From the Garage to the Boardroom: The Entrepreneurial Roots of America’s Largest Corporations (.pdf)
The NCOE has released From the Garage to the Boardroom: The Entrepreneurial Roots of America’s Largest Corporations, a new report that found most of America’s big corporations today trace back to one or more entrepreneurial founders. The NCOE’s report shows that entrepreneurship “lies at the very heart” of America’s business structure, and that it is the high-growth start-ups of today — like many of their … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: National Commission on Entrepreneurship (NCOE) | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, History
He Did It!
100 years ago, J.P. Morgan created the monolith named U.S. Steel. It was supposed to take over the market. What went wrong?
Content: Article | Author: Peter Krass | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: History, Industry Specific | Industry: Steel / Metals
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
This new, collaborative effort between the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History and Duke University’s Digital Scriptorium contains images of over 9,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920. The site is designed to chronicle the rise of consumer culture in America in the late nineteenth century as well as the development of a professionalized advertising industry. The images … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Sources: Advertising & Marketing History, John W. Hartman Center for Sales | Subjects: Advertising, History | Industry: Advertising
businesshistory.net
This site has a mission to increase public awareness of the many positive accomplishments of American Free Enterprise, using highlights of the histories of individual companies, and the industries of which they are a part. So, you will find links to individual companies’ histories broken down by industry. You will also find links to museums and historic sites as well as some other useful … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Gurrie Rhoads and Bryan Rhoads | Subjects: Education, History
A Thousand Years of Work & Money
The Christian Science Monitor looks at how “typical” workers evolved over a millennium. It explores tangents, from consumerism to investing for social change.
Content: Online Resource | Source: Christian Science Monitor | Subjects: Economics, History
The Making of E-Commerce: 10 Key Moments
The first great event in the history of e-commerce wasn’t the invention of Netscape or the first e-Christmas. According to an E-Commerce Times roundup of the top 10 e-commerce milestones,
it was the 1984 adoption of the ASC X12 standard for electronic data interchange. That much-overlooked event paved the way for better-known milestones — Netscape’s arrival is event No. 2,
and the 1998 holiday shopping … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Jon Weisman | Source: E-Commerce Times | Subjects: History, IT / Technology / E-Business
The 50 Best Management Saves
In business and in history, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of the “save.” Our favorite 50 celebrate those who have turned adversity into triumph
Content: Article | Source: Management Review | Subjects: History, Management