Jesse Holman Jones is considered one of the most influential people in the U.S. economic recovery from the Great Depression. Only the 8 th grade education, he rose to the top of banking, real estate and timber industry as well as in the higher echelons of politics, as the head of corporate finance reconstruction (RFC), and the Minister of Commerce, and during the First World War, and General Manager military aid for the American Red Cross. He was responsible for the transformation of his adopted city of Houston, Texas, in the most important city for international trade in the South. After Franklin D. Roosevelt, John was the most influential and powerful person in the New Deal because of its control over billions of dollars RFC held. With this power, he greatly influenced many American cities and how our financial system is working. Rewritten version of the previous case. "Hide
by Nitin Nohria, Anthony J. Mayo, Bridget Gurtler Source: Harvard Business School 20 pages. Publication Date: July 28, 2005. Prod. #: 406029-PDF-ENG
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