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GOAL SETTING AND BRAINSTORMING Advice from Tom Monaghan. By Tom Monaghan Copyright © 1997 Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 12 minutes WHAT I DIDN'T LEARN FROM BUSINESS SCHOOLS OR BOOKS By Estee Lauder Copyright © 1997, Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 15 minutes THE POWER OF THE SUPER RICH By Jeff Madrick Copyright © 2002 The New York Review of Books Read by Jason Starling Length: minutes THE BETTER BOSS How Marshall Goldsmith reforms executives By Larissa McFarquhar Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker Read by Michael Emlaw Length: 48 minutes TIME BOMB There is something that Wall Street doesn't want you to know. By John Cassidy Copyright © 1999 The New Yorker Read by Kathleen Starling Length: 26 minutes BIDDING WAR How an antitrust investigation into Christie's and Sotheby's became a race to see who could betray whom. By James B. Stewart Copyright © 2001The New Yorker Read by Michael Emlaw Length: 74 minutes THE BUBBLE OF AMERICAN SUPREMACY A prominent financier argues that the heedless assertion of American power in the world resembles a financial bubble_and the moment of truth may be here. by George Soros Copyright © 2004 George Soros First published in the Atlantic Monthly Read by Grover Gardner Length: 19 minutes THE DON OF DONS Lew Wasserman was a man thought by many to have the sharpest and best-disciplined business mind ever to exercise executive power at a major American movie studio. by Larry McMurty Copyright © 2003 The New York Review of Books Read by Roger Stutesman Length: 28 minutes GETTING DEBT RELIEF RIGHT Blessed are the poor? By M.A. Thomas Copyright © 2001 Foreign Affairs Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 26 minutes UNDER ONE ROOF The death and life of the New York department store. By Adam Gopnik Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 22 Minutes THE EMPEROR OF ICE How a bag of supermarket ice cubes launched a plan to dominate an industry. By Ian Parker Copyright © 2001 The New Yorker Read by David Henry Length: 29 minutes THE TELEVISIONARY Big business and the myth of the lone inventor By Malcolm Gladwell Copyright © 2000 The New Yorker Read by Michael Emlaw Length: 26 minutes STRIKING IT RICH The rise and fall of popular capitalism. By John Cassidy Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker Read by Ellie Stokes Length: 65 minutes COFFEE CLASH In its planned invasion of Italy, Starbucks is armed with Frappuccinos and Americanos--but will that win over a nation of espresso drinkers? by Michael Specter First published in The New Yorker Copyright © 1998 The New Yorker Magazine Inc. Read by Deborah Fisch Length:11 minutes COPY CATS Studios are awash in copyright suits. Why are they so hard to win? by Tad Friend First published in The New Yorker Copyright © 1998 Tad Friend/The New Yorker Magazine Inc. Read by David Erdody Length: 25 minutes DUTY OF CARE What do you do with two hundred and fifty million old tires? The United States throws that many away each year, and until now disposal methods have been limited and linked to major health and environmental hazards. But some visionary tire people are creating recycling schemes that could eradicate the problem. by John McPhee Copyright © 1993 The New Yorker read by David Erdody Length: 58 minutes EVERYBODY'S AN EXPERT Putting predictions to the test. By Louis Menand Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker Read by Matthew Phenix Length: 22 minutes THE HEALTH-CARE ECONOMY IS NOTHING TO FEAR Spending on keeping us alive and well may reach 25 percent of all national spending within the foreseeable future. What, the author asks, is so bad about that? By Charles Morris Copyright 1999 The Atlantic Monthly Read by Richard Wilson Length: 44 Minutes THE ROARING NINETIES As the chairman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors, and subsequently as the chief economist of the World Bank during the East Asian financial crisis, Joseph Stiglitz was deeply involved in many of the economic-policy debates of the past ten years. By Joseph Stiglitz Copyright © 2002 The Atlantic Monthly 2002 Read by Richard Wilson Length: 47 minutes THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PAPER Looking for method in the mess By Malcolm Gladwell Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker Read by Kathleen Starling Length: 24 minutes   THE PHONE GUY How Nokia designed what may be the best-selling cellular products on earth. By Michael Specter Copyright © 2001 The New Yorker Read by Paulette Banks Length: 24 minutes THE MONOPOLIST It took Lew Wasserman just twenty years to transform an entire industry. by Connie Bruck Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker Read by Chris Purchis Length: 111 minutes
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