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Title
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
A Piece of the Action : How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class
Against the Gods : The Remarkable Story of Risk
American Steel
Bottomline Banking : Meeting the Challenges for Survival & Success
McDonald's : Behind the Arches
Secret Formula : How Brillant Marketing and Relentless Salesmanship Made Coca-Cola the Best-Known Product in the World
The Intelligent Investor : A Book of Practical Counsel
A Money Mind at Ninety
Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time
Benjamin Graham : The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street
Citibank, 1812-1970
Financial Shenanigans : How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports
I'd Like the World to Buy a Coke : The Life and Leadership of Roberto Goizueta
Influence : The Psychology of Persuasion
Investment Valuation : Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset
Moments of Truth
Stocks for the Long Run : The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
The House of Morgan : An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
The Interpretation of Financial Statements : The Classic 1937 Edition
The Quest for Value : The Eva Management Guide
The Theory of Investment Value
Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Beyond Greed and Fear : Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing
Built from Scratch : How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew the Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion
Grinding It Out : The Making of McDonald's
How We Know What Isn't So : The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Memos from the Chairman
Sam Walton : Made in America : My Story
Birth of the Chaordic Age
Complexity : The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Dead Bank Walking : One Gutsy Bank's Struggle for Survival and the Merger That Changed Banking Forever
For God, Country, and Coca Cola : The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
Judgment Under Uncertainty
Ogilvy on Advertising
On Money and Markets A Wall Street Memoir
Paying With Plastic : The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing
Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business Maverick
The Emperors of Chocolate : Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
The End of Fashion : The Mass Marketing of the Clothing Business
The Innovator's Dilemma : When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
The White Sharks of Wall Street : Thomas Mellon Evans and the Original Corporate Raiders
The Winner's Curse : Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life
The Wizards of Wall Street : America's Leading Mutual Fund Managers Reveal How They Consistently Beat the Market
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies
Why We Buy : The Science of Shopping
And the Wolf Finally Came : The Decline of the American Steel Industry
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life
God in the Pits : Confessions of a Commodities Trader
No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders
The Farmer From Merna
The Profit Zone : How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's Profits
When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
A Big Life in Advertising
Carnegie
Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled over the Marvel Comics Empire--And Both Lost
Full Faith and Credit:: The Great S&L Debacle and Other Washington Sagas
The Big Store : Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears
The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market
The Predators' Ball : The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders

The Vulture Investors

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works
America's Corner Store : Walgreen's Prescription for Success
Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence
Coal: A Human History
Competitive Advantage : Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
First A Dream
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
On Target: How the World's Hottest Retailer Hit a Bullseye
They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovators from the Steam Engine to the Search Engine
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Developing a Highly Successful Company
Capital Account: A Money Manager's Report on a Turbulent Decade 1993-2002
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
The Little Book That Beats the Market
Unconventional Success : A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius : Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
Competition Demystified : A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy
Harvesting Profits on Wall Street: Essays in Investing
Turnaround: How Carlos Ghosn Rescued Nissan
A Double Scotch: How Chivas Regal and The Glenlivet Became Global Icons
American Still Life: The Jim Beam Story and the Making of the World's #1 Bourbon
Les Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It Going
Robert E. Rich: Memoirs of An Innovator
The Aggressive Conservative Investor
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Driving Change: The UPS Approach to Business
The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production
The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm
Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders
Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference - The Revolutionary Old-School Approach
KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success
The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing
The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
The Ten Commandments for Business Failure
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition
In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules
The Business of Spirits: How Savvy Marketers, Innovative Distillers, and Entrepreneurs Changed How We Drink
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West -- One Meal at a Time
How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The R. C. Willey Story
Profit from the Core: A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
H. J. Heinz: A Biography
Mover of Men and Mountains
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
The Great Depression: A Diary
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
But Always Fine Bourbon : Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald
Flameout: The Rise and Fall of Burger Chef
In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America
Reinventing American Health Care
Setting the Table

Author
Daniel Yergin
Joseph Nocera
Peter L. Bernstein
Richard Preston
John B. McCoy
Ethan Kapstein
Frederick Allen
Benjamin Graham
Philip L. Carret
Daniel Gross
Benjamin Graham
(Harvard Studies in Business History, 37)
Howard Schilit
David Greising
Robert B. Cialdini
Aswath Damodaran
Jan Carlzon
Jeremy J. Siegel
Lawrence A. Cunningham
Ron Chernow
Benjamin Graham
G. Bennett Stewart
John Burr Williams
Ron Chernow
Hersh Shefrin
Bernie Marcus, et al
Ray Kroc
Thomas Gilovich
Ace Greenberg
Sam Walton
Dee Hock
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Smith, Crowley
Mark Pendergrast
Stephen Jay Gould
Daniel Kahneman
David Ogilvy
Henry Kaufman
Evans, Schmalensee
Ken Iverson
Joel Glenn Brenner
Teri Agins
Clayton M. Christensen
Peter L. Bernstein
Diana B. Henriques
Richard Thaler
Kirk Kazanjian
Copeland, et al
Paco Underhill
John P. Hoerr
Nassim Taleb
Mark A. Ritchie
Michael Steinhardt
Edwin Lefevre
Jack Schwager
Karl Schriftgeisser
Adrian Slywotzky
Roger Lowenstein
Mary Wells Lawrence
Peter Krass
Dan Raviv
William Seidman
Donald Katz
Leon Levy
Connie Bruck

