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Qu'ont en commun le désastre financier de la Ford Edsel, le développement rapide des Xérox et les incroyables scandales de General Electric et de Texas Gulf Sulphur ? Ce sont des exemples emblématiques d'entreprises qui se sont définies par un moment de gloire ou de notoriété particulier. L'histoire de Wall Street est pétrie de grandeur et de décadence, d'incertitude et d'instabilité, en un mot, d'aventure.

From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible...

Unlock the timeless wisdom of financial markets with "The Art of Wall Street Investing," written by John Moody, a pioneering figure in financial analysis and investment strategy. In this classic work, Moody offers keen insights into the principles and practices that have shaped Wall Street, providing valuable lessons for both novice and experienced investors.

A hilarious insider's glimpse behind the scenes of DLJ, one of the hottest investment banks on Wall Street. Newly graduated business students John Rolfe and Peter Troob thought life at a major investment banking firm would be a dream come true. But they discovered Wall Street employees to be...

Kitabın yazarı Peter Lynch, 1977’den 1990’a kadar dünyanın en büyük yatırım fonu haline gelen Fidelity Magellan fonunu ustalıkla yöneterek yatırım camiasında bir efsane haline geldi. “Borsa’da Tek Başına” kitabında, Lynch’in 13 yıllık yoğun bir çalışma sonucunda geliştirdiği hisse senedi araştırma ve piyasa analiz tekniklerini bir araya getiriyor. Yazar, yatırım fonlarına yatırım yapmak için kendi stratejisini sunuyor ve hisse senetlerini kendileri seçmeyi tercih edenler için araçlar sağlıyor.

"The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place."...

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." -From the Foreword...

Listen to what happened next in the follow-up to the best-selling The Wolf of Wall Street, now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese. In the 1990s Jordan Belfort became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock chopper. He was the Wolf of Wall Street, whose life of greed, power and excess was so outrageous it could only be true; no-one could make this up! But the day Jordan was arrested and taken away in handcuffs was not the end of the madness. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street tells of what happened next.

A RINGSIDE SEAT ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST DEALS AND BIGGEST PERSONALITIES IN BUSINESS AND GLOBAL POLITICS. FTSE is an account of how a small start-up created by the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange launched in the mid 1980s to provide financial information, became a world leader and...

"MY PLAYBOOK FOR MAKING A FORTUNE." Jordan Belfort A clear-eyed guide for anyone who wants to play the stock market to their advantage from the "raw and frequently hilarious" investment guru and New York Times bestselling author of The Wolf of Wall Street who inspired the Oscar-winning film of...

First came the secretaries who struggled to get past the typing pool. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads who were laughed out of interviews. But by the 1980s, with markets in turbo-drive, women were playing for high stakes in Wall Street's bad-boy culture by day and clubbing by night. As engaging as it is enraging, She Wolves is a fascinating behind-the-scenes deep dive into the collision of women, finance and New York.

Stewardship is the journey of financial insider John Taft toward understanding and affirming the importance of stewardship - which he has come to define as "serving others" - as a core principle for the financial services industry, the global financial system, and society at large. By defining the attributes of authentic stewardship, this book presents a path forward by analyzing the success of Canadian banks in weathering the financial crisis; evaluates the effectiveness of global financial reform efforts in making the financial system safer, sounder, and more secure

The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world “Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal “Insightful and...

In the seventh part, the business risk buster strikes at a deli. The new owner took it over from her husband whose business success drove him to a mental hospital. Contents: Don't let success and money turn you into somebody else. No matter what happens in your business, don't succumb to it and face the new situation. Don't let fraudsters deprive you of your honestly earned money and assets. How to easily build up a holding that will reliably protect you from business risks and pitfalls. Learn from mistakes made by other entrepreneurs.

In the sixth part, the business risk buster strikes at a medical clinic. A wealthy developer bought his wife a clinic, but she left him and the clinic soon afterwards. So he hired a managing director under whose management it went from bad to worse. Contents: How to analyse your company from the inside. How to get rid of an incompetent manager. How to hire a more capable manager. How to choose the right investor. Learn from mistakes made by other entrepreneurs.