Books on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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The Entrepreneurs
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ISBN: 9780231199148Publication Date: 2022-11-15 -
Entrepreneur Voices on Company Culture
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Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs
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ISBN: 9780520376250Publication Date: 2022-09-23 -
Warren Buffett : Investor and Entrepreneur by
ISBN: 0231556829Publication Date: 2023-03-14
Find a Book
If you find a physical book, it will have something called a call number. The call number is like its home address; it explains where the book "lives" in the library. You can copy and paste any call number into the Call Number Locator below to find its location in the library.
A call number will look something like this:
HD66 .S4849 2017
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Select Biographies
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Start Something That Matters
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Call Number: HF5414 .M93 2011ISBN: 9781400069187Publication Date: 2011-09-06"Known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and as a contestant on The Amazing Race, Mycoskie uses his experience with TOMS, as well as interviews with leaders of non-profits and corporations, to convey valuable lessons about entrepreneurship, transparency of leadership, and living by one's values." -
The Responsible Company
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780980122787Publication Date: 2012-05-25The Responsible Company, by Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of Patagonia, and Vincent Stanley, co-editor of its Footprint Chronicles, draw on the their 40 years' experience at Patagonia – and knowledge of current efforts by other companies – to articulate the elements of responsible business for our time. Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to ultimately share its discoveries with companies as large as Wal-Mart or as small as the corner bakery. In plain, compelling prose, the authors describe the current impact of manufacturing and commerce on the planet's natural systems and human communities, and how that impact now forces business to change its ways. The Responsible Company shows companies how to reduce the harm they cause, improve the quality of their business, and provide the kind of meaningful work everyone seeks.
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Sam Walton: Made in America
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Call Number: HC102.5.W35 A3 1992ISBN: 9780385426176Publication Date: 1992-05-01"A biography of Samuel M. Walton, whose ingenuity and persistence contributed to his becoming one of the wealthiest men in America." -
Wild Company: the untold story of Banana Republic
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Call Number: HD9940.U6 B369 2012ISBN: 9781451683486Publication Date: 2012-10-02"Traces Banana Republic's beginnings and rise to becoming an international retailer, describing how the founders applied imagination while upending business conventions to develop original merchandise and marketing innovations." -
Built from Scratch: how a couple of regular guys grew the Home Depot from nothing to $30 billion
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Call Number: HD9999.D622 M375 1999ISBN: 0812930584Publication Date: 1999-04-27 -
By Invitation Only: how we built Gilt and changed the way millions shop
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Call Number: HD9999.L854 G556 2012ISBN: 9781591844631Publication Date: 2012-04-12"The authors share their perspective in the dramatic story of the Gilt Groupe's birth, rise, and evolution." -
Delivering Happiness: a path to profits, passion, and purpose
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Call Number: HF5386 .H864 2010ISBN: 9780446563048Publication Date: 2010-06-07"Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand." -
Start Something That Matters
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Call Number: HF5414 .M93 2011ISBN: 9781400069187Publication Date: 2011-09-06"Known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and as a contestant on The Amazing Race, Mycoskie uses his experience with TOMS, as well as interviews with leaders of non-profits and corporations, to convey valuable lessons about entrepreneurship, transparency of leadership, and living by one's values."
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon
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Call Number: Z473.A485 S76 2013ISBN: 9780316219266Publication Date: 2013-10-15"This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now..." -
Jack Welch and the G. E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780070581043Publication Date: 1998-07-31Jack Welch is indisputably the most effective CEO in America today and has been for the past two decades. Robert Slater concentrates on Welch's present-day business strategies and his vision for the future in Jack Welch and the G.E. Way.
