In 1888, the year of the Big Blizzard, German Immigrant Louis Blaustein landed in New York with 50¢ in his pocket, lent it to a needy cousin, headed for Baltimore. From a one-horse wagon he peddled ...

In 1911 the Standard Oil Co. was broken up into its constituent companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government’s eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than ...

The giant industrial companies of the past were eventually broken up—but it wasn’t easy. The next target: the tech giants.

Antitrust lawsuits have shaken up the American economic landscape for over a century. Whether they're going after tech monopolies or breaking up telecom conglomerates, antitrust laws have been a ...

Standard Oil was apparently something you were supposed to remember from high school. That's because until Tuesday, the company was still the subject of a Justice Department decree forcing it to split ...

To mark our 40th anniversary, Crain’s Cleveland Business will take a look back every week in 2020 at the people, events and institutions that helped shape Cleveland and the region since 1980, and why ...

Despite Amazon’s undisputed centrality in the contemporary digital economy, a close look at its core business model reveals it to be surprisingly conventional. Before the invention of e-commerce, mail ...

While large tech companies are currently feeling the heat from regulators and Congress, over a century ago, the trustbusters had their sights on Big Oil. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Big ...

Objects from the past always have tales to tell, and this month’s collectibles bring stories of how transportation, home life and the society at large have changed over the past 150-plus years. Q.