Lutz, Robert A. (Bob Lutz)
Summary: Provides Chrysler's Senior Manager Bob Lutz's philosophy behind his "seven laws" of business, explaining how that can be applied to making changes, transforming an operation, and creating a successful company.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 LutzYanik, Anthony J.
Contents: Prologue to the founding of Maxwell-Briscoe -- The formation of the Maxwell-Briscoe Company -- Maxwell-Briscoe's rapid rise in the marketplace -- Maxwell-Briscoe's failed merger attempts -- Maxwell-Briscoe as a division of the United States Motor Company -- The dissolution of the U.S. Motor Company -- Walter Flanders and the new Maxwell organization -- Bankers select Walter P. Chrysler to save...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 YANBremmer, Ian
Summary: "Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises--global health...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.4909 BREDavis, Michael W. R.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 DavisMcDonald, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIT Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SLOAN, ALFRED McDonaldMihaljevic, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.6 MIHGerstner, Louis V.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 004.068 GERThompson, Barton H.
Summary: "A sweeping, policy-oriented account of the private and public management of the world's essential natural resource. Governments dominated water management throughout the 20th century. Tasked with ensuring a public supply of clean, safe, reliable, and affordable water, governmental agencies controlled water administration in most of the world. They built the dams, reservoirs, and aqueducts to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 333.91 THOSummary: Which part of a company has the most impact on product design? On employee training? On forming relationships with customers? This business case study addresses those questions by examining the needs, strategies, and goals of a major corporation's departments. Going behind the scenes at Holden, a thriving General Motors subsidiary, the program features interviews with managers and directors in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A detailed and revealing case study, this CNBC program guides viewers through the corporate dimensions of the world's largest passenger jet fleet. Students will witness high-level management maneuvers undertaken behind the closed doors of executive suites. Several rarely discussed aspects of the airline industry are addressed-chief among them, how a labor-management conflict is sorted out and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Burlingham, Bo.
Summary: Most books about successful businesses focus on public companies, where the definition for success is steady growth in revenue and profits. Yet there are many excellent, privately held companies marching to the beat of a different drum; they have stricken revenue and profit growth from the top of their mission statements. Instead, they define themselves by their passion for their products and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.409 BURSummary: A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith in order to persuade the executive to visit Flint, a city which is economically depressed due to the closure of a General Motors plant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ROGSummary: This program illustrates two of many hurdles that partners-to-be must clear in an attempt to bring about a successful merger: buy-in and brand identity. Meetings with the equity holders to outline the business plan, Andersen consultants to value the participating companies and establish proportions of ownership, and millionaire advertising genius Siimon Reynolds to brainstorm a company name and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program, the final act in the Buzzle drama, details the gritty realities of demerging and receivership. Out of cash, credit, and time, the principals scramble to save their original businesses by demerging. But Apple, standing to lose millions and finally out of patience, pushes them into receivership. Employee reactions ranging from frustration to fatalism starkly illustrate the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Beginning as a theoretical calculation, WorldCom's projection for business growth soon became corporate strategy and eventually a model for the entire telecommunications industry. Unfortunately, it was completely unfounded. This CNBC news documentary exposed the extent of the WorldCom fraud and the smoke-and-mirrors behavior that prevailed not only at WorldCom but throughout the industry as a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This ongoing case study dramatically exposes two deal-breaking pitfalls that can easily derail a merger: hidden agendas and power plays. Using his valuation as leverage, one equity holder tries to sell his store to an outside investor before his potential partners find out he has
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This continuing case study captures the tense experience of hammering out a merger contract and addresses the strenuous challenges of uniting separate companies into one. Still recovering from previous partners' Machiavellian maneuverings and coping with severe network integration woes and a sudden economic downturn, the directors of Buzzle struggle to eke out a profit with their 32 stores....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: For decades, experts have hailed microcredit as the paramount solution to global poverty. But there is a lesser-known version of that story in which Grameen Bank founder Mohammad Yunus and other promoters of miniaturized finance appear to serve mostly their own interests. Bringing to light a range of potentially unethical practices and policies, this program explores the microcredit system that...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: What better way to understand a financial disaster than to meet the kind of people who created it? This CNBC Original documentary investigates the origins of the global economic crisis through eyewitness accounts from mortgage brokers, investment bankers, naive home buyers, and equally naive investors-as well as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who encouraged shifts away from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Howe, Fisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4012 Howe,Summary: Michael Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen his home town's defunct auto factory, but when the Japanese hire him to enforce their policies among his American co-workers, he goes from hero to zero in seconds flat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUNAdams, James
Summary: Laid off from the front lines of a hedge fund in the midst of the financial crisis, Jimmy Adams decides to get an "honest job" for a change. Before he knows what hit him, he finds himself waiting on tables of barflies at a 24-hour diner. Staffed by a motley crew of cooks and servers, the restaurant provides a slew of comedic experiences as the author waits on man-hungry female patrons, a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 ADAMS, JAMES ADASummary: Accounting reports convey vital information about cash, profits, and financial position to the owner and key stakeholders of a business. This program explores the content and format of the three key accounting reports: the cash flow statement, the profit and loss statement, and the balance sheet. Interviews with working accountants and financial managers show how these reports are used within a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009