Harvard Studies in Business History – serie
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21 produkter
Inventing the Electronic Century
The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries, With a New Preface
Häftad, 2005
279 kr
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Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize–winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., traces their origins and worldwide development. From electronics prime mover RCA in the 1920s to Sony and …
History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945
Av Mira Wilkins
Inbunden, 2004
1381 kr
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Mira Wilkins, the foremost authority on foreign investment in the United States, continues her magisterial history in a work covering the critical years 1914–1945.Wilkins includes all long-term inward foreign investments, both portfolio (by individuals and institutions) and direct (by …
Organizing Control
August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management
Av Jeffrey Fear
Inbunden, 2005
1329 kr
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In a pioneering work, Jeffrey Fear overturns the dominant understanding of German management as “backward” relative to the U.S. and uncovers an autonomous and sophisticated German managerial tradition. Beginning with founder August Thyssen—the Andrew Carnegie of Germany—Fear traces the evolution of …
Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism
Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age
Inbunden, 2005
943 kr
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Fedor Chizhov built the first railroad owned entirely by Russian stockholders, created Moscow’s first bank and mutual credit society, and launched the first profitable steamship line based in Archangel. In this valuable book, Thomas Owen vividly illuminates the life and world of this seminal figure …
Shaping the Industrial Century
The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
Inbunden, 2004
283 kr
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The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century begun in Inventing the Electronic Century.Alfred Chandler argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate …
Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800–1930
Inbunden, 2006
882 kr
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In this magisterial study, Michael Smith explains how France left behind small-scale merchant capitalism for the large corporate enterprises that would eventually dominate its domestic economy and project French influence throughout the world. Arguing against the long-standing view that French …
Culture of Credit
Embedding Trust and Transparency in American Business
Inbunden, 2007
541 kr
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In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. In the process, …
Pull
Networking and Success since Benjamin Franklin
Häftad, 2007
270 kr
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Redefining the way we view business success, Pamela Laird demolishes the popular American self-made story as she exposes the social dynamics that navigate some people toward opportunity and steer others away. Who gets invited into the networks of business opportunity? What does an unacceptable …
Shaping the Industrial Century
The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
Häftad, 2009
274 kr
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The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century begun in Inventing the Electronic Century.Alfred Chandler argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate …
Big Business in China
Sino–Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890–1930
Inbunden, 1980
500 kr
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This is the first major study in Chinese business history based largely on business's own records. It focuses on the battle for the cigarette market in early twentieth-century China between the British-American Tobacco Company, based in New York and London, and its leading Chinese rival, Nanyang …
Gentlemen Bankers
The World of J. P. Morgan
Av Susie J. Pak
Inbunden, 2013
611 kr
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Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family’s power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships.At the turn of the twentieth …
Business, Banking, and Politics
The Case of British Steel, 1918–1939
Inbunden, 1987
734 kr
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During the 1920s, the "black decade" of British steel, nearly everyone agreed that the industry's revival depended on replacing obsolete equipment and instituting modern technologies that would increase production and decrease costs. Despite consensus, these goals were not reached and, even after …
Charles Ilfeld Company
A Study of the Rise and Decline of Mercantile Capitalism in New Mexico
Inbunden, 1961
620 kr
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In a pioneering study of far western commercial enterprise from Santa Fe Trail days to the present, detailed company records reveal the merchants' solutions of monetary exchange, balance of trade, and transportation problems, in depression and prosperity. Finally, the author traces the defeat of …
Paris to New York
The Transatlantic Fashion Industry in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2021
375 kr
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An innovative history of the fashion industry, focusing on the connections between Paris and New York, art and finance, and design and manufacturing.Fashion is one of the most dynamic industries in the world, with an annual retail value of $3 trillion and globally recognized icons like Coco Chanel, …
Railroads and the Transformation of China
Inbunden, 2019
392 kr
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As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing …
History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914
Av Mira Wilkins
Inbunden, 1989
1027 kr
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From the colonial era to 1914, America was a debtor nation in international accounts—owing more to foreigners than foreigners owed to us. By 1914 it was the world’s largest debtor nation. Mira Wilkins provides the first complete history of foreign investment in the United States during that period. …
Gentlemen Bankers
The World of J. P. Morgan
Av Susie J. Pak
Häftad, 2014
226 kr
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Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family’s power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships.At the turn of the twentieth …
Visualizing Taste
How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
Av Ai Hisano
Inbunden, 2019
384 kr
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Ai Hisano exposes how corporations, the American government, and consumers shaped the colors of what we eat and even the colors of what we consider “natural,” “fresh,” and “wholesome.”The yellow of margarine, the red of meat, the bright orange of “natural” oranges—we live in the modern world of the …
Enterprising Elite
The Boston Associates and the World They Made
Inbunden, 1987
572 kr
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More than any other single group of individuals, the Boston Associates were responsible for the sweeping economic transformation that occurred in New England between 1815 and 1861. Through the use of the corporate form, they established an extensive network of modern business enterprises that were …
Morgans
Private International Bankers, 1854–1913
Inbunden, 1987
1092 kr
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The House of Morgan was the personification of economic power and the symbol of capitalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other entrepreneurs were wealthier—industrialists like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Duke—but none was relied upon more by business and government or better …
