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050 _aHC102.5.A2
245 _aMasters of enterprise :
_bhow the titans of American business shaped the U.S. economy /
_cW.H W Brands; Recorded Books, Inc.
_hSound Recording.
246 _aHow the titans of American business shaped the U.S. economy /
260 _a[New York, N.Y.] :
_bBarnes & Noble Audio,
_c c & 2004.
300 _a7 audio discs :
_bdigital ;
_c 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (80 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm).
440 _aPortable professor.,
_pEconomics.
500 _a In container (24 x 16 x 5 cm.). Includes 1 additional sound disc entitled "Excerpts from select titles in the series." "Lecture content c2004 by Kermit L. Hall. p2004 by Recorded Books, LLC. This edition 2004 by Barnes & Noble Publishing."--Sound disc surface.
505 _a Course lectures: 1. The business of America -- 2. John Jacob Astor: from furs to real estate -- 3. Cyrus McCormick and the business of agriculture -- 4. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould: speculating on America -- 5. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: an obsession for efficiency -- 6. J.P. Morgan: the triumph of the money man -- 7. Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan: capturing the dream -- 8. Walt Disney: the business of fantasy -- 9. Robert Woodruff: as American as Coke. 10. Ray Kroc: the industrialization of eating -- 11. Sam Walton: will the real Uncle Sam please stand up? -- 12. Mary Kay Ash: what do women want? -- 13. Andrew Grove and Bill Gates: Intel (and Microsoft) inside -- 14. The past and future of American business.
520 _aA series of fourteen lectures reviewing core principles of American economic philosophy through the lives of American entrepreneurs from John Jacob Astor to Andrew Grove and Bill Gates.
650 _aBusinesspeople
_vUnited States
_xBiography.
650 _a Industrialists
_vUnited States
_xBiography.
650 _aEntrepreneurship
_vUnited States
_x Case studies.
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_cAV
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