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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and PowerA 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, 1812-1970Financial 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 PersuasionInvestment Valuation : Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any AssetMoments 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 GuideThe Theory of Investment Value Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr Beyond Greed and Fear : Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of InvestingBuilt from Scratch : How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew the Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion Grinding It Out : The Making of McDonald'sHow 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 AgeComplexity : The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and ChaosDead 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 ItFull House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to DarwinJudgment Under Uncertainty Ogilvy on AdvertisingOn Money and Markets A Wall Street Memoir Paying With Plastic : The Digital Revolution in Buying and BorrowingPlain Talk: Lessons from a Business MaverickThe Emperors of Chocolate : Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars The End of Fashion : The Mass Marketing of the Clothing BusinessThe 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 RaidersThe Winner's Curse : Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic LifeThe Wizards of Wall Street : America's Leading Mutual Fund Managers Reveal How They Consistently Beat the MarketValuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of CompaniesWhy We Buy : The Science of ShoppingAnd the Wolf Finally Came : The Decline of the American Steel IndustryFooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in LifeGod in the Pits : Confessions of a Commodities TraderNo Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets Reminiscences of a Stock OperatorStock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock TradersThe Farmer From MernaThe Profit Zone : How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow's ProfitsWhen Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital ManagementA Big Life in AdvertisingCarnegieComic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled over the Marvel Comics Empire--And Both LostFull Faith and Credit:: The Great S&L Debacle and Other Washington SagasThe Big Store : Inside the Crisis and Revolution at SearsThe Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the MarketThe Predators' Ball : The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders

The Vulture InvestorsMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair GameThe Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron WorksAmerica's Corner Store : Walgreen's Prescription for SuccessCapital: The Story of Long-Term Investment ExcellenceCoal: A Human HistoryCompetitive Advantage : Creating and Sustaining Superior PerformanceFirst A DreamNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaOn Target: How the World's Hottest Retailer Hit a BullseyeThey Made America: Two Centuries of Innovators from the Steam Engine to the Search EngineWedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great NationWhat I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Developing a Highly Successful CompanyCapital Account: A Money Manager's Report on a Turbulent Decade 1993-2002Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and WhyFreakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingPioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional InvestmentThe Little Book That Beats the MarketUnconventional Success : A Fundamental Approach to Personal InvestmentYou 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 NissanA 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 BourbonLes Schwab Pride in Performance: Keep It GoingRobert E. Rich: Memoirs of An InnovatorThe Aggressive Conservative InvestorThe Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger Driving Change: The UPS Approach to BusinessThe House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine DynastyThe Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean ProductionThe Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect StormWay of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary TradersDoing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference - The Revolutionary Old-School ApproachKFC in China: Secret Recipe for SuccessThe Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone KnowingThe Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of SpiceThe Ten Commandments for Business FailureTwilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World EconomyA History of Interest Rates, Fourth EditionIn-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the RulesThe Business of Spirits: How Savvy Marketers, Innovative Distillers, and Entrepreneurs Changed How We DrinkToo Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and ThemselvesAppetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West -- One Meal at a TimeHow to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The R. C. Willey StoryProfit from the Core: A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American AppetiteH. 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 InvestorSafe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside OutBirdseye: 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 FitzgeraldFlameout: The Rise and Fall of Burger ChefIn Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore AmericaReinventing American Health CareSetting the Table

