Business histories and biographies

Adams, W. (1977), The Structure of American Industry, 5th ed. (Macmillan).

Albrecht, K. and R. Zemke (1985), Service America! (Warner Books).

Bamford, J. (1983), The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Penguin).

Battelle, J. (2005), The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (Portfolio / Penguin Group).

Bhide, A. V. (2000), The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses (Oxford Univ. Press).

Bloom, J. (2016), Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story (Atlantic Monthly Press).

Boehm, G. A. W. and A. Groner (1972), Science in the service of mankind: the Battelle story (D. C. Heath).

Boone, L. E. and D. L. Kurtz (1979), Contemporary Business, 2nd ed. (Dryden Press).

Brands, H. W. (1999), Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business From John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey (The Free Press).

Byrne, J. A. (1993), The Whiz Kids: Ten Founding Fathers of American Busness - and the Legacy They Left Us (Doubleday).

Byrne, J. A. (2011), World Changers: Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business As We Knew It (Portfolio / Penguin).

Campbell, R. (1991), Ed., The Dynamics of Silicon Valley: the Story Behind America's Ongoing Revolution (Western Business Forum).

Campbell, R., Ed. (1994), Colorado Rising: Rugged Enterprise Along America's Front Range (Western Business Forum).

Canteln, P. L. (1993), The History of MCI: the Early Years 1968-1988 (heritage Press).

Carr, W. H. A. (1989), Up Another Notch: Institution Building at Mead (McGraw-Hill).

Carroll, P. (1993), Big Blues: the Unmaking of IBM (Crown Publishers).

Caves, R. (1972), American Industry: Structure, Conduct, Performance, 3rd ed. (Prentice-Hall).

Chaffee, C. D. (1987), The Rewiring of America: the Fiber Optics Revolution (Academic Press).

Chandler, A. D., Jr. (1962), Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise (MIT Press).

Chesbrough, H. (2006), Open Innovation: the New Imperative For Creating and Profiting From Technology (Harvard Business School Press).

Clark, J. A. and M. T. Halbouty (1952), Spindletop (Random House).

Cohen, B. and J. Greenfield (1997), Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip: Lead With Your Values and Make Money, Too (Simon & Schuster).

Cohen, S. (1983), A Pictorial History of SmokeJumping (Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.).

Collins, D. (1990), The Story of Kodak (Harry N. Abrams).

Coupland, D. (1995), Microserfs (Regan Books / Harper Perennial).

Cusumano, M. A. and R. W. Selby (1995), Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes, Markets, and Manages People (The Free Press).

Dorsey, G. (1999), Silicon Sky: How One Small Start-Up Went Over the Top to Beat the Big Boys into Satellite Heaven (Perseus Books).

Duncan, F. (1990), Rickover and the Nuclear Navy: the Discipline of Technology (Naval Institute Press).

Dyer, D. and D. Gross (2001), The Generations of Corning: the Life and Times of a Global Corporation (Oxford Univ. Press).

Fegan, M. D. (1975), Ed., A History of Engineering and Scienc in the Bell System: the Early Years (1875-1925) (Bell Telephone Laboratories).

Fishman, C. (2006), The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy (Penguin Press).

Forester, T. (1987), High-tech Society (MIT Press).

Galambos, L. and J. E. Sewell (1995), Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 (Cambridge University Press).

Gertner, J. (2012), The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Penguin Press).

Gorowitz, B. (1981), Ed., A Century of Progress: the General Electric Story (Schenectady: Hall of History).

Graham, M. B. W. (1986), The Business of Research: RCA and the Videodisc (Cambridge).

Green, D. and D. Merrill (2005), More Than a Hobby: How a $600 Start-Up Became America's Home & Craft Superstore (Thomas Nelson).

Gundling, E. (2000), The 3M Way to Innovation: Balancing People and Profit (Kodansha International).

Hackenburg, H. J., Jr. (1986), Muttering Machines to Laser Beams: a History of Mountain Bell (Mountain Bell).

