Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)
Summary: This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures need to know and do to succeed in today's economy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1993
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Strauss, Steven D.
Summary: "The Small Business Bible, 2E is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, A-to-Z library of everything a small business owner might need to start and succeed in business. It teaches new entrepreneurs what works, and what does not, while giving them scores of tips, hints, insider information, and successes secrets. The essence of the 2nd edition will be to update and greatly expand the book, making it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.02 STRHollander, Stuart J.
Summary: "Whether you're a parent planning to pass on a cottage to your children, someone who has inherited a cabin with your siblings or other relatives, or someone who is thinking about buying a vacation home, you want to know how to keep the property in the family--and avoid squabbles over it. This book tells you how. You'll find out how to:. Prevent a family member from forcing a sale of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business HollanderWessel, David
Summary: "David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur concocts an idea that will save money on his taxes and spins it as a way to ostensibly help poor people. He organizes and pays for an effective lobbying effort that pushes his idea into law with little scrutiny or fine-tuning by congressional or Treasury tax...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.8 WESFadell, Tony
Summary: Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in thirty plus years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. Tony uses examples that are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 FADFraser, Steve
Summary: "A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 FRASchulman, Daniel.
Summary: "Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. 'You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money,' Fred...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KOCH BROTHERS SCHFunk, McKenzie
Summary: "The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what its epic unraveling says about a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation-from the Wall Street Journal correspondents whose scoop-filled reporting hastened the company's downfall. WeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn't just an office space provider....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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Summary: In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Learn the secrets to maximizing your Social Security benefits and earn up to thousands of dollars more each year with expert advice that you can't get anywhere else. Want to know how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge with the highest possible benefits? You could try reading all 2,728 rules of the Social Security system (and the thousands of explanations of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.6 KOTSchlesinger, Jill
Summary: "Ten timely financial steps to build the life you really want. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to rethink everything. Now, when it comes to envisioning a post-pandemic future, financial expert Jill Schlesinger hears one question over and over: IS THIS REALLY HOW I WANT TO LIVE? The Great Money Reset is your guide to getting real and building your best life. A bible for navigating our present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: At over a billion dollars, the mobile food industry is enjoying more publicity and notoriety than ever before. Catering to a new generation of foodies looking for quick and unique specialties, the mobile food business is booming with new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. From gourmet food to all-American basics and hot dog wagons to bustaurants, our experts give you the delicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entrepreneur Media, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 STAPendleton, Madeline
Summary: "A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from TikTok superstar Madeline Pendleton about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Imagine a job where you work four days a week and earn as much as the CEO. You also get full benefits, a gym membership, free lunch, and unlimited time off, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PENDLETON, MADELINE PENLowry, Rich.
Summary: Revered today across the political spectrum, Abraham Lincoln believed in a small but active government in a nation defined by aspiration. He embraced the market and the transportation and communications revolutions beginning to take hold, and helped give birth to the modern industrial economy. Lincoln's vision of an upwardly mobile society that rewards and supports individual striving was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM LOWLeonhardt, David
Summary: "Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Fritz, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crisp Publications 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.022 FRISteinmetz, Greg
Summary: "This is a spry biography of Gilded Age financier Jay Gould, who pioneered the business model of the Wall Street shark"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOULD, JAY STECapron, Laurence.
Summary: How should you grow your organization? It is one of the most challenging questions an executive team faces and the wrong answer can break your firm. The problem is most firms' growth strategies emphasize just one type of growth but firms falling into this implementation trap usually end up losing out to a competitor whose approach is more inclusive. Drawing on decades of research and teaching,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 CAPLaFrieda, Pat
Summary: "It all began when Pat LaFrieda's great-grandfather Anthony LaFrieda decided to pack up and move his family from Italy to New York in search of a better life, setting up the family's first retail butcher shop in 1922 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Almost one hundred years later, Pat LaFrieda, a fourth-generation butcher and third-generation meat purveyor, is at the helm of a family-run business that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 LAFHollender, Jeffrey.
Contents: The making of a movement -- The Value of values -- Risk and reputation -- Sustainability -- Accountability -- Transparency -- Responsibility -- Ownership and social responsibility -- Epilogue: Next.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.408 HOLWilliams, Kyle Edward
Summary: "In this vivid and surprising history, we meet activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were "business statesmen" who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 WILGreene, David
Summary: "87% of real estate agents fail within the first five years. Don't become another casualty! According to the National Association of REALTORS®, real estate agents with less than two years' experience had a median gross income of $9,300, while real estate agents with 16 years experience had a median gross income of $71,000. What if there was a better, more efficient way to build your real estate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BiggerPockets Publishing, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.33 GRESkarica, David.
Summary: "In-depth look at economic cycles and the rise and fall of political superpowers The United States has a problem - a big problem. Due to costs associated with the massive bailout of financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," on-going armed conflicts, and a move towards socialism, another even bigger bubble is about to burst - the debt bubble. Economic Super Cycles: How to Profit from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 2011