Morris Architects - The Library

Wall Street : A History

Charles R. Geisst

The Wall Street Journal, Matthew Rees:
There's much to learn from the author's dispassionate account of Wall Street's growth. The biggest disappointment is his treatment of the past 15 years. His brief summaries of the individuals (Michael Milken), events (the 1987 stock-market crash) and trends (the wild popularity of mutual funds) don't really do justice to one of the most scintillating periods in U.S. economic history.

But that shortcoming does not mar what is an otherwise thorough retelling of a critical--though often overlooked--aspect of U.S. history. Wall Street will be enjoyed not just by the warriors who work there but also by the growing legions of Main Street investors whose retirements depend on the fortunes of the stock market.

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The Fifth Discipline Field Book

Peter Senge

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Steven Covey

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Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits

Steven Covey

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions

Scott Adams

Inside the Magic Kingdom: Seven Keys to Disney's Success

Thomas K. Connellan

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The Portable MBA Desk Reference : An Essential Business Companion

Paul

The ultimate one-stop compendium of business facts, formulas, and information sources. Part One covers the most important topics in accounting, management, marketing, and more. Part Two is a directory of on-line services, periodicals, trade associations, and more.

The Art of M&A: A Merger Acquisition Buyout Guide

Stanley Foster Reed, Alexandra Reed Lajoux

With thousands of companies being put on the market, and with the recent trend towards strategic alliances, the newest edition of this classic guide to successful mergers is written for the people who are pinpointing the targets, structuring the financings, and, most important, closing the deals.

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Mergers and Acquisitions, 2nd ed.

Totally revised and updated for the 1990s, this authoritative guide provides senior managers and business owners with nontechnical advice on all major aspects of an acquisition or merger program. It gives you information on cross-border mergers and acquisitions; tax planning for international deals; acquiring financially troubled companies; new federal income tax considerations; financing alternatives for buyers; postmerger integration, including employee compensation; new regulations; plus a complete acquisition planning strategy. Mergers & Acquisitions, Second Edition stresses "back-to-basics" techniques as a reaction to the high-profile glitz of the 1980s. Inside you'll also find information on unique strategies that apply to niche acquisitions - an area of growing activity, authoritative views on corporate venture investments, and the scene in Europe, Canada, and the Far East. This comprehensive guide - written without jargon - gives readers the tools they need to successfully manage a merger or acquisition in today's highly competitive global business environment.

M&A : A Practical Guide to Doing the Deal

Jeffrey C. Hooke

This practitioner's guide to mergers and acquisitions explains each step of the process and presents strategies to focus the search and transaction procedure to match the acquiring management objectives and financial capabilities including its shareholder's risk-taking profile. A general discussion of the subject is followed by chapters reviewing each step of the acquisition process--from finding a possible opportunity and analyzing it, to closing a transaction. Distinct chapters are devoted to examining the motives of financial buyers or management buyout firms which represent a significant portion of acquisition activity. The final segment of the book considers the process of selling a business.

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The Art of M&A : A Merger Acquisition Buyout Guide

Stanley Foster Reed, Alexandra Reed Lajoux

With thousands of companies being put on the market, and with the recent trend towards strategic alliances, the newest edition of this classic guide to successful mergers is written for the people who are pinpointing the targets, structuring the financings, and, most important, closing the deals.

Mass Customization : The New Frontier in Business Competition

B. Joseph Pine

New ways of managing, together with new technology, make possible the seeming paradox of providing each customer with the "tailor-made" benefits of the pre-industrial craft system at the low costs of modern mass production. Pine explains mass customization in its historical context and reveals when and how managers can make the transition to mass customization.

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The Executive in Action : Managing for Results, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

Designed to help executives understand and implement the tasks, practices, and decisions of good management, an omnibus edition of three classic books on business management brings together Managing for Results, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and The Effective Executive.

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Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms

John Downes, Jordan Elliot Goodman

Barron's popular finance and investment dictionary defines more than 3,500 terms as they relate to stocks, bonds, banking, corporate finance, tax laws, mutual funds, and more.

