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100 1 O'Toole, James,|eauthor.
245 14 The enlightened capitalists :|bcautionary tales of
business pioneers who tried to do well by doing good /
|cJames O'Toole.
264 1 New York :|bHarper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins
Publishers,|c[2019]
300 xliv, 545 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-510) and
index.
505 0 The pioneers -- The first business reformer : Robert Owen
(1771-1858) -- Man with a thousand partners : James Cash
Penney (1875-1971) -- The businessman who "cleaned up the
world" : William Lever (1851-1925) -- Kisses sweeter than
wine : Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945) -- Creating an
enduring enterprise : James Lincoln (1883-1965) -- New
forms of incorporation and governance : John Spedan Lewis
(1885-1963), and John Joseph Eagan (1870-1924) -- Johnson
& Johnson's rollercoaster ride : Robert Wood Johnson (1893
-1968) and james Burke (1925-2012) -- Great genes : Levi
Strauss (1829-1902) and his heirs -- Marks & Sparks :
Michael Marks (1863-1900) and the Marks and Sieff families
-- The golden era -- Leadership as an art : Max de Pree
(1924- ) -- Too much of a good thing : William C. Norris
(1911-2006) -- Business mavericks : Ken Iverson (1925-
2002); Robert Townsend (1920-1998); Herb Kelleher (1931-);
Bill Gore (1912-1986) and Terri Kelly (1963-) -- The
patricians : Thornton Bradshaw (1917-1988), j. Irwin
Miller (1909-2004), Edwin Land (1909-1991), John Whitehead
(1922-2015), and Roy Vagelos (1929- ) -- Environmentalists,
or capitalists? : Anita Perella Roddick (1942-2007) and
Tom Chappell (1943-) -- Lever Redux : Ben Cohen (1951- ) -
- Capitalists of a different stripe: Yvon Chouinard (1938-
), Jack Stack (1949- ), Robert Beyster (1924-2014), and
others -- Yesterday, today, and tomorrow -- Looking back :
what we have learned -- Looking forward : the prospects
for enlightened corporate leadership -- Conclusion:
difficile est bonum esse -- Endnotes.
520 James O'Toole, an expert on ethical leadership, analyzes
the complicated history of businesspeople who attempted to
marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organization
practices. He tells the largely forgotten stories of men
and women who adopted forward-thinking business practices
designed to serve the needs of their employees, customers,
communities, and the natural environment.
650 0 Businesspeople|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 Entrepreneurship|zUnited States|xHistory.
650 0 Social responsibility of business.
650 0 Business ethics.
650 7 Businesspeople.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00842980
650 7 Entrepreneurship.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00912787
651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 Biography.|2fast
655 7 History.|2fast
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