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This is the definitive history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical
firm that became the world's largest genetically engineered seed
enterprise. Monsanto merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer
in 2018 but its Roundup Ready seeds, introduced twenty-five years
ago, are still reshaping the farms that feed us. Incorporating
global fieldwork, interviews with company employees, and untapped
corporate and government records, award-winning historian Bartow J.
Elmore traces Monsanto's astounding evolution from a scrappy
chemical startup to a global agrobusiness powerhouse. Capitalising
on deals with customers like Coca-Cola, General Electric and
especially the US government, Monsanto used seed money derived from
toxic products-including PCBs and Agent Orange-to build an
agricultural empire, promising endless bounty through its
genetically engineered technology. As new data emerges about its
blockbuster Roundup system, and as Bayer faces a tide of lawsuits
over Monsanto products past and present, Elmore's urgent history
takes a penetrating look at the company's past.
In this insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar
Oosterwal offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able
to adapt in an ever-changing world to stay on top and stay in
existence. From near-extinction in the early eighties,
Harley-Davidson rose to worldwide recognition and is still today
one of the great, iconic American motorcycle brands. In this
insider guide, former Harley-Davidson executive Dantar Oosterwal
offers an exclusive look at how Harley-Davidson was able to adapt
in an ever-changing world to stay on top and stay in existence In
The Lean Machine, you will learn about their secret weapon and
go-to formula for outstanding success as well as: the day-to-day
transformation at Harley-Davidson their adapted Knowledge-Based
Product Development identifies universal change and improvement
issues so that any company can incorporate this Rooted in Japanese
productivity improvement techniques, the Knowledge-Based Product
Development method helped Harley realize an unprecedented fourfold
increase in throughput in half the time--powering annual growth of
more than ten percent. The Lean Machine is part business journal,
part analysis, and part step-by-step toolkit that will help
companies in all industries achieve predictably excellent results.
The best of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's articles on blue
ocean strategy, all in one place. The seminal book Blue Ocean
Strategy has sold over 3.6 million copies globally and is in print
in 44 languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's work
on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages
of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those
articles together all in one place. Piece by piece, these articles
explain the process of creating "blue oceans"--uncontested market
spaces, untainted by competition. Kim and Mauborgne introduce tools
for exploring and exploiting these markets, such as the Value
Curve, the Strategy Canvas, the Price Corridor of the Mass, and the
Business Model Guide--tools that have come to make up the blue
ocean strategy framework. This collection also features the
authors' latest Harvard Business Review article, "Red Ocean Traps."
Whether or not you're familiar with blue ocean strategy, this book
will give you a new perspective on this important framework--and
help you implement it in your organization.
A family business frequently involves enough drama to fill a book -
this one in fact.Pearl Sets the Pace tells the story of two
landmark companies and a mighty dynasty. It begins in 1883, with
the arrival of German brew master Otto Koehler in the bustling city
of San Antonio, Texas. He establishes himself as one of the
founders of a firm that eventually becomes the Pearl Brewery. In
1914, his murder at the hands of a disgruntled mistress becomes
front-page news across the nation. Emma, his grieving (but
tough-as-nails) widow, assumes leadership of the company and keeps
it afloat during the dark days of Prohibition. In 1941, Margaret
Koehler, one of Emma's granddaughters, marries David Earl Pace.
After World War II, the young couple formulate a secret recipe for
Mexican salsa. Like mad scientists, they experiment in their home
kitchen and try out their concoctions on friends. From such humble
beginnings grew a mighty enterprise, a real-world manifestation of
the American Dream. By the early 1990s, Dave and Margaret's picante
sauce was the top-selling Mexican food condiment in the world.
Their descendants sold the business to the Campbell Soup Company
for $1.1 billion. Through murders and mistresses, Depression and
divorces, booms and busts, a passion for product sustained the
Koehler-Pace clan. To make something, not simply for their
neighbors to buy, but also something that would become integral to
their daily lives. That became their defining principle. Yes, it
defined them, but it also characterized their city. Can anyone
really imagine San Antonio without beer and picante sauce? This is
the story of a proud, complicated, and interwoven family and the
two great enterprises they wrangled. But it is also the story of a
unique Texas city and the people it breeds. It's a business story,
a family story, and a story of a thriving, modern city; it is also
our story.
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An illustrated and entertaining journey through the creative
process of renowned design studio House Industries, offering
innovative and inspirational ideas to help artists, designers,
musicians and creative people in any industry develop their best
work. Known throughout the world for its eclectic font collections
and far- reaching creative exploits from fashion and ceramics to
space technology, House Industries has been a standard bearer for
American graphic design for 25 years. Designed by the team at House
and featuring deluxe materials as well as hundreds of photographs
of early work, work in progress, and finished projects, this
revealing and visually engaging book presents a collection of
helpful lessons, stories and case studies that illustrate how to
transform obsessive curiosity into personally satisfying and
successful work.
