HS 462 - Seminar: Taking Care of Business: The Evolution of American Business Leadership, 1600-1990s

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course, one HS 300-level course. Focuses on the changing organization and operation of American business in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examines the changing values, activities, functions, and recruitment of businessmen during the evolution of American enterprise. Analysis is organized along three major stages of enterprise: business as personal enterprise dominated by merchants; the rise of largescale entrepreneurial enterprise in the late nineteenth century; and the development of modern-day, professionally managed business organizations. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. IU