Business
Permanent URI for this collection
Browse and Search Information
- Browse by clicking on one of the main categories under Browse, or by clicking on one of the category headings under Discover.
- To search using a single keyword, type it in the box above. On the results page you will be able to select a filter to narrow your search to one of these areas: author, title, subject.
- To search using a phrase (including a first and last name), put quotation marks around it ("Leonard Cohen").
Browse
Recent Submissions
Item Done with gefilte dogs, Manischewitz launches a new look in time for Pesach: he kosher food titan is aiming for a more casual, welcoming brand(The Forward, 2024-03-26) Grisar, PJManischewitz, the most prominent manufacturer of kosher food sine 1888, has taken measures to broaden its appeal, both to a younger generation of Jews and to the broader community. “What we really were trying to do," according to the company's chief marketing officer, Shani Seidman, "is take the stuffiness out of this brand," Rolled out just prior to Passover 2024, a hallmark of this modernization project is the redesign of its famous matzoh box with a "retro-chic packaging." Click on the link to read the article.Item Helena Rubinstein(Jewish Women's Archive, 2009-02) Alpern, SaraBorn in 1870 in Crakow, Poland, Helena Rubinstein was the oldest of seven girls. The girls were strongly encouraged by their mother to seek "power and influence through beauty and love." She developed her business sense by filling in for her ill father at business meetings from the age of fifteen. She moved to Australia, where she was very successful at selling skin care products, initially developed by a chemistin Poland. Spending a year in Europe, Rubinstein studied all aspects of skin care, including facial surgery, dermatology, and proper nutrition. In 1915, she and her husband moved to New York City, launching her career in the United States, where she opened salons first in New York and then Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Toronto.Upon her death in 1965, her international cosmetic business were highly successful, which included factories, and salons in fourteen countries. Click on the link to read this article about the life and work of Helena Rubinstein.Item Ben & Jerry's Radical Ice Cream Dreams(The New York Times, 2020-07-27) Marchese, DavidThis article is an interview with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream. Cohen and Greenfield, childhood friends, founded Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream in 1978. It became a highly lucrative, internationally-known business. The company was founded with the purpose of exemplifying and promoting its founders values of social, environmental and economic justice. Click on the link to read the article.Item Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers' boycott of Facebook will end 'soon enough'(The Guardian, 2020-07-02) Rushe, Dominic; Associated PressThis article concerns advertisers' boycott of Facebook in an attempt to pressure the company to adopt a stronger position on hate speech appearing on Facebook. According to this article, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the social media platform has agreed to listen to Facebook's critics, but maintains that the boycott will not hurt Facebook's revenues and that he will not change the company's free speech policies in response to the boycott. Click on the link to read the article.Item Lyor Cohen, YouTube's Music Head, Faces Down A Doubtful Music Business(The Record: Music News From NPR, 2018-05-07) Carmichael, Rodney"The former rap mogul and current head of music at YouTube on #MeToo (sort of), Migos and his mortality." Click on the link above to access this article.Item The Story of Lyor Cohen: Little Lan$ky and the Big Check(Rolling Stone, 2001-06-21) Cohen, Rich"How the Israeli-raised president of Island Def Jam Records became one of the most important men in hip-hop, and why he may now become one of the most important men in rock & roll." Click on the link above to access the article.Item 'Dripping with poison of antisemitism': the demonization of George Soros(The Guaridan, 2018-10-25) Wilson, JasonWritten when Soros was one of the targets of mail bombs that were sent to a number of Democrats and progressives, this article looks at the mainstreaming of antisemitism. The author describes how antisemitism and antisemitic tropes, once restricted to extreme far right and white supremacist groups, have increasingly become part of the standard discourse of more mainstream right wing and conservative groups, including some politicians within the Republican Party. Click on the link to read the article.Item Samuel Goldwyn | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie(AllMovie, 2019) Eder, Bruce (biography)A biography of the Hollywood mogul, Samuel Goldwyn. Available from this page is a link to a filmography of the movies he produced. Click on the link above to access the biography.Item Ralph Lauren: The patriarch of fashion's rise from rag-trader to American royalty(Independent, 2015-09-30) Fury, AlexanderBorn in the Bronx to Jewish immigrants under the name of Ralph Lifshitz, Ralph Lauren rose to become one of the world's most successful fashion designers. This article, which descries Lauren's fashion design, was written when Lauren relinquished control of his fashion empire. Click on the link above to read the article.Item Michael Bloomberg Biography(TheFamousPeople.com, 2017-11-26) Editors, TheFamousPeople.com"This biography of Michael Bloomberg provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline." Click on the link above to access the bioraphy.Item Excerpt ‘Mike Bloomberg’(New York Times (from book published by PublicAffairs), 2009-10-08) Purnick, JoyceAn excerpt from "Mike Bloomberg: Money, Politics, Power" by Joyce Purnick. The excerpt focuses on Bloomberg's early life before he became a successful businessman and political figure. Click on the link above to access the excerpt.Item Marcus Goldman (1821-1904)(German Historical Institute, 2015-05-07) Caplan, SheriA biography of a Marcus Goldman, the founder of "what would eventually become Goldman, Sachs & Co. From the Web site "Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present."Item Levi Strauss(Jewish Virtual Library, 2017) Jewish Virtual LibraryA short biography of Levi Strauss who is known for his company's most popular product: "Levis." Click on the link above to access the article.oItem Reichman(Jewish Virtual Library, 2017) Jewish Virtual LibraryA short biography of the Reichman family, a highly successful Canadian business family. Click on the link above to access.Item George Soros: American Financier(Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2017-04-17) Kellner, PaulClick on the link above to access this biography of George Soros in the Encyclopædia Britannica.Item Adolph Ochs (1858-1935)(German Historical Institute, 2012-06-19) Lukesh, Susan S.A biography of Adolph S. Ochs, who "was the foremost newspaper publisher of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. He resurrected the New York Times after purchasing it in 1896, and brought his own rigorous editorial standards to the Times and the field of American journalism." Click on the link above to access the biography.Item Mark Zuckerberg - Person of the Year 2010(Time Magazine, 2010-12-15) Grossman, LevA biographical essay about Mark Zuckerberg on the occasion of his being named 2010 person of the Year by Time Magazine. Click on the link above to access the article.Item Bronfman Family(The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2011-10-11) Curtis, Christopher G.; Raymond, KatrinA short biographical sketch of the Bronfman family in the Canadian Encyclopedia. Click on the link above to access the article.