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.

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."

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.

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.

A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global power Conspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the nineteenth century, when America was convulsed by a financial panic essentially every twenty years, Brown Brothers quietly went from strength to strength. By the turn of the twentieth century, Brown Brothers was unquestionably at the heart of the American Establishment. As America's reach extended, Brown Brothers worked hand in glove with the State Department, notably in Nicaragua in the early twentieth century, where the firm essentially took over the country's economy. To the Brown family, the virtue of their dealings was a given; their form of muscular Protestantism, forged on the playing fields of Groton and Yale, was the acme of civilization, and it was their duty to import that civilization to the world. When, during the Great Depression, Brown Brothers ensured their strength by merging with Averell Harriman's investment bank to form Brown Brothers Harriman, the die was cast for the role the firm would play on the global stage during World War II and thereafter, as its partners served at the highest levels of government to shape the international system that defines the world to this day. In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former financial executive Zachary Karabell offers the first full and frank look inside this institution against the backdrop of American history. Blessed with complete access to the company's archives, as well as a deep knowledge of the larger forces at play, Karabell has created an X-ray of American power--financial, political, cultural--as it has evolved from the early 1800s to the present. Today, Brown Brothers Harriman remains a private partnership and a beacon of sustainable capitalism, having forgone the heady speculative upsides of the past thirty years but also having avoided any role in the devastating downsides. The firm is no longer in the command capsule of the American economy, but, arguably, that is to its credit. If its partners cleaved to any one adage over the generations, it is that a relentless pursuit of more can destroy more than it creates.

Der Autor untersucht den Problemkreis der Liquiditatszusage in Abgrenzung zu anderen Kreditsicherungsmitteln, insbesondere zur Patronatserklarung. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob und wie eine einmal erteilte Zusage wieder ruckgangig gemacht werden kann und inwieweit dies von der wirtschaftlichen Situation der unterstutzten Gesellschaft abhangig ist. Den Abschluss bildet die Untersuchung des rechtlichen Schicksals der Zusage im Falle der Insolvenz der Gesellschaft. Dieser Problemkreis ist nicht zuletzt durch die jungst ergangene "Sportgate-Entscheidung" des BGH in den Fokus der OEffentlichkeit geruckt.

Die Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit der Frage, unter welchen Voraussetzungen ein Bieter, der die UEbernahme eines anderen Unternehmens angekundigt oder gar schon ein konkretes UEbernahmeangebot abgegeben hat, sich von den dadurch ausgeloesten Rechtsfolgen wieder befreien kann, etwa mittels Widerrufs, Anfechtung oder Rucktritts. Das WpUEG beantwortet diese Frage nur dahingehend, dass der Bieter das Angebot jedenfalls nicht unter eine Bedingung stellen darf, deren Eintritt er selbst herbeifuhren kann. Ob sich der Bieter von etwaigen, durch die blosse Ankundigung des Angebots ausgeloesten Rechtsfolgen wieder befreien kann, lasst das Gesetz sogar ganzlich offen. Neben der aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht notwendigen dogmatischen Analyse hat die Klarung der aufgeworfenen Fragestellungen auch eine erhebliche Relevanz fur die Praxis. Denn mangels eindeutiger Rechtslage und hoechstrichterlicher Rechtsprechung besteht insoweit eine kaum zumutbare Rechtsunsicherheit, die vor allem fur den Bieter auch erhebliche finanzielle Risiken in sich birgt.