The Motley Fool Investment Guide : How the Fool Beats Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too

Tom Gardner

Men and How You Can Too; Gardner, Tom Gardner Should you let a Fool tell you where to invest your money? If he's a Motley Fool, the answer is a resounding YES! David and Tom Gardner launched the most successful investment information service ever to grace cyberspace, and now they show you how to beat the market, even if you don't know a dividend from a divining rod. With this guide, you'll find out how the information revolution can put money in your pocket.

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You Have More Than You Think: The Motley Fool Guide to Investing What You Have

David Gardner, Tom Gardner, Thomas Gardner

First they showed the ordinary investor how to beat Wall Street's wise men. Now these Foolish financial wizards offer all readers smart, sassy advice on how they can find the best investments that will consistently beat the market--whether they have $50 or $50,000 to invest National print ads. National authors publicity. 10-city authors tour. Online virtual signings.

Agile Product Development for Mass Customization: How to Develop and Deliver Products for Mass Customization, Niche Markets, JIT, Build-to-Order, and Flexible Manufacturing

David M. Anderson, II, B. Joseph Pine

Agile Product Development is the first and only book ever published that shows how to develop products for all the agile paradigms: just-in-time, build-to-order, agile/flexible/continuous-flow manufacturing, and mass customization. There have been many books published on the factory side of these agile paradigms, starting with Robert Hall's now-classic Zero Inventories, published by Irwin in 1983. But until now, implementing agility in the factory has been limited by the design of the products. This book shows how to design products and processes to maximize factory flexibility and market responsiveness and

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Mergers & Acquisitions : A Valuation Handbook

Joseph H. Marren

Provides important lessons for acquirers in the 1990s with lessons learned from the frenzied M&A activity of the 1980s, including: the importance of investing with an edge, understanding the process, buying "wholesale," having a useable integration plan for the target. Case studies show how to profit from the mistakes of other negotiators. The appendixes cover discounted cash flow techniques, US tax rules, acquisition accounting, securities laws, and anti-trust considerations.

Learning from the Future : Competitive Foresight Scenarios

Liam Fahey (Editor), Robert M. Randall (Editor)

This innovative text offers companies and their decision makers a chance to learn from the future before it happens. This new technique of forecasting future economic, political and other possible developments within an organization, is called scenario planning. Shows how to create, develop, and explore different types of scenarios and how to link them to future decision making.

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The 500 Year Delta : What Happens After What Comes Next

Jim Taylor, Watts Wacker, Howard Means

Presents compelling, provocative insights into the future, arguing that we are approaching a time of great change that will dramatically alter the ways in which we think and our political, social, economic, and cultural organization.

Growing Up Digital : The Rise of the Net Generation

Don Tapscott

Tapscott, who coined the term "Net Generation, " profiles this new group and tells how its use of digital technology is reshaping the way society and individuals interact. 15 illustrations.

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Release 2.0 : A Design for Living in the Digital Age

Esther Dyson

With a perspective that is at once authoritative and totally accessible, Esther Dyson, entrepreneur, high-tech industry analyst, government advisor, and recently named "most powerful woman in the Net-erati" (The New York Times Magazine) challenges readers with a visionary yet detailed view of the new digital society and provides the tools for them to think intelligently about its consequences in every aspect of their public and private lives.

Trapped in the Net : The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization

Gene I. Rochlin

Voice mail . . . E-mail . . . Desktops . . . Laptops . . . the Web . . . Energy and resource expert Gene Rochlin takes a timely look at how technology is encroaching on our lives and eating away at individual control. He shows how we are having to make irreversible and at times harmful changes in our business, social, and personal lives to comply with the demands of information systems.

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The Circle of Innovation : You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness

Tom Peters

From one of America's most respected business thinkers comes a practical handbook for turning any organization into a perpetual innovation machine--the one thing that it must be if it is to compete in the permanently chaotic new world of global business.

