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- Learning From Business History
- A quick note today on the arrival of The Oxford Handbook of Business History, an intriguing and opinionated survey of business management theory and research weighted mostly to the post-1950 era. The collection of essays around major business themes (approaches and debates; forms of business organization; functions...
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Leadership Ltd: White Elephant to Wheelwright
- Business history tells one that leaders don't have to be perfect. But they must recognize that their imperfections, their limitations, for example, will doom them to failure unless they rely on their subordinates and followers to fill in the gaps. As this British academic explains and illustrates, leadership is the...
- White papers 2006-01-01
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- Four Great Teams in Business History
- Great minds, support from management, and their own brand of secret sauce helped these teams come up with some of the biggest innovations in recent business history. The Java Development Team at Sun Microsystems ...
- Articles 2008-01-25
- Four Great Teams in Business History
- Four Great Teams in Business HistoryGuiding PrinciplesIt is interesting how the guiding principle for each business is different, yet they are all very successful corporations. It goes to prove that there is no "cookie cutter" way to succeed in the business world. Each business must find their own way to...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Great Intrapreneurs in Business History
- Great Intrapreneurs in Business Historyare googlepreneurs?Hmm, so everyone at Google's an intrapreneur? I'll have to think that through, no, I'll google it!RE: Great Intrapreneurs in Business HistorySo in other words, all Google employees are intrapreneurs right!Turning Problems Into ProfitsGreat thread to have started!There's an engineer in Dallas whose 'wasteful' tinkering...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Sharing some dumb business moments.(The Dumbest Moments in Business History)(Book Review)
- Is it human nature to laugh about others' mistakes? C'mon, admit it--there have been a few times when you have watched someone make an obvious blunder and snickered to yourself. Maybe seeing someone else make a mistake is an opportunity to release some guilt...
- Research articles 2004-05-31
- Business Course on Oprah's Success Taught at University of Illinois - Brief Article
- URBANA, ILL. A history professor at the University of Illinois, recently started teaching a class titled"'History 298: Oprah Winfrey, The Tycoon." The full-credit course is taught by Dr. Juliet E.K. Walker, who specializes in Black business history in the United States. It is believed to be one of...
- Research articles 2001-03-01
- Wichita State Professor Craig Miner Authors New Book on Western Kansas History.
- Byline: Wichita State University WICHITA, Kan., July 26 AScribe Newswire -- Craig Miner, the Willard Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University, has written a book on the history of western Kansas during a 50-year period that includes the turn of...
- Research articles 2006-07-26
- Stamping our history: The story of Canadian business as portrayed by postage stamps
- Abstract This paper reviews Canadian postage stamps issued for the past 100 years to identify business-related subjects and to ascertain how business history has been reflected. For the first half of the period studied, staples produced from agriculture and natural resources dominated stamp issues. During the second half of the...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
- Influential Board Member Spreads Impact beyond General Motors.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jun. 6--If General Motors Corp. board member John Smale merely had engineered a boardroom coup that shook up the management, strategy and culture of the world's largest industrial company, his place in business history would be secure. Jun. 6--If General Motors Corp. board member...
- Research articles 2000-06-05
- The Age of Giant Corporations: A Microeconomic History of American Business, 1914-1992: A Third Edition. (book reviews)
- This is a textbook on American business history from a micro-economic perspective. The title is slightly misleading, because there is very little micro-economic theory in this book. It is now in its third edition. The previous edition was published in 1984. Chapter 11 is completely new...
- Research articles 1994-10-01
- Detroit and the Motown legacy - history of the sound recording industry that launched the careers of various black singers and groups; collections of the Motown Historical Museum - includes related article on the changing image and renaissance of Detroit,
- Listen' That's what you did. The sound was toe-tapping, hand-clapping, silky smooth and mellow. "The Sound of Young America." It was January 1959. Independent songwriter Berry Gordy Jr. purchased a small house at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, hung a sign out front that read, "Hitsville USA," and...
- Research articles 1994-02-01
- Developing Effectiveness in Business
- Being the owner, successor, or manager of a business is, of course, rewarding. But it is also an overwhelming and often isolating experience. One of the best ways to handle that isolation is through peer groups. Whether meeting via teleconference or in person, peer groups provide business leaders and managers...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Business History: Revisiting The Hawthorne Studies
- At the start of the 20th century, companies were increasingly using scientific approaches to improve worker productivity. What were the best techniques for work on an assembly line? Could better lighting improve worker efficiency? But that all began to change in 1924 with the start of...
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Japanese Success? British Failure? Comparison in Business Performance Since 1945.(Review) (book reviews)
- TERENCE R. GOURVISH and ETSUO ABE (eds.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 288. ISBN 0 19 8290586, [pounds]40). Revised versions of conference papers presented at the Business History Unit of the London School of Economics in 1994, these essays present broad and...
- Research articles 1998-10-01
- West Sacramento, Calif., Consumer Loan Firm Was Doomed from the Start.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jun. 30--Paying $2.1 billion for The Money Store ranks among the costliest blunders in recent U.S. business history, saddling North Carolina bank First Union Corp. with a business that probably was already headed for oblivion, experts said. "It's a case for Harvard Business School,"...
- Research articles 2000-07-03
- Great Intrapreneurs in Business History
- These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee — and ended up changing a company or revolutionizing an industry. Post-it Notes Intrapreneurs: Spencer Silver and Art Fry...
- Articles 2008-04-10
- McArts Ventures Into Business, History, Statewide Performances
- KIMBALL - This year, two significant events for McArts will be the launch of a coal heritage-related business and performance of its signature play at West Virginia University."Our major activity is the establishment of Coal Camp Creations," said Jean Battlo, McArts' artistic director and West Virginia poet, author and playwright.McArts...
- Research articles 2006-05-19
- Houston-Based Stewart & Stevenson Took Blacksmithing into Business History.
- By Nelson Antosh, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 10--One hundred years ago, blacksmith C. Jim Stewart and carriage maker Joe R. Stevenson put $300 each into a business on Congress at Preston they called a "carriage repair and horseshoeing...
- Research articles 2002-04-10
- Business Strategies: Adjusting To The Latest Trends
- Natural instinct drives managers and other employees to play 'Follow the leader' and to avoid the insecure unknown in favour of the supposedly safer status quo. Yet business history abounds with examples of leaders who have dragged companies down to the depths, largely by trying to preserve a status quo...
- White papers 2006-07-08
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