This book serves as a pragmatic guide on surviving and striving in middle management.

This is a biography of Westinghouse, genius inventor from railroad and gas distribution equipment to the corporate model of invention and research.

This reference book details the top 100 groundbreaking events in the history of American business, featuring case studies of successful companies who challenged traditional operating paradigms, historical perspectives on labor laws, ...

At the same time Heinz built a commercial empire by his use of industrialized food processing before Henry Ford. This book includes 45 photographs many of which are being published for the first time.

This is the story of those accomplished Americans who sought to balance the accumulation of wealth with communal responsibility.

The story of this neighborhood is a story of America at its greatest point of wealth and includes rags-to-riches stories, political corruption, scandals, and greed.

The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself.

Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, and survived an assassination attempt, yet at the same time was an ...

The Rule is a guide to success for entrepreneurs, managers, and everyone in the world of business. St. Benedict's Rule for Business Success is a must reading for entrepreneurs, managers, and business.

This biography, focused on McKinley''s unusual view of protectionism, a labor-business alliance, and American exceptionalism, offers striking parallels to today as the US struggles to define its international role and to determine the best ...