Simón Cohen, founder of Henco Logistics, transformed a small Mexican company into a major player. Cohen credits the firm’s focus on employee happiness as the key ingredient to its success—an approach he developed following a personal crisis. Cohen and Professor Francesca Gino, author of a case study about the company, discuss whether that approach can endure through rapid growth, a leadership transition, and changing employee expectations.
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The Virginians in Jamestown, the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay, the Quakers in Pennsylvania and other early settlers of what later became the United States all brought with them elements of capitalism, precursors of the future nation's market-driven direction. In this excerpt from his article "American Capitalism" in Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, HBS Professor Thomas K. McCraw looks at the early years of capitalism on the North American continent.
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It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
The Virginians in Jamestown, the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay, the Quakers in Pennsylvania and other early settlers of what later became the United States all brought with them elements of capitalism, precursors of the future nation's market-driven direction. In this excerpt from his article "American Capitalism" in Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions, HBS Professor Thomas K. McCraw looks at the early years of capitalism on the North American continent. Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.