Customer Review: I don't think this is a bad collection of articles. However, its contents are no longer relevant today. The book opens with the announced merger of AOL and Time Warner, hailing it as a great development. We now know how spectacularly that deal collapsed. The article then continues with a discussion... more info
Customer Review: This is one in a series of several dozen volumes which comprise the "Harvard Business Review Paperback Series." Each offers direct, convenient, and inexpensive access to the best thinking on the given subject in articles originally published by the Harvard Business Review. I strongly recommend all... more info
Customer Review: Doing Deals in an analysis of investment banking. It details the various structures of investment banks and how they approach their relationships with their customers. It discusses transactional-based investment banking vs. relationship investment banking. If you are interested in investment banking... more info
Customer Review: If you want to learn about accounting scams, you probably need Mulford and Comiskey, The Financial Numbers Game. But for a broader view of the virtues and limits of accounting, Eccles and company have a lot to offer. You can skip or skim the somewhat overhyped stuff about the "ValueRevolution"... more info
Customer Review: There is a bitter irony to the heads of PriceWaterhouseCoopers issuing a publication about inspiring trust in the public in large corporations in the wake of Enron and Worldcom scandals when PwC constantly undermines the trust of its own employees. With an infrastructure that makes it nearly... more info
Customer Review: The content is technologically dated; however the lessons aren't at all. As stated, the case studies date to the early 90s. Still worth the read. There's a section in the back of the book on how to keep employees that are considering leaving the company. That one section is worth its weight in gold.
Customer Review: Would give it 5 stars, but it seems to wander a bit. The book started out to be another attempt to imitate Tom Peters and then the authors learned that Tom Peters (and all his imitators) are full of macaca. Which is a great book on its own. The book details how fads come and go. How people try to... more info