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Daniel Yergin HistoryJoseph Nocera Consumer economy macro/microPeter L. Bernstein History of insurance, risk managementRichard Preston Rise of mini-mill steel, decline of integrated. Disruptive innovationJohn B. McCoy Bank One CEO perspective on industryEthan Kapstein Case study / historyFrederick Allen Case study / historyBenjamin Graham Security analysis intoPhilip L. Carret Autobiography of great investorDaniel Gross Quick case studiesBenjamin Graham Autobiography(Harvard Studies in Business History, 37) Case study / historyHoward Schilit Basic financial statement primer with view toward detecting issuesDavid Greising Case study / historyRobert B. Cialdini PsychologyAswath Damodaran One of bedrock valuation volumesJan Carlzon SAS (airline) case study, but lessons for any customer-facing businessJeremy J. Siegel Why invest in stocks vs. other asset classes? The meaning of securitiesLawrence A. Cunningham Thematic compilation of Buffett lettersRon Chernow Case study / historyBenjamin Graham Another security analysis introG. Bennett Stewart Demented, but embraced widely enough to readJohn Burr Williams Original articulation of DDM/DCF approachRon Chernow On amassing scale, driving out competition. HistoryHersh Shefrin Behavioral financeBernie Marcus, et al Case study / historyRay Kroc Autobiography / case studyThomas Gilovich Behavioral financeAce Greenberg Notes on managing a successful investment bankSam Walton Autobiography / case studyDee Hock History, founding CEO of VisaM. Mitchell Waldrop Behavioral finance, cognitive approachSmith, Crowley On blowing up a commercial banking franchiseMark Pendergrast Case study / historyStephen Jay Gould On reasoning more expansivelyDaniel Kahneman Behavioral financeDavid Ogilvy Ogilvy & Mather chairman on successful marketingHenry Kaufman Autobiography of "Dr. Doom"Evans, Schmalensee Case study / history on credit cardsKen Iverson Autobiography, NuCor chairmanJoel Glenn Brenner Case study / historyTeri Agins Case study / historyClayton M. Christensen Corporate strategyPeter L. Bernstein Excellent monograph on goldDiana B. Henriques History of early private equityRichard Thaler Behavioral financeKirk Kazanjian Money manager case studiesCopeland, et al Classic valuation volumePaco Underhill Case study, strategyJohn P. Hoerr Case study / historyNassim Taleb Behavioral finance, cognitive approachMark A. Ritchie Trader autobiography. On staying humble in competitive marketMichael Steinhardt Hedge fund PM autobiographyEdwin Lefevre Money manager biographyJack Schwager Money manager case studiesKarl Schriftgeisser Case study / historyAdrian Slywotzky Corporate strategyRoger Lowenstein Money manager case studyMary Wells Lawrence Autobiography, advertisingPeter Krass BiographyDan Raviv Case study / historyWilliam Seidman Autobiography, history. Banking, regulationDonald Katz Case study / historyLeon Levy Autobiography, OppenheimerFunds / Odyssey Fund founderConnie Bruck History

Hilary Rosenberg Turnaround private equityMichael Lewis Case study / historyMichael S. Sanders Case study / historyJohn U. Bacon Case study / historyCharles D. Ellis Money manager case studyBarabara Freese Case study / historyMichael Porter Corporate strategyJim Clayton Case study / historyBarbara Ehrenreich How the bottom 30% liveLaura Rowley Case study / historyHarold Evans Quick case studiesPeter L. Bernstein HistoryBarnett Helzberg Case study / history

History, behavior, investment strategyLaurence Gonzalez PsychologyLevitt, Dubner MicroeconomicsDavid F. Swensen Investment strategyJoel Greenblatt Investment strategyDavid F. Swensen Personal finance, investment industry critiqueJoel Greenblatt Investment strategyBruce Greenwald Corporate strategyRon Muhlenkamp Money manager autobiographyDavid Magee Case study / historyF. Paul Pacult Case study / historyF. Paul Pacult Case study / historyLes Schwab Autobiography / case studyRobert Rich Autobiography / case studyMartin J. Whitman Investment strategyMarc Levinson Case study / historyMike Brewster Case study / historyJulia Flynn Siler Case study / historyJames P. Womack Operational strategyRobert F. Bruner HistoryCurtis Faith Behavioral finance, investment strategyJames Kilts Operational strategy, corporate strategyWarren Liu Case study / historyConor O'Clery Case study / historyMichael Krondl History, case studyDon Keough Case study / historyMatthew R. Simmons Energy monographSidney Homer Credit market historyStacy Perman Case study / historyNoah Rothbaum Case study / historyAndrew R. Sorkin HistoryStephen Fried Case study / historyJeff Benedict Case study / autobiographyJames Allen Chris Zook Corporate strategyDavid Kessler Industry insightQuentin R. Skrabec Case study / historyR.G. Letourneau Autobiography / case studyAtul Gawande Psychology, processBenjamin Roth History, autobiographyHoward Marks Investment strategy, processPeter Pronovost Psychology, processMark Kurlansky Case study / historyBrad Stone Case study / historySally Van Winkle Campbell Case study / historyJohn McDonald Case study / historyMaureen Ogle Case study / historyEzekiel Emanuel Policy, industry backgroundDanny Meyer Autobiography / case study