Biography & Autobiography : Business

With new commentary and Insights on the life and times of Jesse Livermore. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is the fictionalized biography of perhaps the most famous financial speculator of all time-Jesse Livermore. This annotated edition bridges the gap between Edwin Lefevre's fictionalized account of Livermore's life and the actual, historical events, places, and people that populate the book. It also describes the variety of trading approaches Livermore used throughout his life and analyzes his psychological development as a trader and the lessons gained through hard experiences.: Analyzes legendary trader Jesse Livermore's strategies and explains how they can be used in today's markets; Provides factual details regarding the actual companies Livermore traded in and the people who helped/hindered him along the way; Explains the structure and mechanics of the Livermore-era markets, including the bucket shops and the commodity exchanges; Includes more than 100 pages of new material. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator has endured over 70 years because traders and investors continue to find lessons from Livermore's experiences that they can apply to their own trading. This annotated edition will continue the trend. more...

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Despite all the headlines about Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty to running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, he is still shrouded in mystery. Why (and when) did he turn his legitimate business into a massive fraud? How did he fool so many smart investors for so long? Who among his family and employees knew the truth? The best person to answer these questions—and tell the full story of Madoff’s rise and fall—is Erin Arvedlund. In early 2001, she was suspicious of the amazing returns of Madoff’s hedge fund, which no one could explain. Her article in Barron’s , based on more than one hundred interviews, could have prevented a lot of misery, had the SEC followed up. But almost no one was willing to believe anything bad about “Uncle Bernie”—so nice, so humble, so generous to charities. As Arvedlund shows, Madoff was no ordinary liar, but a master of the type of lies people really wanted to believe. He kept his clients at a distance and allowed handsomely paid friends to solicit new ones for him; playing hard to get created an irresistible mystique. Now Arvedlund tackles the tough questions that are still unanswered in the wake of Madoff’s collapse: * Did he start off as a legitimate money manager or was he a fraud from the beginning? Were there indications of larceny at the very start of his career? * Why did Madoff’s biggest supporters within the industry, such as Walter Noel of Fairfield Greenwich, and Ezra Merkin of Gabriel Capital, ignore the warning signs that were so apparent? Did they choose to remain ignorant as long as their commissions rolled in? * Why did SEC investigations fail to catch Madoff’s Ponzi scheme even though several people had voiced concerns about his operation? * Who else helped Madoff carry out his scam? His family and close associates have denied any involvement, but was it possible for one man to engineer a heist of such scope? With her keen investigative eye, Arvedlund presents a sweeping n more...

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Boy meets dot-com, boy falls for dot-com, boy flees dot-com in horror. So goes one of the most perversely hilarious love stories you will ever read, one that blends tech culture, hero worship, cat litter, Albanian economics, venture capitalism, and free bagels into a surreal cocktail of delusion. 21 Dog Years is an epic story of greed, self-deception, and heartbreak, a wickedly funny anthem to an era of bounteous stock options and boundless insanity. more...

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From humble beginnings as the son of a working-class family in suburban Washington state to one of the world’s richest men, Paul Allen’s life story reads like the American dream come true. But if Allen’s story is as familiar to us as any rags-to-riches tale, Allen himself has remained a curious enigma. more...

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In the century since its founding, Harvard Business. School has become the single most influential institution in. global business. Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500. companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviest. entrepreneurs (e.g., Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons. (e.g., Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and brokerage. houses routinely send their brightest young stars to HBS to. groom them for future power. To these people and many others,. a Harvard MBA is a golden ticket to the Olympian heights of. American business. In 2004, Philip Delves Broughton abandoned a post. as Paris bureau chief of the London Daily Telegraph to join nine. hundred other would-be tycoons on HBS’s plush campus. Over. the next two years, he and his classmates would be inundated. with the best—and the rest—of American business culture that. HBS epitomizes. The core of the school’s curriculum is the. “case”—an analysis of a real business situation from which the. students must, with a professor’s guidance, tease lessons. Delves. Broughton studied more than five hundred cases and recounts. the most revelatory ones here. He also learns the surprising. pleasures of accounting, the allure of “beta,” the ingenious chicanery. of leveraging, and innumerable other hidden workings. of the business world, all of which he limns with a wry clarity. reminiscent of Liar’s Poker. He also exposes the less savory trappings. of b-school culture, from the “booze luge” to the pandemic. obsession with PowerPoint to the specter of depression that. stalks too many overburdened students. With acute and often. uproarious candor, he assesses the school’s success at teaching. the traits it extols as most important in business—leadership,. decisiveness, ethical behavior, work/life balance. Published during the one hundredth anniversary. of Harvard Business School, Ahead of the Curve offers a richly. detailed more...

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