by Gary Hoover | Mar 8, 2019 | Articles, Other Industries
Originally published on ArchbridgeInstitute.org on October 29, 2018 This article first appeared on October 29, 2018 in The Archbridge Institute’s ‘American Originals’ series. The grandson of slaves, Arthur George Gaston was born in 1892 in Demopolis, Alabama, to Rosie...
by Gary Hoover | Mar 8, 2019 | Articles, Transportation
Originally published on Hooversworld.com on May 30, 2015 In 1937, 24-year old Malcolm McLean (later changed to Malcom) delivered a load from the south to the New Jersey docks for export. He had been in the trucking business for two years. The rural North...
by Gary Hoover | Mar 8, 2019 | Articles, Retailing
Originally published on Hooversworld.com on Aug 2, 2016. Much has been written about the idea of “reinventing” your company. However, in my 50+ years of studying big business, I have rarely seen it happen — successfully. Here, from the treasure...
by Gary Hoover | Mar 8, 2019 | Articles, Business in General
Originally published on Hooversworld.com on July 28, 2016 I was working on a newsletter about Melville Shoe, a retailer I covered as a securities analyst at Citibank in the mid-70s. It was a great company with some unique approaches to opportunity discovery,...
by Gary Hoover | Mar 8, 2019 | Articles, Transportation
Originally published on Hooversworld.com on September 30, 2015 Now that’s an interesting question. I look forward to your candidates. I was recently stunned when I went to look up the fellow, whose story follows below, on Wikipedia, only to find no one had...
