A course in Business

Built modern steel and then invented large-scale philanthropy.

Founded Indian heavy industry and the philanthropic corporate model behind it.

Scientific management — the origin of every productivity metric and its discontents.

The moving assembly line and the five-dollar day created mass consumer industry.

Built a national cosmetics company and became America's first self-made Black woman millionaire.

Creative destruction — the standard account of how innovation reshapes industries.

Statistical quality control rebuilt Japanese manufacturing and then global industry.

Invented management as a discipline and named the knowledge worker.

Designed the Toyota Production System — lean manufacturing worldwide.

Lent $27 of his own money and started a global industry for the poor.