Their innovations as managers--profit sharing, flex-time, management by objective, the "HP Way"--transformed modern industry.
Modern industry produces many things, from coal ash to computers, that are difficult to dispose of properly.
From that a further miracle follows, for trust is what raises the billions of dollars that fund modern industry.
The only difference was technology: Hitler went about his cynical carnage with all the efficiency that modern industry had perfected.
GE's reign illustrated the close links between modern industry and finance: GE Capital contributes almost half of the conglomerate's profits.
At the time, Bangladesh had no textile exports and no modern industry.
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Thanks to free markets, common laborers can access more comfort, superior sanitation and even entertainment than nobles experienced before the stirrings of modern industry.
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But the modern industry got its start in 1984 when the Reagan Administration deregulated the airwaves and renounced rules limiting the number of commercial minutes that could be broadcast in a given hour.
The country's ambitious efforts over many years to attract modern industry and at the same time more respect as an economic force in Asia haven't always gotten the notice that promoters would wish.
Venture capitalists have been using the carried interest concept since the modern VC industry arose in the 1960s.
Looking backward, it seems the modern defense industry was a response to the confluence of four unusual trends.
In 1973, everything remained to be done in a place where the modern wine industry was just gaining a tenuous foothold.
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Lawson is a smart and forceful leader, very much in the mold of the men who created the modern aerospace industry.
The idea is the brainchild of Knut Kloster, a Norwegian shipping magnate whose family pioneered the modern cruise industry in the 1960s.
Those arguments are reasonable enough, but they neglect the vital role that U.S. economic strength played in sustaining the modern defense industry.
Modern, industry-standard communications and transportation systems were two more key infrastructure systems.
South Korea launched an active campaign on all levels -- corporate, government, education -- to train and cultivate a modern film industry.
The impact of the modern energy industry on information grows from the need of oil and gas firms to use technology to discover, maintain and expand their operations.
At its core, the modern space industry is all about building and launching satellites, and that business has been lagging--largely due to the extensive infrastructure already in orbit.
The author begins his travels in Nigeria, where Royal Dutch Shell started off Africa's relationship with the modern oil industry by striking black gold in the Delta region in 1958.
What is equally remarkable in this small, southern German town is that the feud also led to the creation of two famous companies - Puma and Adidas - and, as a result, the birth of the modern sportswear industry.
It is still one of the finest jests of the modern muses that this fogged-in English don was going home nights to work on perhaps the most popular adventure story ever written, thereby inventing one of the most successful commercial formulas that publishing possesses, and establishing the foundation of the modern fantasy industry.
Modern chemistry and industry came to the rescue in the 19th century, as stabler anilines, alizarins, azos and phthalos were added to palettes from another novelty, metal tubes.
That law created the modern generic drug industry by inventing a system in which generic drug companies get six-month monopolies on a copycat pill if they can overturn one of Big Pharma's patents.
The modern and sophisticated industry that containers spawned, with its huge global operators, has shocked and alarmed those ignorant of the new world of the docks--a Dubai company wants to run some American ports!
There was a pilot investigation program, which, among other things, traced a 1904 fruit-decay crisis in California to cuts in the fruit from stem clippers and the fingernails of handlers (and, along the way, introduced modern packing methods industry-wide).
Bushnell's best-known accomplishments came at Atari, which helped launch the modern video game industry with the 1972 release of "Pong, " and at the Chuck E Cheese restaurant chain, which specializes in pizza, arcade entertainment and musical performances by animatronic animals.
The modern life insurance industry, in its competition with Wall Street, seems to have lost its focus, doing a good job of convincing the public that you can protect your net worth and grow it at the same time by buying their expensive financially engineered insurance products.
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Second, the modern private-equity industry is built on a far greater scale than a decade ago.
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