Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961Routledge, 2019 M09 30 - 304 páginas Entrepreneurs play a central role in economic growth and development, but how they do so is the subject of considerable debate. This book explains that process through an historical case study of an automobile insurance entrepreneur, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. It also recounts the largely untold history of American automobile insurance. |
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... sell near the price the older firms charged . But , the cost of production for the entrepreneur's firm was much less , and this resulted in windfall profits for the entrepreneur . This was " the premium put upon successful innovation in ...
... selling in new markets , etc. Building new factories in Mexico and closing old ones in the United States ; adding to or cutting the company's research and development budget ; " downsiz- ing " the white collar staff or expanding it ...
... selling policies . Black also broke with the industry tradition of one standard policy . He re - wrote Erie Insurance's policies , first in automobile and then in other insurance lines , to provide customers with more coverage at a ...
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Contenido
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37 | |
Getting Ahead | 59 |
The Romance of Claims | 81 |
Push This Thing Along The Rise of Erie Insurance | 99 |
The Challenge of the Depression | 127 |
Adversity and Innovation | 163 |
Sales World War II and Managing the Northwest Territories | 197 |
Underwriting And Problems of Growth | 231 |
Questions of Strategy and Rewards | 265 |
Epilogue Samuel P Black Jr Entrepreneurship and Erie Insurance 19611997 | 305 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Appendices | 335 |
Index | 349 |
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr ... Samuel Patton Black,John Paul Rossi Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance: Samuel P. Black, Jr ... Samuel P. Black,John Paul Rossi Sin vista previa disponible - 2020 |