PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Fred Smith
Acting on observations he'd made in a college economics paper, Smith built a unique hub-and-spoke delivery network to keep pace with the developing computer industry. In 1973, Smith launched Federal Express with his own money and...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America? Frederick W. Smith
Smith got the idea for FedEx while still an undergraduate at Yale. In a 1965 economic term paper, he correctly observed that as society became more automated, companies like IBM and Xerox would need a faster, more dependable delivery...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Frederick Smith
Read about Frederick Smith's business plan for Federal Express, which he developed while in college. Included is a hedcut from an exhibit of hedcuts from Wall Street Journal.