Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success

Three top Wall Street analysts reveal enduring lessons in sustainable success from the great industrial titans--the high-tech companies of their day--to the disruptors that now dominate the economy.

Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America's industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability. Today's leaders can learn a great deal from their successes, as well as their missteps. In this essential guide, three veteran Wall Street analysts reveal timeless lessons from the titans of industry--and offer battle-tested survival tactics for an ever-changing world, among them:

- How GE became the largest company on earth--and faced the largest collapse in history.
- How Honeywell recommitted to product development--and rebounded in the new economy.
- How Boeing reassessed risks, raised profits--and learned the dangers of success.
- How Danaher pivoted to innovation when its old winning formula no longer worked--and maintained its strength.
- How Caterpillar overcame the complacency of being a market leader--and turned its declining fortunes around.

Through illuminating case studies, business leaders and entrepreneurs will discover invaluable insights into weathering market upheavals as well as hard-won lessons in innovation, growth, resilience, and operational excellence. This is how manufacturers survived the disruptors of technology--and how today's giants can survive and thrive during the next inevitable disruption.

Scott Davis serves as Chairman and CEO of Melius Research, where he is also the lead research analyst covering the multi-industry sector. He brings 25 years of experience in industrials equity research to Melius and has covered over 30 multi-industry names. Davis has led elite research teams for more than two decades, ranking in the top decile of Wall Street analysts and recognized as the number-one ranked analyst by Institutional Investor six times.

Carter Copeland serves as the President of Melius Research, where he is also the lead research analyst covering the global aerospace and defense sector. Prior to joining Melius, he was ranked the #1 Aerospace and Defense analyst on Wall Street by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine. Copeland previously served as Managing Director and senior analyst at Barclays Plc and Lehman Brothers.

Rob Wertheimer is a founding partner of Melius Research, where he serves as the Director of Research and lead research analyst for the global machinery sector. He brings more than a decade of machinery research experience to Melius, and has been recognized as a top three analyst by Institutional Investor when he was at both Barclays and Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, he led the machinery coverage at Vertical Research and Morgan Stanley.