If you are looking for books this Black Friday to buy for yourself or friends, take a look at this article from the Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal Article located HERE
It lists the specific books which successful business men and CEOs used to help improve their entreprise, and the aspects of the book’s particular significance.
I have listed some of my favorite books HERE.
Really interesting video below on what motivates people based on research conducted by MIT.
Pretty interesting background on the creator of Red Bull. Austrian entrepreneur and former marketing executive Dietrich Mateschitz actually discovered the drink in Thailand, which was previous called Krating Daeng (see below) Dietrich found the concoction to be a great deterrent against jet lag during business trips, and thus used his marketing skills to change the [...]
Research in Motion (better known as the Blackberry maker) has taken a huge beating lately. Apple and Google’s steady march into the cell phone market has spelled trouble for the Canadian based company. The stock continues to decline, and it went down almost 10% in one day last week. However, I wanted to share this [...]
Marcos Galperin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, later finding a job as a Futures and Options associate managing YPF’s currency and oil derivatives program (YPF is an integrated oil company in Buenos Aires). After YPF, he worked in the fixed income department of J.P. Morgan in New York. Marcos then attended Stanford [...]
This article by Worth.com in the link below is a MUST SEE! The top 100 most influential people in finance are listed with a description of their path to power. Also listed are some of the power moves they made to propel their influence. Profiles include Lloyd Blankfeind, Angela Merkel, Warren Buffet, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Rupert [...]
George Roberts of KKR being interviewed at Stanford Business School. George describes how to pick a good business partner, as well as the early days of KKR. George is one of the pioneers of the leveraged buyout business. If you have read the book Barbarians at The Gate you will definitely enjoy this video.
With Qatar winning the 2022 World Cup Bid, I thought it would be interesting to delve into who are some of the current entrepreneurs living in this country and also what is the status of it’s business. As one might assume, land development would probably be the countries biggest business right now. Thus I stumbled [...]
