Corporate History

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    • How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
    • By: Adam Winkler
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital....

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    • A History of Corporations
    • By: William Magnuson
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley....

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    • How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
    • By: Hannah Farber
    • Narrated by: Linda Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.

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    • How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
    • By: Walker Deibel
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 935 ratings
    • Entrepreneurs have a problem: startups. Almost all startups either fail or never truly reach a sustainable size. Despite the popularity of entrepreneurship, we haven't engineered a better way to start - until now....

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    • Alexander von Humboldt's New World
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,543 ratings
    • Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....

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    • 2nd Edition
    • By: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Narrated by: Dr. Michael Arnheim
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Want to make sense of the US Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents - and sparked ongoing debates along the way....

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    • A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder
    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • In the weeks that followed Mary's death, the grief-stricken family received startling news from the medical examiner: Mary had been deliberately poisoned with colchicine....

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    • A Multinational History of the Global Corporation
    • By: Amanda Ciafone
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, the Coca-Cola Company. It tells the story of how, over the past 130 years, the corporation has tried to make its products and brands physically and culturally a central part....

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    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 938 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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    • The Bankers Who Broke the World
    • By: Liaquat Ahamed
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,655 ratings
    • Offering a new understanding of the global nature of financial crises, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have....

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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic
    • By: John Temple
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,354 ratings
    • American Pain chronicles the rise and fall of this game-changing pill mill and how it helped tip the nation into its current opioid crisis....

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    • The History of American Business Enterprise
    • By: Richard N. Langlois
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 31 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Richard Langlois offers a comprehensive and nuanced reframing and reassessment of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era.

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    • How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
    • By: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 702 ratings
    • In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success....

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    • How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational
    • By: Nick Robins
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational....

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    • The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
    • By: Christopher Leonard
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 737 ratings
    • Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how the biggest private company in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America....

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    • The Rise and Fall of SST Records
    • By: Jim Ruland
    • Narrated by: Jim Ruland
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • In Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records. SST was the most popular indie label by the mid-80s - until a tsunami of legal jeopardy, financial peril, and dysfunctional management brought the empire tumbling down....

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    • From Internet Pioneer to the Trillion Dollar Loss of Google and Facebook
    • By: Jeremy Ring
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Yahoo!'s story is one of missed strategies, failed opportunities, and poor execution....

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