Business Biographies
Business Biographies
Boyer describes the beginning of the end of CBS News' reign as THE news network, focusing on the history and final three years of Richard Salant's 18-year tenure as president of CBS News, including the events leading...
The mail order business resulted from improved mail service that served the needs of farm families living away from major cities. When Aaron Montgomery Ward settled in rapidly growing Chicago after the Civil War,...
During the last decade of the 20th century, an entirely new medium - online communications via the personal computer - was born, and the preeminent brand of this emerging new medium has turned out to be America Online...
In Barons of the Sky, Biddle describes the birth and evolution of an important American industry-the Aerospace Industry. Biddle addresses the questions of how and why a liberal democracy has allowed...
Beating the Odds offers a lesson in leadership in which we are shown how one man was the living embodiment of innovation, change, continuing improvement, empowerment, integrity, and vision. It is a case history whose...
Carl Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize winning multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln won acclaim for its colorful depiction of American history and the common man and was once required reading in high schools and...
The Home Depot (THD) lost $1 million in its first year of operation in Atlanta. Today, Home Depot is the colossus of the home-improvement industry, a darling of Wall Street, and one of America’s greatest...
Most would agree with Martin Puris that although we all know leadership when we see it, it has proven practically impossible to analyze, define, or teach. Nonetheless, countless "experts " have devised systems to...
Although creating a successful service operation is truly difficult, sustaining its success is even more so. Services are performances, and the challenge of sustaining a high level of performance on a continuous basis...
Father, Son & Co avoids the pitfalls of which many chronologies fall prey: excessive use of disruptive flashbacks and flash-forwards, an overabundance of characters who add nothing but unnecessary...