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Do the KIND Thing
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Call Number: HD9010.L83 A3 2015ISBN: 9780553393248Publication Date: 2015-03-31"When Daniel Lubetzky started KIND Healthy Snacks in 2004, he aimed to defy the conventional wisdom that snack bars could never be both tasty and healthy, convenient and wholesome. A decade later, the transformative power of the company's "AND" philosophy has resulted in an astonishing record of achievement..." -
The Fish That Ate the Whale: the life and times of America's banana king
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Call Number: HD9259.B2 Z463 2012ISBN: 9780374299279Publication Date: 2012-06-05A biography of the little-known antihero, Samuel Zemurray (1877-1961), the disgraced mogul of the much hated United Fruit Company who aided the creation of Israel, funded many of Tulane University's buildings, and had a hand in the rise of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. -
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780292723825Publication Date: 2012-04-15From a 1930s roadside café in Corbin, Kentucky, Harland Sanders launched a fried chicken business that now circles the globe, serving "finger lickin' good" chicken to more than twelve million people every day. But to get there, he had to give up control of his company and even his own image, becoming a mere symbol to people today who don't know that Colonel Sanders was a very real human being. This book tells his story of a dirt-poor striver with unlimited ambition who personified the American Dream.
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Idea Man: a memoir by the cofounder of Microsoft
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Call Number: HC102.5.A49 A3 2011ISBN: 9781591843825Publication Date: 2011-04-19"Paul Allen, best known as the cofounder of Microsoft, has left his mark on numerous fields, from aviation and science to rock 'n' roll, professional sports, and philanthropy. His passions and curiosity have transformed the way we live. In 2007 and again in 2008, Time named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world..." -
Elon Musk
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Call Number: HC102.5.M88 V36 2015ISBN: 9780062301239Publication Date: 2015-05-19"Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition?..." -
Creativity, Inc.: overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration
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Call Number: HD53 .C394 2014ISBN: 0593070097Publication Date: 2014"As a young man, the author had a dream: to make the world's first computer-animated movie. Nine years later and against all odds, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. This book reveals the ideals and techniques, honed over years, that have made Pixar so widely admired - and so profitable." -
The Intel Trinity: how Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove built the world's most important company
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Call Number: HD9696.S44 I566 2014ISBN: 9780062226761Publication Date: 2014-07-15"The definitive history of the Intel Corporation--the essential company of the digital age--told through the lives of its three preeminent figures: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove. Intel has often been hailed as the most important company in the world, and with good reason: While technology companies come and go, Intel remains, more than four decades after its inception, a defining company of the global digital economy..." -
Steve Jobs
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Call Number: QA76.2.J63 I722 2011ISBN: 9781451648539Publication Date: 2011-10-24"From the author of bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. -
Edison
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Call Number: TK140.E3 J75ISBN: 0471548065Publication Date: 1992-02-25"Regarded as the classic standard biography on Thomas Edison. It is the only biography written in the last 40 years to be recommended by the official voice of the caretakers of the Edison Laboratory National Monument in New Jersey which houses all of Edison's original records, sketches, notes, correspondence and memoranda. Depicts Edison as a pivotal figure in America's economic and industrial revolution success and at the same time as a human being, including his exploitative and, at times, crude qualities." -
Tesla
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Call Number: TK140.T4 C37 2013ISBN: 9780691057767Publication Date: 2013-05-12"Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society..." -
The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley
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Call Number: TK7807.N69 B47 2005ISBN: 0195163435Publication Date: 2005-06-10"Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful individual but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics, and culture that defines Silicon Valley. Here is the life of a giant of the high-tech industry, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel who co-invented the integrated circuit, the electronic heart of every modern computer, automobile, cellular telephone, advanced weapon, and video game..." -
Internet Innovators
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 1299311539Publication Date: 2013-01-01This volume presents biographies of over 120 individuals and personalities who had an innovative and influential impact on the development and evolution of the Internet, with an emphasis on Dot Com founders and leaders. This content details the lives of these business innovators in the area of the Internet, with accompanying sidebars describing the company, organization, online service, or website that they founded, for which they worked, or with which they are affiliated. (Examples would include Facebook, Wikipedia, Pandora, Reddit, Twitter, Yahoo, MySpace, PayPal, GoDaddy, Tumblr, and YouTube) In particular, sidebars will describe why the company was influential in the Internet world. Each article will also have an accompanying photo. The Innovators series follows the model of previous Great Lives sets and offers an international focus. -
