Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth
A Student's Guide to Essential Primary Sources
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Abstract
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have not only been changed, but revolutionized, within the past few hundred years…
Contents
- 1: Structural Foundations
- Sun Tzu: The Art of War
- Alexander Hamilton: Report on the National Bank
- Alexander Hamilton: Report on the Subject of Manufactures
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Dartmouth v. Woodward
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Munn v. Illinois
- Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co
- 2: Corporate Power and Its Regulation
- Iron Clad Agreement
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth
- John Sherman: Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Ida Tarbell: The History of the Standard Oil Company
- Theodore Vail: AT&T Annual Report
- Robert Adamson: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Articles
- Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States
- Alfred Chandler: Strategy and Structure
- Lee Iacocca: Testimony before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization, Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives
- Paul Sarbanes and Mike Oxley: Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Paul J. McNulty: Statement on the Convictions of former Enron Chief Executive Offers Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
- Chris Dodd and Barney Frank: Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform Act
- U.S. Department of Labor News Release on OSHA Citations Issued to Amazon
- Mark Zuckerberg: Letter on Government Censorship
- 3: Professionalization of Management
- Henri Fayol: General and Industrial Management
- Russell C. Ostrander: Dodge v. Ford Motor Company
- Charles Clinton Spaulding: “The Administration of Big Business”
- Chester Barnard: Functions of the Executive
- Herbert Simon: Administrative Behavior
- Peter Drucker: The Practice of Management
- Lyndall F. Urwick: The Manager’s Span of Control
- Igor Ansoff: “Thinking Ahead: The Firm of the Future”
- Michael Porter: “What Is Strategy?”
- Philip Kotler: “From Sales Obsession to Marketing Effectiveness”
- Kenichi Ohmae: “Managing in a Borderless World”
- Smith v. Van Gorkom
- Warren Bennis: On Becoming a Leader
- William T. Allen: Caremark Intl. Inc. Derivative Litigation
- 4: Human Concerns vs. Financial Goals
- Theodore Dreiser: The Financier
- Oliver Sheldon: The Philosophy of Management
- Mary Parker Follett: Freedom and Co-ordination
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address
- Elton Mayo: Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization
- Abraham Maslow: Motivation and Personality
- Sloan Wilson: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- Chris Argyris: Personality and Organization
- Douglas McGregor: Human Side of Enterprise
- David Packard: Speech to HP Managers
- James March and Richard Cyert: A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
- Milton Friedman: “Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits”
- Robert Greenleaf: The Servant as Leader
- Jack Welch: Annual Letter to Shareholders
- Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone: “Greed is Good” Speech from Wall Street
- Warren Buffett: Annual Shareholder Letter 2023
- 5: Management and Worker
- Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
- Henry L. Gantt: Work, Wages, and Profits
- Frederick Winslow Taylor: Principles of Scientific Management
- Wife of Ford Motor Employee Letter to Henry Ford
- Frank and Lilian Gilbreth: Applied Motion Study: A Collection of Papers on the Efficient Method to Industrial Preparedness
- Frances Perkins: People at Work
- Robert F. Wagner: National Labor Relations Act
- Alfred Sloan: Statement to Employee of General Motors
- Taft-Hartley Act
- Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
- Larry Fink: Annual Shareholder Letter
- 6: Innovation, Performance, and Management
- Madam C.J. Walker: Letter to Dr. Byrd
- Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman: In Search of Excellence
- W. Edwards Deming: “Drastic Changes for Western Management”
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter: “The New Managerial Work”
- Sony Corp. v. Universal Studios
- C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel: “The Core Competence of the Corporation”
- Peter Senge: Leading Learning Organizations
- Charles Handy: “Trust and the Virtual Organization”
- Clayton Christensen: The Innovator’s Dilemma
- Jeff Bezos: Amazon Shareholder Letter
- Jim Collins: Good to Great
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin: Letter from the Founders
- Howard Schultz: Transformation Agenda Letter
- Indra Nooyi: The CEO of the Future
- Eric Ries: The Lean Startup
- Sam Altman: “The Intelligence Age”