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John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World
Nicholas, Tom; Fouka, VasilikiCase HBS-815088-EKnowledge and CommunicationBy the late nineteenth century scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major industrial sectors of the U.S. economy. Although the precise mechanisms often varied, this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative centralization followed by vertical integration. Standard Oil represents the canonical example of this development. Standard Oil's history is also fully intertwined with the life a...Starting at €8.20