by Gary Hoover | Jul 11, 2019 | Articles, Data
History lovers, Today we present something a little different….an animated chart showing the rise and fall of American cities. If you play (or replay) the graphic linked here, you will see the rise and fall of the thirty most populous metropolitan areas in the...
by Gary Hoover | Jun 6, 2019 | Articles, Business in General
Join others around the country who have donated $9,000. Thank you! Donate today .Management and strategy thinkers continually try to understand what makes for success and failure. Why do some companies stand the test of time, while others disappear into the...
by Gary Hoover | May 25, 2019 | Videos
Here is a 13 minute example of the lessons of business history….from...
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 | Sep 27, 2018 | Data
The first Fortune 500 – 1954 Data set Source: Fortune Magazine 1954 The First Fortune 500 1954 Data (XLSX)
by Gary Hoover | Sep 27, 2018 | Data, Data, Transportation
Here are estimates of the largest car makers in the early years of the industry, 1896-1966. Source: The American Car since 1775, 1971, by the Editors of Automobile Quarterly US Auto Production by Make 1896-1966...
