Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/08/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439102114
ISBN-10: 1439102112

With more than 500 million active users (and half a billion total) and a recently released movie, it sometimes seems like Facebook is everywhere. Not bad for a program originally meant as a collaborative online directory for Harvard students. The story of how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took the world by storm forms the backbone of this book, which Booklist calls "an intriguing, almost participatory read." If you want to learn about the growth of this hugely powerful networking site--the collaborations, conflicts, and controversies, its founders and investors--you'll want to start here, for author David Kirkpatrick had complete access to Zuckerberg himself.

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Publisher: Amistad
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/29/2010
ISBN-13: 9780061718250
ISBN-10: 0061718254

While regular competitors, weekend warriors, and even those who've left their sporting days behind them may find some of the advice here to be comfortingly familiar, non-athletes may be pleasantly surprised--and hopefully both groups will find the pointers completely spot on. The essays collected here are written by businessmen, politicians, artists, professional athletes, and so on--all of whom explain how their experiences with playing sports have helped them attain success in their careers...and in life. "Solid advice," says Booklist.

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Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/25/2009
ISBN-13: 9780385342476
ISBN-10: 0385342470

Let The Smart Cookies show you how to eliminate debt, spend smarter, save better, and achieve financial freedom—without sacrificing your social life or your sanity!

They were five dynamic young women: smart, successful—and secretly drowning in debt. Inspired by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on personal finance, Andrea, Angela, Katie, Robyn, and Sandra formed a money club, together developing strategies for turning their finances around. Just one year later they had dramatically improved their financial situations—and had made major developments in their careers, relationships, and life goals to boot. Their proven recipe for success has since been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, MSNBC, and in the New York Daily News.

How did they do it? These five women—with varied careers in marketing, public relations, social work, and TV production—joined forces to create a fun, simple, effective strategy for achieving financial success, forming a money club and supporting each other every step of the way. Now, in this extraordinary hands-on guide, the women, who soon dubbed themselves The Smart Cookies, share the secrets of their success.

Weaving anecdotes from their own lives with practical, how-to advice, The Smart Cookies offer strategies that cut across the financial spectrum, whether you’re deeply in debt or just want to manage your money better. Tackling the unique financial challenges facing women today, they offer easy-to-follow advice on everything from creating a spending plan to boosting your income to starting your own money club.

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Publisher: Crown Business
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/23/2007
ISBN-13: 9780307351104
ISBN-10: 0307351106

Cathie Black, now Chairman of Hearst Magazines, was one of the first women to climb the ranks in American newspaper and magazine publishing--she was also the first female publisher of a weekly magazine (New York), and she convinced Oprah to create O, The Oprah Magazine. In Basic Black, she shares her experiences and accomplishments on the road to success, and inserts valuable lessons on everything from gaining self-confidence to recognizing (and seizing) opportunity. Those interested in the publishing industry or the role of women in business will find much to like in this close-up view of a groundbreaking career.

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Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/25/2007
ISBN-13: 9781591841814
ISBN-10: 159184181X

Chosen to lead Hewlett-Packard in 1999, Carly Fiorina was the first female CEO of a Fortune 20 company and was named the Most Powerful Woman in Business by Fortune magazine six years running. Presiding over unprecedented layoffs in 2001 and spearheading the company's merger with Compaq in 2002, Fiorina was publicly fired in February of 2005 by HP's board, which she describes as "dysfunctional." In this candid memoir, Fiorina gives her side of the story, explaining her struggles as a high-profile businesswoman in a male-dominated arena, speaking frankly about members of the board, and sharing her views on leadership and the future of technology. For other perspectives on the goings-on at HP, try Peter Burrows' Backfire or George Anders' Perfect Enough.

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Publisher: Collins Business
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061341311
ISBN-10: 0061341312

Drawing on previously unavailable material to trace the parallel lives of the Barbie doll and its creator, Ruth Handler, this fascinating biography discusses the latter's origins as a tenth child of Polish-Jewish immigrants. Handler grew up to cofound toy giant Mattel--upending the industry with Barbie, Ken, Hot Wheels, and Disney tie-ins--and later, after being forced out of Mattel, drew on the lessons of her fight with breast cancer to become a respected humanitarian and entrepreneur. (For more on the history of the doll, try M.G. Lord's Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll.)

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Publisher: Fireside
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/05/2004
ISBN-13: 9780743270229
ISBN-10: 0743270223

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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780060542573
ISBN-10: 0060542578

Though little-known today, Hetty Green drew her fair share of attention as the wealthiest woman in 19th-century America--but is probably remembered better for her frugality than for the business acumen that built her fortune. In Hetty, biographer Charles Slack challenges popular misconceptions about the female tycoon and explores her considerable accomplishments in the world of finance--at a time before women were legally able to vote. He also addresses her personal life, and, in the process, builds a well-rounded picture of a woman who was clearly not the one-note miser she is remembered as.

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