Giants of enterprise

By Richard S Tedlow

Subjects: Biography, Executives, Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography, Businessmen -- United States -- Biography, Case studies, Businesspeople, biography, Entrepreneurship -- United States -- Case studies, Businessmen, Big business, Executives -- United States -- Biography, Entrepreneurship, Big business -- United States -- Case studies, Capitalists and financiers

Description: "Witness seven extraordinary men doing what Americans do best: building new businesses. These entrepreneurs broke old rules and made their own, mastering the future by shaping it. They overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to achieve enormous success and, in the process, played a role in the creation of the modern world.". "Combining his understanding of business and American history, Harvard Business School professor Richard S. Tedlow illuminates the professional and personal lives of these nineteenth- and twentieth-century titans, men with penetrating insight whose need to fulfill their destiny outweighed their fear of failure."--BOOK JACKET.