The King of Investments Harry Guggenheim: How to Build the Business of Tomorrow

Dirk Smilley is a former chief reporter for Forbes, content director at the investment company Guggenheim Partners, a graduate of Columbia University and San Francisco State University. This book is the first biography of the outstanding businessman Harry Frank Guggenheim.... At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Guggenheim family formed the largest mining conglomerate, and a few years later, funded by the Guggenheim Foundation, the largest museum of modern art was established – the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. A number of grand projects supported by the Guggenheim Foundation were continued by the outstanding representative of the business dynasty, Harry Guggenheim. At a time when many people were still unaware of what an airplane was, Harry Guggenheim bet on aviation technology and, thanks to a strategically sound decision, accelerated by several decades the onset of the aviation age in America. The book is compact, making it convenient to take on the road, and it would make a perfect gift for anyone interested in the history of business.