Corporate & Public Finance

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was....

In The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock, and Profit, professor and economist Aswath Damodaran guides listeners through the fundamentals and step-by-step process of picking winning companies to invest in.

Arnold Ziegel formed Mountain Mentors Associates after his retirement from a corporate banking career of more than 30 years at Citibank....

Super Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar start-ups from the rest - revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false....

Startup money is moving online, and this guide shows you how it works. The Art of Startup Fundraising takes a fresh look at raising money for startups, with a focus on the changing face of startup finance....

Welcome to the exciting world of angel investing and entrepreneurship. Using his rich experience as an investor and mentor to numerous start-ups, Sanjay Kulkarni provides you a ringside view of this world....

More than 10,000 mergers and acquisitions occur annually in the US, many among small and mid-sized companies. These complex transactions can be an effective growth strategy, but they carry significant risk....

Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming—but you have to understand them to manage effectively. Finance Basics explains the fundamentals simply and quickly....

Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction....

A comprehensive handbook for middle-market business sellers.

Hype Machine: How Greed, Fear and Free Money Crashed Crypto is the definitive take on the crypto boom and bust of the last half-decade....

The leveraged credit market is currently valued at over $4 trillion and is one of the fastest-growing asset classes, fueling demand for well-trained credit analysts. This comprehensive manual teaches the skills to succeed in the dynamic and complex credit markets.

This critical guide provides listeners with the tools and information they need to keep their organizations as blissfully risk free as possible....

Mastering Private Equity: Transformation via Venture Capital, Minority Investments and Buyouts is the definitive guide to private equity for investors and finance professionals.

In Plunder, an authoritative exposé of private equity, Brendan Ballou explains what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop it....

Experiential Intelligence reveals how our past life experiences impact our present success and future opportunities in ways we often don't recognize....

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs....

Get the inside scoop on what venture capitalists want to see in your start-up....

Behind the Startup focuses on the role of capital and the influence of financiers. Drawing on 19 months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it.

The first true insider’s account of private equity reveals what it takes to thrive among the world’s hungriest dealmakers....

Editors H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Halil Kiymaz, and their coauthors examine PE and provide important insights about topics such as major types of PE, how PE works, performance and measurement, uses and structure, and trends in the market.

From journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations–and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen....

Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic, one of the oldest and most-respected agile consultancies in the world, shows you how to harness agility in work and life to solve problems and succeed sooner....

The forces behind an economic crisis in the making....

By learning from both the mistakes and achievements of those before us, we can better craft our own approach to success. Award-winning professor of entrepreneurship Dileep Rao presents listeners with a detailed guide to success through his interviews and analysis....

In Selling Your Business with Confidence: A Practical Playbook for Mid-Market Owners, veteran M&A advisor David McCombie delivers an insider's guide to navigating the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sales process. In plain English, this book covers every essential topic for owners considering the sale of their business. Listeners will fully understand the process, the range of options available, and their implications.

ＰＥファンドの仕組み、ディールの流れから、法務・契約上の留意点まで、 PEファンドの全体像や、投資実務の概要について紹介。 実務者のための　日本で一番やさしい解説書。

For centuries, Swiss banks have served the globe's wealthiest individuals, employing a strict culture of anonymity and gaining massive wealth in the process. But when Credit Suisse collapsed, the veil of secrecy came down and the world was suddenly privy to the corruption, scandal and empty hubris that keep our biggest banks alive.

In 2009, Notts County FC were on the brink of bankruptcy when they were taken over by a mysterious company supposedly backed by the Bahraini royal family. The club was promised millions of pounds worth of investment and a list of marquee players, including Sol Campbell and Kasper Schmeichel were signed, in a recruitment drive led by former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, who was appointed to take the club all the way to the Premier League.

Embark on a journey towards fiscal mastery with the audiobook, "Business Financial Intelligence: Navigating Fiscal Waters for Strategic Success." This comprehensive guide is not just about numbers—it's a strategic roadmap for entrepreneurs and business leaders navigating the complex waters of financial intelligence.

Buying and Selling a Business reveals key strategies to sell and acquire business investments. Garrett Sutton, Esq. is a best-selling author of numerous law for the layman books, and he guides the listener clearly through all of the obstacles to be faced before completing a winning transaction.

A well-paid executive feels trapped in her very respected but unsatisfying job. A startup founder has paying customers, but knows that unless he "fires" them and pivots the business, his startup won't make it. A senior government planner is tasked with undoing the nation's reliance on outdated infrastructure. These are all examples of individuals stuck in a Local Maximum; we've reached a peak, but not the one that fulfills the highest potential. In order to move up in our pursuits, we must first move back down.

たった20分で誰でもプロ並みの分析ができる！「決算書を読み解いて、企業の経営実態を把握したい」「でも、そんな時間ないしなぁ」本書は、こんな悩みに応えるノウハウを紹介する本です。

Financial activism is how everyday people radically reimagine money as a tool for widespread well-being, instead of a weapon of absurdly increasing inequality. It's how we—the underestimated—collectively resist systems that cause harm to people and the planet for the sake of profit, reclaim wealth that's been stolen, and redesign our relationships with capital and one another, in ways big and small. The Financial Activist Playbook offers eight accessible, actionable, "choose-your-own-adventure" strategies for listeners to experiment with.

Ein verblüffendes Hörbuch über die unheimliche Macht der Vermögensverwalter. Ihre wichtigste Eigenschaft ist die Diskretion, und ihre Aufgabe ist es, den Reichtum der Reichsten unsichtbar zu machen – während sie ihn mehren. Ganze Teams von Offshore-Experten arbeiten Tag und Nacht daran, für ihre Kunden Steuerschlupflöcher zu finden, Gesetze zu umgehen, kreative Lösungen zu finden. Der Begriff Steuerparadies, der in vielen europäischen Sprachen für Offshore verwendet wird, wirkt angesichts der libertären Anarchie, die hier herrscht, geradezu verharmlosend.