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John Kenneth Galbraith

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Strategic PatternWar and Crisis as Market Entry Window
Strategic PatternVertical Supply Chain Lockdown
Competitive AdvantageRisk Reallocation as Competitive Moat
Signature MoveShadow Operatives Beyond Auditor Reach
Signature MoveSilence and Eye Contact as Persuasion Weapons
Cornerstone MoveConsolidate Commodity Then Dictate Price
Capital StrategyCorporate Structure as Control Weapon
Signature MoveNever Relinquish Voting Control
Cornerstone MoveAbsorb the Risk Others Won't Touch
Identity & CultureCEO as Performance Actor
Signature MoveDual-Class Shares to Sell Without Surrendering
Strategic PatternGrowth Companies in Disguise
Decision FrameworkHistory Over Accounting as Foundation
Capital StrategyLearn-Earn-Return Lifecycle of Capital
Cornerstone MoveCompounding Requires Never Spending the Capital
Risk DoctrinePanic-Proof Through Private Valuation
Decision FrameworkCheap Stocks Deserve Their Price Until Proven Otherwise
Signature MoveShelby Jr: Small-Cap Contrarian After Bear Markets
Cornerstone MoveCrisis Creates Opportunity: Buy When Blood Runs
Signature MoveShelby Cullom Davis: Dowager's Living Room Portfolio
Cornerstone MoveOwn the Money Business, Never the Factory
Cornerstone MoveDavis Double Play: Earnings Growth Plus Multiple Expansion
Risk DoctrineEmerging Market Enthusiasm as Charitable Donation
Signature MoveDavis Sr: Margin as Focus Fuel Not Just Leverage
Signature MoveDavis Sr: Silver Bullet Competitor Question
Competitive AdvantageMedia Mastery as Operational Tool
Strategic PatternGovernment as Business Partner
Cornerstone MoveWashington Before the Workplace Strategy
Cornerstone MoveMake Big Jobs Small Through Equipment Vision
Relationship LeverageContinuous Negotiation Over Battle
Signature MovePersonal Access Over Institutional Channels
Strategic PatternCrisis as Expansion Opportunity
Signature MoveRecord-Breaking as Relationship Building
Signature MoveSuccess Through Strategic Innocence
Signature MovePublic Pressure as Government Leverage
Operating PrinciplePermeable Organization Boundaries

Primary Evidence

"Books and book chapters Adams, Jr, Russell B., The Boston Money Tree (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977). Allen, Frederick Lewis, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Harper & Row, 1931). Allen, Frederick Lewis, The Great Pierpont Morgan (Harper & Brothers, 1949). Allen, Trevor, Ivar Kreuger, Match King, Croesus and Crook (John Long, Ltd, 1932). Anderson, Ingvar, A History of Sweden (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1955). Ångström, Lars-Jonas, Därför Mördades Ivar Kreuger (Sellin & Blomquist, 1990). Ångström, Lars-Jonas, Översättning (unpublished manuscript). Berle, Adolf A., Jr & Gardiner C. Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (Macmillan, 1932). Bernstein, Peter L., Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street (John Wiley, 1992). Bjerre, Poul Carl, Kreuger (Natur och Kultur, 1932). Brooks, John, Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938, at 82 (John Wiley, 1969). Burk, Kathleen, “The House of Morgan in Financial Diplomacy - 1920-1930,” in B. J. McKercher, ed., The Struggle for Supremacy: Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s (Macmillan, 1987). Chernow, Ron, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (Simon & Schuster, 1990). Churchill, Allen, The Incredible Ivar Kreuger (Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1957). Deeson, A. F. L., Great Swindlers: A Fascinating Collection of Some of the World’s Most Incredible Frauds, at 120 (Drake Publishers, 1972). Drachenfels, Kurt, The Real Ivar Kreuger (United Press, 1933). Edwards, George W., The Evolution of Finance Capitalism (Longmans, Green and Co., 1938). Eichengreen, Barry, Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression 1919-1939 (Oxford University Press, 1992). Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Great Crash 1929 (Houghton Mifflin, 1954). Geisst, Charles R., Wall Street: A History (Oxford University Press, 1997). Georg, Manfred, The Case of Ivar Kreuger (Jonathan Cape, 1933). Glete, Jan, Kreugerkoncerne och Boliden (LiberFörlag, 1975). Glete, Jan, Kreugerkoncernen och Krisen På Svensk Aktiemarknad (Almqvist & Wiksell, 1981). Graham, Benjamin and David L. Dodd, Security Analysis (Whittlesey House, 1934). Hassbring, Lars, The International Development of the Swedish Match Company, 1917-1924 (LiberFörlag, 1979). Keynes, John Maynard, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920). Kindleberger, Charles P., Manias, Panics and Crashes (John Wiley, 1978). Kreuger, Torsten, The Truth About Ivar Kreuger (Seewald, 1968). Lefèvre, Edwin, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (George H. Doran and Company, 1923). Lindgren, Håkan, Corporate Growth: The Swedish Match Industry in Its Global Setting (LiberFörlag, 1979). Loewe, Walter, Arne Jansson, and Carl Magnus Rosell, From Swedish Matches to Swedish Match: Sweden’s Match Industry 1836-1996 (Wahlström & Widstrand, 1997). Mackay, Charles, Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House, 2003). Marcosson, Isaac Frederick, Turbulent Years (Books for Libraries Press, 1938). Markham, Jerry W., A Financial History of the United States (M. E. Sharpe, 2002). Mitchell, Lawrence E., The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2007). Moberg, Vilhelm, A History of the Swedish People: From Renaissance to Revolution (Dorset Press, 1971). Modig, Hans, Swedish Match Interests in British India During the Interwar Years (LiberFörlag, 1979). Partnoy, Frank, Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets (Profile, 2003). Rand, Ayn, Night of January 16th (Plume, 1971). Ripley, William Z., Main Street and Wall Street (Little Brown & Co., 1927). Scott, Franklin D., Sweden: The Nation’s History (Southern Illinois University Press, 1988). Seligman, Joel, The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance (Houghton Mifflin, 1982). Shaplen, Robert, Kreuger: Genius and Swindler (Alfred A. Knopf, 1960). Soloveychik, George, The Financier: The Life of Ivar Kreuger (Peter Davies, 1933). Sparling, Earl, Kreuger’s Billion Dollar Bubble (Greenberg, 1932). Stolpe, Sven, Ivar Kreuger Mördad? (Médans, 1955). Stoneman, William H., The Life and Death of Ivar Kreuger (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1932). Strouse, Jean, Morgan: American Financier (Random House, 1999). Thunholm, Lars-Erik, trans. George Thiel, Ivar Kreuger: The Match King (T. Fischer & Co., 1995). Train, John, Famous Financial Fiascos (Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1985). Wasik, John F., The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Wikander, Ulla, Kreuger’s Match Monopolies, 1925-1930: Case Studies in Market Control Through Public Monopolies (LiberFörlag, 1979). Wilkins, Mira, The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2004). Zuckoff, Mitchell, Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend (Random House, 2005)."

Source:The Match King

"John Kenneth Galbraith published The Affluent Society,"

Source:The Davis Dynasty

"John Kenneth Galbraith writes that "in any large organization with varied and complex tasks, power passes down to those who are in daily touch with the action and have the resulting knowledge.""

Source:Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington - The Rise of a Government Entrepreneur

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