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seven business innovators and the empires they built

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An edition of Giants of Enterprise (2001)

Giants of enterprise

seven business innovators and the empires they built

1st HarperBusiness pbk. ed.

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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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HarperBusiness
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English
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512

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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, biography

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Table of Contents

Andrew Carnegie : from rags to richest
George Eastman and the creation of a mass market
Henry Ford : the profits and the price of primitivism
Thomas J. Watson Sr. and American salesmanship
Charles Revson and Revlon : consumer packaged goods and the television revolution
Sam Walton : all-American
Robert Noyce and Silicon Valley : toward a new business world
Conclusion : Progress and profits.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Genre
Biography., Case studies.

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Dewey Decimal Class
338.0409
Library of Congress
HC102.5.A2T43 2001

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x, 512 p. [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
512

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OL19566824M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0066620368
ISBN 13
9780066620367
OCLC/WorldCat
52699603
Library Thing
589833
Goodreads
41653

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