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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....
...• Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation has appointed Russell Read as chief investment officer....
...Mr Springford is not a “dyed-in the wool waterman”. His background is in road haulage but he has a small business collecting rubbish from Thames boats....
...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....
...The Pete Waterman Limited Group comprised studios, recording labels, record producers and music publishing....
...Jared Waterman, director of financial planning at Pandora Media, the internet radio company, faced a problem because of the growth of the business....
...As Bob and I examined the problems besetting US corporations circa 1980, we believed they and their advisers had got things backwards....
...Some of the offerings of consultants and gurus, such as Tom Peters’ and Robert Waterman’s In Search of Excellence, are harder to put down....
...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....
...Southern Corporation, the funeral company, never really recovered from the scandals that rocked it in 1999....
...Peter Drucker’s Concept of the Corporation, published in 1947, offered an outsider’s perspective on what made the place tick but, for a firsthand account, Sloan is your man....
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