Business Biographies
Business Biographies
Hothouse Earth draws our attention to the disastrous effects of human activity on the environment. By examining global warming against the background of natural climatic processes, Gribbin provides a...
The unmaking of IBM has probably hurt more people than the unmaking of any other company in history. The toll begins with 140,000 jobs lost over the past seven years (when spouses and children are included, the lost...
When Anita opened the first Body Shop in Brighton, England, in 1976, the extent of her business acumen was the knowledge that she would have to take in £300 a week to remain open. Her only motivation for choosing the...
After the Civil War hosts of both agricultural and business opportunities for exploiting the land surfaced. Conover, Iowa, had not existed prior to 1864, but by 1865 it was a bustling town focused on business. Twenty-...
The work holds a treasure trove of successful business practices, and always explains, in detail, how to adapt distribution innovations to other types of businesses. Vlcek suggests a seven-step process, known as the...
The Silverlake Project documents the development of the best-selling AS/400 computer and the organizational changes at IBM Rochester that helped the enterprise win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality...
The authors describe in detail why and how Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson gave up engineering positions at MIT in order to start Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in August of 1957. They focus on how Olsen and...
Tom Watson, Sr., set up a model of the modern industrial company. He based many of his ideas on those of his mentor, John T. Patterson of NCR, from whom Watson learned lessons in hardball business competition, such as...
Throughout the 20th century, shapers of modern management theory and practice have searched for "one best way" to improve productivity. As a result, companies have jumped from one management fad to the next, running...
In 1886, Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive way to smelt aluminum, and the patent he immediately applied for gave him a legal monopoly on his invention. In 1889, Alfred E. Hunt, a Pittsburgh entrepreneur and...
