Una banca nel mirino 1981-1994. Tredici anni di vergogne giudiziarie e finanziarie.

The Great Adventure of the Global Chip Industry and an Italian-French Company that Makes the World Go Round Foreword by Nicolas Dufourcq and Maurizio Tamagnini. Bocconi University Press. Milano, Egea 2023, cm.15x23, pp.192, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Semiconductors and chips have become increasingly indispensable, present in everything from smartphones and cars to home appliances and medical devices. However, we often fail to recognize the significant technological and creative efforts that go into creating these “life companions.” While it’s commonly assumed that technological innovations are exclusively produced in Asian factories or American laboratories, few realize that there has been a “Silicon Europe” of industrial and technological excellence across France and Italy for decades. At the heart of this region lies STMicroelectronics, a world-leading chip company. Through the history of ST and European microelectronics, journalist and writer Marco Bardazzi takes readers on an incredible journey that documents the ideas, inventions, stories, and people behind the technologies and objects that have revolutionized our lives in recent decades. Bardazzi also sheds light on the cutting-edge technology sector that is pivotal to new generations and future jobs, in which Europe is playing an essential role. Dagli smartphone alle automobili, dai computer alle smart tv, dagli elettrodomestici ai dispositivi medici, viviamo in un mondo in cui i semiconduttori e i chip sono sempre più indispensabili. Tuttavia, pochi sanno che nel nostro continente esiste da decenni una vera e propria "Silicon Europe", un'area di eccellenza industriale e tecnologica distribuita tra Italia e Francia e che ha il suo cuore in un'azienda leader mondiale dei chip: Stmicroelectronics. Marco Bardazzi ci guida in un viaggio sorprendente svelando i retroscena di un settore tecnologico all'avanguardia e centrale per le nuove generazioni e i lavori del futuro, in cui il nostro paese e l'Europa giocano un ruolo da protagonista.

Fort Lauderdale, Airlines Weekly Corp 2015, cm.15,5x23,5 pp.445, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Its reputation was now as tattered as the interiors of its airplanes. Delta Air Lines, on September 14, 2005, was nothing like the world-beating company it had been just five years earlier, let alone decades before that. On this day, Delta found itself surrounded by lawyers, dejectedly filing for bankruptcy. Few believed it could ever reclaim its perch atop the US airline industry. But it did. Glory Lost and Found: How Delta Climbed from Despair to Dominance in the Post-9/11 Era tells the story of Delta’s dramatic tumble into bankruptcy and how it climbed its way back to pre-eminence despite hurricane-force headwinds: high fuel prices, a hostile takeover bid, relentless competition, economic meltdowns and geopolitical shocks. This independent work of journalism, not approved or endorsed by the airline, stems from a decade of research and countless interviews by Airline Weekly’sSeth Kaplan and Jay Shabat. It’s a profile in leadership: Delta became not only the greatest turnaround story in its own industry but also one of the greatest in the history of corporate America. Delta did the unimaginable by simultaneously resurrecting its finances and the spirits of its employees and customers. And while redefining itself, Delta also redefined an industry.