Explore Capitalism

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Looking Back (55 items)

An old photograph of a woman operating the first automatic dishwasher, which was invented by a woman.
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The Legacy of Gilded Age Heroine Clara Barton

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
Podcasts

CEO Stories: Beverly Behan, Board Advisor.Net

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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CEO Stories: Ramy Gafni, Ramy Beauty Therapy

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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Ron Popeil, a 20th – and 21st Century Capitalist

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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Learning About Money the Hard Way

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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Beyond Barbie: The Legacy of Mattel Founder Ruth Handler

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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Remembering the “Mother” of Monopoly

Bennett Voyles
Contributor
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The Entrepreneurial Type

Bennett Voyles
Contributor
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In These (Brown) Shoes: Throwing Shade at Ballet

Grace Williams
Contributor
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John H. Johnson: Changing Publishing – and History

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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LEGO: Not Just Another Brick in the Mall

Bennett Voyles
Contributor
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The Once-Solid Rental Housing Market Shows Its Cracks

Alyssa Abkowitz
Contributor
Podcasts

CEO Stories: How Attitudes about COVID-19 Are Changing in the Middle Market

Thomas A. Stewart
Executive Director, National Center for the Middle Market
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Charles and Ray Eames: A Design for Working

Bennett Voyles
Contributor
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How Capitalism Shaped Philanthropy in Germany

Bennett Voyles
Contributor
Podcasts

CEO Stories: NCMM – Taking the Middle Market’s Temperature During COVID-19

Thomas A. Stewart
Executive Director, National Center for the Middle Market
Podcasts

CEO Stories: Journalist Turned CEO

John Byrne
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of C-Change Media Inc., Former BusinessWeek Executive Editor
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CEO Stories: How to “Think Like Amazon”

John Rossman
Former Amazon Executive, Author of book series “The Amazon Way”
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CEO Stories: Re-imagining Baltimore’s 19th Century Buildings for the 21st

Thibault and Lola Manekin
Seawall Development and Movement Lab
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World War II and “The Golden Age of Capitalism”

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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Business Lessons from D-Day

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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CEO Stories: Secrets of successful women

Veronica Dagher
Author, The Wall Street Journal's ebook, Resilience
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CEO Stories: The untold story of the middle market

Thomas A. Stewart
Executive Director, National Center for the Middle Market
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Putting Financial Literacy to the Test

Warren Stephens
Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.
A man with a white and grey beard, wearing glasses and sitting at a desk looking at a laptop.
Podcasts

CEO Stories: A Modern View of the Hoovers

Margaret Hoover
American Commentator
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The Walmart Effect

Matthew A. Waller
Dean of the Walton School of Business
A woman holding a power drill and drilling into a sheet of metal.
Podcasts

CEO Stories: Family Lessons From the Farm to Finance

Warren Stephens
Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.
Lucille Ball on the set of I Love Lucy.
Articles

That’s Show Business

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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Jack Stephens: Vision and Passion

Curt Bradbury
Chief Operating Officer, Stephens Inc.
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Why Do the Young Reject Capitalism?

Warren Stephens
Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.