TY - BOOK TI - Masters of enterprise : : how the titans of American business shaped the U.S. economy SN - 0760753652 AV - HC102.5.A2 PY - 2004/// CY - [New York, N.Y.] : PB - Barnes & Noble Audio, KW - Businesspeople KW - United States KW - Biography. KW - Industrialists KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Case studies. N1 - In container (24 x 16 x 5 cm.). Includes 1 additional sound disc entitled "Excerpts from select titles in the series." "Lecture content c2004 by Kermit L. Hall. p2004 by Recorded Books, LLC. This edition 2004 by Barnes & Noble Publishing."--Sound disc surface; Course lectures: 1. The business of America -- 2. John Jacob Astor: from furs to real estate -- 3. Cyrus McCormick and the business of agriculture -- 4. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould: speculating on America -- 5. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: an obsession for efficiency -- 6. J.P. Morgan: the triumph of the money man -- 7. Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan: capturing the dream -- 8. Walt Disney: the business of fantasy -- 9. Robert Woodruff: as American as Coke. 10. Ray Kroc: the industrialization of eating -- 11. Sam Walton: will the real Uncle Sam please stand up? -- 12. Mary Kay Ash: what do women want? -- 13. Andrew Grove and Bill Gates: Intel (and Microsoft) inside -- 14. The past and future of American business N2 - A series of fourteen lectures reviewing core principles of American economic philosophy through the lives of American entrepreneurs from John Jacob Astor to Andrew Grove and Bill Gates ER -