November 20, 1923: Patent #1,475,024 was granted to inventor Garrett Augustus Morgan for his automatic traffic signal. Morgan, who had a deep interest in public safety, was inspired to invent a device to control traffic after a tragic collision between an automobile and horse and carriage in his hometown of Cleveland. He sold the manufacturing rights to General Read More …
November 19, 1909: Peter Drucker, widely considered the inventor of of management, was born on this day in 1909. He described himself as a “social ecologist,” and wrote 39 books and numerous articles on how humans interact and communicate with each other. In 2002, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Source: The Drucker Institute Read More …
November 18, 1931: Roberto C. Goizueta is born in Havana, Cuba. He studied chemical engineering at Yale University and after graduating in 1953, returned to Cuba where he started out in an entry-level chemist position at The Coca-Cola Company. He and his family left Cuba after Fidel Castro’s rise to power and relocated in Miami, where Read More …
Welcome to our series: GBL Shorts – Favorite Business Books! We asked folks in the GBS Community to answer one very important question: “What is your favorite business book and why?” Julia Andrle offers three book suggestions – one with insights about why analytics are important to a business, another with tips and tricks about Read More …
Nov 2, 1959: Charles Van Doren admitted to a House subcommittee that he was provided advance knowledge of the questions and answers he would receive on the TV gameshow “Twenty One.” These shows had become popular in the 1950s after the US Supreme Court ruled in Federal Communications Commission v. American Broadcasting Co., Inc. that Read More …
October 31, 1837: Two European immigrants, William Procter and James Gamble, happened to marry sisters Olivia and Elizabeth Norris in Cincinnati in the early 19th century. Their father-in-law Alexander Norris convinced Procter, a candle maker, and Gamble, a soap maker, to join their businesses since they used common raw ingredients. Starting with total assets of just Read More …
October 26, 1825: Although construction first began in 1817, the Erie Canal did not officially open until October 26, 1825. Connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie, the Erie Canal helped transform New York City into the main port in the United States and greatly increased opportunities for trade and settlements. The Erie Canal lay Read More …
October 19, 1987: As a call-back to the October 28, 1929 stock market crash on Black Tuesday, Black Monday refers to the October 19, 1987 stock market crash during which the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 508 points (22.6% of its value) and the Dow Jones Index lost over $500 billion. The impact of Black Read More …
Thanks to the contribution of class gifts, the Goizueta Business Library is able to provide all Goizueta Business School alumni free remote access to UniWorld: American and Foreign Companies with Global Operations Passwords for Uniworld are available in the Goizueta Job Board and Resume Database (GO) and by request using this form. Uniworld’s multinational company directory lets you create custom Read More …
Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Questionert has nothing on the business librarians when it comes to asking just the right questions to learn things about our Goizueta community that we never knew before! We are continuing our video series, GBL Shorts: Library Questionary with Donna Peters. Check it out! Want more GBL Shorts? GBL Shorts: Favorite Business Books with Read More …
