Books Recommended by Trung Phan
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The Prize
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Daniel Yergin
Source: "If you were to ask me what single business book most changed my perception of the world, it is [this one.]" - Trung Phan
4 recommenders
The World for Sale
Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
Javier Blas
Source: "[Has] comparable breadth as The Prize in terms of globe-spanning industries." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
Source: "[Has] comparable breadth as The Prize in terms of globe-spanning industries." - Trung Phan
4 recommenders
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Source: "As good as it gets in describing the development of the nuclear industry." - Trung Phan
3 recommenders
Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Walter Kiechel
Source: "About the Management consulting industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Hard Landing
The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Thomas Petzinger Jr.
Source: "About the Post-deregulation Airlines industry." - Trung Phan
3 recommenders
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
Donald N. Thompson
Source: "About the Contemporary Art industry." - Trung Phan
3 recommenders
The Power Broker
Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
Source: "About the Urban Planning industry." - Trung Phan
4 recommenders
The Elements of Power
Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
David S. Abraham
Source: "About the Rare metals industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
The Power Law
Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Sebastian Mallaby
Source: "About the Venture Capital industry." - Trung Phan
4 recommenders
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
Source: "About the Media Platforms industry." - Trung Phan
2 recommenders
The Emperors of Chocolate
Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars
Joël Glenn Brenner
Source: "About the Confectionary industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Setting the Table
The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Danny Meyer
Source: "About the Restaurants industry." - Trung Phan
The Fish That Ate the Whale
The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Rich Cohen
Source: "About the Bananas industry." - Trung Phan
Bad Pharma
How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Ben Goldacre
Source: "About the Pharma industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
The Goal
A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Source: "About the Operations industry." - Trung Phan
3 recommenders
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Source: "About the Animation industry." - Trung Phan
Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough
Source: "About the Private Equity industry." - Trung Phan
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David Kushner
Source: "About the PC Gaming industry." - Trung Phan
More Money Than God
Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Sebastian Mallaby
Source: "About the Hedge Funds industry." - Trung Phan
2 recommenders
Cable Cowboy
John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
Mark Robichaux
Source: "About the Cable TV industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Fire in the Valley
The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
Michael Swaine
Source: "About the Early PC industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
The Perfectionists
How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Simon Winchester
Source: "About the Machining industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Dethroning the King
The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon
Julie MacIntosh
Source: "About the Beer industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Nothing Like It In the World
The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
Stephen E. Ambrose
Source: "About the Railroads industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Powerhouse
The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
James Andrew Miller
Source: "About the Talent industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
The House of Morgan
An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow
Source: "About the Banking industry." - Trung Phan
2 recommenders
4 recommenders
The Alchemy of Air
A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
Thomas Hager
Source: "About the Chemicals industry." - Trung Phan
2 recommenders
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
Source: "About the Footwear industry." - Trung Phan
How Music Got Free
A Story of Obsession and Invention
Stephen Richard Witt
Source: "About the Digital Music industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
The World in a Grain
The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
Vince Beiser
Source: "About the Sand industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Junkyard Planet
Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
Adam Minter
Source: "About the Trash industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Jill Jonnes
Source: "About the Electricity industry." - Trung Phan
3 recommenders
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
Source: "About the Digital Ads industry." - Trung Phan
3 recommenders
Easy Riders Raging Bulls
How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Peter Biskind
Source: "About the Post-70s Hollywood industry." - Trung Phan
2 recommenders
Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser
Source: "About the Fast-food industry." - Trung Phan
2 recommenders
The Big Payback
The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
Dan Charnas
Source: "About the Hip-hop industry." - Trung Phan
1 recommender
Genentech
The Beginnings of Biotech
Sally Smith Hughes
Source: "About the Biotech industry." - Trung Phan
2 recommenders
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Nathaniel Popper
Source: "About the Bitcoin industry." - Trung Phan
4 recommenders
1 recommender
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