As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Goizueta Business School, the business librarians thought it might be fun to explore the evolution of business terminology between 1919 and 2019. So each month we will post a blog identifying business words and concepts that were captured in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the decades that GBS has been in operation. Here is our fourth entry, business-speak from 1949-1958!
1949 Coinvest
1950 Anti-boss / Private label / Sub-optimization / Sweat equity
1951 Gross domestic product / Trailblazing
1952 Answering service / Automate / Demand-pull / Do-it-yourself / Madison Avenue / Mass-market / Nonexecutive
1953 Day trader / Digitize / Overqualified / Time-sharing
1954 Buyback / Franchisee / Growth industry / Prelaunch / Wheeler-dealer
1955 Agribusiness / Artificial intelligence / Profit center
1956 Microcomputer / Uniform
1957 Computerize / Multiculturalism
1958 Agribusinessman / Linear regression / Software / Tesla / Think tank