Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex Index.

Cover; Contributors; When firms started; Oldest family firms; Oldest newspapers still in circulation; The business press; The world's biggest firms; America's biggest firms; America's biggest bankruptcies; Big firms, Big facts; Big bucks; Profits and losses; Big bail-outs; AIG --
not so well covered; Bear Stearns --
gripped by a stern bear; Freddie and Fannie get into trouble; Help for airlines post September 11th; Saving the car makers; S & Ls --
not thrifty enough; America's financial rescue package; Britain's bank rescue package; European financial rescue packages; Behind the corporate name. Business blundersAmaranth and Mr Hunter; America Online and Time Warner; British Airways; The C5; Carmakers make an unwise flight; Dasani; Decca Records ... and another music misjudgment; Ford Edsel; Fat-finger syndrome; Hoover; The Hunt brothers' silver spree; Louisiana Territory; Manhattan Island; New Coke; Perrier; Persil Power; Ratners; South African gold; Topman; Venice on the cheap; Xerox; Jerry Yang and Yahoo!; The Bible; Board styles; Roles directors play; Games directors play; The world's most valuable brands; The world's most admired companies; Britain's most admired companies. What companies say about themselvesThe most effective websites; Business friendliness; Offshore attractions; How competitive?; Easy money?; Business cycles; Business start-ups and failures; Bribery and corruption; Business ratios; Working capital; Sales; Assets; Profits; Entrepreneurial activity; Business costs; The changing workforce; Days lost in strikes and lockouts; Changes in working hours; Biggest business employers; Chief executive pay; Disappearing CEOs; Big payouts to CEOs; Best paid hedge fund managers in the US; International pay comparisons; Leading law firms. Leading accountancy firmsWomen in business; Firsts among women; pending on advertising; Some famous advertising slogans; Some business giants of the past; Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919); Disney, Walt Elias (1901-66); Ford, Henry (1863-1947); Gibbs, William (1790-1875); Kroc, Ray (1902-84); Krupp, Alfred (1812-87); Lever, William Hesketh (1851-1925); Morgan, John Pierpoint (1837-1913); Morita, Akio (1921-99); Rockefeller, John Davison (1839-1937); Rothschild, Mayer Amschel (1744-1812); Walton, Sam (1918-92); Woolworth, Frank (1852-1919); The world's richest people; Europe's richest people. Philanthropy in America and BritainWealth and philanthropy in China; Central bankers since 1900; Quotable quotations; Bad boys; Warren Bennis; Leading management thinkers; Marvin Bower; Jim Collins; W. Edwards Deming; Peter Drucker; Henri Fayol; Gary Hamel; Michael Hammer; Charles Handy; Robert Kaplan; Niccolo Machiavelli; Abraham Maslow; Douglas McGregor; Henry Mintzberg; Kenichi Ohmae; Tom Peters; Michael Porter; Frederick Winslow Taylor; Sun Tzu; Some management styles; The oldest stock exchanges; Leading stockmarkets; Some stockmarket indices explained; Australia All Ordinaries Index.

How many billion spam emails are sent each day?Who said 'Business is a combination of war and sport'?How did Amazon.com and Volvo get their names?Which are the world's most valuable brands?When and what was the Mississippi bubble?What did Xerox get seriously wrong in the 1970s?Which company 'exists to benefit and refresh everyone it touches'?How much do the best paid hedge fund managers earn?Which brand of coffee claimed to be 'Good to the last drop'?And how do you avoid seven years of bad sex in Germany? Full of facts and figures about all aspects of business, this miscellany gives the answer.