A brief biography of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, whose idea that he would get the best deals he could on merchandise and pass those savings on to the customer led to his becoming the richest man in America.
Traces an incrementally violent confrontation between a National Park Service biologist who would eradicate invasive wildlife on the Channel Islands and two locals who are fiercely opposed to the killing of any creatures.
Balram Halwai is educated in the art of corruption when he is hired as the driver for the wealthiest man in his village in India, by witnessing his employers bribe and barter through his rear view mirror.
Applying their unique inventing talents to the creation of highly technological economic systems, Perry and Lester transform the country only to suffer a bust from which they recover by inventing interactive rides throughout the nation's Wal-Marts.
a historical encyclopedia of American business concepts
Dobson, John M
2007
Contains nearly four hundred entries that examine key concepts important to the history of American business, as well as biographies of notable inventors, entrepreneurs, and industrial and business leaders; arranged alphabetically within five time periods ranging from 1607 through the twentieth century.
insider business jargon-- raw, serious and sometimes funny business and deal terms from an entrepreneur's diary that you won't get from school or a dictionary
Discusses the history of computers, the Internet and World Wide Web, navigating tools, and electronic commerce, with an emphasis on developers and entrepreneurs in the field.
An illustrated biography of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century entrepreneur Martha Matilda Harper, who immigrated to the U.S. from Canada in 1888 and developed a health-conscious hair salon franchise.
Tells over 200 stories of the people behind well-known brand names in America, including Chef Boyardee, Peter Paul, Jack Daniels, Smith Brothers, Estee Lauder, John Deere, Tupperware, and Milton Bradley.
