Product Description: Exploring the issue of foreign ownership of corporate America, a leading economist and the president of the steel producer, Esmark, revisit the sale of that company to a Russian firm.• Previously unseen documents relating to the hostile reverse tender merger of Esmark, a historic first in unseating the board of directors of a publicly traded company in the United States • A chronology of the "America for Sale" phenomenon and of key events in the American steel industry, from the 1970s to 2009• Approximately 25 tables and one dozen graphs that make it easy for readers to interpret data related to the Esmark sale and the overall foreign stake in American companies • Text boxes that focus on human interest stories and the amazing quirks attached to the sale of Esmark―for example, one of the Russian bidders also was interested in acquiring the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team and preventing its star Russian hockey player from leaping from a team in the remote Ural mountains to the NHL; that star subsequently led the NHL in scoring in the 2009 NHL seaso...read more

Product Description: Koch and Fisher have updated and expanded the latter's highly respected 1984 book, Power of the Presidency. In Presidential Leadership, the authors explore the transformational style of leadership in greater depth. This theory is based on a strong, charismatic university president who leads and transforms the university through the power of his or her own vision for the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: College text book. The role and power of mathematics on economics.

The theories and principles of industrial structure, management, and performance are explained and illustrated with examples drawn from the American economy. Bibliogs