Itt: The Management of Opportunity - Hardcover

Sobel, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1893122441 ISBN 13: 9781893122444

Publisher: Beard Books Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Robert Sobel portrays this giant conglomerate "as an organizing principle and a force more than anything else," but one lacking cohesion.

About this title

From the Publisher:

ITT is the history of what became the world's largest conglomerate. Robert Sobel traces the rise of the company through the leadership of the first three CEOs who shaped the giant conglomerate by their unique entrepreneurial skills, vision, and financial machinations. Written from the inside without being sponsored or subsidized by ITT, the book presents a candid view of the effects on ITT of the vicissitudes of the Depression, ITT's suspected financial dealings with the Germans during World War II, and the challenges posed by the electronic revolution.

About the Author:

Robert Nathen Sobel was a professor of business history at Hofstra University for more than forty years and held a Ph.D. from New York University. He is author of more than two dozen books on American economic and business history, including Herbert Hoover and the Onset of the Great Depression and Coolidge: An American Enigma. Besides producing books, articles, book reviews, scripts for television and audiotapes, he was a weekly columnist for Newsday from 1972 to 1988. In 1998, Sobel was the recipient of the second Special Achievement Sidewise Award for Alternate History for this book, which was republished in 1998.At the time of his death he was a contributing editor to Barron's magazine He died Wednesday, June 2, 1999 of brain cancer. Professor Sobel was 68. Sobel is a highly esteemed business historian. Sobel's purpose in any book he wrote was to help his reader learn from them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Beard Books Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1893122441
• ISBN 13: 9781893122444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 421