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Giants of enterprise : seven business innovators and the empires they built
- Title
- Giants of enterprise : seven business innovators and the empires they built / Richard S. Tedlow.
- Author
- Tedlow, Richard S.
- Publication
- New York : HarperCollins, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HC102.5.A2 T43 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 512 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Witness seven extraordinary men doing what Americans do best: building new businesses. These entrepreneurs broke old rules and made their own, mastering the future by shaping it. They overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to achieve enormous success and, in the process, played a role in the creation of the modern world.".
- "Combining his understanding of business and American history, Harvard Business School professor Richard S. Tedlow illuminates the professional and personal lives of these nineteenth- and twentieth-century titans, men with penetrating insight whose need to fulfill their destiny outweighed their fear of failure."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Big Picture -- Pt. 1. The Rise of Global Economic Power. 1. Andrew Carnegie: From Rags to Richest. 2. George Eastman and the Creation of a Mass Market. 3. Henry Ford: The Profits and the Price of Primitivism -- Pt. 2. The Heart of the American Century. 4. Thomas J. Watson Sr. and American Salesmanship. 5. Charles Revson and Revlon: Consumer Packaged Goods and the Television Revolution -- Pt. 3. Our Own Times. 6. Sam Walton: All-American. 7. Robert Noyce and Silicon Valley: Toward a New Business World. Conclusion: Progress and Profits.
- ISBN
- 006662035X (hc)
- LCCN
- 2001024462
- OCLC
- 505000131
- ocn505000131
- SCSB-4238241
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries