The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy runs 10.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Charles Fishman and Alan Sklar (about 7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 10.5 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 3,169 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Alan Sklar
Alan Sklar narrates 85 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 848 hours in all.
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Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy is an audiobook by Charles Fishman: a 10.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Charles Fishman and Alan Sklar, released February 15, 2006, on the Management & Leadership and HR & Admin shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Charles Fishman, Alan Sklar
- Released
- February 15, 2006
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Management & Leadership, HR & Admin
- ISBN
- 9781400172238
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy as an audiobook?
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy runs 10.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7 hours.
Is The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy?
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy is narrated by Charles Fishman and Alan Sklar.
Is The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7 hours, saving 3.5 hours.