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Author Tedlow, Richard S.

Title Giants of enterprise : seven business innovators and the empires they built / Richard S. Tedlow.

Publication Info. New York : HarperBusiness, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  338 TEDLOW    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  338 T228    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 512 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part one. The rise to global economic power. Andrew Carnegie : from rags to richest -- George Eastman and the creation of a mass market -- Henry Ford : the profits and the price of primitivism -- Part two. The heart of the American century. Thomas J. Watson Sr. and American salesmanship -- Charles Revson and Revlon : consumer packaged goods and the television revolution -- Part three. Our own times. Sam Walton : all-American -- Robert Noyce and Silicon Valley : toward a new business world -- Conclusion : progress and profits.
Subject Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
Executives -- United States -- Biography.
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
Entrepreneurship -- United States -- Case studies.
Big business -- United States -- Case studies.
ISBN 006662035X hardcover
9780066620350 hardcover
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