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...“Jimmy”, as he was known at his steel mill job, went to work every day at Bethlehem Steel corporation....
...So did technological advances such as steamships, railways and the telegraph. Other dynasties also profited mightily, including the Rothschilds, the Keswicks (Jardine Matheson), and India’s Tatas....
...If Scott had read Smith’s seminal work, The Wealth of Nations, he had not learnt its lessons, any more than had the founders of Greensill, Wirecard, Carillion or any other of the 21st-century corporations...
...The first wave of globalisation that created the Great Divergence expanded markets via the falling cost of transporting physical goods, thanks to the steamship and the railway....
...Epic claimed the theft appeared “to have been masterminded in Mumbai, then carried out in both India and the US” while TCS was consulting for a customer of Epic’s, US healthcare group Kaiser Permanente....
...Cunard is now a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, the Miami-based group that is the world’s largest operator of cruise ships....
...Last year, South Korean courts ruled against Japanese corporations in two landmark cases involving Koreans forced into labour for the Japanese war effort....
...His first serious in-company work was with AT&T and, over the years, he has worked with corporations from Boeing to Microsoft and organisations from Nasa to Kaiser Permanente....
...Rand Corporation, a US-based international policy group, recently produced a study estimating that e-health could produce about $80bn a year of savings in the US – a figure greeted with extreme scepticism...
...Aged 21, Doriot sailed by steamship to the US from his native France and went on to become a brigadier general in the second world war, one of the most influential professors at Harvard Business School and...
...One of his many achievements was to highlight the way technology influenced the organisation of corporations....
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