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Author: John Lipczynski
Publisher: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2008, ©2007.
Series: Little book of big ideas.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Presents brief profiles of fifty influential people in business and industry from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and discusses ten important business trends.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Lipczynski, John.
Business.
Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2008, c2007
(OCoLC)609021376
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Lipczynski
ISBN: 9781556527494 1556527497
OCLC Number: 182735369
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 127 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Pioneers. Ray Kroc --
Thomas Edison --
John Jacob Astor --
Frederick Winslow Taylor --
Frank Woolworth --
Innovation --
John MacArthur --
Charles Babbage --
Josiah Wedgwood --
Industrialists. Richard Arkwright --
William Cockerill --
The production line --
Alfred Krupp --
Henry Ford --
Andrew Carnegie --
Cornelius Vanderbilt --
Samuel Cunard --
The incorporated company --
Entrepreneurs. Sam Walton --
Richard Branson --
Phineas Taylor Barnum --
Walt Disney --
Risk --
Anita Roddick --
Coco Chanel --
Mary Kay Ash --
Branding --
Financial geniuses. J. P. Morgan --
John D. Rockefeller --
Jay Gould --
Company stock --
The Rothschild dynasty --
Warren Buffett --
Rupert Murdoch --
Mergers and acquisitions --
Mavericks. Kun Hee Lee --
Akio Morita --
Jack Welch --
Bill Gates --
Jeff Bezos --
Larry Page and Sergei Brin --
Monopolies --
Strategists. Michael Porter --
Gary Hamel --
Ronald Coase --
Russell Ackoff --
Robert Kaplan --
Kenichi Ohmae --
Multinationals --
Taiichi Ohno --
Herbert Simon --
Theorists. Kaoru Ishikawa --
Peter Drucker --
Alfred Chandler --
Profitability --
Sumantra Ghoshal --
Michael Hammer --
Charles Handy --
Tom Peters --
James G. March.
Series Title: Little book of big ideas.
Responsibility: John Lipczynski.

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Presents brief profiles of fifty influential people in business and industry from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and discusses ten important business trends.

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