Strategy and Competition
The same chapter from every series, so you can compare how each fortune was built. Other posts on the topic follow.
Rockefeller (Part 3 of 5), Strategy: Own the Bottleneck, Not the Product
Why Rockefeller stayed out of drilling, took refining and transport, and what it cost him in the end.
Onassis (Part 3 of 5), Strategy: Buying at the Bottom, Then Betting on Bigger Tankers
Six freighters for $20,000 each, then supertankers: buying low, building ahead.
Other posts
Iba Teigo: The Hired Manager Who Saved Sumitomo, Then Left on Time
A century after his death, the salaried manager who moved Sumitomo's smelter to an island, replanted its mountains, helped found its bank and retired at 58.