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Continent
America / /
Country
Italy / Cuba / U.S.S.R. / France / Japan / United States / Soviet Union / United Kingdom / China / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Employment Change / /
Facility
University Stern School / /
IndustryTerm
consumer electronics / transport technology / insurance / introduced deposit insurance / high-tech goods / ½nancial services / energy-price shocks / electricity / manufacturing base / manufacturing belt / carrier-led fleets / stock-options solution / manufacturing techniques / manufacturing areas / manufacturing / stock-option solution / industrial products / developed manufacturing skills / place bank representatives / mass production technologies / steel / /
Organization
National Science Foundation / Supreme Court / American Academy of Arts & Sciences / War Production Board / Congress / Occupy Wall Street / federal government / American Academy / American Academy of Arts / New York University Stern School of Business / Securities and Exchange Commission / U.S. Treasury / Chinese government / /
Person
RALPH GOMORY / RICHARD SYLLA / John F. Welch / Gary Pisano / Theodore Roosevelt / Charles Wilson / J. K. Galbraith / Franklin Roosevelt / Nikita Khrushchev / Dwight Eisenhower / Ronald Reagan / Willy Shih / /
Position
driver / President / secretary of defense / Manager of the Century / Professor of the History of Financial Institutions / Professor of Economics / ceo / Professor / chair the compensation committee / banker / observer of corporate America / single ceo / popular president / leader / /
Region
Midwest / Eastern Europe / /
Technology
mass production technologies / transport technology / /
The American Corporation Ralph Gomory & Richard Sylla Abstract: The United States from its earliest years led the world in making the corporate form of business organization widely available to entrepreneurs. Starting in