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"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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For readers of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz's Onward comes an inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK's Sporting Goods about building a multibillion-dollar business and taking a principled--and highly controversial--stand against the types of guns that are too often used in mass shootings and other tragedies.
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Twelve
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"In EMOTION BY DESIGN, Nike's former CMO shares lessons and stories from three decades within the company. Readers will learn how Nike continues to not just expand its reach but deepen its bonds through groundbreaking, savvy messaging that's authentic as well. The lesson that he'll return to over and over again is that everything stems from ideas. The only limitations on those ideas come from the limitations an organization places on itself, in terms...
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English
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"Game of Shadows meets Shoe Dog in this explosive behind-the-scenes look that reveals for the first time the unsettling details of Nike's secret running program-the Nike Oregon Project. In May 2017, journalist Matt Hart received a USB drive containing a single file-a 4.7-megabyte PDF named "Tic Toc, Tic Toc. . . ." He quickly realized he was in possession of a stolen report prepared a year earlier by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
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IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Today, Nike is the biggest athletic shoe company in the world, but a long time ago runner and businessman Phil Knight started out with just an idea. Find out more about Nike's history, how the business grew, and the role that marketing playing in this illustrated nonfiction book!" -- Back cover.
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