Product Description: Pan Am, Gimbel’s, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland―all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life...read more

Product Description: This work looks at various fields of study at the Harvard Business School, including technology and operations management and service profit chain research. It also includes essays that pay tribute to Dean John McArthur's contributions to the school during his tenure. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Essays examine the growing economic competition developing between the U.S. and Japan, world markets, production and distribution, cross-investment, agriculture, fiscal policy, and environmental regulations

Profiles four key figures in the history of government regulation of business (view table of contents)

Profiles four key figures in the history of government regulation of business

Essays discuss trusts, regulatory systems, scientific management, politics and regulation, environmental protection, and consumer protection

Essays discuss trusts, regulatory systems, scientific management, politics and regulation, environmental protection, and consumer protection