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The power of boldness : ten master builders of American industry tell their success stories /

Other Authors: Blout, E. R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Businesspeople > United States
Industrialists > United States
Inventors > United States
Entrepreneurship > United States
Family-owned business enterprises > United States
Industries > History. > United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Business.
Businesspeople.
Entrepreneurship.
Family-owned business enterprises.
Industrialists.
Industries.
United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Entrepreneurial Achievements / Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
  • The Education of an Inventor / John F. Taplin
  • Entrepreneurs, Managers, and the Importance of Finance / Ralph Landau
  • Polaroid : Dreams to Reality / Elkan Blout
  • Intel : Memories and the Microprocessor / Gordon E. Moore
  • A Perpetual Idea Machine / George N. Hatsopoulos
  • The Power of Invention / William M. Haney, III
  • A Short History of Cabot Corporation / Thomas D. Cabot
  • Communication : The Lever of Effectiveness and Productivity / Robert Galvin
  • Reflections on Success / Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr.
  • Adventures of a Contrarian / Edward C. Johnson III.

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