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The Legacy of Gilded Age Heroine Clara Barton

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CEO Stories: Beverly Behan, Board Advisor.Net

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

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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Students, Retailers Face a New Type of Back-to-School Season

Grace Williams
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Ron Popeil, a 20th – and 21st Century Capitalist

Patricia O’Connell
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Learning About Money the Hard Way

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

Patricia O’Connell
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Getting Real: Reality Shows Are Essential to TV’s Future

Tom Gilbert
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Remembering the “Mother” of Monopoly

Bennett Voyles
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The Entrepreneurial Type

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

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

Patricia O’Connell
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Small Donors Build a Big Legacy for the African American History Museum

Chris Latham
Senior Writer
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LEGO: Not Just Another Brick in the Mall

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

Alyssa Abkowitz
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Re-Imagining Retail and Industrial Spaces Amid – and After – the Pandemic

Chris Latham
Senior Writer
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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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Lessons from Survivors: How Businesses Can Beat a Historic Crisis

Chris Latham
Senior Writer
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Charles and Ray Eames: A Design for Working

Bennett Voyles
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How Capitalism Shaped Philanthropy in Germany

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

Thomas A. Stewart
Executive Director, National Center for the Middle Market
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Green Book: The Enduring Legacy of Black Businesses for Travelers During Jim Crow

Chris Latham
Senior Writer
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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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Man and the Moon: Invention, Innovation, and Entertainment
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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
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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
Articles

Putting Financial Literacy to the Test

Warren Stephens
Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.
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All in the Family: Why Some Family Businesses Thrive – and Others Don’t

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
A man with a white and grey beard, wearing glasses and sitting at a desk looking at a laptop.
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Success Isn’t Just for the Young

Chris Latham
Senior Writer
An old photograph of a woman operating the first automatic dishwasher, which was invented by a woman.
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Women Entrepreneurs: The Long Walk to Success

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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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.
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Warfare History Network Features This is Capitalism in Interview on Capitalism During WWII
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CEO Stories: Family Lessons From the Farm to Finance

Warren Stephens
Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.
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Resources on Chuck Williams
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Resources on Sam Walton
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Capitalism in WWII: Andrew Higgins “The Man Who Won WWII”
Lucille Ball on the set of I Love Lucy.
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That’s Show Business

Patricia O’Connell
Contributor
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Resources on Helena Rubinstein
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Resources on Jack Stephens
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Jack Stephens: Vision and Passion

Curt Bradbury
Chief Operating Officer, Stephens Inc.
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Capitalism in WWII: The Arsenal of Democracy
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Why Do the Young Reject Capitalism?

Warren Stephens
Chairman, President and CEO of Stephens Inc.
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Resources on Madam C. J. Walker
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Resources on Alexander Hamilton
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Madam C. J. Walker: Against All Odds
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Alexander Hamilton: The American Dream
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Jack Stephens: The Birth of Venture Capital
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Sam Walton: Disrupting an Industry
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Chuck Williams: The Power of Passion
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Helena Rubinstein: Creating a Market