Elon Musk
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Call Number: HC102.5.M88 I83 2023ISBN: 9781982181284Publication Date: 2023-09-12From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaker who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
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Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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Call Number: CT275.R75 C47 1999ISBN: 0679757031Publication Date: 1999-09-07"John D. Rockefeller, Sr., - history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty - is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers." "Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America."... -
Sons of Wichita
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Call Number: HC102.5.K65 S38 2014ISBN: 9781455518739Publication Date: 2014-05-20"Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now. Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money," Fred Koch cautioned. "It may either be a blessing or a curse." Fred's legacy would become a blessing and a curse to his four sons-Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and Bill-who in the ensuing decades fought bitterly over their birthright, the oil and cattle-ranching empire their father left behind in 1967..." -
Masters of Enterprise: giants of American business from John Jacob Astor and J.P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey
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Call Number: HF3023.A2 B68 1999ISBN: 0684854732Publication Date: 1999-06-07"Here, in a wittily told and deeply insightful history, is a complete set of portraits of America's greatest generators of wealth. Only such a collective study allows us to appreciate what makes the great entrepreneurs really tick. As H.W. Brands shows, these men and women are driven, they are focused, they deeply identify with the businesses they create, and they possess the charisma necessary to persuade other talented people to join them. They do it partly for the money, but mostly for the thrill of creation." -
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life
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Call Number: HG172.B84 S37 2008ISBN: 9780553805093Publication Date: 2008-09-29"A portrait of the life and career of investment guru Warren Buffett sheds new light on the man, as well as on the work, ideas, business principles, strategies, and no-nonsense insights that have guided his phenomenally successful business endeavors." -
The Power Broker
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Call Number: NA9085.M68 C37 1974ISBN: 0394480767Publication Date: 1974-07-12"This is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man-an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives." Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1975. -
Xenophon's Cyrus the Great: the arts of leadership and war
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Call Number: PA4494 .C7 2006ISBN: 0312355319Publication Date: 2006-05-02"Tells the story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns. This work allows business executives and managers, military officers, and government officials, to learn about and benefit from Cyrus the Great's extraordinary achievements." -
Julius Rosenwald
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Call Number: eBookISBN: 0253112044Publication Date: 2006-05-23This is the first serious biography of the exuberant man who transformed the Sears, Roebuck company into the country's most important retailer. He was also one of the early 20th century's notable philanthropists. -
Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way
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Call Number: HC102.5.T86 W54 1981ISBN: 0812910044Publication Date: 1981-11-01Probes the life and character of Atlanta businessman, Ted Turner, whose drive and intense ambition led him to build a telecommunications empire, purchase and actively manage a professional baseball team and win the America's Cup. -
Beyond Tallulah
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Call Number: HC102.5.W95 A33 2011ISBN: 1595910697Publication Date: 2011-10-25Beyond Tallulah, the illustrated biography of Sam Wyly, the most versatile big-company entrepreneur in American history, tells one of the most compelling untold business stories of our time. Wyly built 10 companies in nine different industries with 500 million- or billion-dollar valuations. His achievements serve as a valuable point of reference for today's generation of Start-up Whiz Kids.
Books for this Class
For this assignment you are expected to read one of the following (unless you have permission from your professor to use another book):
Benioff, M.R., & Langley, M. (2019). Trailblazer: The power of business as the greatest platform for change (1st ed.). Currency.
Hennessy, J. L., & Isaacson, W. (2018). Leading matters: Lessons from my journey (1st ed.). Stanford University Press.
Stone, B. (2017). The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the killer companies of the new Silicon Valley are changing the world (1st ed.). Little Brown & Company.
Hastings, R., & Meyer, E. (2020). No rules rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention (1st ed.). Penguin Publishing Group.
One of these books is available in the library. You can use the SURF search box to search for the title. If your search returns no results, be sure to change the drop down next to the search bar to include UM Libraries and use the facet in the left menu to "Include Non-USMAI Results." Even if our library doesn't have a title you can still request a copy via Interlibrary Loan.