Harwood, W. B. (1993), Raise Heaven and Earth: the Story of Martin Marietta People and Their Pioneering Achievements (Simon and Schuster).

Haynes, W., American Chemical Industry, Vol. II: the World War I Period: 1912-1922.

Heppenheimer, T. A. (1995), Turbulent Skies: the History of Commercial Aviation (Wiley).

Hiltzik, M. (1999), Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Harper Collins).

Iacocca, L. and W. Novak (1984), Iacocca: an Autobiography (Bantam).

International Business Machines Corporation (1976), 200 Years of Work in America: Think Bicentennial Issue (International Business Machines Corporation).

Isaacson, W. (2011), Steve Jobs (Simon & Schuster).

Jackson, T. (1997), Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company (Dutton).

Jacobs, T. (1992), A History of General Motors (Smithmark).

Joel, A. E. and G. E. Schindler (1982), Eds., A History of Engineering and Scienc in the Bell System: Switching Technology (1925-1975) (Bell Telephone Laboratories).

Johnstone, B. (1998), We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age (Basic Books).

Katz, D. (1994), Just Do It: the Nike Spirit in the Corporate World (Adams Publishing).

Katz, D. (1994), Just Do It: the Nike Spirit in the Corporate World (Random House).

Kearns, D. T. and D. A. Nadler (1992), Prophets in the Dark: How Xerox Reinvented Itself and Beat Back the Japanese (Harper Business).

Kemper, S. (2003), Code Name Ginger: the Story Behind SEGWAY and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World (Harvard Business School PRess).

Kidder, T. (1981), The Soul of a New Machine (Avon).

Kinsman, F. (1987), The Telecommuters (Wiley).

Kirkpatrick, D. (2010), The Facebook Effect: the Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World (Simon & Schuster).

Lacey, R. (1986), Ford: the Men and the Machine (Little, Brown and Company).

Landes, D. S., J. Mokyr, and W. J. Baumoll (2010), The Invention of Enterprise (Princeton Univ. Press).

Levy, S. (1994), Insanely Great: the Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything (Viking).

Lewis, M. (2000), The New New Thing: a Silicon Valley Story (W. W. Norton).

Lewis, M. (2010), The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W. W. Norton).

Lih, A. (2009), The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia (Hyperion).

Lyons, E. (1966), David Sarnoff (Harper & Row).

Lyons, N. (1976), The Sony Vision (Crown Publishers).

Mayer, M. (1978), The Builders: Houses, People, Neighborhoods, Governments, Money (W.W. Norton).

Maynard, C. (1966), Flight Plan For Tomorrow: the Douglas Story, a Condensed History (The Douglas Aircraft Company).

McElheny, V. K. (1998), Insisting on the Impossible: the Life of Edwin Land, Inventor of Instant Photography (Perseus Books).

Microsoft Corporation (2000), Inside Out: Microsoft in Our Own Words (Warner Books).

Morita, A., E. M. Reingold, and M. Shimomura (1986), Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony (E. P. Dutton).

Nathan, J. (1999), Sony (Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin).

Nitske, W. R. (1965), The Complete Mercedes Story, 3rd ed. (Macmillan).

Noble, D. F. (1977), America By Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (Oxford).

Okimoto, D. I. (1989), Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy For High Technology (Stanford Univ. Press).

Packard, D. (1995), The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Harper Business).

Paulson, E. (2001), Inside Cisco: the Real Story of Sustained M&A Growth (Wiley).

Pritchett, P. and B. Muirhead (1998), The Mars Pathfinder Approach to "Faster-Better-Cheaper": an Employee Handbook on Innovation (Pritchett & Associates).

Pugh, E. W. (1995), Building IBM: Shaping and Industry and Its Technology (MIT Press).

Red Herring (1996), The Red Herring Guide to the Digital Universe (Warner Books).

Regis, E. (2003), The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau (W. W. Norton).

