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The Generations of Corning
This engrossing history of an extraordinary company, Corning Incorporated, chronicles how one of the oldest business enterprises in the world maintained its place as a global leader in technology for over 150 years. In the nineteenth century, Corning developed colored signal lights for railroads. In the twentieth century, it created Pyrex and color television tubes; today, it is a Fortune 500 company leading the international marketplace in areas such as fiber optics and photonics. If you use the Internet, drive a car, or simply turn on a light, then Corning is a part of your life. The Generations of Corning tells the fascinating stories of its founding family--the Houghtons, the inventors, ...
So Far . . . so Good . . . so There!
The author wrote his memoirs, So Far . . . So Good . . . The Other Lowell Thomas Story in 2000 and had them published. This book is a sequel to that one. It is not intended to be marketed. However, should anyone care to purchase a copy, the offer would not be refused. This book is intended to be primarily for family use and distributed to close friends.
Inside the Business Enterprise
How do business enterprises control their subunits? In what ways do existing paths of communication within a firm affect its ability to absorb new technology and techniques? How do American banks affect how companies operate? Do theoretical constructs correspond to actual behavior? Because business enterprises are complex institutions, these questions can prove difficult to address. All too often, firms are treated as the atoms of economics, the irreducible unit of analysis. This accessible volume, suitable for course use, looks more closely at the American firm—into its internal workings and its genesis in the Gilded Age. Focusing on the crucial role of imperfect and asymmetric information in the operation of enterprises, Inside the Business Enterprise forges an innovative link between modern economic theory and recent business history.
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Footprints Through Time
The ancestry of Lynn Elwin Hooker (1910-1983), a doctor of osteopathy.
Accounting for Growth
This study of information systems in American business during the quarter-century before World War I takes as its starting point the way in which the Dow Chemical Company constructed and reconstructed its internal information systems. It shows how changes in information systems affected Dow's organization and management, as well as the extent of its technological innovation.
