Mark Stevens, Author, Annalyn Swan, Author . Knopf $35 (752p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4175-6
This sweeping biography, 10 years in the making, chronicles in fastidious detail de Kooning's rise from his humble beginnings in Rotterdam to his fame as an abstract expressionist and his descent into alcoholism and Alzheimer's. Emigrating...
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Mark Stevens, Author Crown Business $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-609-60983-5
Most companies don't have a clue about good marketing, argues entrepreneur Stevens (Extreme Management) in his slender but vociferous book. What they need are the principles of""extreme marketing,"" in which every dollar""is set in a strategic...
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Mark Stevens, Author Collier Books $0 (261p) ISBN 978-0-02-025530-7
Accounting Wars is an investigation of changes occurring in the newly competitive world of the ""Big Eight'' accounting firms, driving them to search for tax specialty markets here and untapped areas overseas. Using generally accepted reviewing...
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Mark Stevens, Author Crown Business $25 (302p) ISBN 978-1-4000-5493-0
""If you can't say anything nice, say it."" This philosophy nicely summarizes Stevens's approach to executive coaching, not to mention life in general. While the author's blunt truthfulness is welcome in a world of management euphemisms, his self-des
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Originally created to provide the U.S. government with industrial managers who could address the business side of military logistics during WWII, Harvard's intensive nine-week curriculum for senior managers focuses on decision making, global...
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Mark Stevens, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-453-00673-6
``Insider'' anecdotes, re-created dialogue and sharply drawn portraits evoke the constant feuding that preceded the fall in October 1988 of Hutton, one of America's most prestigious brokerage firms. This well-documented account by syndicated...
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Mark Stevens, Author Dutton Books $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-93613-8
``One of the greatest things I did for the human race,'' Carl Icahn has said, ``was not to become a doctor.'' Instead, this Princeton graduate from Queens, N.Y., became a keen and stubborn corporate raider, who during the 1980s junk-bond delirium...
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Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. Knopf, $50 (896p) ISBN 978-0-307-27162-4
In this monumental work, Pulitzer Prize–winning art critics Stevens and Swan (De Kooning: An American Master) make a convincing case that “the twentieth century does not know itself without” the work of English painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992)....
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