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The World's Newest Profession
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 21.00Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century. From the corporate culture of the elite professional firms, to the invasion of Europe by American consultants, McKenna explains what consultants do, why executives hire them, and what impact they have had in reshaping the working world. more...
The Creative Society and the Price Americans Paid for It
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 22.00Examines the nation's emerging ranks of professional experts including doctors, lawyers, scientists and administrators and their role in shaping modern America. more...
The Moral Corporation
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00Merck and the pharmaceutical industry are headline news. Roy Vagelos, former CEO of Merck, highlights his efforts to turn around the Merck laboratories and introduce an entirely novel approach to drug development. He and his co-author explain where and why he failed and carefully analyze where he succeeded. more...
Medicine, Science and Merck
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 32.00The authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of the pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., Inc. As the book shows, there was hope even for a wise-cracking kid living through the hard times of the 1930s. more...
The Fall of the Bell System
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 46.00AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. more...
Networks of Innovation
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 28.00How private organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market antitoxins and vaccines. more...
Business History around the World
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 34.00This book offers the first in-depth international survey of current research and debates in business history. Historians here document and analyze the evolution of a wide range of important companies, their patterns of innovation, production, and distribution, their financial affairs, their political activities, and their social impact. more...
Knowledge and Competitive Advantage
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain, Germany, and the US. This constitutes an important chapter in business, economic, and technological history because synthetic dyes - invented in 1857 - represent the first time that a scientific discovery quickly gave rise to a new industry. more...
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