Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Business, society and national systems

Management and Organisational Design

Histories of the large corporation, books on philanthropy and sustainability, and studies of business in particular countries.

Books 28Experts 6Recommenders 10

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  1. Strategy and StructureAlfred D. Chandler Jr., 1962
  2. The New Industrial StateJohn Kenneth Galbraith, 1967
  3. Scale and ScopeAlfred D. Chandler Jr., 1990
  4. The Canadian EstablishmentPeter C. Newman, 1975
  5. Cannibals with ForksJohn Elkington, 1997
Strategy and StructureStrategy and Structure
T1 Strategy and Structure
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1962
Open LibraryGoodreads

How DuPont, GM, Standard Oil and Sears built the multidivisional firm.

The New Industrial StateThe New Industrial State
T1 The New Industrial State
John Kenneth Galbraith · 1967
Open LibraryGoodreads

How large corporations run by a technostructure of experts plan rather than compete.

Recommended by: Paul Graham

Scale and ScopeScale and Scope
T1 Scale and Scope
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why big industrial firms in the US, Britain and Germany rose or lagged, 1880 to 1940.

The Canadian EstablishmentThe Canadian Establishment
T2 The Canadian Establishment
Peter C. Newman · 1975
Open LibraryGoodreads

A portrait of Canada's business elite in 1975, from hundreds of interviews.

Cannibals with ForksCannibals with Forks
T2 Cannibals with Forks
John Elkington · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

The triple bottom line: report on economic, environmental and social results.

Swiss MadeSwiss Made
T2 Swiss Made
R. James Breiding · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why a small country without resources produces so many world-leading companies.

Big BusinessBig Business
T2 Big Business
Tyler Cowen · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

A defence of American business on fraud, CEO pay, monopoly and tech, issue by issue.

The Business Reinvention of Japan
T2 The Business Reinvention of Japan
Ulrike Schaede · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Japanese firms after 1990 moved into hidden upstream niches rather than stagnate.

Business MaharajasBusiness Maharajas
T3 Business Maharajas
Gita Piramal · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Profiles of the family houses that still dominate the index.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Public Management: The New Zealand ModelPublic Management: The New Zealand Model
T3 Public Management: The New Zealand Model
Jonathan Boston, John Martin, June Pallot, Pat Walsh · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

The state-sector redesign other governments copied; contracts, outputs, accountability.

Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of BusAsian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia
T3 Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia
Michael Backman · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Written straight after the 1997 crisis on opacity, related-party dealing and family control.

Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global BeaBeauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
T3 Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
Geoffrey Jones · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Harvard business historian; sets her brand-building against the whole industry.

Comeback: America's New Economic BoomComeback: America's New Economic Boom
T3 Comeback: America's New Economic Boom
Charles R. Morris · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Africa's Business RevolutionAfrica's Business Revolution
T3 Africa's Business Revolution
Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, Georges Desvaux · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

McKinsey survey of operating companies; Ghana appears among the consumer-market cases.

Green SwansGreen Swans
T3 Green Swans
John Elkington · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

The author's own recall of the triple bottom line.

Net PositiveNet Positive
T3 Net Positive
Paul Polman, Andrew Winston · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account: Polman on the Sustainable Living Plan years.

The Visible HandThe Visible Hand
T4 The Visible Hand
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. · 1977
Open LibraryGoodreads

How salaried managers replaced markets in coordinating US business, 1840 to 1920.

Recommended by: Paul Graham

The CompanyThe Company
T4 The Company
John Micklethwait · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

A short history of the joint stock company, from trading charters to multinationals.

Recommended by: Paul Graham

One Billion Customers: Lessons from the FronOne Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China
T4 One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China
James McGregor · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The FoundationThe Foundation
T4 The Foundation
Joel L. Fleishman · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Money Well SpentMoney Well Spent
T4 Money Well Spent
Paul Brest, Hal Harvey · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Give SmartGive Smart
T4 Give Smart
Thomas J. Tierney · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates

Screw Business As UsualScrew Business As Usual
T4 Screw Business As Usual
Richard Branson · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Brett Adcock, Elon Musk

With Charity for All: Why Charities Are FailWith Charity for All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
T4 With Charity for All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Ken Stern · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Power to CompeteThe Power to Compete
T4 The Power to Compete
Hiroshi Mikitani, Ryoichi Mikitani · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Rakuten's founder and his economist father debate how Japan can compete again.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai

The Politics IndustryThe Politics Industry
T4 The Politics Industry
Katherine M. Gehl · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

US politics analysed as an industry with five forces, and reforms to fix it.

Recommended by: Charles Koch, Mark Cuban

Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account oPoorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
T4 Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Prosperity
T4 Prosperity
Colins Mayer
Goodreads

Recommended by: Satya Nadella

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