Renewing American Industry: Organizing for Efficiency and Innovation

Business & Money

Lawrence, Paul

Dyer, Davis

Industries

Free Pr

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, and the adventures, behind Corning's remarkable achievements--from unexpected discoveries, like the laboratory mishap that led to Corning Ware, to the years of painstaking, often frustrating, research that led to its breakthrough in fiber optics. From 1851 to 1996, five generations of Houghtons made Corning a company that combined a culture of continuous innovation with a sense of loyalty to its employees and their community. Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross show how the critical changes in organization and leadership that accompanied each new generation helped Corning not just survive, but to prosper, and push itself to the cutting edge of materials technology in decade after decade. The Generations of Corning is a classic success story and a triumph of the inventive spirit.

The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation

Gross, Daniel

Biography & History

Oxford University Press

One of the first books to address the role large corporations will play in the coming century Over the last twenty-five years, an enormous change has occurred in the landscape of business-the rise and decline of the industrial corporation. Changing Fortunes examines this evolution and looks ahead to what it means for owners, managers, employees, and the public. A well-written business history from a rising star at Harvard Business School and two business historians, this book portrays the dramatic shifts in strategy that America's biggest companies (i.e., GE, IBM) underwent in moving from an industrial to a postindustrial economy. It also offers a forward look at their place in a changing economy.

Changing Fortunes: Remaking the Industrial Corporation

Dalzell, Frederick

Nohria, Nitin

History

wiley

Book by Schlesinger, Leonard A., Dyer, Davis, Clough, Thomas N., Landau, Diane

Chronicles of Corporate Change: Management Lessons from AT&T and Its Offspring

Schlesinger, Leonard A.

Clough, Thomas N.

Landau, Diane

Lexington Books

Changing alliances

Webber, Alan M.

Salter, Malcolm S.

Harvard Business School Press

Traces the evolution of the Hercules Corporation from its beginnings as a small maker of explosives to its current status as a multinational chemical company. The Hercules story also provides an insight into the dynamics of the chemical industry and the growth of individual firms.

Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company

Science & Math

Sicilia, David B.

History & Philosophy

McGraw=Hill

Widely recognized as one of the best run high-tech companies in the world, TRW has helped shape the major industries of today: automotive, aerospace, and information technology. In this revealing account of the firm's pioneering role in long-range planning, large-scale project management, systems engineering, organizational development, and progressive human relations policies, TRW emerges as a resourceful and well-positioned player in the American industrial landscape. The history of TRW's rapid growth, broad diversification, and subsequent restructuring around core businesses provides valuable insights into the evolution of the strategy, structure, and management in the modern corporate era.

Trw: Pioneering Technology and Innovation Since 1900

Harvard Business Review Press

In 1930, philanthropist Edward S. Harkness bestowed a gift of $5.8 million on Phillips Exeter Academy, expecting to inspire "something revolutionary" in secondary education. The gift enabled the Exeter, New Hampshire, academy to redesign pedagogy and classrooms around distinctive oval "Harkness tables" that could accommodate twelve students plus a teacher and to remake its campus into a residential community. The gift transformed education at the school, but its impact spread well beyond the classroom. Since 1930, principles of free and open inquiry and discussion have come to animate Exeter's efforts to deal with major challenges and changes, including working with an increasingly diverse community, introducing coeducation, and governing and financing a large, complex institution. After the Harkness Gift demonstrates how one leading independent school adopted a distinctive approach to teaching and learning and then successfully adapted it in the service of continuing institutional change.

After the Harkness Gift: A History of Phillips Exeter Academy Since 1930

Education & Teaching

Heskel, Julia

Higher & Continuing Education

Phillips Exeter Academy Pr

Architects of Information Advantage: The Mitre Corporation Since 1958

Politics & Social Sciences

Dennis, Michael Aaron

Politics & Government

Community Communications Corp

This work features the history of brand innovation at Procter &amp; Gamble, one of the most successful consumer goods companies in the world. A fascinating history of household brands from Ivory to Crest, and Pringles to Cascade, this book unlocks the secrets of longtime success of dozens of superstar brands that we've grown accustomed to choosing for decades. It offers practical advice. Case study sections offer lessons in: business reinvention, building new markets and capabilities, leadership transformation, brand excellence, and general management.

Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble

Olegario, Rowena

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