Topic
History
Consumer economy macro/micro
History of insurance, risk management
Rise of mini-mill steel, decline of integrated. Disruptive innovation
Bank One CEO perspective on industry
Case study / history
Case study / history
Security analysis into
Autobiography of great investor
Quick case studies
Autobiography
Case study / history
Basic financial statement primer with view toward detecting issues
Case study / history
Psychology
One of bedrock valuation volumes
SAS (airline) case study, but lessons for any customer-facing business
Why invest in stocks vs. other asset classes? The meaning of securities
Thematic compilation of Buffett letters
Case study / history
Another security analysis intro
Demented, but embraced widely enough to read
Original articulation of DDM/DCF approach
On amassing scale, driving out competition. History
Behavioral finance
Case study / history
Autobiography / case study
Behavioral finance
Notes on managing a successful investment bank
Autobiography / case study
History, founding CEO of Visa
Behavioral finance, cognitive approach
On blowing up a commercial banking franchise
Case study / history
On reasoning more expansively
Behavioral finance
Ogilvy & Mather chairman on successful marketing
Autobiography of "Dr. Doom"
Case study / history on credit cards
Autobiography, NuCor chairman
Case study / history
Case study / history
Corporate strategy
Excellent monograph on gold
History of early private equity
Behavioral finance
Money manager case studies
Classic valuation volume
Case study, strategy
Case study / history
Behavioral finance, cognitive approach
Trader autobiography. On staying humble in competitive market
Hedge fund PM autobiography
Money manager biography
Money manager case studies
Case study / history
Corporate strategy
Money manager case study
Autobiography, advertising
Biography
Case study / history
Autobiography, history. Banking, regulation
Case study / history
Autobiography, OppenheimerFunds / Odyssey Fund founder
History

Hilary Rosenberg
Michael Lewis
Michael S. Sanders
John U. Bacon
Charles D. Ellis
Barabara Freese
Michael Porter
Jim Clayton
Barbara Ehrenreich
Laura Rowley
Harold Evans
Peter L. Bernstein
Barnett Helzberg
Laurence Gonzalez
Levitt, Dubner
David F. Swensen
Joel Greenblatt
David F. Swensen
Joel Greenblatt
Bruce Greenwald
Ron Muhlenkamp
David Magee
F. Paul Pacult
F. Paul Pacult
Les Schwab
Robert Rich
Martin J. Whitman
Marc Levinson
Mike Brewster
Julia Flynn Siler
James P. Womack
Robert F. Bruner
Curtis Faith
James Kilts
Warren Liu
Conor O'Clery
Michael Krondl
Don Keough
Matthew R. Simmons
Sidney Homer
Stacy Perman
Noah Rothbaum
Andrew R. Sorkin
Stephen Fried
Jeff Benedict
James Allen Chris Zook
David Kessler
Quentin R. Skrabec
R.G. Letourneau
Atul Gawande
Benjamin Roth
Howard Marks
Peter Pronovost
Mark Kurlansky
Brad Stone
Sally Van Winkle Campbell
John McDonald
Maureen Ogle
Ezekiel Emanuel
Danny Meyer

Turnaround private equity

Case study / history
Case study / history
Case study / history
Money manager case study
Case study / history
Corporate strategy
Case study / history
How the bottom 30% live
Case study / history
Quick case studies
History
Case study / history
History, behavior, investment strategy
Psychology
Microeconomics
Investment strategy
Investment strategy
Personal finance, investment industry critique
Investment strategy
Corporate strategy
Money manager autobiography
Case study / history
Case study / history
Case study / history
Autobiography / case study
Autobiography / case study
Investment strategy
Case study / history
Case study / history
Case study / history
Operational strategy
History
Behavioral finance, investment strategy
Operational strategy, corporate strategy
Case study / history
Case study / history
History, case study
Case study / history
Energy monograph
Credit market history
Case study / history
Case study / history
History
Case study / history
Case study / autobiography
Corporate strategy
Industry insight
Case study / history
Autobiography / case study
Psychology, process
History, autobiography
Investment strategy, process
Psychology, process
Case study / history
Case study / history
Case study / history
Case study / history
Case study / history
Policy, industry background
Autobiography / case study