Business
Business history is the record of how ideas get scaled. Mass production, the modern corporation, management science, quality systems, microfinance and the venture-funded technology firm all trace to specific people indexed here — along with the labour, antitrust and environmental reckonings their models provoked.
10 indexed lives · 1 Nobel laureates · 5 countries
Where to start
Muhammad Yunus
b. 1940Lent $27 of his own money and started a global industry for the poor.
Bangladesh·Economics · Business · PeaceNobelFull profile
Andrew Carnegie
1835 – 1919Built modern steel and then invented large-scale philanthropy.
United States·Business
Jamsetji Tata
1839 – 1904Founded Indian heavy industry and the philanthropic corporate model behind it.
India·Business
Nobel recognition in Business
- Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Prize, 2006