Giants of Enterprise; Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built

New York: HarperBusiness, 2001. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. x, [2], 512, [4] pages. Notes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. A few pencil and erasure marks and creased page corners noted. Richard S. Tedlow is the MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business. Tedlow received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1976. He joined the Harvard Business School Faculty in 1979. At Harvard, he has taught marketing and has been a member of the faculty of the "Strategic Retail Management Seminar," the "Top Management Seminar for Retailers and Suppliers," and the "Strategic Marketing Management" executive education programs. Tedlow's book, Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built was selected by Business Week as one of the top ten business books of 2001 and in 2006, Business Week selected his book, Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American as one of the top ten business books for that year. 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. Masterfully combining his understanding of business and American history, 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: Andrew Carnegie, George Eastman, Henry Ford, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Charles Revson, Sam Walton, and Robert Noyce. Tedlow critically explores each visionary with compassion and wit, and in so doing sheds new light on issues of urgent importance in the business world today.