Giants of enterprise
Subtitle: seven business innovators and the empires they built
By: Richard S. Tedlow
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: HarperBusiness
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: 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
Genres: Biography; Case studies
Description: "Witness seven extraordinary men doing what Americans do best: building new businesses. These entrepreneurs broke old rules and made their own, mastering the future by shaping it. They overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to achieve enormous success and, in the process, played a role in the creation of the modern world.".

"Combining his understanding of business and American history, Harvard Business School professor Richard S. Tedlow illuminates the professional and personal lives of these nineteenth- and twentieth-century titans, men with penetrating insight whose need to fulfill their destiny outweighed their fear of failure."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Andrew Carnegie : from rags to richest; title: George Eastman and the creation of a mass market; title: Henry Ford : the profits and the price of primitivism; title: Thomas J. Watson Sr. and American salesmanship; title: Charles Revson and Revlon : consumer packaged goods and the television revolution; title: Sam Walton : all-American; title: Robert Noyce and Silicon Valley : toward a new business world; title: Conclusion : Progress and profits