Building a Business Through Good Times and Bad: Lessons from 15 Companies, Each with a Century of Dividends

Grossman and Jennings examine 15 industrial companies and find unique characteristics in their values and management styles—characteristics that other companies would be wise to understand and emulate. Each of the example companies knew they were in business to make money. Dynamic, questioning, and actively in step with society's changes, they constantly asked themselves one critical question: Wha...