London Transport was created in 1933 to coordinate the shambolic, overlapping transport systems of the capital, and for decades has striven to meet the challenges of organising London travel. Now operating as Transport for London (TfL), it continues this demanding work. In this fully illustrated volume, Michael H. C. Baker presents the complete story of the organisation from its origins, through the upheavals of the Second World War, to TfL's biggest modern project - Crossrail. Covering modes of transport including trams, trolleybuses, the iconic RT and Routemaster buses and the trains of the Underground, this is an essential guide to London's world-famous transport operator.

'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

Lego is one of the world's best-loved and most familiar brands, adored by generations of children. What is less well known, though, is how close this iconic company came to total collapse in 2003 before staging an astonishing recovery.

Brick by Brick is the compelling story of a Danish family-owned company that enjoyed decades of success before its inability to keep in step with a rapidly changing market brought it crashing to earth. It's also the story of an extraordinary turn-around. As disaster stared them in the face, the management of Lego embarked on an audacious and innovative plan to turn their fortunes around, and then painstakingly implemented it. Today, the company is riding high once again, and enjoying results that are the envy of their competitors.

Granted unprecedented access to every part of the Lego Group, the authors of Brick by Brick not only chart each twist in the company's story but explain precisely what went wrong and how it was fixed. Their clear-sighted analysis will prove invaluable to all those who want to understand how companies can not only ride the storm of change, but benefit from it.

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, which houses the extensive ExxonMobil Historical Collection, is honored to publish the fifth volume of Exxon's corporate history, which extends the history of Exxon and its predecessors to more than 125 years, the longest in-depth account of a private company in existence. ExxonMobil's history stretches from the time of kerosene lamps to the era of jet travel, from the days of finding oil by searching for surface indications to the days of 3-D seismic, which uses powerful computers to create images of oil deep underground. Its learning curve was particularly steep in the years covered by this book, 1973-2005, when the company adapted to new realities that confronted it at every turn. ExxonMobil has remained among the most profitable concerns in the history of modern capitalism by showing flexibility when faced with the need to adapt to changing conditions. As the company responded to sweeping changes in global markets, its decisions reflected a deeply held corporate culture that rested on the key operating values of engineering efficiency and financial discipline. This extensively researched volume demonstrates how Exxon's core values and management enabled the company to adapt and succeed during a period of dramatic changes for the energy industry. Pratt and Hale provide readers a historical perspective from inside one of the most powerful corporations in the world.

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.

Dieses Buch wendet sich gleichermassen an Studierende und Praktiker der Betriebs- und Volkswirtschaft, der Wirtschaftsinformatik sowie an Wirtschaftsingenieure in allen Studienformen. Die Inhalte orientieren sich an der Nutzung mathematischer Sachverhalte und Methoden in den modernen Wirtschaftswissenschaften. In den Beispielen wird bewusst die breite Palette der praktischen Anwendungsfalle bedient. Die zahlreichen Bilder erleichtern den Zugang zu den mathematischen Modellen in der Wirtschaft. Der Abschnitt UEbungsaufgaben am Ende des Buches gibt dem Leser die Moeglichkeit, die erlernten Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten zur Loesung von mathematisch-oekonomischen Modellen zu kontrollieren und zu festigen.

'A brilliantly readable account, based on exceptional access, of the transformation of the old Quaker bank into a hard-charging capitalist adventurer ... both a thriller and a reminder that business is fascinating because all human life is there' John Plender, Financial Times Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. In a tale of feuds, grandiose dreams and a struggle for supremacy between rival strategies and their adherents, Philip Augar gives a riveting account of Barclays' journey from an old Quaker bank to a full-throttle capitalist machine. The disagreement between those ambitious for Barclays to join the top table of global banks, and those preferring a smaller domestic role more in keeping with the bank's traditions, cost three chief executives their jobs and continues to divide opinion within Barclays, the City and beyond. This is an extraordinary corporate thriller, which among much else describes how Barclays came to buy Lehman Brothers for a bargain price in 2008, why it was so keen to avoid taking government funding during the financial crisis, and the price shareholders have paid for a decade of barely controlled ambition. But Augar also shows how Barclays' experiences are a paradigm for Britain's social and economic life over thirty years, which saw the City move from the edge of the economy to its very centre. These decades created unprecedented prosperity for a tiny number, and made the reputations of governments and individuals but then left many of them in tatters. The leveraged society, the winner-takes-all mentality and our present era of austerity can all be traced to the influence of banks such as Barclays. Augar's book tells this rollercoaster story from the perspective of many of its participants - and also of those affected by the grip they came to have on Britain.

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.

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

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.

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.

"The world's largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the world's countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred nations. The world's largest asset manager, a secretive New York company called Black Rock, controls assets greater than the national reserves of any country on the planet. A private philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, spends as much worldwide on health care as the World Health Organization. "

The rise of private power may be the most important and least understood trend of our time. David Rothkopf provides a fresh, timely look at how we have reached a point where thousands of companies have greater power than all but a handful of states. Beginning with the story of an inquisitive Swedish goat wandering off from his master and inadvertently triggering the birth of the oldest company still in existence, "Power, Inc." follows the rise and fall of kings and empires, the making of great fortunes, and the chaos of bloody revolutions. A fast-paced tale in which champions of liberty are revealed to be paid pamphleteers of moneyed interests and greedy scoundrels trigger changes that lift billions from deprivation, "Power, Inc." traces the bruising jockeying for influence right up to today's financial crises, growing inequality, broken international system, and battles over the proper role of government and markets.

Rothkopf argues that these recent developments, coupled with the rise of powers like China and India, may not lead to the triumph of American capitalism that was celebrated just a few years ago. Instead, he considers an unexpected scenario, a contest among competing capitalisms offering different visions for how the world should work, a global ideological struggle in which European and Asian models may have advantages. An important look at the power struggle that is defining our times, "Power, Inc." also offers critical insights into how to navigate the tumultuous years ahead.

Das Berufsbildungsinstitut Arbeit und Technik - kurz biat - wurde 1997 an der Flensburger Universitat gegrundet. Es hat sich in relativ kurzer Zeit zu einer namhaften Einrichtung fur die Ausbildung von Lehrkraften an berufsbildenden Schulen in den beruflichen Fachrichtungen Elektrotechnik, Fahrzeugtechnik, Informationstechnik und Metalltechnik entwickelt. Daruber hinaus ist das biat eine renommierte Statte der Berufsbildungsforschung geworden. Nach 20 Jahren des Bestehens blicken die Herausgeber zuruck, beschreiben die gegenwartige Situation, und wagen einen Ausblick auf die Zukunft. So versteht sich das biat auch heute noch als starker Fursprecher der beruflichen Bildung: verortet in Flensburg, ausstrahlend regional, national und international.

Kinship and partnership united Elie and Harry Susman when they crossed the Zambezi from the south in 1901 and travelled north to buy cattle from King Lewanika in Barotseland. The result was a remarkable family business that has flourished for over a century in some of the most logistically difficult and politically problematic environments in the world. An African Trading Empire is a unique story set against the backdrop of the great themes of European and African history.