This Day in Business History

Great Corporate Tales, Commercial Milestones, Colorful Titans, Captivating Quotes, and Calamitous Blunders for Every Day of the Year

Raymond L. Francis - Collection Business Reference / Gift

426 pages, parution le 25/10/2005

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The most sensational frauds, fads, and follies ever to sweep the business and financial worlds

Featuring hundreds of fun facts, quotable quips, and poignant profiles organized in a day-by-day format, This Day in Business History gives you the skinny on some of the most admirable and execrable personages in business history, along with the inside scoop on the all-time greatest business and financial coups and disasters--for example:

MAY 8, 1532 The first known limited liability partnership contract is signed in Florence. By ensuring that investors could lose no more than the amount they invested, the invention of limited liability was critical to the development of large-scale industry because it encouraged investment and freed up capital.
JULY 6, 1785 The Continental Congress in Philadelphia agrees unanimously "that the money unit of the United States of America be one dollar; that the smallest coin be of copper, of which two hundred shall pass for one dollar; that several pieces shall increase in a decimal ratio."
FEBRUARY 1, 1963 "There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist--the taxidermist leaves the hide."
--Mortimer Caplan, Director, Internal Revenue Service
JUNE 25, 2002 What a day for spectacular scandals: WorldCom announces it has lied about $3.9 billion in expenses and fake profits, Adelphia files for bankruptcy, and Martha Stewart makes her famous clenched-face appearance on the cooking segment of CBS's "The Early Morning Show."

WARNING: This book can be habit-forming. Side effects can include gasps of amazement, tears of merriment, the shock of recognition, a persistent guffaw, and a generalized swelling of the brain's knowledge centers.

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Preface
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Raymond L. Francis
Collection	Business Reference / Gift
Parution	25/10/2005
Nb. de pages	426
Format	15 x 21,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	630g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071447775
ISBN13	978-0-07-144777-5