Richard S Tedlow
Biographic Data
| ID | 681911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard S Tedlow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard S |
| FAMILY NAME | Tedlow |
| SIGNATURE | TEDLOW R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century
The Sky above and the Mud below: Two Books about Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was the most charismatic businessperson in the modern era. When he died, on October 5, 2011, Apple was inundated with condolence messages from all over the United States and from around the world. These notes were sent not only to Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, but to Apple retail stores. The stores posted them on their windows. In addition, bouquets of flowers were brought to the stores. Think of this—flowers in front of…
Giants of Enterprise. Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built
Seven business innovators and the empires they built. The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires. With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates the minds, lives and strategies behind the legendary successes of our times: . George Eastman and his invention of the Kodak camera; . Thomas Watson of IBM;…
Statistical portraits of American business elites: A review essay
Since the early twentieth century, scholars have conducted statistical studies of groups of business leaders. These have often been extensive undertakings, calling for the collection of large quantities of information about business executives through the use of surveys, personal interviews, dictionaries, obituaries and biographies. The scholars who have carried out these studies have come from a range of disciplines, including sociology, history…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Large American Industrial Corporation in 1917
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Cars and Carnage: Safety and Hazard on the American Road
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New and improved: The story of mass marketing in America
An account of American business, examining how America became a consumer society.
The Mass in Mass Consumption
Business History Review. Special Issue. Business in Latin America
Roadside Empires: How the Chains Franchised America
Keeping the Corporate Image: Public Relations and Business, 1900-1950
Journal Article Keeping the Corporate Image: Public Relations and Business, 1900–1950. By Richard S. Tedlow. (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI, 1979. xx + 233 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.50.) Get access Otis A. Pease Otis A. Pease University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 715–716, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902023 P…
From Competitor to Consumer: The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914–1938
It is a truism that government regulation of business, like all institutions of the political economy, has been evolutionary in nature. Yet few regulatory programs have metamorphosed quite so completely as that of the Federal Trade Commission, which converted itself in the period covered by this article from a watchdog of “competitive practices” that might militate against preservation of atomistic industrial organization, to an agency bent on pr…
The Show and Tell Machine: How Television Works and Works You over . Rose K. Goldsen
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change, by Louis Galambos and Barbara Barrow Spence
The National Association of Manufacturers and Public Relations during the New Deal
The National Association of Manufacturers was influential in establishing public relations as a permanent fixture in American corporate life. The Association took up the use of public relations in the depths of the depression, promoted its use strongly, and increased its stature
Intellect on Television: The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s
ON THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1955, The $64,000 Question MADE ITS DEBUT on the CBS television network. No programming idea could have been more thoroughly foreshadowed by previous shows. Since the mid-1930s radio had been exploiting the American passion for facts with contests and games. For years, small amounts of cash or manufacturer-donated merchandise had been given away through various formats. What was new about Question was the size of the purse. Th…
The National Association of Manufacturers and Public Relations during the New Deal
The National Association of Manufacturers was influential in establishing public relations as a permanent fixture in American corporate life. The Association took up the use of public relations in the depths of the depression, promoted its use strongly, and increased its stature
From Competitor to Consumer: The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914–1938
It is a truism that government regulation of business, like all institutions of the political economy, has been evolutionary in nature. Yet few regulatory programs have metamorphosed quite so completely as that of the Federal Trade Commission, which converted itself in the period covered by this article from a watchdog of “competitive practices” that might militate against preservation of atomistic industrial organization, to an agency bent on pr…
Giants of Enterprise. Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built
Seven business innovators and the empires they built. The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires. With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates the minds, lives and strategies behind the legendary successes of our times: . George Eastman and his invention of the Kodak camera; . Thomas Watson of IBM;…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Large American Industrial Corporation in 1917
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Intellect on Television: The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s
ON THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1955, The $64,000 Question MADE ITS DEBUT on the CBS television network. No programming idea could have been more thoroughly foreshadowed by previous shows. Since the mid-1930s radio had been exploiting the American passion for facts with contests and games. For years, small amounts of cash or manufacturer-donated merchandise had been given away through various formats. What was new about Question was the size of the purse. Th…
The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change, by Louis Galambos and Barbara Barrow Spence
The National Association of Manufacturers and Public Relations during the New Deal
The National Association of Manufacturers was influential in establishing public relations as a permanent fixture in American corporate life. The Association took up the use of public relations in the depths of the depression, promoted its use strongly, and increased its stature
Intellect on Television: The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s
ON THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1955, The $64,000 Question MADE ITS DEBUT on the CBS television network. No programming idea could have been more thoroughly foreshadowed by previous shows. Since the mid-1930s radio had been exploiting the American passion for facts with contests and games. For years, small amounts of cash or manufacturer-donated merchandise had been given away through various formats. What was new about Question was the size of the purse. Th…
The Show and Tell Machine: How Television Works and Works You over . Rose K. Goldsen
Keeping the Corporate Image: Public Relations and Business, 1900-1950
Journal Article Keeping the Corporate Image: Public Relations and Business, 1900–1950. By Richard S. Tedlow. (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI, 1979. xx + 233 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.50.) Get access Otis A. Pease Otis A. Pease University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 715–716, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902023 P…
From Competitor to Consumer: The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914–1938
It is a truism that government regulation of business, like all institutions of the political economy, has been evolutionary in nature. Yet few regulatory programs have metamorphosed quite so completely as that of the Federal Trade Commission, which converted itself in the period covered by this article from a watchdog of “competitive practices” that might militate against preservation of atomistic industrial organization, to an agency bent on pr…
Roadside Empires: How the Chains Franchised America
Business History Review. Special Issue. Business in Latin America
New and improved: The story of mass marketing in America
An account of American business, examining how America became a consumer society.
The Mass in Mass Consumption
Cars and Carnage: Safety and Hazard on the American Road
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Statistical portraits of American business elites: A review essay
Since the early twentieth century, scholars have conducted statistical studies of groups of business leaders. These have often been extensive undertakings, calling for the collection of large quantities of information about business executives through the use of surveys, personal interviews, dictionaries, obituaries and biographies. The scholars who have carried out these studies have come from a range of disciplines, including sociology, history…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Large American Industrial Corporation in 1917
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Giants of Enterprise. Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built
Seven business innovators and the empires they built. The pre-eminent business historian of our time, Richard S. Tedlow, examines seven great CEOs who successfully managed cutting-edge technology and formed enduring corporate empires. With the depth and clarity of a master, Tedlow illuminates the minds, lives and strategies behind the legendary successes of our times: . George Eastman and his invention of the Kodak camera; . Thomas Watson of IBM;…
The Sky above and the Mud below: Two Books about Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was the most charismatic businessperson in the modern era. When he died, on October 5, 2011, Apple was inundated with condolence messages from all over the United States and from around the world. These notes were sent not only to Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, but to Apple retail stores. The stores posted them on their windows. In addition, bouquets of flowers were brought to the stores. Think of this—flowers in front of…
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century
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