Bloomberg by Bloomberg - Brossura

Bloomberg, Michael; Winkler, Matthew

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ISBN 10: 0471208884 ISBN 13: 9780471208884

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001

Riassunto

The remarkable story of how Michael Bloomberg created a mediaempire

"Lots of entrepreneurs make money. Lots of entrepreneurs whomake money write books. Few of those books make you glad they did.This one does."
—The New York Times Book Review

"A classic tale of a nimble, customer-focused, entrepreneurialDavid outsmarting bureaucratic, ossified, corporateGoliaths."
—Business Week

"Entertaining, engaging, and informative, Bloomberg byBloomberg is packed with great advice about how to start alean, hungry company-and how to keep it that way."
—Bryan Burrough, coauthor, Barbarians at theGate

Brash, aggressive, and supremely self-confident, MichaelBloomberg, the visionary leader of the world's fastest-growingmedia empire, has been hailed as the new standard for what it takesto win in the Information Age. Dismissed from Salomon Brothers in1981, Bloomberg immediately took his money and acerbic personalityand started Bloomberg L.P. Bolstered by a $30 million investmentfrom Merrill Lynch, the company and the man have been sprintingahead of the pack ever since. Only twenty years after founding,he's at the top of his industry. And on June 5, 2001, he addedmayoral candidate for New York City to his list of accomplishmentsand aspirations. If elected, powerhouse Michael Bloomberg willbring his own brand of leadership-and personal style-to the citythat never sleeps.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG is CEO and Founder of Bloomberg L.P., aglobal media company that encompasses the Bloomberg Professionalservice, a leading provider of online financial information;Bloomberg News, a wire service providing news stories to leadingnewspapers worldwide; Bloomberg Radio, a 24-hour news radio stationwhich is distributed internationally; Bloomberg Television, aglobal financial television network; www.bloomberg.com andBloomberg Publishing, which includes Bloomberg Press and themagazines, Bloomberg Personal Finance and BloombergMarkets.

MATTHEW WINKLER, a former reporter for the Wall StreetJournal, is founder and Editor in Chief of Bloomberg News.

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A provocative autobiography by the visionary leader of theworld's fastest-growing media empire

"A classic tale of a nimble, customer-focused, entrepreneurialDavid outsmarting bureaucratic, ossified, corporateGoliaths."
—Business Week

"Michael Bloomberg is the most creative media entrepreneur of ourtime and, with Bill Gates, perhaps the most successful."
—Rupert Murdoch, Chairman & Chief Executive, NewsCorporation

"Entertaining, engaging, and informative, Bloomberg by Bloomberg ispacked with great advice about how to start a lean, hungrycompany-and how to keep it that way."
—Bryan Burrough, coauthor, Barbarians at theGate

"The man with Wall Street's best known generic name has written anautobiography that keeps you up late to finish. The book is full ofwonderful insights about Wall Street and about starting and growinga new business."
—Julian H. Robertson Jr., Chairman, Tiger ManagementLLC

"This is the best insight yet on how one man shook up the entirefinancial information industry."
—Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group ofCompanies

All author's royalties from Bloomberg by Bloomberg aredonated to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0471208884
• ISBN 13: 9780471208884
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272