Giants of enterprise
seven business innovators and the empires they built
by Richard S. Tedlow
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Seven business innovators and the empires they built.The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires. With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates the minds, lives and strategies behind the legendary successes of our times: . George Eastman and his invention of the Kodak camera;. Thomas Watson of IBM;. Henry Ford and his automobile;. Charles Revson and his use of television advertising to drive massive sales for Revlon;. Robert N. Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit and founder of Intel;. Andrew Carnegie and his steel empire;. Sam Walton and his unprecedented retail machine, Wal-Mart.
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Biography, Case studies, Businessmen, Big business, Executives, Capitalists and financiers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Nonfiction, Cas, Études de, Chefs d'entreprise, Biographies, Entrepreneuriat, Capitalistes et financiers, Ondernemers, Grandes entreprises, Hommes d'affaires, Businesspeople, biographyPlaces
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Giants of enterprise: seven business innovators and the empires they built
2003, HarperBusiness
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Giants of enterprise: seven business innovators and the empires they built
2001, HarperBusiness
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"The three executives profiled in this section take us from a time in which the United States was an economic power distinctly of the second rank to an era when we were the dominant force in the world in terms of output, income per capita, and technological progress."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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