The Pursuit of Wow! : Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times

Tom Peters

A dozen years ago, Peters and coauthor Robert Waterman woke up corporate America with In Search of Excellence. Once more the "unconventional" Peters stimulates corporate thought processes. Along with the best of his columns, Peters includes questions and rebuttals that come from readers and listeners, as well as his own candid responses. A "must" read for every business person.

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Excellence Aerobics

Tom Peters

Not Yet Available: You may still order this title. We will ship it to you when it is released by the publisher. Likening the aspects of successful business practice to an aerobic workout, a guide by the author of In Search of Excellence emphasizes customer service, innovation, and leadership. Excellence Aerobics is about getting companies in peak shape to meet the demands every businessperson will face in the 21st-century global economy.

Anatomy of a Start-Up : Why Some New Businesses Succeed and Others Fail

Elizabeth K. Longsworth (Editor)

A unique case study format provides the reader with detailed business plans, financial summaries, biographies, and comprehensive business analyses, and tells the fascinating real-life stories of 27 new business ventures. A special "where are they now" section reports on how each business has fared. Illustrated.

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Trading for a Living : Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management

Dr. Alexander Elder

An eminent futures trader explores crucial factors in the markets that most experts overlook--time, volume and open interest--and describes little-known indicators to profitably track them. Covers all the popular technical approaches to futures, options and stock markets including Elliott Wave, oscillators, moving averages, Market Logic, point-and-figure charting. Explains why most traders sabotage themselves and how to avoid doing the same.

Hire the Best-- And Avoid the Rest

Michael W. Mercer

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Trump : The Art of the Comeback

Donald Trump, Kate Bonher

Does the world really need another book by or about Donald Trump? Surely his previous tomes about getting to the top, surviving at the top, and falling from the top--not to mention the innumerable magazine covers and tabloid stories detailing his rather sordid personal life--have sated the public's taste for "The Donald." Just in case this isn't so, however, Trump has given us yet another paean to himself: Trump: The Art of the Comeback. If you really care to know what Trump thinks about Howard Stern, Geraldo Rivera, or Carl Icahn--or his deep understanding of women--he's happy to tell you. If you thrill to accounts of financial takeovers and mano a mano encounters in boardrooms and on golf courses, this is the book for you.

Get a Financial Life : Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

Beth Kobliner

You're generation Xers, thirtysomethings, on your own for the first time, newlyweds, or brand-new parents. And whether you’re a slacker or a striver, you need to know more about about money matters. Beth Kobliner knows what that's like and has put together a survival manual--complete with charts and easy-to-follow descriptions of financial fundamentals--to ease you down the road.

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Success Is a Choice : Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life

Rick Pitino, Bill Reynolds

One of America's most sought after coaches and motivational speakers offers a lively and practical guide to achieving success and happiness. From strategies for becoming a super-achiever to tips for making a job more fun, this book acts as a personal coach and as a source of inspiration and advice for getting the most from oneself, one's business, and one's life.

Fidelity's World : The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giant

Diana B. Henriques

Inevitably, as Fidelity grows ever larger, it will face more scandals, SEC problems, and shareholder suits. There will be calls to provide independent trustees for each fund, to hold funds to their original objectives, and to cut fees. [Fidelity heiress] Abby [Johnson} can expect to be put on the griddle by Congress, which may want Fidelity split up. When those things happen, Diana B. Henriques's Fidelity's World will be the text that most people refer to.

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Complete Reference Checking Handbook : Smart, Fast, Legal Ways to Check Out Job Applicants

Edward C. Andler

The Portable MBA

Robert F. Bruner (Editor), Mark R. Eaker, R. Edward Freeman, Robert E. Spekman

Reflecting the refinement of the MBA degree over the last few years, this new volume takes the place of the venerable The Portable MBA. Written by a team of experts at the prestigious Darden Business School at the University of Virginia, this new volume reflects the latest trends in MBA education, namely cross-functional management, and the real-world implementation of management decisions.

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The Motley Fool Investment Workbook

David Gardner, Tom Gardner

Readers who bought The Motley Fool Investment Workbook also bought: You Have More Than You Think: The Motley Fool Guide to Investing What You Have