The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195140958)

This engrossing history of an extraordinary company, Corning Incorporated, chronicles how one of the oldest business enterprises in the world maintained its place as a global leader in technology for over 150 years. In the nineteenth century, Corning developed colored signal lights for railroads. In the twentieth century, it created Pyrex and color television tubes; today, it is a Fortune 500 company leading the international marketplace in areas such as fiber optics and photonics.
If you use the Internet, drive a car, or simply turn on a light, then Corning is a part of your life. The Generations of Corning tells the fascinating stories of its founding family--the Houghtons, the inventors, and the adventures, behind Corning's remarkable achievements--from unexpected discoveries, like the laboratory mishap that led to Corning Ware, to the years of painstaking, often frustrating, research that led to its breakthrough in fiber optics.
From 1851 to 1996, five generations of Houghtons made Corning a company that combined a culture of continuous innovation with a sense of loyalty to its employees and their community. Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross show how the critical changes in organization and leadership that accompanied each new generation helped Corning not just survive, but to prosper, and push itself to the cutting edge of materials technology in decade after decade. The Generations of Corning is a classic success story and a triumph of the inventive spirit.

Author: Davis Dyer, Daniel Gross
ISBN-10: 0195140958
ISBN-13: 9780195140958
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/21/2001
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.51w x 1.64d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2001 pg. 101
Booklist 05/01/2001 pg. 1648
Choice 01/01/2002 pg. 926