Reich, C. A. (1970), The Greening of America (Bantam Books).

Rey, R. F. (1983), Engineering and Operations in the Bell System, 2nd ed. (AT&T Bell Laboratories).

Rich, B. R. and L. Janos (1994), Skunk Works (Little, Brown & Company).

Rifkin, G. and G. Harrar (1988), The Ultimate Entrepreneur: the Story of Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corporation (Contemporary Books).

Rodgers, B. (1986), The IBM Way: Insights into the World's Most Successful Marketing Organization (Harper & Row).

Rosegrant, S. and D. Lampe (1992), Route 128: Lessons From Boston's High-teh Community (Harper Collins / Basic Books).

Sarnoff, D. (1968), Looking Ahead (McGraw-Hill).

Sasaki, N. (1990), Management and Industrial Structure in Japan, 2nd ed. (Pergamon).

Schein, E. H., P. S. DeLisi, P. J. Kampas, and M. M. Sonduck (2003), DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC: the Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation (Berrett-Koehler Publishers).

Schlumberger, A. G. (1982), The Schlumberger Adventure: Two Brothers Who Pioneered in Petroleum Technology (Arco).

Schroeder, A. (2008), The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Bantam Dell / Random House).

Serling, R. J. (1992), Legend & Legacy: the Story of Boeing and Its People (St. Martin's Press).

Shnayerson, M. (1996), The Art That Could: the Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle (Random House).

Singular, S. (2003), Relentless: Bill Daniels and the Triumph of Cable TV (James Charlton Associates).

Slater, R. (1993), The New GE: How Jack Welch Revived an American Institution (Business One Irwin).

Sloan, A. (1983), Three Plus One Equals Billions: the Bendix-Martin Marietta War (Arbor House).

Sobel, R. and D. B. Sicilia (1986), The Entrepreneurs: an American Adventure (Houghton Mifflin).

Southwick, K. (1999), Silicon Goldrush: the Next Generation of High-Tech Stars Rewrites the Rules of Business (Wiley).

Stern, S. L. and T. Schenhaus (1990), Toyland: the High-Stakes Game of the Toy Industry (Contemporary Books).

Suits, C. G. (1965), Suits: Speaking of Research (Wiley).

Swasy, A. (1993), Soap Opera: the Inside Story of Proctor & Gamble (Times Books / Random House).

Tatsuno, S. M. (1990), Created in Japan: From Imitators to World-Class Innovators (Ballinger Publishing Company).

Teerlink, R. and L. Ozley (2000), More Than a Motorcycle: the Leadership Journey of Harley-Davidson (Harvard Business School Press).

Temin, P. and L. Galambos (1987), The Fall of the Bell System: a Study in Prices and Politics (Cambridge Univ. Press).

Thompson, J. B. (2010), Merchants of Culture: the Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century (Plume / Penguin Group).

Thurow, L. (1992), Head to Head: the Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America (William Morrow).

Toffler, A. (1985), The Adaptive Corporation (McGraw-Hill).

Vance, A. (2015), Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest For a Fantastic Future (Ecco).

Watson, B. (2002), The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made (Viking).

Welch, J. and J. A. Byrne (2001), Jack: Straight From the Gut (Warner Business Books).

Wensberg, P. C. (1987), Land's Polaroid: a Company and the Man Who Invented It (Houghton Mifflin Company).

Werth, B. (1995), The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest For the Perfect Drug (Touchstone / Simon & Schuster).

Wood, J. (2006), Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: an Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children (Collins).

Woods, C. (1959), Ideas That Became Big Business (Founders).

Wright, J. P. (1979), On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z. De Lorean's Look Inside the Automotive Giant (Wright Enterprises).

Ziegler, M., B. Rosenzweig, and P. Ziegler (1992), The Republic of Tea: Letters to a Young Zentrepreneur (Currency / Doubleday).

Zung, T. T. K. (2001), Buckminster Fuller: Anthology For the New Millennium (St. Martin's Press).