During the so-called Gilded Age (the period of US history between Reconstruction and the Progressive Era), Americans witnessed the rise of big business. Industrial entrepreneurs, such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, nearly monopolized the steel and oil industries by growing their businesses to a scale beyond what would have been thought possible just a few decades earlier.
Andrew Carnegie's Vertical Integration
John D. Rockefeller's Horizontal Integration
Comparing Vertical and Horizontal IntegrationContemporary Examples of Vertical and Horizontal Integration
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Lecture on Vertical and Horizontal Integration
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