Corporate & Business History
- Contrived Competition
- Richard Vietor
- This book explains and tells the stories of how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- The Corporate State and the Broker State
- Robert F. Burk
- The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over the economy. By focusing on one family's contribution to the economic and political debate between the world wars, Burk casts light on the changing fortunes of business and government in twentieth-century America.
- Hardcover 1990
- Enterprising Elite
- Robert F. Dalzell
- Hardcover
- Harvard University Press
- Max Hall
- A university press is a curious institution, dedicated to the dissemination of learning yet apart from the academic structure; a publishing firm that is in business, but not to make money; an arm of the university that is frequently misunderstood and occasionally attacked by faculty and administration. Max Hall here chronicles the early stages and first sixty years of Harvard University Press in a rich and entertaining book that is at once Harvard history, publishing history, printing history, business history, and intellectual history.
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1988
- Innovation Corrupted
- Malcolm S. Salter
- In contrast to the time-line narratives of previous books on Enron that offer interesting but largely unsystematic insight into individual actions and organizational processes, Innovation Corrupted pursues a more methodical analysis of the causes and lessons of Enron’s collapse.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan
- J. Megan Greene
- The rapid growth of Taiwan’s postwar “miracle” economy is most frequently credited to the leading role of the state in promoting economic development. Megan Greene challenges this standard interpretation in the first in-depth examination of the origins of Taiwan’s developmental state.
- Hardcover 2008
- Pay without Performance
- Lucian Bebchuk
- Jesse Fried
- As this book clearly demonstrates, structural flaws in corporate governance have produced widespread distortions in executive pay. Pay without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of managers' influence over their own pay--and of a governance system that must fundamentally change if firms are to be managed in the interest of shareholders.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Shareholder Access to the Corporate Ballot
- Edited by Lucian Bebchuk
- In this book, leading scholars and practitioners debate whether shareholders should have access to the corporate ballot, as well as the broader corporate governance that firms and shareholders face. The participants include prominent academics, public officials, and practitioners in law and business, and they offer a wide range of perspectives and views. The arguments that they use and develop are ones that will continue to play a critical role in the ongoing debate about how publicly traded companies should be run.
- Hardcover 2005