In: Economics, History

Company Portraits

How does a company come into being, how does it grow, how does it succeed or fail? Turn here for in-depth answers from insiders. Each company biography is a business world in microcosm; each one is an object lesson.

Summaries

8 Book

The Domino’s Story

How the Innovative Pizza Giant Used Technology to Deliver a Customer Experience Revolution (The Business Storybook Series)
Marcia Layton Turner
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020
Book

Working Backwards

Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
St. Martin’s Press, 2021
8 Book

Undaunted

Overcoming Doubts and Doubters
Kara Goldin
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020
8 Book

Behind the Cloud

The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company – and Revolutionized an Industry
Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler
Jossey-Bass, 2009
9 Book

The BBC

A People's History
David Hendy
Profile Books, 2022
9 Book

Hangry

A Startup Journey
Mike Evans
Legacy Lit, 2022
8 Book

Still Broke

Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism
Rick Wartzman
Public Affairs, 2022
Book

Shoe Dog

A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
Scribner, 2016
8 Book

The McKinsey Edge

Success Principles from the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
Shu Hattori
McGraw-Hill, 2016
Book

Creativity, Inc.

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Random House, 2014
9 Book

The Founders

The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Jimmy Soni
Simon & Schuster, 2022
8 Book

Winning Now, Winning Later

How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term
David Cote
HarperCollins Leadership, 2020