Astor, the richest American of his time, is involved in the fur trade, shipping, real estate investments, and general trading of goods. Astor career illustrates the immediate pre-modern management era. Types of solutions, time horizons, and the number of transactions "Hide
by Thomas K. McCraw Source: Harvard Business School 17 pages. Publication Date: June 28, 1991. Prod. #: Three hundred ninety-one thousand two hundred sixty-one-PDF-ENG