We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the
most successful yet least well-known "civil rights movements" in
American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities,
business corporations, too, have fought since the nation's earliest
days to gain equal rights under the Constitution-and today have
nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Exposing the
historical origins of Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, Adam Winkler
explains how those controversial Supreme Court decisions extending
free speech and religious liberty to corporations were the capstone
of a centuries-long struggle over corporate personhood and
constitutional protections for business. Beginning his account in
the colonial era, Winkler reveals the profound influence
corporations had on the birth of democracy and on the shape of the
Constitution itself. Once the Constitution was ratified,
corporations quickly sought to gain the rights it guaranteed. The
first Supreme Court case on the rights of corporations was decided
in 1809, a half-century before the first comparable cases on the
rights of African Americans or women. Ever since, corporations have
waged a persistent and remarkably fruitful campaign to win an
ever-greater share of individual rights. Although corporations
never marched on Washington, they employed many of the same
strategies of more familiar civil rights struggles: civil
disobedience, test cases, and novel legal claims made in a
purposeful effort to reshape the law. Indeed, corporations have
often been unheralded innovators in constitutional law, and several
of the individual rights Americans hold most dear were first
secured in lawsuits brought by businesses. Winkler enlivens his
narrative with a flair for storytelling and a colorful cast of
characters: among others, Daniel Webster, America's greatest
advocate, who argued some of the earliest corporate rights cases on
behalf of his business clients; Roger Taney, the reviled Chief
Justice, who surprisingly fought to limit protections for
corporations-in part to protect slavery; and Roscoe Conkling, a
renowned politician who deceived the Supreme Court in a brazen
effort to win for corporations the rights added to the Constitution
for the freed slaves. Alexander Hamilton, Teddy Roosevelt, Huey
Long, Ralph Nader, Louis Brandeis, and even Thurgood Marshall all
played starring roles in the story of the corporate rights
movement. In this heated political age, nothing can be timelier
than Winkler's tour de force, which shows how America's most
powerful corporations won our most fundamental rights and turned
the Constitution into a weapon to impede the regulation of big
business.
Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the
rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest.
Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to
resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate
Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed
challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the
disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of
China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private
and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and
early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized
corporate power even as they expanded their businesses throughout
the Southwest and into Tibet, Southeast Asia, and eastern China.
Bringing wealth and cosmopolitan lifestyles to their hometowns, the
merchant-owners also gained greater access to commodities at the
expense of the Southwest's many indigenous minority communities.
Meanwhile, new concepts of development shaped the creation of
state-run corporations, which further concentrated resources in the
hands of outsiders. The book reveals how important new ideas and
structures of power, now central to the Communist Party's
repertoire of rule and oppression, were forged, not along China's
east coast, but along the nation's internal borderlands. It is a
must-read for anyone wishing to learn about China's unique state
capitalism and its contribution to inequality.
How has the firm of Swaine Adeney Brigg, one of Britain's oldest
and most prestigious manufacturers of leather goods and umbrellas,
survived for so long? What are the ingredients of its lasting
success? This book charts how the company has kept pace with the
shifting needs and demands of the marketplace, seizing trading
opportunities, for the most part successfully, along the way.
Swaine & Adeney began as makers of driving, riding, and hunting
whips, becoming whip-makers to the royal family. With the coming of
the railways, horse-drawn transport was greatly reduced and demand
for whips shifted away from driving accessories to hunting and
fashionable riding accessories. As the twentieth century dawned
Swaine & Adeney survived the advent of the motor car by
applying their leatherworking skills also to the making of luggage.
Other equestrian accessory companies were absorbed: J. Kohler &
Son, makers of coaching and hunting horns, and G. & J. Zair
Ltd, whip-makers of Birmingham. In the dark days of 1943, Thomas
Brigg & Sons, London's leading umbrella and walking-stick
manufacturers joined forces with Swaine & Adeney, bringing with
them their own long and impressive history of craftsmanship and
royal patronage. Together, as Swaine Adeney Brigg, they emerged
into the post-war era with renewed vigour. The hatters Herbert
Johnson and the luggage-making arm of Papworth Industries were
later added to the group. Neville Chamberlain, Margot Fonteyn,
Augustus John, and Stirling Moss have been among the proud owners
of the group's stylish products, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones
and Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau both wore Herbert Johnson
hats.
At the end of the 1950s the 100-year-old clothing firm Burberry was
a troubled company with an uncertain future, whose new owners did
not know what to do with it once they had secured it. Brian Kitson
joined Burberry in 1958 expecting a temporary summer job and stayed
for over twenty years. His research into the company's
distinguished past, encouraged by the last Mr Burberry, began to
suggest a possible direction for regeneration...Written with great
verve and wit, Burberry Days tells of the author's unexpected
adventures as an international travelling Burberry salesman
throughout the 1960s and '70s, as well as exploring the origins of
the company's emblematic trench coat and the familiar house check.
The book also offers some controversial reasons why Britain, with
so much to offer - from the Savile Row suit, the Jermyn Street
shirt and Scottish cashmere to workforce skills and great design
talent - can still only count Burberry in the premier league of
international fashion houses.
The Lockheed Plant in Marietta has been building many of the
world's most legendary aircraft for the past 60 years--and that
doesn't even count its service building B-29 bombers for the Bell
Aircraft Company during World War II. Lockheed's six decades have
seen the plant build jet bombers, like the B-47 Stratojet; the
world's most dominant fighter jet (the F-22 Raptor); and the most
vaunted cargo planes (C-130 Hercules, C-141 StarLifter, and C-5
Galaxy). In Images of America: The Lockheed Plant, readers will
learn about those planes, the people who designed and assembled
them, and the plant in which they were built. The striking images
in this book were shared by Lockheed Martin and the Marietta Daily
Journal and depict the plant from its construction through today.
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