaining the
company's integral process of becoming. It uses a comprehensive
strategic leadership framework to examine and explain the role of
the CEO: (1) defining and executing the key tasks of strategic
leadership, and (2) developing four key elements of the company's
strategic leadership capability. The study of the strategic
leadership of HP's successive CEOs revealed the paradox of
corporate becoming, the existential situation facing successive
CEOs (that justifies the book's empathic approach), and the
importance of the CEO's ability to harness the company's past while
also driving its future. Building on these novel insights, the book
shows how the frameworks used to conceptualize the tasks of
strategic leadership and the development of strategic leadership
capability can serve as steps toward a dynamic theory of strategic
leadership that animates an evolutionary framework of corporate
becoming. This framework will be helpful for further theory
development about strategic leadership and also offers practical
tools for founders of new companies and CEOs and boards of
directors of existing companies who intend to create, run or
oversee companies built for continued relevance, longevity and
greatness.
This publication explores three decades of cooperation between the
Asian Development Bank and the People's Republic of China in
support of reform and opening up. This book is a history of the
partnership between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the
People's Republic of China (PRC) spanning three decades. Since
joining ADB in 1986, the PRC has evolved from being a poor and
predominantly agrarian economy to an upper-middle income
manufacturing and services powerhouse that has become a leading
international source of financial, technical, and knowledge
cooperation. This historically unprecedented transformation has
shaped every aspect of the ADB-PRC relationship. The successful
partnership owes much to the PRC's unique approach to developing
its economy, and offers valuable lessons for other countries and
development partners.
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Decatur
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Jonathan Ford Baggs
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DuPont
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Jennifer Crooks, DuPont Historical Drew Crooks with the
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Chosen as one of the Daily Mail's Memoirs of the Year Tim
Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having
built the Waterstone's empire that started with one small bookshop
in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the
childhood experiences that led him to become an entrepreneur and
outlines the business philosophy that allowed Waterstone's to
dominate the bookselling business throughout the country. Tim
explores his formative years in a small town in rural England at
the end of the Second World War, and the troubled relationship he
had with his father, before moving on to the epiphany he had while
studying at Cambridge, which set him on the road to Waterstone's
and gave birth to the creative strategy that made him a high street
name.
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