Koch, Charles G. (Charles de Ganahl)
Summary: In 1967, Charles Koch took the reins of his father's company and began the process of growing it from a $21 million company into a global corporation with revenues of about $115 billion, according to Forbes. So how did this MIT engineer manage to grow Koch Industries into one of the largest private companies in the world today, with growth exceeding that of the S&P 500 by almost 30-fold over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 KOCLoMenzo, Angela
Summary: "Writer, makeup artist, and creative director Angela LoMenzo combines stunning photography and powerful real stories to shine a light on the wild and wondrous journeys of twenty-five extraordinary and deeply creative women." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.0925 LOMSnyder, Lynsi
Summary: "When Lynsi Snyder's grandparents founded In-N-Out Burger in 1948, they built it with a passion for quality and service that Lynsi embraced at a young age. After starting as a store associate at age seventeen, she then worked in other departments, gaining first-hand experience with almost every aspect of the family business until she became president in 2010. She has led the company through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.95794 SNYGerald, Casey
Summary: "Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GERALD, CASEY GERSchulman, 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 SCHDoerr, John E.
Summary: "In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up he'd just given nearly $12 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world, or even survive, Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2018
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Summary: "Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STONE, BIZ STOO'Mara, Margaret Pugh
Summary: "The epic human story of how, out of a small patch of land in Northern California, high tech re-created America in its image, for good and for ill. Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 OMARoss, Rick
Summary: The Grammy-nominated hip hop icon and towering figure in the business world shares his secrets to success, offering his own life as a roadmap to readers looking to build their own empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 ROSMcCabe, Matthew
Summary: Showcases the work and achievements of 12 of the worlds most influential business leaders. Each spread contains fascinating facts about each business leader and how their accomplishments helped change the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 12-Story Library, an imprint of Peterson Publishing Company and Press Room Editions 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MCCShopsin, Tamara
Summary: "'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life'--Miranda July; In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar Straus & Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHOPSIN, TAMARA SHOUlmer, Mikaila
Summary: "Fifteen-year-old lemonade entrepreneur Mikaila Ulmer shares her advice for life and business"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ULMWilkinson, Andrew
Summary: "By the age of thirty-five, Andrew Wilkinson had built a business worth over a billion dollars, but his path to success was anything but a straight line. Never Enough shares both the lessons Wilkinson has learned as well as the many mistakes made on the road to wealth-some of which cost him money, happiness, and important relationships" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Matt Holt Books, an imprint of Ben Bella Books, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 WILHahn, Emanuel
Summary: "A successful self-published project, now in a new and expanded trade package, Koreatown Dreaming offers readers an intimate look into the lives of shopkeepers and small business owners in Los Angeles Koreatown. A touching homage to Korean immigrants everywhere, this book will resonate with the growing audience of people interested in Korean culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 HAHLehto, Steve
Summary: "In the wake of World War II, the U.S. automobile industry was fully unprepared to meet the growing demands of the public, for whom they had not made any cars for years. In stepped Preston Tucker, a salesman extraordinaire who announced the building of a revolutionary new car: the Tucker '48, the first car in almost a decade to be built fresh from the ground up. Tucker's car, which would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUCKER, PRESTON LEHStandiford, Les
Summary: "Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men who shaped the circus. Battle for the Big Top is the untold story of the battles of the three circus kings--James Bailey, P.T. Barnum, and John Ringling-all vying for control of the vastly profitable and widely influential American Circus. New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain StandifordStosz, Sandra
Summary: "Today, our nation is like a ship being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society, threatening to wash away the very principles our nation was founded upon. Now more than ever, our nation needs leaders with the moral courage to stand strong and steady-leaders capable of uniting people in support of a shared purpose by building the trust and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehlerbooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 STOBenmosche, Bob
Summary: "In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the pinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosche climbed aboard as CEO, it was widely assumed that he would go down with his ship. In mere months, he turned things around, pulling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BENMOSCHE, ROBERT BENEvans, Mike
Summary: "While dreaming of an easier way to order pizza, Mike Evans founded the online food delivery site, Grubhub, in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar colossus that is now a household name. But it wasn't as easy as searching, clicking, and checking out. Mike's meteoric rise to the top of the booming tech and business world demanded a decade of 80 hour work weeks, endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 EVAGladysz, Margean.
Summary: An adventuresome eighteen-year-old college grad with fresh eyes hires on with the Greyhound Bus line in 1946 and becomes a company spy. The match is perfect as Margean Worst leaves the farm for a life on the road, inspecting bus drivers on the routes, first in the Great Lakes region and then all over the country. Margean poses as a passenger and notes drivers' honesty, road conditions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLADYSZ, MARGEAN GLAHamilton, Arlan
Summary: "From a black, gay woman who broke into the boys' club of Silicon Valley comes an empowering guide to finding your voice, working your way into any room you want to be in, and achieving your own dreams. In 2015, Arlan Hamilton was on food stamps and sleeping on the floor of the San Francisco airport, with nothing but an old laptop and a dream of breaking into the venture capital business. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 HAMMarshall, Capricia Penavic
Summary: "President Obama's former White House Chief of Protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter-and what they can do for you"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 395.5 MARBlank, Arthur (Arthur M.)
Summary: "The Home Depot cofounder and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLS's Atlanta United shares a vision and a roadmap for values-based business. Arthur M. Blank believes that for good companies, purpose and profit can-and should-go hand in hand. And he should know. Together with cofounder Bernie Marcus, Blank built The Home Depot from an idea and a dream to a $50 billion-dollar company, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLANK, ARTHUR M. BLAChambers, John
Summary: Silicon Valley visionary John Chambers shares the lessons that transformed a dyslexic kid from West Virginia into one of the world's best business leaders and turned a simple router company into a global tech titan. When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with 400 employees, a single product, and about $70 million in revenue. When he stepped down as CEO in 2015, he left a $47...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018