We wrote this five years ago, before the American Business History Center was founded, but we stand by our choices. For the last 52 years, I have been obsessed with understanding what makes a company great. What leads to success; what leads away. This led me to ruminate on which might be the greatest US […]| Business History - The American Business History Center
“Big pharma” and “biotech” are in the news these days. Politicians attack the industry and the price of drugs. At the same time, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and others hurry along to develop a COVID vaccine. These companies have been among the world’s most inventive, saving millions of lives with their products. Due to their […]| Business History - The American Business History Center
Originally Published on Hooversworld.com on May 22, 2018 Who would have guessed that a medium-sized retailer which never put its name on a store would evolve to become the 7th largest company in America, a place where millions of Americans shop every day? My first job after studying economics at the University of Chicago was […]| Business History - The American Business History Center
Lists of the largest American publicly-held retail companies in 1929, 1955, 1985, and 2015, with revenue and profit data.| Business History - The American Business History Center
“Last week we brought you an unprecedented animated chart of the Fortune 500 list since 1994. Here we go back another 40 years, when steel companies and meatpackers were still giants. Taken together, you can learn a lot from 65 years of history.” Last week, we produced an animated chart of the Fortune 500 top […]| Business History - The American Business History Center
