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Hershey's Food Corp: About: Milton Hershey
This resource provides an extensive biography of Milton Hershey with many pictures.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Amazing Americans
Checklist of inventors, politicians, performers, activists, and ordinary people who made America. Meet Harry Houdini, Langston Hughes, Buffalo Bill Cody and dozens of other famous and interesting American adventurers, presidents,...
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Small Business Administration: Starting a Business
Find out if you have what it takes to be a small business owner. Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses through these topics.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Picturing Business in America: Martha Stewart
See the two hedcuts of Martha Stewart from an exhibit of Wall Street Journal hedcuts and read a brief biography of her business life.
Black Past
Black Past: Magggie Lena Walker
With this brief biography, learn about the life and career of Maggie L. Walker, the first African American bank president. Topics also includes Walker's activism, philanthropy and family history.
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The Mint: Be Your Own Boss
Website helps students learn about money management and making sound financial decisions. Students can take this quiz designed for teens to find out if they have what it takes to own their own business.
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John Deere: Our Past Leaders: Founder John Deere
Learn about the childhood and professional successes of John Deere, who was the founder and president of the John Deere company.
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Hershey History
Online collections of historically significant documents relating to Milton Hershey, the business and the town.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Business Ownership: How Sweet It Can Be!
In this lesson, students research the three basic types of business organization: sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. Considering the advantages and disadvantages of each, they function as consultants offering advice on...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Bringing Creativity Into an Organization
A series of video lectures by Robert I. Sutton from Stanford University discussing creativity and its place in the modern organization.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Serving Up Economics
This lesson plan describes how students can use a restaurant setting to study the basic concepts of economics, while they learn business, math, and even get to eat.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Real Origin of the Franchise
In this video lesson, Sir Harold Evans describes the remarkable story of Martha Matilda Harper, a beauty salon owner who invented franchising, one of the most successful business models today. [5:49]
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia, the "international collaborative free content encyclopedia on the Internet," provides this article on its founder. Biographical information, Wikipedia history, works, references, and related articles are included.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Economy of the United States
This site from the encyclopedia Wikipedia gives the reader excellent insight into the United States economy. Includes historical references, the influence of technology, resources, and the role of government. Includes numerous charts and...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Estee Lauder
One-page profile of influential innovator, Estee Lauder, a marketing genius whose vision and ideas created a world famous cosmetics dynasty.
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Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Ray Kroc
One-page profile of influential innovator, Ray Kroc, "fast food's founding father", whose vision and ideas launched the successful McDonald's franchise.
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Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Ida Rosenthal
An outspoken Russian Jewish immigrant sold American women on the first undergarment that uplifted and conformed to their shape -- the brassiere.
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Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Sarah Breedlove Walker
An illiterate, impoverished daughter of freed slaves built the largest black-owned business in America, made a fortune, and touched thousands with her philanthropy.
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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...
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Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Martha Matilda Harper
A former servant developed an influential beauty regimen -- and innovated business practices when she created the first franchise system of independently owned salons in the U.S. and Europe.
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Elijah Embree and the Embreeville Ironworks
This site gives a biography of Elijah Embree, one of East Tennessee?s leading industrialists of the early 19th century and in the iron industry around the world.
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Teen Analyst: Start Your Own Business Guide
Have you ever wanted to create your own business but thought it would be too hard? This site has put together resources to help you get started with your own business.
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Biz Kids: Dollar a Glass Game
Players use business strategy to see how much money they can earn by making and selling lemonade.
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Dell: Michael S. Dell
Read about Michael Dell, the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Dell, the company he founded with $1000 in 1984 at the age of 19.
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