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Energy, materials and industry

11 companies holding 38 books.

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Cleveland-CliffsCleveland-Cliffs has mined iron ore on the Great Lakes since 1847 and now also makes steel after buying AK Steel and ArcelorMittal USA.1 book
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East India CompanyThe English East India Company traded with Asia from 1600 under a royal charter, raised capital from shareholders, ran its own army, and governed…1 book
Eastman KodakThe standard case study in disruption, but the book literature is thin: mostly founder biography and cultural history, no definitive fall narrative.5 books
EnronThe 2001 accounting fraud that destroyed Arthur Andersen and produced Sarbanes-Oxley; the most heavily documented corporate collapse of its era.8 books
ExxonMobilStandard Oil's largest successor and a notably closed company: the single indispensable book is Coll's, with the industry histories supplying the…7 books
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Glencore (Marc Rich & Co)Marc Rich and Pincus Green left Philipp Brothers in 1974 and built a trading house on spot-market crude, dealing through embargoes on Iran, South…2 books
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J.G. Boswell CompanyThe J.G.1 book
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NucorNucor became the largest steelmaker in the United States by melting scrap in electric arc minimills instead of running blast furnaces, and by paying…2 books
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Peter Kiewit Sons'Kiewit is an employee-owned construction and engineering contractor in Omaha that built highways, dams, and mines across North America.1 book
Standard OilThe trust whose breakup shaped American antitrust law, and the subject of the founding work of investigative business journalism.10 books
Trane Technologies / Ingersoll RandHVAC and industrial equipment; coverage amounts to one commissioned corporate history, with nothing on the modern split.1 book

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